Job Description

Job Description: Lead, Gender equity & Women’s Rights Programme, Utthan

About Utthan

Utthan is a community-based nonprofit, based in Gujarat since 1981. Modeled around gender just and inclusive community empowerment through capacity building and developing local leadership and institutions at several levels, Utthan has employed people’s knowledge and new innovations to help demonstrate best and brave practices. Promoting peaceful coexistence, ensuring human rights, gender justice and inclusive, sustainable development for positive change in the status of the marginalized forms the core of Utthan’s approach.

With a capacity to work with a wide range of stakeholders at the micro, macro and international levels, integrating lessons learnt from each, Utthan’s thrust areas are intrinsically linked to each other and have emerged as major issues during its journey for social justice in Gujarat.

I. Gender Equity & Women’s Rights

II. Livelihood Security

III. Conflict Transformation towards Peace and Justice

IV. Access to Safe Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

V. Institutional Building and Leadership Development

Utthan’s Theory of Change: Utthan is founded on the values of equity, democracy, liberty, secularism and social justice. The realisation of these, links everything it does, and every capacity it tries to build and sustain. Institutional Building and Leadership Development is considered key to bring change in exploitative power relationships and realisation of rights. This leads to socio, economic, political change for those at the margins, enabling a quality of life based on justice, equity and dignity. Developing just and equitable demonstrations, both technical and social, around people’s institutions is a mechanism which lends sustainability and a clear multiplier impact.

The interventions on Gender Equity & Women’s Rights are currently spread over 5 Districts (3 Coastal and 3 Tribal) with women of marginalized communities viz. Dalit, tribal, OBC, religious minorities and economically poor communities organized into Women’s Federations. Initiatives within this thrust area address existing inequalities in society by challenging patriarchal attitudes embedded in formal and informal structures and institutions. With a focus on protecting and securing rights of women and girls, Utthan is currently working on the issues of Right to Safety and Security, Resource Rights (Land, Property, Forest, Credit), Right to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Political Participation and Access to Basic Entitlements. Integrating a feminist approach in all thrust areas is a priority.

www.utthangujarat.org

Vacancy: Lead, Gender equity & Women’s Rights Programme

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Role: Lead & provide direction to Utthan’s gender and justice related interventions – framing issues, planning, strategizing, monitoring, evaluation and facilitating learning across programmes, trainings, institution building and networking) in all field locations of Utthan, with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Key components of the Role

• Technical Support and Programming ?Capacity Enhancement ?Partnerships and Coordination ?Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting ?Administrative and Organisational development

Technical Support and Programming:

• Coordinate, support and manage implementation of Gender & justice interventions, using a results-based approach incorporating creativity, innovation, and responsiveness to the needs, and thorough monitoring and reporting;

• Provide technical support to the Field teams aimed at capacity development and institutional strengthening;

• Support and advise the management, build knowledge and programming practices in relation to gender equity and justice; Assist in writing proposals and engaging in resource mobilization efforts to support joint programming;

• Provide technical support to field teams for evidence-based advocacy and develop policy documents to address gender issues through key partners;

• Participate in relevant organisational planning and programming

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Advanced university degree in social sciences, gender, development or related field.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of increasingly responsible relevant professional experience, including experience in coordination/programming/MEL for gender programmes with a range of partners, stakeholders and actively liaising with grassroots institutions

• Knowledge of gender and justice issues and discourse in development

• Prior training in gender, justice, human rights issues and their application in grasssroots settings;

• Field experience and good understanding of local issues

Language:

? Fluency in oral and written English essential.

? Working knowledge of Gujarati and/or Hindi essential

Salary Range – Rs.30,000/- to Rs. 40,000/- based on the experience

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Eligibility Criteria

Not Specified

Desired Candidate Profile

Graduation - Graduate-Other

Organization Details

• Organization Name:Utthan
• About Organization:Utthan is a public charitable trust registered in 1981 under the Bombay Public Trusts, Act 1950. Donation to Utthan are exempt from Income tax under Section 80G of the Income tax Act, 1961. Foreign donations are also authorized as per Utthan’s registration under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.
  
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