Program Manager - Gender Based Violence Well-Being and Rights

CREA

Location: New Delhi/Patna
Working Hours: 40 hours per week (full-time)
Position duration: Until Dec 2025 (renewable depending upon the requirements, programme continuance,  and performance)
Expected Start Date: ASAP

The Program Manager- Gender Based Violence Well-Being and Rights, will be responsible for supporting the strengthening of the portfolio of work and building a cohesive yet innovative  strategy, developing ideas and plans and shall work as part of the Count Me In! Consortium, CREA’s  work on challenging punitive laws and practices around gender, sexuality, identity, sex  characteristics and sexual and reproductive rights, and related work on anti-carceral responses to  Gender-Based Violence.

The Manager will be responsible for overall program management in CREA’s gender-based violence  responses to expand and promote well-being, security, and rights. This position will be highly  dynamic and requires excellent program development and management skills, analytical thinking,  and the ability to work independently.  

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Program development and management 

• Develop programming to advance CREA’s work to gender based violence and wellbeing and  including challenge criminalization of gender, sexuality, identity and SRHR, in collaboration  with the team lead and other program staff
• Coordinate communication and exchange within CREA’s community-based work in South  Asia (SA) East Africa (EA), South-West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) 
• Provide thought-leadership to anti-carceral approaches to gender-based violence.
• Lead and drive the Feminist Accountability Project. 
• Support CREA’s work on pushing back against anti-gender mobilisation 
• Support grant management-related functions including reporting to the donor, participating  in end-term evaluation and coordinating grants management administration and  communication. 
• Contribute to annual reports and organizational work plans. 
• Contribute significantly to the preparation of the Count Me In! project end report for  submission to the stakeholders  
• Plan and lead project monitoring, evaluation and learning processes including responses to  donor requirements. 
• Contribute to the implementation of CREA’s strategic plan

Strategy 

• Develop ideas and plans to deepen the impact of CREA’s programs viz., including challenging  criminalization, CREA’s national and regional advocacy, and CREA’s work in the CMI  consortium (with a focus on Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Lebanon and Uganda). 
• Participate and brainstorm in strategy meetings with the CREA CMI team and the inter consortia team at CREA (Our Voices Our Futures and Women Gaining Ground Consortia  Team) as and when required. 

Partnerships 

• Strengthen and grow existing partnerships, and coordinate ongoing CREA CMI partnerships  at the national level 
• Support CMI partnerships in Kenya and Uganda with the CREA East Africa Team, and CMI  partnerships in Lebanon, India, and Bangladesh 
• Develop other partnership agreements for implementation, as needed. 
• Support and monitor partners’ work planning and budgeting in line with CMI’s results  framework. 
• Develop and manage dialogues based on intersectional rights issues bringing together  activists from different movements to broaden understandings around gender, sexuality and  rights, with a focus on challenging punitive laws and policies and forging partnerships and  alliances to advance new forms of understanding on inclusion and rights. 
• Build relationships with civil society, government officials, policymakers and other external  stakeholders, as necessary 
• Coordinate ongoing partnerships, including co-creation in South Asia and East Africa around  challenging criminalization, feminist accountability, and opposing anti-gender mobilisation
• Organize meetings and conferences, including by ensuring fully accessible spaces for  dialogues both online and offline. 

Advocacy 

• Support advocacy across national, regional and global advocacy spaces by drafting  submissions, curating panels, and creating networks to advance the rights of disabled  persons, sexually and gender diverse persons, sex workers rights, and against anti-gender  mobilisation 
• Ensure the connection between the local and the global, to influence the advocacy narrative  on disability, gender and sexuality, sex workers’ rights and pushing back against anti-gender  mobilisation in these forums.  
• Support capacity building for more effective advocacy with various partner organisations  and networks; as well as working across movements to support strategizing and advocacy  priority setting and working to ensure meaningful participation of self-led movements in  these processes/advocacy spaces 
• Identify new and/or better-leveraged opportunities for CREA’s and our partners’  participation in advocacy campaigns, special events, conferences, partnerships, and other  regional forums that will help advance the advocacy goals articulated above.

Communications 

• Work closely with CREA’s Communications team to highlight the program on different social  media platforms portfolio of work and draft stories of change or case studies for external  communication 
• Manage donor reporting and communication 
• Represent and present CREA’s work at meetings, forums and conferences. 

Other Functions 

• Perform other related duties as assigned for the purpose of ensuring efficient and effective  functioning 

Life at CREA

Founded in 2000, CREA is an international feminist human rights organization based in New Delhi, India. It is one of the few feminist human rights organizations based in the global South, led by Southern feminists, working at community, national, regional, and international levels. Together with partners from a diverse range of human rights movements and networks, CREA’s work focuses on building feminist leadership, strengthening movements, expanding sexual and reproductive freedoms, promoting rights- based approaches to reducing gender-based violence (GBV), and advancing the human rights of structurally excluded people.

• We like to think of ourselves as a fearless, interrogative, colorful, edgy, sexy flock of birds flying freely to explore, to imagine and to build freedoms together. 
• If you are one who is ready to challenge the system when it is needed, you could be one of us.
• If you believe you wish to build a world where an individual must have the agency and right to make choices about sexuality, reproduction and human rights, then you will find the room to explore here.
• Constant learning and sharing of knowledge is an expectation that team members have from CREA, and CREA from team members.

Qualifications and Experience

▪ 9-12 years of work experience in similar roles with NGOs /I-NGOs from the global South and/or international development
▪ Graduate (preferably Master’s Degree or equivalent experience) in social justice-related fields, such as human rights, gender or queer studies, international development with relevant issues based experience on advancing rights related to sexuality, gender, and/or sex work.
▪ Deep comprehension of how to work in multiple regions and contexts.
▪ Strong understanding of and experience working to address gender-based violence and advance well-being, especially in relation to sex workers’ rights, rights related to sexuality and/or gender diversities, sexual and reproductive rights, cross-movement collaboration, and a commitment to advancing these rights.
▪ Skills to communicate with top management
▪ Excellent writing skills in English and strong communication skills with both internal and external audiences.
▪ Detail-oriented and takes initiative with an ability to self-motivate and produce high-quality products.
▪ Flexibility to work across time zones
▪ Strong proficiency in verbal and written English
Note: This job description is a general outline of the key responsibilities and qualifications required for the role and may include additional responsibilities to realign with the specific needs of the organisation.

We Offer:

We are committed to providing a working environment with constant learning and equal  opportunity for all. We co-create an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. The salary  range for this position is INR 1,20,000 – INR 1,95,000 per month depending on the candidate’s  qualifications and experience and the organisation’s internal equity. 

Leaves / Holidays

• 20 days of annual leave
• 12 holidays as per the CREA list of holidays
• 12 days of sick/casual leave per year
• 01 week of winter break at the end of the year

Application Process

Deadline to Apply
Please note that this vacancy is open on a rolling basis, and the organization will close the hiring  process as soon as the best candidate is identified. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply  promptly. Applications received after the position is filled will not be considered. We recommend  submitting your application as soon as possible to ensure your candidacy is considered.