Coordinator – Feminist Leadership and Advocacy
Posted on: October 20, 2012
Posted by: The YP Foundation
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Since 2002, TYPF has supported 5,000 young people directly to set up over 250 projects, reaching out to more than 3,50,000 young people across 18 states. The organization strengthens youth movements in India by working with youth activists, youth-led and youth-focused organizations to strengthen their technical and organizational development capacities. We also build young people’s capacities to advocate, lobby and influence policies, decision makers and government agencies; additionally facilitate intergenerational dialogue with the Right to Information, feminist and women’s movements at local, national, regional and international levels that impact young people’s human rights across our issue areas.
The Coordinator will work towards consolidating, strengthening and building on our work on feminist leadership across our focus areas of the arts, governance and citizenship, gender and sexuality, life skills and education and media literacy for young people. S/he will identify opportunities for collaborative work with youth-led organisations and youth activists across the country. S/he will also identify opportunities for advocacy, as well as research on policies and programmes that are relevant to building cross-collaborative youth-led work. S/he will work to take forward TYPF’s national-level work through national and regional-level (North, South, East and West) forums that focuses on promoting and supporting youth-led initiatives through skill and capacity-building, strengthening youth-led collaborations across movements, with an underlying focus on building a new generation of feminist leadership with cross-sections of young people.
Candidate Criteria
Essential Criteria
- Working knowledge of policies that impact young people’s health and rights
- Prior experience of working with diversities of young people
- Proven interest and knowledge of feminism, and the women’s movement in India
- Excellent communication and facilitative skills in Hindi and English
- Excellent networking skills
Desirable Criteria
- Fundraising experience
- Prior experience working on advocacy or policy research
- Well-versed in using social media platforms
- Prior experience in event management
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Download two documents— the Staff Vacancies list and the Staff Application Form fromhttp://www.theypfoundation.org/news/jobs/. You must submit the completed Staff Application Form tojobs@theypfoundation.org to be considered for the post.
The deadline for submission is5th November,2012.Please note that applications beyond this date will be entertained only if positions have not been filled and that applications will be accepted and processed as and how they are submitted. We encourage you not to wait until the deadline to submit your application as the position may be filled by then.
For further queries, please contact Gopika on jobs@theypfoundation.org or +91-11-46792247.
For details on the organisation, visit www.theypfoundation.org
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- N-204 Greater Kailash Part 1, New Delhi, Delhi, 110048, India
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- Application deadline
- November 5, 2012
- Education requirements
- No requirement
- Languages needed
- English, Hindi
- Employment type
- Full time
- Professional level
- None specified
- Job function
- Leaders, Movement Building, Activism,Advocacy, Research, Communications,Feminism, Leadership & Collaboration,Project management
- Owner's areas of focus
- Human Rights, Media, Disability,Governance, Community development,Health, Life Skills, Slums, Social enterprise,Training And Capacity Building, Digital Media, Communications access, Gender and Sexuality, Women, Volunteering, Human rights and civil liberties, Peer Education,LGBT, Active Citizenship, The Arts, Youth,Civic engagement, Education, Technology,Children & Adolescents
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