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Multi-District Consultant-Assam

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Multi-District Consultant-Assam

Name of the project: Extending technical support to the government to address vulnerabilities around child marriage in Assam and Tripura

Position Name: Multi-District Consultant-Assam

Number of positions: 03

Direct Report to: Project Manager

Dotted line reporting to: Director – Gender and Adolescent Girls

Tenure: 6 months (extendable as per performance) (November to April 2025)

Location: One of the cluster districts

Cluster 1: Dhubri, Kamrup Metro, Goalpara

Cluster 2: Baksa, Kokrajhar, Udalguri

Cluster 3: Hailakandi and Karimganj

 

About PCI:

PCI India, a registered Indian society, has been working in India for the past 26 years. We drive interventions to transform the lives of communities at scale by solving complex development problems. In the past year, PCI India reached more than 1.7 crore, i.e., 17 million people in 202 Districts of 15 States.

About the Project:

Child/early marriage remains a critical issue affecting millions worldwide, perpetuated by entrenched social and gender norms. India has demonstrated a steep decline in child/early marriage rates from 2005 to 2021 (i.e. From NFHS 3 to NFHS 5). The national average of underage marriages has decreased from 26.8% in NFHS-4 to 23.3% in NFHS-5. However, there are states and some pockets in few states where the problem is still sticky and needs integrated, multi-dimensional intervention.

Assam and Tripura are such states where prevalence of child/early marriage of adolescent girls have increased in last 20 years. Assam has 31.8% prevalence and Tripura shot up to 40.1% of prevalence of child marriage. In Assam, the top 6 districts with more than 30% of prevalence of child marriage of adolescent girls are – Darrang (42.80%), Barpeta (40.10%), Dhubri (50.80%), Goalpra (41.80%), Udalguri (32.0%), Hailakandi (32.9%).

This project is about providing technical support to the state and district government departments to implement different initiatives to address the issue of child marriage in the state.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate with the district officials for the implementation of planned activities on time ensuring quality
  • Capacity building of district and below officials/cadre/workers as per project action plan.
  • Coordinate with all line departments to implement activities to empower adolescents in the state and make the schemes and entitlements reach the adolescents on time without any obstructions.
  • Develop district and below level social mobilization plan in consultation with key stakeholders towards addressing child marriage
  • Organize district, state and below levels campaigns as per plan.
  • Training of government officials, SHEW and DHEW staff on various packages and tools
  • Organizing and managing logistics for various events
  • Provide relevant presentation and reading materials for orientation at the district level.
  • To facilitate IPC and Social mobilization session in different training events as per plans and ask of government departments related to the project
  • Undertake field monitoring as per plan
  • Maintain daily Management Information System (MIS)/ reporting.
  • Any other responsibility assigned by supervisors.

 

Qualification and skills required: 

  • MSW, MPH or Post Graduate in any stream with a minimum of 3 years’ field experience of working with government departments in the state of Assam (TA projects).
  • Basic knowledge and understanding of the issue of child marriage and concepts of adolescent empowerment
  • Experience of working with departments of women and child development, Assam rural livelihood mission, education etc..
  • Good training facilitation skills
  • Experience of developing training modules, materials and programmes
  • Good computer, management, and organizational skills.
  • Good written and verbal communication
  • Should be able to speak, read and write English and local language
  • Willingness to travel to the field and ability to work against tight timelines.
  • A person from the mentioned selected districts of Assam will be preferred.

Application Process

Interested candidates can apply for the position as per details below:

  1. Mail updated CV in Pdf format
  2. Mention the expected monthly honorarium
  3. Use the subject line for the mail: Application – Multi-district Consultant-Assam
  4. Mail ID: [email protected]
  5. Apply by 21st November 2024

PCI India is an equal opportunity provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability and/or marital status. Female candidates

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