Position - Programme Coordinator, Urban Rights Program (Nagpur)

Qualification

•      Post- graduate in Social Work / Social Sciences.

Experience

•      At least 8 - 10 years of working on projects / programs aimed at empowerment of the urban poor communities

Skills

•      Able to independently manage projects / programs aimed at empowerment of the urban poor communities. Experience in specific interventions for population groups like children, youth, and women would be prefered

•        Have good grasping, analytical and articulation skills.

•        Should be conversant in English, Hindi and Marathi and have a working knowledge of computers.

Salary - Negotiable

Responsibilities

This is a senior position. Expected to play a broader role as a Management team member for YUVA Urban. The role involves Programme, Organizational and Human resource development within YUVA Urban.  The programme co-ordinator is expected to provide direction and leadership to the team working on broader rights of the marginalised to housing, livelihood and participation in governance, with a conscious effort to integrate the rights of women, youth and children.

Address your application to,

YUVA : Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action
52/3, Nare Park Muncipal School
Opp. Nare Park Ground
Parel
Mumbai - 12.
Phone (022) - 2414 3498, 2415 5250, 2411 6393 / 94
Fax: (022) -2413 5314
E-mail : yuvaurban@yuvaindia.org
Website - www.yuvaindia.org <http://www.yuvaindia.org>

•      Only shortlisted candidates will be called for interview

•      All interviews will be in Nagpur

•      Last date for applications – 30th June 2007

About the Organisation

YUVA (Youth for Unity & Voluntary Action), is a voluntary development organization that has, since its inception in 1984, been working to fulfil its vision of a humane society. YUVA's engagements of the last twenty years are derived from the paradigm of Human Rights. The foundation of engagement lies in defending, promoting, restoring and creating the civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights of the poor, at the levels of both the individual and the collective.

YUVA Urban strives to create cities that are just, equitable and sustainable by providing an integrating and humanizing direction to the phenomena of urbanization. It works to make the cities a better place to live for the poor by enabling their access to the rights and resources that allow a quality of life in keeping with the universal Human Rights that individuals and communities are entitled