Program Manager Telangana, Andhra Pradesh

Child Rights and You (CRY); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Child Rights and You (CRY) invites applications for a role focused on strengthening partnerships with CSOs and government stakeholders to promote child rights, monitor programs, and ensure accountability through grant-making.

The role supports state strategy, programme management, grant processes, and donor coordination, while building networks, managing budgets, and mentoring teams. Extensive field travel to project locations is expected.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in Social Work, Sociology, Development Studies, Child Rights, or related discipline.
• Additional training in child protection, programme management, research, gender, education, or community development would be an advantage.
• Fluency in English and Telugu is mandatory; Hindi would be an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen partnerships with CSOs and government stakeholders to promote child rights and ensure accountability through grant-making.
• Support state strategy and planning through environmental scanning, identifying intervention areas, partnerships, and budgets.
• Support programme management through reviews, capacity building, monitoring, and strategic execution.
• Manage grant-making processes including PME visits, evaluations, project budgets, action plans, grant releases, and monitoring of 45 initiatives.
• Build and strengthen networks via district, sub-regional and state-level linkages, community mobilisation, and stakeholder engagement.
• Drive collaboration and donor coordination with timely reports, partner compliance, donor visits, media engagement, and cross-functional coordination.
• Manage budgets and people through project-wise financial planning, cost monitoring, team mentoring, and adherence to CRY systems and policies.

Skills

English & Telugu fluency

Hindi language advantage

Education

Postgraduate degree in Social Work, Sociology, Development Studies, Child Rights, or related discipline

Job description

Role & responsibilities

This role is responsible for strengthening the partnership with network with the CSO and Govt stakeholders to promote child-rights in the area (district, cluster etc.), monitoring the program interventions and ensure accountability at all levels and strengthening the mobilisation process to safeguard the rights of children through effective grant-making.

Support state strategy and planning through environmental scanning, identifying intervention areas, partnerships, and contributing to state/function strategies and budgets.

Support programme management including reviews, thematic discussions, capacity building, monitoring, and strategic execution.

Manage grant-making processes including PME visits, evaluations, project budgets, action plans, grant releases, and monitoring 45 initiatives.

Build and strengthen networks by facilitating district, sub-regional and state-level linkages, community mobilisation, and stakeholder engagement.

Drive collaboration and donor coordination by ensuring timely reports, partner compliance, donor visits, media engagement, and cross-functional coordination.

Manage budgets and people through project-wise financial planning, cost monitoring, team mentoring, and ensuring adherence to CRY systems and policies.

Preferred candidate profile

• Postgraduate degree in Social Work, Sociology, Development Studies, Child Rights, or a related discipline. Additional training in child protection, programme management, research, gender, education, or community development would be an advantage. 57 years of professional experience in the child rights/development sector, preferably with a reputed NGO/INGO or development organisation. Fluency in both English and Telugu is mandatory. Hindi would be an added advantage. Willingness and ability to undertake extensive travel to project locations, including frequent field visits to rural, remote, and challenging geographies.