Senior Manager - Content & Curriculum

ARPAN; Goregaon; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

ARPAN in Mumbai seeks a senior curriculum designer to lead pedagogic content development and publication for diverse stakeholders. You will drive evidence-based content decisions and shape material from books to digital media, contributing to CSA prevention initiatives.

Join a small team focused on high-quality content and building ARPAN’s online presence. The role requires deep curriculum design experience and a passion for social impact, with a collaborative, deadline-driven work style.

Qualifications

• Creative writing and content development for online and offline platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical ability and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Engage in pedagogic design, creation and publication of content for all stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Design content pertaining to prevention and intervention of child sexual abuse.
• Drive content decisions by deriving insights from field realities, data and evaluations.
• Create content for books and digital media across formats.
• Represent Arpan in platforms and align content with curricular integration.
• Guide a team to achieve organizational goals.
• Foster a disciplined content creation process and faster turnaround.

Skills

Creative writing

Communication

Collaboration

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Imagination

Digital literacy

Attention to detail

Continuous learner

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Social Work or Human Development

Job description

To ensure quality and relevance of education and learning.

• You will engage in pedagogic design, creation and publication of content for all stakeholders in a timely systematic manner
• Design high quality content pertaining to prevention and intervention of child sexual abuse
• Drive content decisions on knowledge creation, presentation and dissemination by deriving insights from the organization's field realities, data, and evaluations and external environment
• Create content to be disseminated across different formats of from books to digital media
• Represent the organization in critical platforms and play a key role in integration of the organizational model in the national and state curriculum
• Guide a team of professionals to ensure that the organizational goal is achieved
• Build a culture of strong process discipline including a robust process for vetting and also significantly increase the speed of turnaround in content creation
• 5-6 years of experience in curriculum design
• Prior experience in social sector

The social sector is still evolving digitally and Arpan is now looking to build its presence in the online space to be a leader in its domain. This role gives a unique opportunity to build the digital presence for a social cause.

• Creative writing skills to develop content for various online platforms
• Communication and collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving, imagination and creativity, learning to learn, self-efficacy and digital literacy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analytical skill
• Meticulousness and an eye for detail
• Continuous learner

Educational Qualification

Bachelors or Masters in Social Work / Bachelors or Masters in Human Development

Mandatory Work Experience

Minimum 8 to 10 years

Other desired attributes

Ability to work in a small team; interested in setting up and building organisations for the long term, good inter-personal skills; ability to work under constant deadline pressure and manage multiple projects across digital platforms

Location

Location in Mumbai is preferred.

Salary range: Best in Industry

About Arpan

Arpan is a globally recognized, award-winning non-profit working towards the elimination of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in India. Based in Mumbai, with a team of over 134+ dedicated professionals, Arpan is India’s largest non-profit providing CSA Prevention and Intervention services for both children and adults. As a critical stakeholder for state and non-state actors, Arpan is a leading voice in the space of CSA Prevention and Intervention in India and uses advocacy and research to push for policy and systemic change at the local, state and national levels.

Arpan is a global thought leader in CSA space, with innovative impact models that work with a range of stakeholders, from children and parents to state bodies and teachers. Arpan's key project focuses on Personal Safety Education in schools, teaching children and adolescents (ages 4 to 18) about personal safety so they can identify and seek help in unsafe situations. Arpan also trains and empowers teachers and parents with the knowledge, attitude and skills needed to prevent and deal with CSA. Since 2007, Arpan has impacted over 19.4 million children and adults and has received 8 National and 2 International Awards for its exemplary work.

About Child Protection Policy of ARPAN

Arpan's work is child-centric where the key is to understand and value what the child wants and hence the child is an integral part of the decision-making process. This philosophy extends to all the programmes in Arpan, where children are the primary stakeholders. Arpan expects all board members, advisors, donors, partners, employees, volunteers, interns, consultants, partner counsellors and contractors will agree to fully comply with Arpan's Child Protection Policy. For more details, read on the below link - https://www.arpan.org.in/child-protection-policy/