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CRY - Child Rights and You, is an independent, Indian non-profit organisation that has been working to ensure basic rights for Indian children over the past 26 years. At CRY, we believe that empowering communities and children to determine their own futures is the sustainable way to realise the rights of all underprivileged children in India. To bring about social change we work closely with our project and alliance partners, network with other civil society groups and focus on advocacy efforts that influence macro policies in favour of children's rights. By working as an ‘enabler’, we support organisations with assistance ranging from financial resources and administrative support to training and perspective building. In 26 years, CRY has impacted the lives of 1.37 million children across 2500 communities and more than 300 projects.

CRY has a holistic approach to development based on the child rights framework with community empowerment as a key ingredient. CRY also places strong emphasis on networking with other NGOs and advocacy efforts to influence macro policies for children. CRY's assistance to the child development initiatives isn’t just financial. Our Development support team enables our partners’ work through capacity building, infrastructure support, sharing of ideas and information, networking and joint planning, monitoring and evaluation impact, research, documentation and government interface. At CRY, we invite you to use your professional skills and experience to help restore to underprivileged Indian children their basic rights to - survival, development, protection and participation.

People form the foundation of CRY. We have 5 offices - Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore and representatives is Pune and Hyderabad. We are a team of 150 full-time employees. At CRY, the opportunities, the space and environment provided are not only challenging to us who work here but is also enriching both professionally and personally. If you believe in CRY's mission for child rights, its philosophy to work in partnership and work with the highest standards of accountability and transparency, we invite you to be a part of the CRY family.

As a person in this position, you will be responsible for developing the strategy for support and intervention of CRY-supported initiatives in the region. You will ensure it’s in line with the organisation’s strategy and that it delivers the maximum positive impact on the rights of the child. Your role includes assessing and identifying development partners that would best help to achieve the objectives; optimal utilization of resources; effective performance monitoring and evaluation; implementing of efficient processes and systems; and network with the local communities, government bodies and key individuals. Being team leader, you will have to enable, motivate your team, communicate internally and externally, the organisational stances on various issues, regional efforts and programme effectiveness. You must be a Post - Graduate in Social Work, Sociology or Rural Development from a reputed institute.