About the job Gender Intern
ComMutiny stands for the first 'mutiny' within a young person that comes from working in communities that are ‘different’ from oneself. We are a collective of more than 150 youth-led and youth-engaging organizations and youth development practitioners who work directly with adolescents and young people. To leap beyond the demographic dividend, an enhanced systemic view of youth work and youth leadership is critical to address young people’s well-being and growth as well as current issues of inequality, conflict, and ecological decline. With Ashoka Innovators for the Public, we initiated a series of strategic conversations, which have led to the formation of the VartaLeap Coalition - a cross-sectoral grouping of 200+ (and growing) of youth-engaging organizations from the development sector, government, media, educational institutions, and UN agencies, who seek to create a movement towards a new norm Every Youth A Jagrik and Every Space Nurturing Jagriks. We define Jagrik as a self-awakened citizen not only making a change but also being the change. The purpose of the coalition is to design, pilot, and scale youth-centric innovations and enable appropriate narrative shifts. To know more, log onto http://www.commutiny.in ;
What you’ll be doing and learning:
Project:
Curate on ground action stories, videos and social media content with the young social entrepreneurs (Changeloomers), gender jagriks and gender labs leading community based gender transformative work.
These changeloomers are a part of Changelooms-Youth Leaders shifting gender norms, a leadership journey committed to social change and gender equality and have demonstrated experience working on issues of equality and inclusion with an articulated long term commitment to social change and who can be capacitated to co-develop the leadership ability of the gender jagriks.
Project Duration: 3 months (extendable by another 3 months)
Nature of engagement: 5 days/ week in the office
Your role:
Design a framework for the content collection for Changelooms
Work with 38 Changeloomers from across the country to collect data and insights for the on ground, and their impact on the gender jagriks
Curate self and society transformative stories of the changeloomers, Gender Jagriks and gender labs
Create a compendium on ‘Youth-led gender initiatives - and learning from working with young men and boys' to be shared with social media, funders, civil society leaders and other relevant stakeholders
Develop content for social media and other platforms for narrative building
What’s In It For You?
Exposure of working directly with sectoral experts in the field of youth - centric development and gender transformative works
Travel to different cities and localities for exposure visits and stories
Build a network of young social entrepreneurs working on gender discrimination and masculinities
Opportunity to participate in residential workshops with the Changeloomers (if possible)
Skills Required (Beginner Level):
Documentation and short video making
Effective communication
Social media handling
Entrepreneurial spirit
Critical thinking and problem solving skills
Remuneration
Rs. 21,000/month