About the Position
- Job Title: Documentation Consultant
- Number of positions: 1
- Location: Remote based with travel to field location as per requirement
- Salary Range: Competitive salary commensurate with experience
- Type: Project Based Consultancy (From January to July 2026)
- Qualification required: Master’s Degree preferably in Management / Communication / Development Communication / Journalism / Social Development from a reputed university/ institute.
Experience Required:
- Minimum 3 years’ experience of working in the sector of development communications, documentation/journalism, content writing, strategic alliance and partnership development
- Demonstrated experience of documentation and corporate communications
- A high level of experience and understanding of Gender, women’s empowerment, adolescent and child protection programming, diversity, inclusion
- Experience in working with government stakeholders, child and social protection mechanisms.
Skill and Competencies:
- Good interpersonal and communications skills, including reading and writing skills in English and Hindi.
- Strong sense of professional commitment, maturity & social accountability
- Self-organized and ability to meet timelines with quality
- Team worker
- Demonstrated ability to perform standard analyses such as secondary research, market analyses, etc.
- Aware of latest trends in gender, child and social protection discourses
- Ability to work on computer for all requirement software; including M.S excel, word, power-point in M.S office and other design related software.
- Consultative and collaborative approach; ability to work with diverse groups
Position Description:
Project Concern International (PCI) India, with support from UNICEF, is going to implement a project titled: Convergent approach towards adolescent empowerment, reduction of child marriage and violence against women and children, prevention of family separation and strengthening social protection, focusing on equity. This position will provide technical support to district administration in strengthening institutional mechanisms including child protection systems and convergence between government and non-governmental organizations for updating, implementing and reviewing district specific implementation plans and other interventions and targeted actions to accelerate reduction in child marriage in districts with high or increasing prevalence with focus on equity. The District Project Coordinator (DPC) will ensure district-level delivery of project outcomes by providing technical and operational support to the district administration on protection issues, strengthening convergence and review mechanisms, and liaising with key stakeholders such as the DCPU, JSLPS, Department of Panchayati Raj, Education Department, and CSOs. The DPC will also support the district administration in developing and implementing social behaviour change strategies to address harmful social norms related to child marriage and violence, building the capacity of stakeholders, and facilitating the identification of and support to vulnerable children and their families. Additionally, the DPC will assist in implementing guidelines related to project outcomes at the district level.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Remain in constant communication with state and field teams to collect stories, develop case studies, good practices, reports and other learning products in visually attractive formats
- Undertake secondary research and create briefs
- Document at least 60 best practices, lessons learned, and human-interest stories for program improvement and scaling from 12 program districts as per the breakup given below.
- Develop high quality, externally sharable, visually appealing documents, power-point presentations and other media about PCI’s gender work for external pitching
- Create digital graphics and writing content for social media posts/campaign and other disseminations
- Undertake secondary evidence review or compilation of learning or modules for different product development
Break up of 60 documents required from these (Any 30 documents in first phase – January to June 2026)
- Project brief – 1 document
- Project closure report – 1 document
- Quarterly progress report and meeting minutes – 4 documents
- Process documentation of DLCWPCs made functional along with learnings and strategies documented for scale up and shared at state level – 1 document
- Process documentation of Vulnerability Mapping exercise and two to four pager brief/brochure on outcome of the exercise- 2 documents
- Process documentation of convergence / coordination mechanisms, system engagement – 1 document
- Documentation of GTA success stories – 12 documents
- 3 stories on comics/body image,
- 3 stories on P2E
- 3 stories on parenting toolkit
- 3 stories on male engagements
- Change stories focusing on role of religious and traditional leaders (ECM) – 4 documents
- Change stories on improved case management (EVAC) – 3 documents
- Impact stories on integrated case management from (Giridih/West Singbhum) – 5 documents
- Impact stories capturing evidence based social behaviour change communication (Shifting Harmful Norms) – 5 documents
- Change story capturing impact of inter-generational dialogues- 2 documents
- Documentation of key field insights and best practices (equity lens) – 5 documents
- Impact stories on scheme linkages (prevention of family separation)– 5 documents,
- Impact stories on MHPSS counseling and services – 3 documents
- Process documentation on Gram Panchayat Helpdesks made functional – 1 document
- Impact stories on linkages done through GPHD (Social protection) – 7 documents
About the Project
Project Concern International (PCI) India, with support from UNICEF, will implement the initiative in Jharkhand titled Convergent approach towards adolescent empowerment, reduction of child marriage and violence against women and children, prevention of family separation and strengthening social protection, focusing on equity. The project aims to prevent child marriage and violence against women and children, reduce family separation, and strengthen social protection systems with a strong focus on equity. The key focus of this project is to strengthen preventive work around ending child marriage, violence against children and promote prevention from family separation and social protection linkages through existing government platforms, programs and schemes. This project is to provide technical support to district administration in strengthening institutional mechanisms including child protection systems and convergence between government and non-governmental organizations for updating, implementing and reviewing district specific implementation plans and other interventions and targeted actions to accelerate reduction in child marriage in districts with high or increasing prevalence with focus on equity. It also includes supporting district to develop and implement social behaviour change strategies to address harmful social norms of child marriage and violence, capacity building of stakeholders, and facilitate identification and support to vulnerable children and their families. This comprehensive initiative operates at both systemic and community levels to create sustainable, equity-focused change in 12 high-prevalence districts and 9 tribal blocks.
A dedicated project team will drive the initiatives forward by facilitating convergence among departments (WCD, Rural Development, JSLPS, PRI and others), enhancing CSO capacity, institutionalizing community-based monitoring systems, and document best practices to inform state policy.
This partnership seeks to catalyse systemic change, strengthen government–CSO coordination, and accelerate Jharkhand’s progress toward becoming child marriage-free while ensuring protection and empowerment for all adolescents.
Recruitment Process
- Applications will be shortlisted based on the specified criteria mentioned in the Job Description.
- The process could also include presentation of the assignment.
- Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend one or more rounds of panel interviews.
The complete process usually takes 2 to 3 weeks. Those moving to the final round of interviews will be hearing from the People & Culture team. We prefer in person meetings but in case of location distances, we are happy to meet you virtually.
NOTE: Application deadline – 14th January 2026