Development Consortium is seeking candidate for the role of Project Director to design and lead a guided self-program to reduce depression at scale in India.
About Development Consortium
Development Consortium (DC) is a non-profit organization (registered in India), dedicated to working with young people and vulnerable communities across India – empowering them to overcome health, education and rights, abuse & injustice issues.
About the Role- Project Director
Development Consortium seeks a qualified Project Director to design and lead a guided self-help program to reduce depression at scale in India. Guided self-help interventions for mental health have two components: Participants complete course content and learn self-help techniques which are proven to improve mental health, and they have weekly meetings with lay counsellors. In our program, participants will receive course material and homework digitally.
Responsibilities
- Project Design: Adapt self-help content for target audience; Develop lay counsellor training program; Work with therapist to ensure clinical safety; Set up project infrastructure
- Technical Delivery: Oversee development and maintenance of a basic chatbot to deliver self-help course material and homework to participants
- Fundraising: Actively raise funds to support the project: Research funding opportunities; Develop and write grant proposals; Initiate and manage relationships with funders; Attend conferences and events
- Beneficiary Recruitment: Recruit program participants through online advertising and partnerships with community-based organizations
- Program Management: Launch and scale up the program; Oversee day-to-day implementation to meet goals; Ensure compliance with funder requirements; Manage project budget; Iterate program based on feedback from beneficiaries
- Team Hiring and Management: Hire and supervise all project staff, including software developers, therapists, lay counsellors, and other support staff as required
- Impact Measurement and Analysis: Establish systems to track program performance and impact; Oversee beneficiary feedback collection; Iterate and improve program based on quantitative and qualitative analysis; Produce reports with findings
- Stakeholder Management: Represent the project externally, serving as primary point of contact for all relevant stakeholders
- Communications: Develop communications material promoting the project such as blog posts,
reports, donor updates, and one-pagers - Strategy and Vision: Define project direction based on research; Set short and long-term goals; Identify opportunities for growth and expansion; Communicate vision internally and externally
Eligibility
- 3+ years in a leadership role at a nonprofit organisation
- Mental health sector experience, either as a practitioner or manager for service delivery
- Project management: Proven ability to direct complex projects with many moving parts
- Early-stage project startup experience: Entrepreneurial experience is considered especially
valuable - Fundraising for social sector projects, including directly managing donor relationships
- External relationship management: Skilled relationship builder and people person able to interface effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders
- Impact measurement and analysis
- Web developer, or experience managing engineers to develop and operate a tech product
- Team hiring and recruitment
- Team management, ideally roles in software development and clinical work
- Strong writer and verbal communicator with experience producing material for public audiences
- Financial management
- Fluent in written and spoken English
Desired Experience and Skills
- Previously scaled a product or service to reach thousands of users
- Understanding of guided self-help interventions for depression
- Lay counsellor training and supervision
- Implementation of social programming through technological mediums
- Master’s degree in social work, Development Studies, Social Entrepreneurship or similar
Salary
The salary of Project Director at Development Consortium will be Rs. 21,00,000 Per Annum.
Location
Delhi
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