Applications invited for Project Positions at the TISS Hyderabad off-Campus: TISS HYD/PROJECT/MARCH/2018

TISS is a centrally funded public university which operates from four campuses located in Mumbai and Tuljapur in Maharashtra, Guwahati and Hyderabad.

TISSs off-campus at Hyderabad is the knowledge partner of the Sakhi One Stop Centres (OSC) Project with the Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Telangana to provide integrated support and assistance to women and children affected by gender-based violence, both in private and public spaces. A Project Management Unit was set up in 2017 for implementation of the Sakhi OSCs in 9 districts of Telangana and is located in the Directorate, Women Development and Child Welfare, Government of Telangana, Hyderabad.

Applications are invited from highly committed and motivated individuals with experience of working on womens issues and on gender-based violence (GBV) for the following positions in the Project Management Unit for the implementation of One Stop Centers (OSCs).

These positions are to be filled in initially for a period of one year and may be extended further on yearly basis (for two more years) based on the performance of the candidates and continued relevance of the position to the project.

The details of the positions, qualifications required and the job responsibilities are given below.

1. Assistant State Project Manager: One position Remuneration: Contractual payment of Rs. 40000/- p.m. Essential Qualification: Masters Degree in Anthropology / Economics / Law / Political Science / Social Work / Sociology / Womens Studies and a minimum 5 years of experience working on protection, welfare and development of women are required. Excellent understanding of womens issues, policies and programs and laws and regulations related to gender-based violence is needed. The applicant is expected to possess a very strong research, monitoring and evaluation, writing and computer skills with demonstrated capability in data analysis. Job Responsibilities: To work with and assist the State Project Manager in all above responsibilities.
   
   
2. Data Analyst: One position Remuneration: Contractual payment of Rs. 35000/- p.m. Essential Qualifications: A post graduate degree in Statistics/ Computer Applications/Demography with strong data collection, collation, analysis and interpretation, and report writing skills are required. Should have the ability for database creation using EXCEL and transformation using SPSS / Strata / SAS /etc.
   
   

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Job Responsibility includes:

Database creation, collation, management and analysis on the functioning of OSCs based at the state-level Project Management Unit. Create, maintain and streamline data management systems and online MIS at the state-level PMU.

Application fee: The candidates are requested to express their interest in any of the above positions with detailed resume stating education, employment, skills and three references. The application must be accompanied by a bank draft for Rs. 300/as processing fees, drawn in favour of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad campus, payable at Hyderabad. You are requested to send the application by speed post to the following address so as to reach on or before March 30, 2018. Fees once paid shall not be refunded under any circumstances.

Prof. U. Vindhya Project Leader, School of Gender Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad campus

S. R. Sankaran Block, TSIPARD, Rajendranagar Hyderabad -500030.

Candidates are encouraged to email an advance copy of application, CV and DD to u.vindhya@tiss.edu .

Other Conditions:

The Institute reserves the right to relax qualification of the candidate based on the work experience and to relax age in the case of persons already holding comparable positions in a University/research institution of repute,

The institute reserves the right to invite persons for interview who may not have applied for as per the above procedure and not fill up the vacancy advertised.

Since applications received may be short listed, merely possessing the prescribed qualifications and the requisite experience would not entitle a person to be called for interview.

The post is unreserved, but candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/NT/DNT categories are encouraged to apply. The reservations, relaxations and concessions for SC/ST/OBC(NC)/PWD candidates shall be applicable as per Government of India rules.

No queries or correspondence regarding issue of call letter for interview / selection of candidates for the post will be entertained at any stage and canvassing in any form is strictly prohibited and will lead to the candidate being debarred from consideration for the post.

The SC/ST/OBC(NC)/PWD candidates called for interview must necessarily submit the certificate in the format prescribed by the Government of India. OBC candidates are required to submit a certificate regarding his/her 'OBC status and non-creamy layer status' in the prescribed GoI format duly issued on or after 01/01/2016 by the competent authority.

The candidate under employment must bring No Objection Certificate from their employer to appear for presentation/ interview. No TA / DA is payable for appearing for the interview.

Interview: The eligible candidates will be communicated by e-mail and phone to appear for the interview to be conducted at the office of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Off-campus Hyderabad, S.R Sankaran Block, TSIPARD Campus, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad - 500030.

The selected candidates are expected to join within 15 days from the date of receiving the appointment letter.

March 19, 2018 Project Leader