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You’re reading about this position because you believe in the power of content - good content. Similarly, at Pratham Books, we believe in the power of stories – good stories. For well over a decade we have strived hard to reach children across India with a variety of award-winning stories across 18 Indian languages. With our digital crowd-sourcing platform – StoryWeaver we now share the power of stories with a global community of educators, parents, authors, illustrators and translators.

                     

About the role

Pratham Books is looking for a dynamic individual for the position of Content Manager (StoryWeaver). A self-motivated individual with experience and skills in curating content from multiple sources, forging strategic partnerships and anchoring the process of migrating content to the platform. The person will lead a team and be responsible for timely execution to expand the content available on the platform to serve the needs of children globally. The role will report to the Head of Digital Initiatives and will work closely with different internal and external stakeholders. This is a full time position based out of Bengaluru.

The individual will be responsible for all the following

Strategic Partnerships

1. Create partnership opportunities with other publishers to open license their content on the platform
2. Create partnership opportunities with Indian Universities and Language Institutes to increase the pool of good quality translations on the platfor
3. Identify and forge partnership opportunities with international organizations like Translator without Borders  to nurture translation partnerships in International language
4. Working closely with the content team for sourcing children's stories under open licences from across the globe

Programme Management & Design     

1. To build a strong cohesive programme operations team including setting up the Studio department and putting the processes and work-flows in place
2. To ensure that we meet our commitments to donors, delivering projects on time and on budget, and delivering the committed activities and project reports in compliance with the project design
3. To work closely with all stakeholders to ensure high quality standards are met for crowd-sourced content - including review processes and red flagging of inappropriate content
4. To take on other tasks or responsibilities, as required for the project  
5. Archiving and documentation

Content Migration

 

1. Prioritizing the pipeline of content from all sources for migration
2. Managing the studio teams for the timely delivery of large scale data migration
3. Working closely with the design teams to define new design templates 
4. Work with the technology partners to develop efficient processes for content migration

Liaison with co-collaborators & internal stakeholders:

 

1. Creating a database of content creators, authors, illustrators, translators, etc on the platform to enhance engagements
2. Work closely with the marketing team to come up with interesting promotions to promote use of content
3. Work closely with the content, research and marketing teams to deliver the project goals

Required Skills

1. Post graduate in Literature / Communication / Journalism with 7-10 years of experience in related fields. Experience with a publishing house is favourable.     
2. The candidate must have experience working in an editorial position in a publishing house and should have hands-on experience in review, proofreading and production related processes.
3. Exceptional communication skills     
4. Highly organized and detail oriented
5. A proven track record to manage, lead and deliver large-scale operations
6. Proven ability to build consensus and work effectively within a cross-departmental team     
7. Self-starter, team player, strategic thinker and all around book nerd
8. Passion, integrity and energy!     

Nice to have but not mandatory

1. Experience working with non-profits.     
2. 1-2 years working in a partner facing role     
3. Indic language and digital publishing experience

Location: Position is based out of Bangalore and is full-time.

Salary: Will be commensurate with experience. We are looking for a passionate individual who wants to be part of a team that is creating a new model in multilingual publishing to address the scarcity of books for children in need.

Interested candidates can email their resume to [email protected]

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Bhavana Vyas Vipparthi, has lived and studied in Bangalore all her life. Having finished a Fine Arts course at Srishti, School of Art Design And Technology, she went on to do a masters in animation film design at NID in Ahmadabad. Her mind is now consumed by her terribly talkative two and a half year old son, a perfect dog, and a fellow animator husband. She makes up a million stories a day to stay sane. You can find their work on https://vimeo.com/thestudiospaceman
 

When I was given the opportunity to work on a book for Pratham Books, the script that got my attention was the one on garbage. Chikoo, a little litterbug gets a dose of her own messy medicine, when all the trash she keeps carelessly throwing around, comes back as a big cloud of smelly garbage that hangs over her head. Managing our garbage through very doable means like segregation and composting, has always been a cause I support. And I was very happy to get a chance to do my bit for this important issue. The script by Karanjeet Kaur was quirky and unusual. As I read it, I imagined a mixed media/ collage approach would work really well with the theme.

I knew straight away that the garbage had to be real. It would add a great texture to the images along with being the only effective way to show the reality of our very serious trash problem. I collected our trash at home over a few days, arranged it and photographed the cloud that would haunt Chikoo.

 After the initial rough page layouts were done, I had a lot of fun exploring ways to show other elements. The flies that swarm around the cloud of trash were done with a dab of paint and fingerprints for their buzzing blurry wings. 

The odorous vapours were cut out of OHP sheets and painted, as the paint dried on the plastic surface it left interesting organic patterns. 

   

The backgrounds were done with watercolour and I used different kinds of leaves as stamps to make trees and bushes.

The ground and park railings were also created using different materials as stamps. 

 

With this abundance of different textures, the characters had to stand out on the page, and making them cutouts solved this problem effectively. The final characters were drawn on paper, cutout, and carefully painted. They were made in different parts with the hair, head, and body as separate pieces. Legs and hands were drawn on the computer later. We always draw from our own influences and the uniforms are the very same ones that I wore as a quiet little girl in primary school. 

All the different elements, backgrounds, desks, characters, flies, smell etc,were first photographed and then cleaned up on the computer. The final pages were assembled on Photoshop. Where most projects I work on start and end digitally, it was a welcome break to cut/paste/paint, explore and create something unique for this book.

You can read 'A Cloud of Trash' by Karanjeet Kaur and Bhavana Vipparthi by clicking on the image below

 

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About Pratham Books

Pratham Books is a not-for-profit children's book publisher that was set up in 2004 to publish good quality, affordable books in many Indian languages. Our mission is to see ‘a book in every child’s hand’ and we have spread the joy of reading to millions of children in India.

In 13 years, we have published over 3000 books and distributed over 14 million copies of our storybooks and 16 million story cards. Last year, Pratham Books' increased its footprint by going digital. As an industry leader, we were one of the first publishers in the country to open license our content. All this content is now available on StoryWeaver, our digital platform that hosts stories in 60 languages. The stories can be read, translated, versioned or downloaded for free.

At Pratham Books, we are shaping a new, innovative approach to multilingual publishing because we believe that every child needs good books to read in a language of their choice.

Job Description

We are looking for an Outreach Manager who can forge strategic partnerships to facilitate the use of StoryWeaver’s digital resources with organizations that have programs which promote reading and learning among children. The Manager will be responsible for strategizing and executing plans to increase the user base of StoryWeaver and also provide the necessary training and support to the partner network. The Manager will also work with the internal team to shape and guide strategies based on partner inputs and feedback.

Key Responsibilities

Identify potential partners and strategize, design and execute plans to onboard them as StoryWeaver users.        

• Create and execute robust work plans for achieving monthly, quarterly and annual goals    

• Provide training and support to the partner network    

• Provide information and feedback to the internal team based on partner feedback and essentially be a bridge between the internal and external stakeholders

• Help with research and documentation for impact assessment

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Degree

• 5+ years plus work experience in Sales, Marketing, Outreach or related areas.

• Experience in a programmatic function in the development sector

• Exceptional interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills

• Ability to gather data, analyze information, and prepare reports and documents

• Strong  program planning and implementation skills.

Location: This role is based out of Delhi and is full-time.

Salary: Compensation will be commensurate with experience. Interested candidates are requested to send in their resume to [email protected] with the subject line – Outreach Manager

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