The Centre for Men and Boys (CFMB) is India’s emerging field-builder for gender-just work with men and boys. We believe men’s thriving is inseparable from collective thriving — and that the systems shaping boys’ and men’s lives (education, work, digital ecosystems, health, relationships, etc.) deserve rigorous, feminist, and field-grounded attention. We work across three institutional streams — Media, Markets, and Governance — and sit at the intersection of insight building, narrative change, and institutional action.
The Field Orchestrator is CFMB’s connective tissue — the person who ensures that intelligence doesn’t stay siloed, that no peripheral actor or signal gets missed, and that the organisation’s relationships with the wider field are alive, reciprocal, and strategically pointed. This role is the relational and translation engine of the organisation: the person who knows who should be in the room and makes sure what comes out of them actually travels.
This is a generalist field-builder role that requires comfort with analysis, relationships, building community infrastructure, and writing a monthly field note. It draws on skills for communications, project management, and on ground research.
The Field Orchestrator works in a joint function with the Sense-Making Unit. The two roles share the translation function: Sense-Making leads on what is being translated (the patterns, frameworks, and hypotheses emerging from the field); the Field Orchestrator leads as the organisation’s boots on the ground: catching signals that fall outside the formal sensemaking funnel (gossip, peripheries, subcultures, under-engaged voices), feeding these back into the intelligence loop, and ensuring CFMB’s field presence remains curious, non-extractive, and genuinely responsive.
Core Responsibilities
1. Listening to the Field CFMB’s embedded listener in the field — catching what doesn’t show
up in formal data or official channels.
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Identify organising happening (or with potential) for men and boys across India
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Track peripheral signals outside the formal sensemaking funnel: field gossip, subcultures, under-engaged communities, emerging actors
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Surface emergent bright spots, unexpected actors, and under-represented dimensions of men’s lives (regional, caste, disability, queer)
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Maintain a monthly field notes log and feed signals of early adoption, resistance, and course-correction back to the Sense-Making Unit and workstreams
2. Stakeholder Mapping and CRM
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Choose, set up, and maintain a CRM system that is live, dynamic, and used across the team
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Build and maintain a comprehensive stakeholder map across field actors, influencers, advisors, and potential partners
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Track inbound calls, interest, and partnership requests — identifying trends and sharing these with the team
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Identify gaps in the stakeholder map: missed actors, over-concentrations, under-engaged voices
3. Relational Community Building
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Represent CFMB at 5–6 relevant conferences and convenings per year
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Cultivate 2–3 feminist allies per year and build a growing network of experts (scientists, artists, practitioners)
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Build and maintain a calendar of network engagement
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Work with Comms to maintain an active online community presence
4. Field Translation Working closely with the Sense-Making Unit and Thematic Leads, the Field Orchestrator helps translate analytical patterns into frameworks, tools, and playbooks for thematic actors.
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Log macro trends, points of convergence, and what is working well in field adaptation
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Research how culture change for men has been approached in other contexts and distil lessons for the India field
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Support in designing and executing convenings that stress-test emerging frameworks
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Identify and commission contributors for op-eds and thought pieces across themes
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Co-produce the internal state-of-field memo and annual field report with the Sense-Making Unit
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Support the development of a broad framework on men and boys work, including proof points for external sharing
Who We Are Looking For
This is a mid-career role for someone who is energised by ambiguity, who finds the periphery more interesting than the centre, and is excited to work on a small team with high ownership. You don’t need deep expertise in gender or masculinities — but you should be genuinely curious about the terrain and able to engage with complexity.
You’ll be a strong fit if:
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You have spent time in India’s social change or media ecosystem and have a feel for who the actors are, what the fault lines are, and where energy is moving
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You build relationships that are genuinely reciprocal and have a knack for connecting the right people to one another
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You can build online and offline community spaces that are engaging, and translate those into action
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You’re operationally disciplined enough to build and maintain a CRM that the team actually uses — and curious enough to notice what the CRM isn’t capturing
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You’ve worked across sectors (civil society, media, markets, or government) and know how to translate across them without flattening the differences
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You can turn insights into something a practitioner or journalist can actually use
How We Will Measure This Role
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Intelligence travelling (field insights, CRM infrastructure, proof points)
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Connection to field (partnerships, collaborations, invitations)
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Sustained engagement (network engagement, new projects, collective learning)
Key Details
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India (remote) w/ travel
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Full-time
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12 – 15L per annum w/ health benefits
Apply by May 31, 2026 by sending an email to [email protected] with the subject line: “Application for Field Orchestrator – [Your Name]”. Please include a resume and a cover letter that shares why you are interested in this role and how your past experience is relevant.
