Job Opportunity for Assistant Project officer at Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation in Pune

As Assistant programme Officer, you are the drive behind the organisation’s Child Friendly Community programme, Bal Mitra Mandal (BMM) that aims to build child-friendly urban slum communities – where every child is safe, free and educated.

Key Responsibilities

Programme

• Develop monthly action plans for your respective communities in consultation with the Community Social Worker and your Supervisor.
• Create and support formation and functioning of community groups including Bal Shakti
• Mandal, Yuva Shakti Mandal and Mahila Shakti Mandal in your respective communities
• Create community level child friendly committee
• Organize and coordinate mass awareness activities in community
• Support community groups in developing their capacity to engage with local administrator.
• Maintain relationship will all families in Bal Mitra Mandal communities
• Develop and maintain relationships with slum community administration related to Bal Mitra Mandal communities, non-government organisations as well as with the media in your area
• Prepare a monthly report in a prescribed format and in accordance with the action plan
• Documentation and reporting including videography and photography in digitized form
• Maintain a file of your achievements, with relevant details, in your respective communities 

Administrative 

• Maintain a daily diary to note all daily activities. You will send copy of this diary at the end of each month to your supervisor
• Prepare detail activity plans and provide cost to each item
• Collect and collate all bills after an activity is over and hand them to your Supervisor 
• Participate in all activities as instructed by the central office 

Competencies for the role:

• Advocacy and networking skills

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and team-building skills

• Good listening skills

• Research and report-writing skills and the ability to interpret or present data

• Knowledge and understanding of community and social issues

• A non-judgemental and positive attitude

• Creative thinking and problem-solving ability

• Political, social and negotiating skills

• An understanding of functioning of NGO, local authorities’ government sector organization, public sector bodies 

• Compassion and the ability to empathize with people’s life experiences

• Basic legal and ethical knowledge on Child rights 

KRA’s for this role:

• Provide program and operational support, including monitoring and reporting on project plans, milestones and deliverables, to ensure time, cost and quality indicators are in line with approved program plans
• Accountable for identifying dropouts and not in school children and enrolling them in school
• Conducting door to door household surveys
• Timely updating daily, weekly and monthly reports, activity reports, case studies and required formats
• Update and collate documentation and records regarding relevant issues, policies and practices to ensure the delivery of program complies with agreed program management methodology
• Liasoning with stakeholders and local authorities
• Provide a range of administrative services, including coordinating meetings, activities and preparing papers, to support project management delivery Key challenges
• Delivering multiple project support activities in line with agreed standards and objectives, given tight deadlines and competing demands and priorities

Requirements

Education, Experience and Exposure

• Graduate in Social Work/Sociology/Psychology or any relevant stream 
• Good command on Hindi and English will be an added advantage
• Minimum 1 year of experience of working in the field of Children or Community Development Prior experience of at least one year (either through Full-Time job or Field Work Experience) of working with stakeholders at School and Community Level for improving the learning environment of children
• Required minimum two years of commitment
• Proficient in MS office (MS word, excel and PPT), report writing, drafting emails, and good command over telephonic correspondences. 
• Good command on Hindi and English

Benefits

• KSCF is an equal opportunity employer
• Paid Leaves
• Employee Medical and Accidental Insurance