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POSITION/DESIGNATION
District Coordinator
GRADE/LEVEL
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PROJECT/UNIT
Girls’ Education Program
PROJECT NAME
SOAR (Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience) Project– UP- 2
PROJECT DURATION
September, 2022-August 2025
POSITION DURATION
November 2022- August 2025
REPORTS TO
Project Manager
LOCATION
Lucknow/Any of the implementation District
TRAVEL
50% of total time (field location, District and Lucknow)
ABOUT US
CARE is a not-for-profit organisation working in India for over 68 years, focusing on alleviating poverty and social injustice. We do this through well-planned and comprehensive projects in health, education, livelihoods and disaster preparedness and response. Our overall goal is the empowerment of women and girls from poor and marginalised communities leading to improvement in their lives and livelihoods.
During FY 2018-19, CARE India directly reached out to 37.2 million people through 43 projects across 14 states, covering more than 80+ districts. We are part of the CARE International Confederation, working in 100 countries for a world where people live with dignity and security.
CARE India seeks a world of hope, tolerance, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security.
Our goal is to ensure that women and girls from the most marginalized communities are empowered, live in dignity and their households have secure and resilient lives. CARE India aims to accomplish this goal by working with 50 million people to help them have quality health, education, livelihoods and overcome the effects of disasters.
Our employees are committed to CARE’s values, Code of Conduct, and safeguarding commitments towards a safe workplace for all, including the principle of ‘do no harm’. They are also responsible to uphold and strengthen our safeguarding commitments in their role.
PROJECT DETAILS
For past two decades, CISSD has been engaging with state governments (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Odisha, Haryana) and Ministry of Education (MoE) to strengthen the implementation of KGBVs in order to ensure quality education for girls from the most marginalised communities. Key focus areas have been teacher development to teach subjects from grades 6-8, implementation of a bridge curriculum for drop out girls enrolled in KGBVs, building leadership skills in adolescent girls, developing a manual on effective management of KGBVs and training of wardens, and establishing a monitoring and review mechanism including the use of safety audits in KGBVs. In the recent past, all the state governments have upgraded KGBVs to grades 8th-12th to ensure girls complete their secondary school education. State Government of Uttar Pradesh has opened 746 KGBVs so far and some of them have been upgraded by 2020-21. Therefore, girls in the age group of 11-18 years will get the opportunity to stay in KGBVs and complete their secondary school education. It is therefore crucial for the state government to have a vision for extending access through KGBVs to secondary education and its proper execution to ensure quality education for at-risk adolescent girls and equipping them with 21st century skills.
CISSD will support the state education department of Uttar Pradesh to adopt/adapt the girls’ leadership model for KGBVs. For this, CISSD will provide technical assistance to the state education department through a technical support unit. Besides, CISSD will also develop5 state-of-the-art model upgraded KGBVs, and provide knowledge and tools needed to upscale and institutionalize learning across all 746 KGBVs.
JOB SUMMARY
District Coordinator will be responsible to coordinate with DEO/DPO SSA office, District gender coordinator and project team directly working in selected KGBVs in terms of providing on-site support to KGBV teachers on transacting CARE India developed 21st century skill curriculum which includes – leadership skill and socio-emotional well-being, English communication skills, digital literacy and vocational preparedness along with enabling newly enrolled girls in grade 6 to acquire grade 5 competencies using CARE India developed bridge curriculum.
S/he will be responsible for making selected KGBVs as state of the art model so that its learnings can be mainstreamed and showcased at state level
S/he will be responsible for developing KGBV teachers’ capacities on 21st century skills by facilitating required training programs.
(The above list is not exhaustive, and the management reserves the right to review it as and when the role evolves based on the need of the business and individual’s skills and capabilities)
Responsibility
Ensure effective implementation of regular on-site support is provided by project team on 21st century skill
– Ensure training and capacity building of KGBV wardens on Safety and Security in intervention KGBVs and Conduct safety audits in KGBVs as per defined tools by CARE India
– Ensure training programs for intervention KGBV teachers on various domains of 21st century skills are held in a timely manner as per the approved work plan
– Ensure regular on-site support is provided to KGBV Wardens & KGBV teachers on transacting 21st century skill related -leadership skill curriculum, digital literacy, English communication skills and Vocational preparedness, by field team and design the appropriate planner for the same
– Ensure appropriate use of learning resource materials/IEC materials provided to KGBVs
– Conduct visits to KGBVs as per assigned frequency and maintain records of the visits to KGBVs undertaken
Monitoring and documentation
– Ensure filling up information in project MIS in a timely manner
– Coordinate to conduct baseline and endline of the project based on instructions provided by MIS officer/PM/technical team
– Noting /recording/reporting proceedings of meetings, workshops & training programs
– Develop case studies/human interest stories from KGBVs for girls and teachers and wardens
– Maintain a folder of photographs/short videos taken related to various activities conducted and share with the project MIS officer regularly
– Provide support in project related activities at district and state
Support Project Manager for developing donor reports and monthly updates
Coordinate with project team – develop and share a detailed monthly report on the basis engagement in KGBVs
Other responsibilities
- Support Project Manager in capacity building of other project staff
- Ensure the implementation of project work plan.
- Any other work as assigned by Project manager
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
1. External –District level Gender coordinators and BSA
2. Internal –Project Manager, GECoordinator , KGBV Coordinator, Data & Knowledge management Specialist
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Master’s or advanced degree in Education, English, MSW, Social Sciences or related field
- Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience of working in education projects with rich experience in teacher training and onsite support to school teachers
- English speaking
- Understanding on issues of girls’ education, equity, KGBVs and National education policy, Prior experience of working with national and/or state governments
- Women candidate are encouraged to apply
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
Interpersonal skills :
- Able to work with the multi stakeholders for development project
- Sensitive to gender issues
- Able to work in team, accomplish as a team and represent the team
Communication skills:
- Able to articulate and communicate well to all stakeholders (both verbally and in writing) in a manner that meets the different needs of different audiences
Language skills:
- Able to read, write and speak in English and Hindi
- Able to reflect, empathetic, and a good listener
Computer skills:
- Able to work essentially in MS Office package
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