Job Opportunity for District Coordinators at Dost Education

About Dost

Dost is an ed-tech nonprofit building a platform to expand access to early childhood development in low-resource settings. Our mission is to unlock children’s full potential by focusing on early learning at home – the time when 90% of our brain develops.

We believe that parents of any literary level can play a critical role in developing their children’s school and life readiness. That’s why our team at Dost Education – educators, entrepreneurs, and engineers – are passionate about using technology and user-centric product design to change the trajectory of families’ lives.

Since 2017, we’ve grown from a small pilot project with a few hundred mothers to reaching over 2 lakh families working with partners like UNICEF and state governments. Join us as we continue to innovate, grow our reach, and deepen our impact. We are supported by some of the best funders in the tech and social impact spaces like Y Combinator, Mulago, and many others.

Dost Education values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of now, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are looking for District Coordinators

We are looking for young enthusiastic individuals, who are driven, motivated, and strive to make a social impact by working directly with Frontline Workers/Anganwadi Workers and government functionaries in community engagement and mobilisation in blocks and districts of one of the designated states – Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

The objective of this role is to engage and mobilise caregivers to make them aware and to onboard them onto our phone-based program. The role is ideal for individuals who are keen on social-community work with focus on early childhood development.

If this is you, you will be perfect for our Program implementation. You will be reporting directly to the State Lead or the Program Manager, and will be required to work closely with the Program Team to accomplish results. The role will be a full-time, program-implementation job for 6 months (subject to extension).

Who can apply?

• Passionate about early childhood development
• Qualification: Graduate in any discipline
• At least 2 years of experience in total working in the government-education space or other relevant experience.
• Local from Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh would be preferred, or should be open to relocate.

What your role will be

• Deeply understand Dost’s users, operational model, product model, impact framework, and systems.
• Understand Government’s (Department of Education and ICDS) initiatives in the state related to Early learning and Development.
• Be able to represent Dost to external government stakeholders at all levels.
• Frequent travel to the assigned districts and blocks for program delivery and overall end-to-end management.
• Design and facilitate trainings, periodic meetings/workshops/campaigns at district and block level on Dost’s programs and products for District and block-level stakeholder, including caregivers.
• Managing a district end-to-end in terms of training, monitoring and relationship building for smooth implementation of the program.
• Maintain a strong relationship with the Government functionaries from the Education Department and the ICDS at both district and block level and be a strong advocate for Dost.
• Organise and conduct review meetings in the assigned districts to facilitate communication with the system.
• Add and retain Dost Users in the district through regular engagement with relevant government and community stakeholders.
• Design and implement block/sector specific innovations/experiments aiming for better user engagement.
• Collect case studies (video or written documentation) and provide user insights to the product development team and operations design to improve user experiences.
• Assist other functions (Monitoring and Evaluation, Content) in execution of field assessments and user studies.

Skill(s) required.

• Strong Hindi and English communication skills – written and oral.
• Great presentation skills and a people person.
• Basic Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, or Google Suite skills.
• Flexible and goal-oriented.
• Proficient in using a smartphone.
• Previous work with ICDS or Government Primary Education System will be preferred.
• Data-oriented approach to operations with consistent documentation skills.

How to apply:

If you are interested, fill the Google form – https://forms.gle/aooovcCMsct4TVrV6.