Job Opportunity for District Manager at Care India in Barabanki

POSITION/DESIGNATION

District Manager 

GRADE/LEVEL

Grade F

PROJECT/UNIT

Indian Partnership for Early Learning 

PROJECT NAME

Indian Partnership for Early Learning

PROJECT DURATION

5 years (October 2021- September 2026)

POSITION DURATION 

2 years

REPORTS TO

Program Manager- ECE

LOCATION

Barabanki

TRAVEL

30 % of travel to field

ABOUT US

CARE is a not-for-profit organization working in India for over 70 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 marginalized communities leading to improvement in their lives and livelihoods.

During FY 2020-21, CARE India directly reached out to 52.7 million people through 53 programmes across 18 states, covering more than 130+ 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. To know more about our safeguarding policies please visit our website link given below.

PROJECT DETAILS

India Partnership for Early Learning (IPEL) is a USAID funded project that aims to ensure all children (girls and boys) from Early childhood education to early grades (grades 1&2) are positively impacted in four Indian states (Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, South Delhi Municipal Schools). The ultimately goal of the project is  all children (age 3-6) attending AWCs/Balvatika/preschools attain school readiness by age 6;   and  children (age 6-8) attending early grades (1-2) acquire reading fluency and comprehension, number recognition, two-digit addition and subtraction, express emotions safely, and express understanding of emotions of others verbally or through pictures by end of grade 2 in four intervention states.     The project approach will influence practices of both government run and private schools in intervention states to ensure every child of the state is positively impacted. 

The project is designed to work very closely at national and state education/WCD department and its institutions to work, influence and advocate on the agenda of Early Childhood and Education and Foundational Learning and Numeracy (FLN).   IPEL project adopts a system strengthening approach using technical support model to work with state and national government. For this, IPEL project has set up a central and state level Project Management Unit, having experts on foundational learning, to technically guide department of education and its key institutions for effective delivery of foundational learning and numeracy program in the state. The key technical area includes- FLN content and materials for teachers and children, Robust and quality capacity building approach and review system, FLN vision, budget and financing, Quality educational monitoring and learners’ assessment tracking system and Empowered community engagement in each of the state. It will work towards addressing issues and challenges faced by marginalised children and girls in the states to ensure every child in the state attend the school and acquire learning. 

The project is working towards building robust system and mechanisms to positively support schools, teachers and children in intervention states. Since The IPEL project objectives and goals are aligned with the national mission- NIPUN BHARAT, it is working towards achieving the larger goal of National Education Policy and state priorities. The project has formed a consortium of 4 organizations led by CARE to work with state governments and MCD. This consortium will work closely with department of education/its institutions to ensure quality and effective delivery of Foundational Learning (FL) for both public and private schools. 

JOB SUMMARY

District Manager- Early Childhood Education is a managerial position that will be positioned at district level. The position will be accountable for ensuring complete execution of ECE scaled program in two districts. The position will closely work with District Magistrate and District Education Officer of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, UP for ensuring development of ECE road map for the district, setting up ECE monitoring system and facilitating conduct of district level ECE review and planning. The person will also oversee and ensure timely execution of training program at district and block level to ensure increased capacities of 2000 AWCs and 50 Lady Supervisors.  The person will work closely with Consortium partner (Central Square Foundation) to jointly work with SSA on technical areas. The position is required to support any other work assigned by Technical Director- FLN.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Overall responsible for execution and management of ECE scaled program design at district level
• Build relationship and provide guide to District Magistrate, District officials (DEO and DPOs) to set up program management and monitoring system for ECE execution
• Support in development and management of project monitoring dashboard
• Coordinate and conduct regular district and block level meeting with BRPs and CDPOs on ECE progress and training program
• Ensure timely conduct of capacity building of DRGs/ District Trainers on ECE and SEL.
• Engage and Liaison with State Leadership/SSA to share progress and lessons of the ECE Work from districts
• Undertake any other assignment assigned by Project Manager

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

Technical Specialist- Numeracy and ECE at CMU level and Technical Director- FLN

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Postgraduate in Management or Education Field
• 3 years of experience in managing development projects at district level
• Understanding of developing project management and monitoring system

Preferred

• Previous experience of working with education department
• Knowledge of School Education and ECE in Uttar Pradesh

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

•  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 Hindi and English language at an expert level
• Research skills: able to conduct secondary research for identifying the newest trends and incorporate them in program / process approach
• Team Management & Collaboration / People skills:  comfortable with negotiating and resolving conflict; able to reflect, empathetic, and a good listener
• Time and Change Management: resilient: able to deal well with ambiguity, uncertainty, and change and : able to juggle different and conflicting priorities
• Digital skills : ability to prepare presentation, excel, etc at moderate level