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POSITION/DESIGNATION

Girls’ Education Coordinator

GRADE/LEVEL

Grade F

PROJECT/UNIT

Girls’ Education Program

PROJECT NAME

SOAR ( Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience) Project– UP

PROJECT DURATION

June, 2022-July 2023

POSITION DURATION

August 2022- July 2023

REPORTS TO

Project Manager

LOCATION

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

TRAVEL

25-30% of total time (Delhi and field location)

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 develop 5 state-of-the-art model upgraded KGBVs, and provide knowledge and tools needed to upscale and institutionalize learning across all 746 KGBVs.

JOB SUMMARY

GE Coordinator will be part of the technical support unit for State KGBV cell. S/he will closely work with In-charge KGBV (SSA) for effective implementation of KGBVs in the state. Key role responsibility include – support SSA/SCERT in reviewing the bridge curriculum especially for girls enrolled in grade 6 in KGBVs and teacher capacity building on the bridge curriculum. s/he will be responsible closely working with SCERT- SRG to review/develop state curriculum for bridge course, 21st century skills and creating a mechanism for ensuring a safe and secure environment for girls in KGBVs. Besides, providing technical support in organizing monthly/quarterly review meetings of district gender/girls’ education coordinators at state level and in sensitizing them on concepts of gender, equity, 21st century skills, and management of KGBVs.

GE coordinator will support Project Manager in executing all the planned activities as per the work plan.

Responsibility

Support SSA in implementing the vision around adolescent girls’ leadership development model for KGBVs with a focus on 21st Century skills across state

Lead in organising visioning workshops with government officials and develop an implementation plan to execute the vision.
Develop Standard Operational Protocols for KGBV and State Resource Group (SRG) members to roll out girls’ leadership +21st century skills curriculum in all KGBV’s in the state
Build continuous capacity of district gender coordinators to execute the vision and regular monitoring of KGBVs through systemic process

Take lead in development of curriculum and support materials to implement girls’ leadership model inclusive of 21st Century skills in all KGBV’s

Coordinate with SCERT and SSA to develop resource materials and IEC materials around 21st century skills for upper primary and secondary level
Develop teacher training module and capacitate SRG to undertake training of KGBV teachers
Packaging of the curriculum and training module for institutionalization
Provide support in organizing KGBV teachers training on 21ste century skills with focus on bridge curriculum
- Develop and institutionalize monitoring systems for KGBVs Develop KPIs to monitor KGBVs
  - Support SSA in developing a robust monitoring mechanism for KGBVs
  - Organise periodic capacity building workshops for relevant stakeholders at state and district level to build capacity for using monitoring systems
- Support in Program documentation and studies
  - Provide support in developing knowledge products/training modules in a timely manner
  - Packaging of knowledge products for institutional usage and sustainability of project initiatives.
  - Support in documentation of best practices in KGBVs to share with district/state/national level institutions for its uptake.
  - Support Project Manager for developing donor reports and monthly updates

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

1. External – Key officials in SCERT, Government of Uttar Pradesh at state and district level State

KGBV In-charge
District Gender /Girls’ Education Coordinators
Internal – Head GEP and Sr Technical Specialist- Education

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

Essential

Master’s or advanced degree in Education, Social Sciences, related field
Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience of working as technical expert either donor-funded programs or with government
Prior experience of working with national and/or state governments
Strong experience of reviewing/developing curriculum with gender and equity lense especially for out of school children
Strong experience of teacher training at state/district level

Preferred

Understanding of National Education Policy of India and Current challenges and opportunities around girls’ education in India and 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 local language, Hindi and preferably in English

able to reflect, empathetic, and a good listener

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