Job Opportunity for Library Coach at Room to Read in Thane District, Mira Road, Maharashtra, India

## Library Coach, Literacy Field

**About Room to Read**

Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children®, Room to Read is creating a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality through education. We achieve this goal by helping children in historically low-income communities develop literacy skills and a habit of reading, and by supporting girls as they build life skills to succeed in school and negotiate key life decisions. We collaborate with governments and other partner organizations to deliver positive outcomes for children at scale. Room to Read has benefited more than 39 million children and has worked in 23 countries and in more than 182,000 communities, providing additional support through remote solutions that facilitate learning beyond the classroom. Room to Read aims to benefit 40 million children by 2025.

**Job Location:** Thane District, Mira Road, Maharashtra, India

**Job Summary:**

The Library Coach (LBC) will be responsible for supporting and coaching teachers, librarians, and principals to adopt new ways of working with children to increase their habit of reading and for setting up and ensuring a highly functioning library. They will report to the Sr. Literacy Program Operations Officer/Literacy Program Operations Officer/Literacy Program Operations Associate and will not have any direct reports.

**Responsibilities:**

* Develop a thorough understanding of Room to Read’s Literacy program design.

* Manage, monitor and support library program intervention across assigned project schools and ensure adherence to the program design.

* Provide support and conduct teacher training.

* Write monthly reports to the supervisor on program implementation.

* Provide reflective feedback on program design and implementation (especially with respect to progress towards outcomes) and demonstrate a solution-oriented approach.

* Undertake school visits every day, except for days when on official travel and leave.

* Support the initial set up of the library, including site verification (if necessary), organizing community meetings, raising requisition and coordinating delivery of furniture, books and stationery.

* Collaborate with the school to support minor improvements to the library space (e.g. painting).

* Participate in regular teacher and librarian training (both centers based, and school based) related to the Literacy program implementation.

* Regularly observe and model good library management practices and systems to designated librarians (i.e. book leveling, reading activities, check out system, etc.).

* Regularly observe, demonstrate and coach teachers and librarians in the implementation of the library period and reading activities.

* Support and participate in Family & Community Engagement (F&CE) activities like literacy events, parent meetings and other community activities; also coordinate formation and training of Child Management Committees.

* Regularly provide the principal/headmaster an update on progress and coach them on ways to support teachers and ensure longer term sustainability of literacy outcomes within the school.

* Collect monitoring data (both regular and periodic, as required), ensuring high data quality.

* Analyze school level data and information on a regular basis collected during regular school visits, identify corrective action to be taken and build it into school level planning.

* Ensure effective usage of Home as a learning space material through home visits and community visits.

* Conduct Library reading camps in school holidays at school level and community level.

* Attend review meetings at block/district/state/national level, as required, and complete all programmatic and financial reports on a timely manner.

* Support donor visits through project demonstration and presentation.

* Document best practices and lessons learned and share with the Literacy Program team.

* Report to the Literacy Program Operations Officer/Associate.

* Participate in any other activities which may be required to be undertaken to fulfill the objectives of the organization.

**Qualifications & Experience:**

* Bachelor’s degree in education / social sciences or equivalent.

* Minimum 3 years of relevant experience, especially in development projects.

* Teaching experience at the primary level preferred.

* Knowledge about education in general and language development/literacy in particular.

* Strong written and oral communication skills.

* Good interpersonal skills and a team player.

* Basic project management and analytical skills.

**To be successful as a member of the Room to Read team, you will also:**

* Have a passion for our mission and a strong desire to impact a dynamic non-profit organization.

* Be an innovative and creative thinker – not afraid to try something new and inspire others to do so.

* Have a solution-oriented approach.

* Have a very high level of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness.

* Have a strong work ethic and require minimal direction.

* Work well independently as well as part of a team.

* Thrive in a fast-paced and fun environment.