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POSITION/DESIGNATION
Partnership Officer
GRADE/LEVEL
G
PROJECT/UNIT
Indian Partnership for Early Learning
PROJECT DURATION
5 years
POSITION DURATION
4 years
REPORTS TO
Chief of Party
LOCATION
Delhi
TRAVEL
30 %
ABOUT US
CARE is a not-for-profit organisation 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 marginalised 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.
CARE continues efforts towards poverty alleviation with focus on women and girls. We hope to impact 100 million people by 2030.
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 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 will set up a central and state level Project Management Unit, having experts on foundational learning, to engage, influence, and 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- Effective 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 has formed a consortium of 4 organizations led by CARE to work with state government.
JOB SUMMARY
The person will be responsible for assisting the Chief of Party at Central Management Unit located at Delhi.
The key role of partnership officer will be to provide programmatic and functional support to Chief of party on conducting partners meeting, preparing necessary documents/concept note, meeting minutes, travel and other logistics. The person will be responsible for coordinating meetings and workshops anchored by Chief of Party.
The person will report to Chief of Party.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Partnership Coordination
- Support in organizing and conducting regular partners/ project consortium review meetings- support in preparing agenda/meeting documentation.
- Coordinate with partners on Annual Work Plan Development, its progress and its implementation.
- Prepare necessary presentation, documents and review notes for donor
- Organize meetings/ workshop on behalf of CoP with govt/others and maintain relationship with key department point of contact.
Project Documentation
- Prepare necessary documentation, analysis deck for various purpose on the project.
- Support in developing specific program stories/ other materials for communication purpose to the donor and government.
- Provide necessary functional support for document designing needs as required by the project.
Administrative and Functional Support
- Coordinate visit and meeting of international guest, as needed
- Provide support to technical director for workshop, coordination etc as required.
- Any other work as assigned by CoP
Please Note: The role and responsibilities outlined above are not exhaustive list of tasks. The need for flexibility is required and the job holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee’s skills and abilities whenever requested by the Line Manager / Business Head
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
Technical Director- FLN
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Post-graduation in any subject
- Minimum 2 years of experience as analyst, project associate
- Good MS office skills – power point presentation, data management, writing skills
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 audience
Language skills:
- able to read, write and speak in English and Hindi language at an expert level
- ability to type in Hindi language
Collaboration / People skills:
adept at co-creation: naturally collaborative and solutions focused
Change Management:
resilient: able to deal well with ambiguity, uncertainty, and change
flexible: able to adapt well to shifting priorities
versatile: able to juggle different and conflicting priorities
Operational and Administrative Skills
able to successfully manage deliverables in stipulated time
able to incorporate feedback and continually work on project / process improvement
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