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POSITION/DESIGNATION

Technical Officer – STEM

GRADE/LEVEL

PROJECT/UNIT

Kanya Sampurna Project – II

PROJECT DURATION

36 Months (April 2022- March 2025)

REPORTS TO

Program Manager

LOCATION

Cuddalore District

TRAVEL

60-70% of time in project locations, primarily in schools and communities.

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

CARE India is implementing a project, namely the Kanya Sampurna Project (KSP) in Cuddalore district. KSP is implementing the project in Kattumannarkoil, Keerapalayam, Kammapuram, and Srimushnam blocks in the Cuddalore district. The project is aiming to focus on the following areas: (1) supporting early learners (3-5) with improved preschool activities at Anganwadi Centers, (2) strengthening the foundational learning skill of primary school children through quality schooling interventions, (3) improving science and math proficiency of middle school children through STEM interventions, and (4) contributing towards leadership potential of adolescents in communities and schools through empowered adolescent interventions. CARE will implement the project in Kattumannarkoil, Srimushnam, Keerapalayam, and Kammapuram blocks in the Cuddalore district. The project will work with 291 Anganwadi Centers, 258 primary schools, 67 primary schools, 35 high schools, and 23 Higher Secondary School. The project will reach over 45500 individuals in three years. Over 20,000 girls will benefit from life skill interventions.

JOB SUMMARY

CARE India’s Kanya Sampurna Project encompasses research and direct service programs focused on girls in STEM, particularly on encouraging girls to pursue STEM majors in college. The STEM Coordinator will report to the Program Manager to manage STEM Education at Middle schools (Class 6-8). STEM coordinator handles budget planning and execution, project planning and progress reporting and ensuring implementation of STEM program deliverables.

She/He will also support assessment of girls’ progression in curriculum and documentation of change story. Person will have a working relationship with the education team for various technical content and capacity building programs. The position handles documentation and management of MIS to track the session progress, participants’ details, besides supporting M&E person in carrying out periodic assessments.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Support and handhold the field team to strengthen STEM interventions (Science and Math) in 67 Middle School in three blocks.
Map existing resources, and chart strategies to set up labs in Middle schools and handhold the teachers in using labs for building students’ knowledge on basic science and math concepts.
Organize Training programs for the field staff, middle school teachers and BRCCs in collaboration with CSO team.
Serve as the focal point for STEM programs; manage internal STEM project reporting tools, including weekly and quarterly progress reports, assist with ensuring projects stay on schedule and key deadlines are met.
Manage the budget planning process by coordinating with the Program manager and track monthly expenses, ensuring expenses are on target.
Manager the performance STEM facilitator, develop teacher mentoring plans, and building capacities of STEM educators to organize demonstration sessions at classrooms using science labs.
Coordinate STEM programs with the CSO and project team for unified internal and external communication and branding of KSP’s STEM efforts.
Manage the STEM block level resources team by working with the project STEM Educators and BRCCs team to plan meetings, coordinate outreach activities.
Serve as a focal point for implementation of programmatic changes and coordinating team’s work to ensure smooth execution.
Assist with event planning and coordination as necessary to meet project deliverables, particularly for supporting the children to take up STEM projects at Middle Schools.
Provide counsel on marketing and outreach plans for STEM events, report launches and other STEM-related activities.
Manage annual updates, documentation and facilitate document/form coordination with STEM educators.
Oversee management of STEM project information in KSP database; oversee STEM Educators’ performance and data management capacities.
Lead STEM Educator recruitment activities and manage consultants as needed.
Perform other related/comparable duties as assigned.

Gender Equity & Diversity.

To promote & integrate organizational GED strategies in team and project.
To integrate strategies, policies, and practices that promote genuine change at all levels of the organization with GED at its centre.
To establish mechanisms that ensure continuous progress in team/project on GED.
Emergency Response & Disaster Preparedness.
Required to provide support and undertake specified emergency assignments identified as part of the CARE India’s Roster for Emergency Deployment during the time of disasters/emergencies.
Undertake the specified role and responsibilities identified as a part of the CARE India Emergency Roster.
Be familiar with CARE emergency protocols and respective roles as per the functional area under which member has been nominated.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

District and Block Education Department.
PMU at State level.
Middle school teachers and.
Children at Middle school.
GEP & CSO technical team members.

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

Essential

Post graduate degree with 4 years of full-time professional work experience; higher education and/or STEM experience preferred.
Experience managing and tracking projects and budgets.
Highly organized and detail-oriented; able to communicate effectively orally and in writing.

Preferred

Candidates with hands on experience in teachers’ development activities in science and math.
Good facilitation skill and ability to develop lesson designs and training curriculum.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

Communication skills:

Ability to communicate ideas and opinions clearly.
Outstanding interpersonal skills, working well with a wide range of staff at all levels.
Ability to interact respectfully with people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.
Clear understanding and commitment to CARE India’s mission, goals, and values.

Language skills:

Able to read, write and speak in Tamil language at an expert level, fluency in English with good documentation skill.

Research skills:

Able to conduct research in assessing math and science learning outcome through concurrent studies.
Basic understanding of statistical modeling and study design.

Team Management & Collaboration / People skills:

Social intelligence: able to engage and influence teams, create relationships of trust with stakeholders
Adept at co-creation: naturally collaborative and solutions focused.
Conflict resolution: comfortable negotiating and resolving conflict; seeking clarity and testing assumptions, being able to reflect, be empathetic, and being a good listener.
Giving and receiving feedback from the team members and school level stakeholders.

Strategic Thinking and Analysis:

Support the team in mainstreaming CARE India’s STEM approach to school curriculum and engaging with State SSA / SCERT to promote Child friendly STEM approaches in classrooms.

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 excellence (Project / Program / Process management):

Successfully manage project/process deliverables in stipulated time and budget
Ability to incorporate feedback and continually work on project / process improvement

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