Room to Read
Duration: 1st August, 2024 to 31st March,2025
Program: Girl's Education Program
Location: Dehradun, Uttarakhand
No of Openings: One (01).
Working days – Monday to Saturday.
Working timing – 9:30 am to 6:00 pm/or as per school opening time.
Organization Profile:
Room to Read India was established in 2003 and presently has programs in 10 states –Chhattisgarh, Delhi NCR, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh.
Room to Read is a global organization transforming the lives of millions of children in low-income communities by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education. Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children®, our innovative model focuses on deep, systemic transformation within schools during two time periods that are most critical in a child’s schooling: early primary school for literacy acquisition and secondary school for girls’ education. We work in collaboration with local communities, partner organizations, and governments to develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children and ensure girls can complete secondary school with the skills necessary to negotiate key life decisions. By focusing on the quality of education provided within the communities and ensuring these outcomes are measured, we have created a model that can be replicated, localized, and sustained by governments. Room to Read has globally distributed offices and staff and has so far benefited more than 39 million children across 23 countries.
Position Overview:
The Girl’s Education Program is currently operating in 8 States across India – Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, New Delhi, Uttarakhand, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Specifically, the program seeks to achieve increased years of schooling for girls and increase girls’ self-awareness, decision-making and problem-solving skills.
The Social Mobilizers are responsible for implementing the Girls’ Education program at the field level. They are the first point of contact for the girls whom we work with; they are also the point of contact for the schools and parents and hence are critical to the success of the program.
The social mobilizer will report to the Program Associate. The position will be field based; she will be responsible for a group of 80 to 100 girls as their mentor, support system and motivator.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Consultant needs to carry out below-mentioned program activities with GEP participants in any GEP implementation Schools of Dehradun District, Uttarakhand.
Program planning, implementation:
- Regular follow up on Attendance with the scholars.
- Do Practice sessions in monthly meetings and fortnightly.
- Conducting the life skill sessions, mentoring sessions, open session, timely. It should be followed in given deadline.
- Ensuring the grade transition with minimum dropouts.
- Conducting the sessions on Gupshup or any other such activities coming from the GEP program team.
- Ensuring regular home visits according to RRP or based on other need bases information provided by principal, teachers, parents, and scholars.
- Taking feedback/reflection from Stakeholders, Beneficiary on each activity under the GEP program.
- To ensure the continues study and prevention from child harm of potential drop out cases.
- Responsibility to take lead for liaison at school level with school administration.
- Motivate schoolteachers to conduct and observe life skill sessions for program sustainability in school.
- By ensuring the implementation of activities in the given timeline
- By regularly tracking the attendance or by follow up with the concern class teacher or looking after the school attendance register.
- By reading the session thoroughly, after which preparing the session on your own and doing a demonstration among colleagues or reporting manager.
- Conducting regular home visits of RRP risk and any other potential risk that girls are falling under.
- Ensuring session observation and facilitation by schoolteachers with GEP and non-GEP grades.
Reporting and Documentation in hard copy as well as in soft copy:
- All the documents related to monitoring and supervision should be Timely completed (SM diaries) with specific information’s.
- Supporting PA in filling the PIMs and monthly data.
- Support Program Associate in collecting quality data and information timely to prepare reports.
- Collecting reflections and testimonial of all the activities conducted in the month.
- Writing case studies by monthly/quarterly and submitting to reporting manager.
- Filling monthly plan and weekly plan.
- Filling monthly reports.
- Filling of individual mentoring form.
- Document best practices, case studies and lesson learned and share with PA.
- Creating database of government schemes, scholarships, tertiary education courses in proximity of GEP participants
- Prepare GRC cleaning receipt.
Family School and Community Engagement:
- To conduct parents workshop/meeting, SMC meeting and teachers’ meetings by quarterly
- Organizing the campaign activities.
- Organizing the activities of important days.
- Facilitating and supporting state office/INCO and team members to conduct any research, survey, study, and data collection base line etc on field.
- Timely sharing the agenda of FSCE activities with line manager.
- Organizing day celebration and other activities with school collaboration.
- Identify the Stakeholder and prepare their case study.
- Share the needs of refreshment and material required in advance for the commencement of activity.
- Timely update Focal point person about the monthly implementation plan.
- Physical follow up with parents and other stakeholders.
- Collaboration with school- teachers to provide uninterrupted support to continue girl’s education.
- Building network and identifying other referral services in the vicinity to retain potential dropout girls.
Qualification & Experience:
Essential:
- Bachelor’s degree in education / social sciences or equivalent/ or higher
- Minimum experience of 2yrs. (1-2 years of relevant experience in the education /development sector including internships).
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English / Hindi and the local language of the state where position is based. Like Marathi for Mumbai location.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree in education / social sciences or equivalent preferred.
- Counseling diploma and/or experience of having worked on mentoring /counseling issues.
- Experience working on life skills/gender /adolescents.
- Strong planning and project implementation skills.
- Ability to work in remote areas and travel to communities for meetings.
- Ability to work effectively with schools and communities.
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills and a team player
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 innovative and creative – 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.
