Programme Manager - Education Job in Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation

About Kailash Satyarthi Childrens Foundation

The Kailash Satyarthi Childrens Foundation (KSCF), set up by Nobel Peace Laureate, Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, is a global thought leader for prevention of exploitation and violence against children. KSCF works for the creation of a child-friendly world through direct interventions and programmes, research and capacity building, and campaigns for the mobilization of mass support and behaviour change. Mr. Satyarthis lessons learned guide the Foundations work to engage children and youth as part of the solution, build greater collaboration between governments, business and communities, ensure effective national and international laws, scale know-how and successful practice and create partnerships with key stakeholders.

Job purpose

The Manager Programme is responsible for managing programs (BMG) developing, implementing and reporting Kailash Satyarthi Childrens Foundation (KSCF) BMG projects within the purview of programme. This position is based in KSCFs Central Office in New Delhi and the Programme Manager will head a team of dynamic and dedicated individuals working in various projects. This position will require significant content knowledge on issues pertaining to child rights.

Job Description

Key Responsibility Areas

- Project management of BMG, Child Friendly Schools Projects, Child Protection in Emergency etc.,

- Management of Project staff

- Report writing and documentation

- Monitor and evaluate progress, identify and address/escalate risks and challenges as appropriate

- Identify and share best practice and learning with project team

- Ensure Optimisation and utilisation of KSCFs MIS system on BMG project

- Programme implementation, monitoring and timely submission of monitoring reports

- Donor coordination, communication on regular basis on day-to-day operations

- Any other work assigned by the supervisor/organization

Programme

- Work closely in coordination and collaboration with Senior Programme Manager

- Provide overall supervision and direction to staff working in the team.

- Supervise programme staff and provide strategic direction to them in central office

- Support central office team to design work plan and activities for the respective project and overall implementation of developed plans

- Oversee analysis of collected data and preparation of reports in relationship with the Research department

- Ensure monitoring of project activities to track progress and achievements against planned programme outcomes

- Monitor preparation of donor reports

- Oversee process documentation of programme and prepare a documentation on the process documentation of best practices emerging from the field.

- Coordinate with programme Coordinator Documentation & MIS for the regular project progress reports and MIS for the projects.

- Develop case studies, success stories and any relevant news worthy items and share it with other departments

- Maintain regular contact with funding partners in the context of your programme

- Liaison and strengthen partnerships with the Government, civil society organisations and other stakeholders and take a lead role in advocacy and dissemination activities with the Government

Team Management

- Ensure timely support provided to the project team for effective implementation of project

- Timely sharing of targets for the project staff and ensuring timey performance appraisals of the reporting staff are carried out.

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Resource Mobilisation

-Identify potential donors, funding agencies and prepare concept notes and project proposals

Skills & Competencies for the role:

Influencing Skills Ability to develop and manage relationships with and through others to persuade, convince and/or gain support in order to achieve strategic objectives

Innovative Thinking - Ability to apply creative thinking in all initiatives and generate ideas and drawing insights from unexpected sources for gaining advantage for the foundation

Effective Communication - Ability to convey accurate information in the right way using a variety of approaches with individuals or groups in a manner that engages them and helps them to understand and retain the message

Achievement Orientation Should have sustained energy and determination in the face of obstacles to set and meet challenging objectives in compliance with quality and time standards

Leading and Developing Others Ability to lead, encourage, inspire and support others to develop confidence and capability to help them realise their full potential.

KSCF is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the principles and practice of equal opportunity and excellence through diversity. KSCF does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or socioeconomic status

Requirements

Education:

Masters degree in Social work, Social sciences or equivalent.

- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience with adequate experience in working for child protection projects

- Experience of working in an education sector and has good knowledge of education related schemes in India

- Essential of working on school based intervention in promoting quality education is necessary

- Collaboration with corporate's to ensure promotion of enrollment and retention of children in schools.

- Experience of implementing large scale project through systems and processes

- Expertise in data management and monitoring of large scale project

- Strong written and oral communication skills

- Experience of working with people from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds would be an added advantage

- In-depth understanding of issues related to child rights and youth rights, child labour eradication, education, RTE (Right To Education Act) and stop child slavery, trafficking

- Flexible in working with different teams and on different priorities at different points of time.

- Excellent in networking and partnership building

- Willing to travel to the various program areas across pan India including village and block level rural areas.

Points to be noted while applying:

- Applications without cover letter will not be accepted.

- Due to the urgency of filling the position, the applications will be reviewed as and when received and interviews will be conducted. Hence availability at any time is essential.

- Please highlight Current/last drawn compensation & expected compensation in your application.