Centre Manager

Desired Competencies:

• Strong operational and team management skills that can be tailored to lead Magic Bus staff, training partners, employers and local colleges.
• Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills including the ability to design training schedules and operational centre timetables.
• Strong financial management skills including managing budgets and using staff and centre resources flexibly to meet need.
• Sharp focus on outcomes and how to shape interventions to achieve the maximum impact with youth on the programme.
• Build positive relationships with youth and motivate individuals to achieve defined targets of taking up work or further education.
• Able to undertake need assessments with youth that sensitively identify youth’s personal strengths and limitations.
• Can implement new processes and ways of working across an operational staff team.
• Can-do attitude and willingness to use own initiative to solve ground level problems Willingness to work evenings and weekends occasionally as required by programme.

Qualification and Experience (essential unless otherwise stated):

• Relevant Graduate or Post Graduate degree or similar professional qualification from a reputed institution.
• Experience of working with and achieving positive outcomes for disadvantaged 18-25 year olds or a portion of this age range.
• Minimum 2 years managerial experience of frontline staff delivering interventions to children/youth.
• Budget responsibility and experience of financial and resource planning at local level.
• Knowledge of youth needs with regard to progressions into work or further education.
• Direct experience of career counselling and providing Information, Advice and Guidance to youth across a range of issues.
• Experience of need assessment and/or creating personal plans and targets with youth.
• Experience of either employability skills, job placement, youth development or vocational training programmes either directly or indirectly
• Experience of reviewing progress against individual’s programme targets
• Experience of engaging with wider stakeholders in disadvantaged communities including parents, schools, colleges, panchayats.
• Experience of providing guidance and support to young people on a range of development issues including career or education choices.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹40,000.00 - ₹45,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Cell phone reimbursement
• Health insurance
• Provident Fund

Work Location: In person