Program Facilitator, GEP

World Change Starts with Educated Children

Position Overview:

Through its Girl's Education and Gender Equality Program (GEGEP), Room to Read engages with school-going adolescent girls from economically disadvantaged communities and vulnerable backgrounds to ensure that they complete secondary school and have the skills to negotiate key life decisions. GEGEP is operational in 8 States of India, namely, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Telangana. Room to Read envisions a world in which all children, can pursue quality education that prepares them to make positive change - in their families, schools and communities. Within its Life Skills Education Framework, GEGEP with its intervention, enables adolescent girls to discover their own strength, advocate for themselves, think critically, empathize, rely on themselves, navigate through day-to-day challenges and make informed decisions. The Program Facilitator will report to the Program Associate/Program Officer in the state. The position will be field based; one Program Facilitator will be responsible for 5 schools. This position is focused on working on thematic area of Boys Life Skills Curriculum and would involve working with teachers and adolescent boys.

Roles and responsibilities:

Programmatic Understanding and Preparedness:

• Develop a thorough understanding of Room to Read's Girls Education program design and implement activities basis the inputs from the national and state team
• Develop thorough understanding of the complete content package of the thematic area- Boys life skills curriculum to be rolled out in the selected schools
• Understand and support in Program planning (in consultation with State Office and program officer/associate)
• Undertake corrective action and incorporate feedback when provided by the supervisor
• Participation in monthly review meetings, quarterly meetings and trainings organized by GEP national and state office team

Onsite Support and Capacity Building:

• Contribute in capacity building of facilitators on the program content providing necessary support to team in planning, execution and facilitation
• Co-facilitation of life skill session curriculum in capacity building sessions of facilitators
• Demonstrate and support teachers in life skill sessions, parents meetings and other activities of program design during implementation
• Support school teachers to set schedule of program activities with girls, observing sessions and providing handholding support to the teachers
• Set a schedule of visit to the schools as per the benchmarking indicated in the design

Ensuring Quality program at the field level:

• Observe the life skills sessions and other activities as per the program design and benchmarking indicators
• Engage in regular handholding and coaching of teachers for qualitative program implementation
• Ensure and support the school teachers for keeping program records as decided per the program design
• Understand and work on factors that may impede quality and fidelity of Life skills on the field
• Support in tracking of quality standards is being met and provide updates to PA/PO
• Use life skill observations form along with the PA/PO and basis this provides feedback to teachers
• Support and facilitate the administration of teacher's training assessment tool for all the trainings
• Facilitate or participate in monthly/quarterly meetings of school teachers to discuss and identify solutions to challenges are facing in program implementation and in working with the girls
• Conduct discussions on Program Quality with School teachers during meeting
• Ensure feedback is given to specific school and recorded
• Support in dissemination of LS journals at the school level

Liaising, networking and building linkages:

• Support in planning and organizing trainings and meetings for government officials with SCERT, Gender Cell, District Officials, Block level/Cluster level etc about the program and its updates, upcoming plans
• Effective liaison with program school administration for smooth operations of the program design
• Support state PO/PA in building linkages with like-minded organizations
• Support PO/PA for creating visibility of the program
• Participate and support in learning events at state level

Reporting and Documentation:

• Fill the record and monitoring forms and trackers consolidate and report to state office
• Support in documentation of best practices, case studies, photos and lessons learned and share with the GEP Team
• Maintain general book-keeping of attendance in program activities at school
• Record qualitative reflections of sessions

Family and Community engagement:

• Lead the community campaign in the schools as per the design and ensure stakeholder involvement
• Support in organizing, planning and monitoring of parents meeting (conduct parents meeting if needed in specific design situations)
• Supporting PA/PO in facilitating donor, country office, GO team members visit
• Support in ensuring the sustainability and scalability of the program
• Conduct initial home visits of the participants if the design requires

Organizational Engagement:

• Participate in regular trainings and meetings with Room to Read staff
• Participate in donor/government stakeholders visits to program locations and provide information to donors/stakeholders about Room to Read's Girls Education Program as needed

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in education / social sciences or equivalent/ or higher
• Minimum experience of 34 yrs (12 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

Preferred:

• Experience working on life skills/gender/adolescents
• Proven experience of working with school administration and travel to field sites
• Ability to work effectively with schools and facilitators
• Strong field planning and project implementation skills

Room to Read is a child-safe organization.

Location(s)

India - Telangana

To be successful at Room to Read, you will also:

• Have passion for our mission and a strong desire to impact a dynamic nonprofit organization
• Be a proactive and innovative thinker who achieves results and creates positive change
• Have a very high level of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness
• Embrace diversity and a commitment to collaboration
• Thrive in a fast-paced and fun environment

Room to Read is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to identifying and developing the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled

About Room to Read:

Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children, Room to Read is creating a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality through education.

We are achieving this goal by helping children in historically low-income communities develop literacy skills and a habit of reading, and by supporting girls as they build life skills to succeed in school and negotiate key life decisions.

We collaborate with governments and other partner organizations to deliver positive outcomes for children at scale.

Room to Read has benefited more than 45 million children and has worked in 24 countries and in more than 213,000 communities, providing additional support through remote solutions that facilitate learning beyond the classroom.

Learn more at www.roomtoread.org.