Program Associate

Published 2023-07-28

**Role and Responsibilities**:
**Timely delivery of tasks while exhibiting hands on knowledge of job**
- Take responsibility for effective program delivery, review implementation, monitor within the agreed standards Develop effective working relationships with Institute Principals in alignment with ITI Eco-system’s state system change journey map.
- Ensure there is a work plan in place for your region and you are able to contribute and implement accordingly.
- Identify and develop learning within the program and facilitate the capturing of these learnings.
- Visit Institute to support trainers with curriculum planning, delivery of content etc
- Conduct monthly/quarterly review meetings with program stakeholders
- centre heads, trainers etc.
- Conduct monthly/quarterly review meetings with program stakeholders
- centre
- Ensure that the trainers, placement officers and centres gradually become independent and sustain the recommendations at their institutes.
- Participate and contribute to capacity building activities.

**Relationship Management - Stakeholders (Internal and External)**
- Develop an effective working relationship with the Govt. Authority, Principals, GIs (both POs and ESIs) and Facilitators of the region
- Actively engaging and contributing to Industry Engagement/placement Strategies internally.
- Co-ordinating with placement lead and team members in the states to ensure greater industry engagement in placement systems of the state.
- Work closely with the Placement Manager of your state and call out the required support.

**Team Management**
- You may have to manage interns or fellow in the program as relevant

**Reporting**
- Ensure the monitoring data reaches the M&E focal point on time.
- Support coordination of baseline/ endline and other assessments
- Ensure students data is updated in centre database
- Make sure trainers and principal at the institute know about our work through simple monthly reports
- Provide regular written and verbal reports tracking progress against the work plan and implementation schedules
- Use the appropriate M&E tools for reporting I
- Ensure all the program report including case studies, photographs reaches the M&E focal point at the stipulated time
- Documentation of centre, trainer and student success stories
- Following up with ITI’s to share data of students and Institutes as required by M&E framework.
- Participate and contribute to team meetings and reviews
- Support all reporting requirements such as quarter reviews, annual reviews

**Qualifications**:

- A Master’s degree in Social Work/Rural Management or other development disciplines, with 2-4 years of work experience preferably in the Education/Vocational Training sector
- Good communication skills in English and regional (Kannada) language.
- Ability to draft compelling reports grounded in data
- Ability to train facilitators and youths for the vocational training program
- Knowledge of issues in the vocational training space and the social development sector in India.
- Proficient in MS Office tools, and the Internet.

**We are looking for people who**:

- Are passionate about working to solve challenges in education and employability domain
- Can travel 1 week to 20 days a month.

**Skill Sets**:

- Training
- Communication Skills
- Problem Solving
- Documentation / Reporting

**Location**:Hubli, Karnataka

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