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Educate girls. Change the world.

Are you an adventurous person interested in mentoring India’s future change makers?

Yuwa India is seeking a passionate individual for a Programme Coordinator position at Yuwa in Ranchi District, Jharkhand. This role specifically focuses on programme delivery for vulnerable girls and young women.

Responsibilities will include updating and improving a life-skills workshop curriculum, designing creative workshop activities, managing and training a group of local teenage workshop facilitators, and contributing to a positive and energetic organizational environment. Yuwa’s atmosphere is one of collaboration, respect, and mutual learning.

Candidates must be excited by the mission of putting girls’ futures into their own hands.

About Yuwa
Yuwa is an internationally acclaimed non-governmental organization that uses soccer and education to put girls in charge of their own futures. Yuwa is registered as a Trust in India and as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in the USA. Yuwa is based in villages in the Ranchi district of Jharkhand, where girls are especially at risk of dropping out of school, child marriage, gender-related violence, and human trafficking. Through the creation of soccer teams, girls gain leadership skills and confidence, continue their education, and are less likely to be forced into child marriage. Here, teamwork is a powerful force to promote health, education and improved livelihoods among the most important agents of change—young women.

Watch Yuwa girls speaking at TEDx here and here. Almost all of Yuwa’s external representation is done by the girls themselves.

Yuwa has been featured in Al-Jazeera, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, BBC, Sports Illustrated, Hindustan Times, Times of India, ABC News , and other media in India and internationally. Recent awards include:

2023 FICCI Arise Excellence in Sport Award
2021 Chegg Global Student Prize Top 10 Finalist (Seema Kumari)
2019 Laureus Sport for Good Award
2017 Microsoft “People of Action”
2016 India Today Digital Trailblazers Award
2015 Cequin WOWmen Award Celebrating Men for Women
2014-2019 FIFA Football for Hope Awardee
2013 Barclay’s Beyond Sport “Sport for Social Inclusion” Winner
2013  Times Now  Amazing Indians Award (category: Indian at Heart)
Yahoo India “12 Unsung Heroes of 2012”
2012 NDTV Spirit of Sport Award, (“Best Promotion of Education through Sport”)
2012 Ashoka Changemakers award (all-Asia winner) for Innovative Secondary Education for Skills Enhancement (ISESE)
2011 Nike Gamechangers Award

Programme Coordinator responsibilities include:
Planning weekly life-skills workshops for adolescent girls, utilizing and expanding upon an interactive curriculum which covers topics related to health, rights, team building, and future planning
Communicating weekly workshop plans to a group of teenage workshop facilitators so that they are prepared to lead workshops
Mentoring and managing the group of teenage workshop facilitators so that they feel motivated, proud of their work, and prepared for their role
Leading an annual multi-day “Workshop Facilitator” training for young women who would like to become workshop facilitators
Monitoring the quality of the workshop program by regularly collecting feedback from the participants and workshop facilitators
Engaging regularly with participants’ families in order to build community trust in the organization as well as to better understand the local context
Contributing to a positive and energetic working environment

Qualifications
University graduate
Experience working with or mentoring young people
Positive recommendation from past employers

Required Skills
Fluent in English and minimum of basic knowledge of Hindi
Demonstrated knowledge of the major life-skills curriculum content including female health and sexual education, basic financial literacy, social justice topics
Strong organizational and record keeping skills, including monitoring and evaluation
Flexibility – able to work independently and also take direction as needed
Strong communication skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with colleagues, participants, youth workshop facilitators, and parents
Curiosity: desire to continue learning
Sense of urgency: desire to make the most of the participants‘ time