Literacy Facilitator, Literacy Field

5 days ago

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India Room to Read Full time
Position Overview:

The Literacy Facilitator position is a key role in supporting and coaching teachers, librarians, and principals in the literacy program schools to help them adopt new ways of working with children that increase the children's literacy skills and habit of reading.

Key Responsibilities:Program Understanding:
  • Develop a thorough understanding of Room to Read's Literacy program design, including language development, literacy skills, and reading approaches.
  • Support literacy program intervention across assigned project schools and ensure adherence to the program design.
  • Provide reflective feedback on program design and implementation, focusing on progress towards outcomes, and demonstrate a solution-oriented approach.
  • Serve as a technical resource to schools in areas of language development, literacy skills, and reading.
School Visits:
  • Conduct regular school visits with government resource persons at cluster levels, observing, demonstrating, and coaching Grade 1 and 2 teachers in delivering the instructional component of the Literacy Program.
  • Conduct informal assessments of at least 5 children during every school visit and discuss findings with teachers and supervisors.
  • Support teachers in conducting ongoing student tracking assessments and plan corrective action.
  • Regularly collect data related to program quality.
  • Support school librarians in setting up libraries, including book delivery, leveling, and classification systems, check-out systems, and furniture arrangement.
  • Regularly update principals/Headmasters on progress and coach them on supporting teachers and ensuring longer-term sustainability of literacy outcomes within schools.
  • Participate in school-level teacher meetings, literacy events, parent meetings, and community activities organized by Room to Read or government departments.
Training, Workshops, and Meetings:
  • Participate in and facilitate regular teacher and librarian trainings related to the Literacy Program, including instruction, library activities, and management.
  • Participate in the development of materials, training modules, and technical resources as required.
  • Attend professional development training and workshops at block, district, state, and national levels as needed.
  • Attend review meetings at block, district, state levels within Room to Read and with government stakeholders as required, and complete all programmatic reports on time.
  • Participate in monthly review meetings and classroom observations with CRCs at school level.
Planning, Reporting, and Documentation:
  • Track and report library monitoring data to ensure timely and accurate reporting to stakeholders.
  • Conduct ongoing planning, documentation, and reporting.
  • Write monthly reports to supervisors, including progress data on CICO and student reading skills, using a template provided by Room to Read.
  • Document best practices and lessons learned and share with the Literacy Program team.
  • Collaborate with principals and communities to develop sustainability plans for managing literacy program components and acquiring resources after Room to Read's support ends.
  • Report to the Literacy Program Officer/Associate.
  • Support donor visits and other activities required to fulfill the objectives of the organization.
  • Compile and analyze ongoing reading skill assessments data conducted by schools and plan corrective action with supervisors.
Requirements:Essential Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in education or social sciences or equivalent.
  • Minimum 2-3 years of relevant experience in development projects, preferably in education.
  • Teaching experience at the primary level is preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of education in general and language and reading practices and approaches in particular.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Good interpersonal skills and a team player.
  • Critical thinking and analytical skills.
Benefits:

Room to Read offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits, including a thirteenth-month bonus, health insurance, and a retirement plan.

The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing the lives of millions of children in developing countries through literacy and gender equality in education.

Room to Read is a child-safe organization.

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