Coordinator (Green Initiatives), Youth Program

Published 2024-11-18

**About Quest Alliance**:
At Quest Alliance we transform learning ecosystems through education technology, capacity building, and collaboration to build 21st-century skills for learners and facilitators.

We are a not-for-profit trust that focuses on research-led innovation and advocacy in the field of teaching and learning. We engage with educators, civil society, government institutions and corporate organizations to demonstrate and enable scalable and replicable solutions in school education and vocational training.

**Roles & Responsibilities**:
Design Strategy and Implementation Green Initiatives at the organisation and program level.
- Using a constructive approach, designing and developing the strategy for green initiatives across the state or region to understand the need, opportunities and challenges.
- Initiate and implement green initiatives at Partners across ITI & VTI.
- Support program team and provide mentorship and ongoing support.
- Build capacity of the program team.
- Provide technical support and anchor research around green initiatives

**Anchoring, Coordinating and Executing Green Career Initiatives at the program level.**
- Ensuring support to program implementation partners to organize Green initiatives activities effectively and monitoring the same.
- Building capacity of program team and of program implementation partners to plan and execute green initiatives related activities at their institutes.
- Planning and organizing trainings for trainers
- Making an annual plan and calendar of green initiatives such as initiating Green pilots, Green Mindset, Green Institution, Green Career and entrepreneurship by collaborating with various teams.
- Planning and Conducting Industry and Employer engagement events Including placement fairs on green jobs.

**Relationship Management - Stakeholders (Internal and External)**
- Building an active working relationship with representatives of Government, Industry bodies or employers, NGO partners, ITIs etc.
- Building a robust database of partners, employers, agencies by networking with them to make it available to program implementation partners.
- Co-create and adhere to team norms, vision, learning goals and strategic plans of MyQuest Facilitator and Content Development team

**Reporting**
- Support in data collection, impact assessment and content development initiatives of Facilitator and Content Development team
- Participate and contribute in team meetings and reviews, staff engagement activities.
- Support all reporting requirements such as quarter reviews, annual reviews

**Requirements**:
**Skills Required**:

- Atleast 3-4 years of relevant experience in undertaking or managing green initiatives, preferably in youth employability space. Preferably having a good understanding of the ESG space and technical aspects of Green.
- Knowledge of liasioning and working with multi stakeholders and partnership management.
- Able to manage and work with teams from across different geographies.
- Experience of working & training of trainers and youths on green careers and initiatives.
- Good computer skills
- Must be able to work to meet the needs and targets of the program.

**Attributes**
- Must be able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the program.
- Willing to undertake external visits & should be open to traveling across the country
- Must be a team player and be able to negotiate and consult with all those engaged internally and externally on green initiatives.

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