Block Program Officer

**Key Position Information**:
Job Title

Block Program Officer

Department

Operations

Position Location

District (Field)

Type of Agreement

Renewable fixed-term contract

Position Reporting

District Program Officer (Direct Reporting)

Position Reportees

Field Coordinator

Position Level

Junior

**Educate Girls - An Overview**:
Vision
- We aim to achieve behavioural, social and economic transformation for all girls towards an India where all children have equal opportunities to access quality education.

Background
- Educate Girls (a project of 'Foundation to Educate Girls Globally’) is a non-profit organization that focuses on mobilizing communities for girls’ education in India’s rural and educationally backward areas. Strongly aligned with ‘Right to Education Act’ or the ‘Samagra Shiksha’ the organization is committed to the Government’s vision to improve access to primary education for children, especially young girls. Educate Girls currently operates successfully in over 20,000+ villages in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. By leveraging the Government’s existing investment in schools and by engaging with a huge base of community volunteers, Educate Girls helps to identify, enrol and retain out-of-school girls and to improve foundational skills in literacy and numeracy for all children (both girls and boys). This helps deliver measurable results to a large number of children and avoids parallel delivery of Services.

**Position Overview**:
The position is responsible for an allocated block (consisting of a cluster of villages targeted for intervention), ensuring end-to-end programmatic and operational support to Field Coordinators and Team Balika (local youth volunteers). The incumbent acts as a bridge between field and district level. The position is responsible for generating awareness and the cause for girl education, mobilizing community members, ensuring enrolment and retention of targeted beneficiaries in the education program and ensuring effective stakeholder management, including government departments and functionaries. The position entails extensive field travel in the project location/s.

**Position in the Organogram**:
**Position Key Responsibilities**:
Enrollment & Retention
- Mainstream out of school girls age 6-14, including drop outs and never enrolled girls through community-based enrolment plans
- Identification of Out of School Girls in every village; conduct survey and consult the Child Tracking Survey by the government
- Conduct home visits, door to door survey to gather information on out of school girls, school facilities, teacher motivation, accessibility of school, community issues
- Organize _Gram Shiksha Sabha_, _Ma Beti Sammelan_ and _Mohalla_ Meeting
- ensuring participation by parents and girl child ; promoting school enrolment process
- Community based micro planning of enrolment activities and for driving enrolment. Conduct monthly meetings with Government to drive enrolment.
- Collect& Maintain details of dropped out or irregularly attending children
- Assessment of girl enrolment at primary and upper primary level
- Formation /orientation/ meetings of School Management Committee (SMCs).
- Preparation & follow-up of School Improvement Programs (SIPs).
- Identify the hotspots with low retention rates & intensify community mobilisation efforts

Learning & Training
- Conducting baseline assessment and endline assessments
- Deliver the full GKP curriculum and plan for each session. Conduct rapid assessments and course correct when feedback received.
- TB Handholding for TB GKP schools
- Build awareness, buy-in and support of parents and teachers
- Attending and coordinating all training workshops such as Community mobilization training, Enrolment Training, SMC Training, Bal Sabha/Life Skills training, GKP training
- Ensuring all Field Coordinators and Team Balika from the Block undergo regular training
- Take lead and Facilitate formation of Bal Sabha**; **deliver the life skills program.
- Stakeholder Management & Liaison
- Active engagement with local functionaries at village & block level
- Interaction and progress brief to Govt. Officials on Monthly,Quarterly,Half Yearly & Annual basis
- Formulate andconduct SMC meetings and School improvement plans and approval of plans
- To be in regular contact with SMC members, Head Master and Village _Sarpanch_
- Team Balika recruiting, engagement, handholding and monitoring
- Orientation on Volunteer Engagement
- Donor engagement and visits

Reporting, Documentation& Administration
- Ensuring documentation of all activities on regular basis
- Update regular reports (on a daily basis)
- Fortnightly and monthly meetings with Field Coordinators and District Program Manager
- Report through tell calling/ PMS/ Spine
- Master Data Finalization
- Budget utilization; variance tracking
- Risk mitigation & conflict management

**Desired Incumbent Profile**:
**Personality**: Tech-Savvy, Self-driven, result