Career Programme Position

**Position - Career Programme Facilitator**

**Timing - 10.30 to 7.30**

**Location** - Rotation between two centers of Vidya & Child - Noida - Sector 37 Branch and Noida - Sector 128 Branch.

**Target working group** - **Grade 9 to 12**

**Key Roles & Responsibilities -**
- Managing and executing the full career programme at Sector 128 Centre and providing support for Sector 37 Centre.
- _**DIRECT WORK WITH CHILDREN**_
- Direct work - group and individual work with Grade 9 to 12
- Conducting common / group sessions on career, stream etc. awareness for children and parents
- Conducting and / or common / group sessions for exposure around various career fields and opportunities
- Conducting regular Career Guidance classes for Grade 9 to 12 (weekly basis) - with existing as well as new content
- Conducting regular “Knowing the child” sessions to understand the background, interests, strengths etc. and full profile of every single child
- Advise students about what courses and educational programs they need for particular careers àprofessional as well as vocational courses, full time as well as part time courses
- Aiding in the job search process by teaching them where to look for open positions and connecting them with job search resources
- Help students locate sources of financial support to pay for school and other training programs
- Teach job-search skills such as interviewing, resume writing, and networking and help students practice them Administer personality and interest inventoriesand documenting each child’s details with respect to career and related aspects
- Career Form filling sessions; ensuring each child fills the Career Form
- Project work with children
- Organizing exposure visits for children
- Enabling children regarding various entrance examination forms & support in filling them out
- _**Working with other staff members**_
- Taking feedback from other members -> academic faculty, programme members, mentors etc. about every single child
- Training of internal staff members
- Attending Child-wise discussion meetings
- Tracking child-wise/group actions as decided during career discussions
- Class 9th & 11th - School identification
- _**Working with external agencies**_
- Working with existing partners in career space for psychometric testing, career sessions etc.
- Working with organizations/ agencies for internships, exposure visits
- _**Overall Career Programme responsibility**_
- Becoming a part of the career content team and improving upon the career modules used for children
- Becoming a part of the overall career team for full yearly planning, quarterly planning, training of internal staff members etc.
- Identifying needs around
- Entrance coaching requirements
- Alternative paths for career - vocational, earning with learning model etc.
- Facilitating partnerships / new avenues etc. for fulfilling such requirements
- Becoming a part of the overall career team that plans for career process, improvements, partnerships etc. in alignment with the vision of the organization
- List of College/Institutes/University identification basis courses chosen by children
- Donor related reporting
- **Minimum Expectations**_
- Minimum experience of 5 to 6 years in direct career counseling for age 14 to 18 years
- Readiness to do direct work with children and parents (and not just manage / coordinate)
- Being updated with current career fields, jobs, industries, courses
- Good knowledge of Computers and English language - both written and spoken
- Preferably career counseling experience at a similar education based NGO or with a school
- Exposure to psychometric testing, counseling techniques, methodologies

**Contact: 88603 86447/63969 51517**; **Kindly call from Mon to Fri between 9AM - 6PM only**

**Timing - 10.30 to 7.30**

**Location** - Rotation between two centers of Vidya & Child - Noida - Sector 37 Branch and Noida - Sector 128 Branch.

**Target working group** - **Grade 9 to 12**

**Key Roles & Responsibilities -**
- Managing and executing the full career programme at Sector 128 Centre and providing support for Sector 37 Centre.
- _**DIRECT WORK WITH CHILDREN**_
- Direct work - group and individual work with Grade 9 to 12
- Conducting common / group sessions on career, stream etc. awareness for children and parents
- Conducting and / or common / group sessions for exposure around various career fields and opportunities
- Conducting regular Career Guidance classes for Grade 9 to 12 (weekly basis) - with existing as well as new content
- Conducting regular “Knowing the child” sessions to understand the background, interests, strengths etc. and full profile of every single child
- Advise students about what courses and educational programs they need for particular careers àprofessional as well as vocational courses, full time as well as part time courses
- Aiding in the job search process by teaching them where to look for open positions and connecting them with job search resources