Dy Cao

**1. Purpose of this role**

The purpose of Deputy CAO is to ensure that all non-academic operations at Shree Shakti School of Innovation are maintained efficiently, safely, and sustainably. It supports the organization’s goals of community empowerment, education, innovation, and care.

**2. Key Responsibility Areas**

**A. Infrastructure & Property Maintenance**
- Ensuring the upkeep of buildings or physical infrastructure of all the organisations covered under Shree Shakti Seva Kendra, School, Chhatralay, Staff Quarters etc.
- Ensuring preventive and corrective maintenance of electrical, plumbing, AC, and safety systems along with periodic review of all the agencies.
- Preparing, recruiting and staffing agencies / in-house team for the purpose of maintenance and upkeep all the facilities in the school which promotes extrinsic and intrinsic learning.
- Implementation of green and sustainable practices (e.g. solar, rainwater harvesting) across all the campuses.

**B. Residential Facility Management**
- Creating standard operating procedure for allocation, upkeep, and compliance for **staff quarters.**:

- Continuous supervision of **hostel and day boarding facilities** for children and students ensuring safety and healthy environment in the hostel and during day boarding time of students.
- Ensuring hygiene, dining, and medical care coordination in coordination with the founders and principal of the organisation.
- Implementing safety protocols for residential zones (fire safety, visitor logs, child protection norms, electric safety, water safety, cleanliness and hygiene) maintaining the world class standards.

**C. School & Educational Spaces**
- Ensuring the best hygiene standards in classrooms, laboratories, and innovation hubs of the organisation with its readiness and maintenance
- Providing support for teaching and extracurricular spaces including AV (Audio / Vedio), tech-enabled learning tools or the programme to be implemented from time to time.
- Ensuring, space optimization for workshops, exhibitions, and community outreach sessions for Shree Shakti Seva Kendra and School of Innovation.

**D. Compliance, Safety & Security**
- Study and implementation of legal compliance with building codes, sanitation norms, fire & safety standards with implementation and benchmarking of world class practices.
- Ensuring maintenance of documentation (occupancy reports, maintenance logs, vendor contracts) or any other data to be maintained as suggested by the higher authorities and management.
- Regularly implementing staff training on safety and emergency protocols and creating the training calander in coordination with the head of the departments.

**E. Accessibility & Inclusivity**
- Ensuring barrier-free design for physically challenged students, staff and the visitors in line with the various guidelines of the government, this includes tribal women artisans, differently-abled children, and elderly visitors etc.
- Ensuring gender-sensitive infrastructure (separate washrooms, security protocols) as per the requirements of the government and guidelines of the respective states.

**F. Housekeeping, Catering & Waste Management**
- Preparing and implementing daily housekeeping schedules across school, hostels, and residential zones of the organisations.
- Ensuring catering and nutrition planning for day boarding students through the contractor and taking help from the nutritionist.
- Implementing waste segregation, composting, and environmental stewardship plans across all the campuses.

**G. Vendor & Resource Coordination**
- Identifying and managing external vendors for repairs, food services, transport, etc. and making annual rate contract with them.
- Implementing methods for inventory control for consumables, educational materials, and equipment across all the campuses.

3. **Strategic Objectives**
- This position enables smooth daily operations to promote empowerment and innovation across the organisation with best benchmarked practices.
- It enhances the institutional branding through clean, safe, and student-friendly spaces for the community at large.
- To support educational excellence with a well-maintained learning environment and best housekeeping and building maintenance practices.
- It will foster community well-being by ensuring comfort and safety for staff and students to cocreate the world class experience.

**4. Reporting and Documentation**
- Submitting the reports of all the facilities and suggesting the improvement needed on a regular basis to the management and principal.
- Maintaining quality audit for building safety, space utilization and scopes for future expansion.
- Generating evaluation report for the school / learning space in the lens of space utilisation /
- Contributing to the financial report for the school under the lens of maintenance and
- Should create incident report for the management in case of exigency or emergency

5. **Team leadership**:

- Lead and mentor a team of superv