Program Associate

**Key Position Information**:
Job Title - Program Associate

Department - Program

Position Location - District

Type of Agreement - Renewable fixed-term contract

Position Reporting - District Training Officer

Position Repartees

Position Leve l
- Junior

**Educate Girls - An Overview**:
Vision
- We aim to achieve behavioral, 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 Program Associate is a critical part of the program team in the district and is directly responsible for implementation of the programmatic training as well as activities in the district. The incumbent, while being responsible for quality implementation of activity & the content delivery, is also responsible for Capacity building to the district team, Team _Balika_, School Management Committee (SMC) members and other stakeholders as needed. The position involves intense travel in operational areas especially in blocks and villages.

**Position Key Responsibilities**:
**Core Responsibility**
- Review and planning
- Problem solving and quality support
- Capacity building of staff through online and offline platforms
- Volunteer management of assigned area
- Documentation & Reporting
- Training management (Offline / online/web based)
- Training and quality related data management
- Managing training records and reporting
- Liaise with Operation/Impact/program/VM /IT/TB/other stakeholders

**Technical Responsibility**
- Assist the District Training Officer in creating an annual training plan and bifurcate the annual plan quarterly and monthly, amendments as necessary
- Implement of annual training plan on monthly basis in their allocated area.
- Create the digital training module of program on web
- Conduct trainings Offline/Offline
- Track and monitor the digital training
- Training follow up of staff and Team Balika.
- Certification of training program
- Monitor the implementation of annual training plan on monthly basis
- Monitors program implementation progress and gives input where necessary based on quality improvement
- Conduct field level visits to monitor program quality using the observation formats.
- Problem Solving and providing support wherever required
- Conduct field visit, training Visit according the training plan and provide qualitative input
- Support the Block Officers in program delivery and guide them where needed.
- Participate in block level meetings and support them
- Weekly/monthly reporting

**Desired Incumbent Profile**:
**Personality**: Self-driven, result-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus on high quality output. Excellent conceptual and analytical skills. Demonstrable ability to think strategically, innovatively and practically to ensure achievement of desired change objectives. Proactive approach to problem-solving with strong decision-making capability Strong organizational skills that reflect ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to detail. Very strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders Empathic communicator, ability to see things from the other person's point of view. Sufficiently mobile and flexible to manage an average of 15 days per month of travel time at the state/district/village level in programme geographies as required. Ability to get along with variety of individuals and a team-player.

**Work Life Balance**: Must be mature and domestically secure. Able to manage travel without upsetting domestic situation. Able to work extended hours on occasions when required.

Specific skills include:

- Digital training (Create/review the training)
- Expert Knowledge in MS Office
- Basic formula functions of excel
- Use of data in program planning
- Data driven insights identification
- Web and Application based digital training skill

**Specific Job Skills & Values**:

- Sound contextual knowledge of local issues, organizational re