Program Associate

Job Title Program Associate

Department Operations

Position Location District

Type of Agreement Renewable fixed-term contract

Position Reporting District Training Officer

Position Reportees

Position Level Middle

**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 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 in the Organogram**:
**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

District Operations Lead

District Training
Officer

Program
Associate

Helpdesk
Operator
- 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.

**Technology skills**: Must be adept in use of MS Office, particularly Excel and Word, and ideally Access
technologies being introduced in the organization.

Specific skills include:

- Digital training (Create/review the training)
- Expert Knowledge in MS Office
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