School Coordinator

_**The Akanksha Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide children from low-income communities with a high-quality education, enabling them to maximize their potential and transform their lives. Akanksha works primarily in the field of education, addressing formal education by initiating school reform through its School Project. Currently, Akanksha reaches out to the 13000 children through its 26 schools in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur.**_

**Position Summary**:As an Akanksha School Coordinator-Social Work, you will work on student recruitment by reaching out admission opportunities to the communities. You will form a strong link between the community and the school by conducting regular visits to the community, creating forums and opportunities for parents to partner with the school, executing initiatives that create awareness amongst parents leading to a progressive development of the community and students. You will be directly responsible for all the duties contributing towards our community engagement and also support and work towards youth development goals in order to build a holistic educational experience for our students. You will work towards creating a safe and secure environment for our students. You will liaise with the government offices to ensure that the benefits that our students are entitled for are availed in alignment with the protocols set by the government. You will work closely with students and the school team to ensure that every child feels supported, empowered and goes through a holistic educational experience through-out their entire journey at Akanksha.

**You will be reporting to the School Leader.**

**What your role will entail?**

**Student Admission Process**
- Manage the entire Student Admission i.e. regular and lateral admission process which includes the following
- Obtain Community Information
- Distribute pamphlet with regards to admission
- Distribute forms pertaining to admission
- Fill up the admission forms and maintain a record of the same
- Conduct home visits of applicants for address verification
- Conduct lottery process for the applicants (as defined in lEmployee Manual)
- Post lottery process conducted, prepare list of final admission done with the necessary documents collected
- Handover the final admission forms to School Administrator for data entry in the system and ensure that the data entered is accurate (including lateral admission students’ data)
- Manage post-lottery Student Admissions which come through recommendation/wait-list as per protocols set
- Attend enquiries of students with special requests/disabilities and based on discussions with School Leader take the final decision regarding admission.

**Student Attendance**
- To collect student attendance registers maintained by teachers from respective classrooms on a daily basis as per scheduled time
- To prepare a summary on student absenteeism, conduct rigorous follow-ups as per set systems
- To understand reasons for drop-outs in case there are any and to prepare a detailed report around such cases for further discussions and decision. The final drop-out summary needs to be provided to School Administrator for data updating
- School Leadership Team and respective Teachers need to be updated at all times with community or student related issues

**Note: Final drop-outs will be decided by School Leader, Lead-Social Worker and School Coordinator-Social Work.**

**Student Records**
- To maintain student follow-up details
- To maintain student drop-out details
- To collect and maintain relevant documents as follows
- Ration Card/Aadhaar Card (utilize for verifying the name)
- Caste certificate
- Smart health card
- Bank Account
- Domicile Certificate-both father and child/birth certificate
- Residence proof
- To fill up Shaala Siddhi Form i.e. data related to community, parents, SMC, SDP (SMC members to be involved for this task)
- Maintain details of student health and other medical records in excel sheet and handover to School Administrator
- To maintain details of student health and other medical records (in excel sheet) and handover to School Administrator
- To maintain health cards (for Mumbai location)

**Receivables from Government**
- To distribute 27 items to students and obtain signature of parents in distribution register
- To handover distribution register to School Administrator for reconciliation

**Mid-Day Meal (MDM)**
- To maintain records of MDM received
- To conduct Food Safety verification
- To submit MDM sample at Government Food Laboratory
- To collect MDM reports post-testing

**Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) Funds**
- To pass SMC resolution for SSA expenses
- To arrange for structural audit through BMC/PMC/PCMC/NMC, as applicable

**Material/Assets received from Government**
- To receive, distribute and maintain records of Medicine/Health related material/assets received from the Government

**Meetings at Government Offices**
- Besides School Leader or Teac