Community Mobilizer

**About the Organisation**:
Child in Need Institute (CINI), a leading national level professionally managed NGO in India with over 51 years track record since 1974. It is committed to “To ensure that children and adolescents achieve their rights to health, nutrition, education, protection and participation by making duty bearers and communities responsive to their wellbeing”. Presently CINI reaches to 10 million marginalized rural and urban populations in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Assam, Odisha and other Indian states/Union territories. Be a part of us to create a friendly and responsive community where children and adolescents achieve their full potential.

**Objectives of Project**:
1. To enhance enrolment and retention of girls in school as well as completion of elementary education.

2. To improve academic competency of targeted girls as per their age/grade through remedial academic support in the community based learning centres.

3. To enhance CLC facilitators' capacity in child-centric, play-based, and contextually relevant pedagogy and other social issues.

4. Empowering adolescent girls (10 to 14 years) to deal with life situations positively and raising voices for addressing their issues of concern.

5. Foster community engagement to support girls’ learning and addressing issues related to child health & nutrition and violence against girl child

**Project Brief**:
The project aims to empower girls (6 to 14 years) of 14 villages of Barwadi block of Latehar district, Jharkhand by mapping and mitigating their vulnerabilities related to their educational rights, enrolling Out of School girls in formal schools in age appropriate classes and setting up community based learning centres (CLCs) in 14 villages for supporting them with remedial educational support to make them at per their age/grade appropriate academic competency level. It also envisions collectivization of adolescent girls for leading them towards a positive life with the help of life skills education and knowledge on proper nutrition and sexual and reproductive health issues as well as strengthening their participation in taking lifetime decisions by sensitizing them on their rights and entitlements, issues related to gender violence, social evils like
- child marriage, trafficking, child labour etc.

This project along with girls also considers the parents, especially mothers and grass-root level service providers - like
- PRI members, school teachers, ASHA, Anganwadi workers etc. as key role players in ensuring holistic development of the girls. The project will ensure creating a convergence platform at the CLC level with the participation of parents and other grass-root level service providers with handholding support from CINI for creating a child friendly environment in the CLC as well as in the community. As stated, mothers of the girls will be given special focus by reinforcing their academic knowledge through Mother-literacy programme and by enhancing their knowledge on positive parenting, issues related to gender discrimination, health and nutrition of children and adolescent girls and their basic rights and entitlements.

Ultimately the project will be implemented in collaboration with the district, block and Gram Panchayats and local govt. schools for creating ownership among the service providers, community people and parents for contributing to sustain the CLCs with support of the local youths trained by CINI for ensuring the remedial education support to the girls for retaining in school and completing elementary education with enhanced academic competency and successfully transitioning to class IX (secondary education level).

**Experience**:

- Minimum 02 Years
- Knowledge of education, academics, teaching in local communities
- Experience of community mobilization and working with parents and children
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills,
- Must be fluent in Hindi and/or local language (spoken, written, and reading) and demonstrate effective written and verbal communication.
- Documentation and Community Mobilization Skills in Hindi or in local language
- Should be based and belong from the local community or from the same village

**Qualification**:

- Intermediate with minimum 55% marks
- Inter pass or graduate in relevant discipline

**Number of Vacancies: 2 (Two)**

**Location**:Latehar, Jharkhand**

**Competencies/ Requirements**:

- Must be aware about child rights and understand the importance of child participation which is child-friendly and non-discriminating.
- Should always adhere to the organization’s policies, with special mention to Child Safeguarding Policy, Data Protection Policy especially when interacting with children
- Ability to travel to participate in refresher training and capacity building sessions organized by the organization
- Knowledge of using smartphones
- Driving Two-wheeler and valid DL is a must.
- Providing supportive supervision to the CLC facilitators for effective manage