Assistant Project Officer

**Job Purpose**

The position holder will be responsible to lead a team of Assistant Project Officer, support them in developing and implementing plans as per the requirements of a project and ensure reporting of the works as appropriate.

Accountable for ensuring child friendly village where every child is into school and receiving quality education.

**Key Responsibility Areas**

**Program me**
- Supervise and Support Community Social worker in Forming Stakeholder groups, such as Women groups, Youth groups in communities, schools and colleges.
- Ensuring and organising at least One meeting every month of each group Mahila Mandal, Yuva Mandal and Bal panchayat are conducted by themselves
- Identification of at Case Studies/Change story
- Identification of generic and unique issue every month and file complaints/FIRs to Government agencies and submit report of the same
- Meetings with Community member’s/Government officials and other stakeholder groups and submit report of the same
- Ensuring and supporting in organising health, legal and other awareness camps in villages
- Meeting with all the Community social worker in a week, preparing report and submit it to the supervisor mentioning the outcome of the meeting.
- Undertaking daily field visit in a week to oversee implementation of agreed action plan and effectiveness of the field staffs
- Ensuring training and capacity building of community member, youth group/women groups/Parents/teachers/ Government officials and other stakeholders every month in every village.
- Organizing at Awareness generation activities where both direct and indirect beneficiaries should participate
- Support in developing yearly, monthly action plan with requisition of budget.
- Identifying need based training of the field staff in accordance with organisational policy and organising the same with the consultation of Supervisor.
- Ensuring benefit for entire village community from the convergence of other Welfare schemes and government programs, preparing report of the same and submit it to the supervisor.
- Ensuring every withdrawn child received legal aid and reporting the same to the supervisor

**Documentation**
- Develop monthly action plans for respective villages in consultation with the villages community and supervisor and submit it before 30th of the Preceding month
- Prepare and submit monthly report in accordance with the action plan also indicating challenges faced and achieved outcomes by on 26th of every month to the supervisor.
- Consolidate all the daily dairies/report of the CSW, including own and submit it to the supervisor at the end of every month.

**Networking and advocacy**
- Develop and maintain relationships with villages administration related to Bal Mitra Gram village, non-government organization as well as with the media in your area.
- Strengthening relationship with Government officials and Village panchayat people.

**Team Management**
- Managing the day-to-day activities of the team.
- Motivating the team to achieve organizational goals.

**Administration and finance**
- Maintain separate files for each project/ Villages/CSW
- Maintain records of budget requisitions and expenses made

**Additional Duties**

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and you may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of your level of skills and experience, as and when assigned by the supervisor

**Requirements**:
**Educational Qualification and Work Experience**

Holds a bachelor’s degree/master’s degree in social work, psychology, sociology, development studies or equivalent

**Must Have**:

- well versed in Marathi (able to read, write and speak), Hindi and English
- well-acquainted with rural setup of Maharashtra

to be able to drive a two-wheeler will be helpful