School Coordinator

The Akanksha Foundation is a non-profit organization with the mission “to build a network of high-performing and innovative schools to maximize the potential of children/youth from underserved communities and to influence ecosystem reform”. Our aspirational vision for students integrates academic excellence with life skills (including socio-emotional development), that will enable each child to live an empowered life. We believe an empowered citizen must possess a sense of mastery to pursue excellence, a sense of agency to make informed choices, and a sense of purpose to serve their communities. Over the last 30-plusyears, Akanksha has been at the forefront of proving what’s possible for children from low-income communities in Mumbai, Pune, and Nagpur.Our 5,100 alumni are on the path to living an empowered life. Today Akanksha runs 26 schools in partnership with governments of Mumbai, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Navi Mumbai, and Nagpur serving 14,000 children in grades Jr Kg - Gr10.Akanksha also partners with 250+ balwadis and government schools in Nagpur and Pimpri Chinchwad to drive city-level system change by strengthening public schools

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.

**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 l Employee 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
- 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 S