Program Associate

Aangan is looking to hire you, if:

- you want to be a part of developing institutionalised platforms for dialogue between

communities, Panchayats and schools across districts of North and South 24 Parganas

so as to established protective mechanisms ensuring safety of children in the context of

recurrent climatic hazards
- passionate about adolescent girls' issues of safety and protection
- you are someone who doesn’t like to be tied down and enjoy challenging travel to

remote locations of both the Parganas
- have strong interest in building resilient communities within the realm of disaster

preparedness and keeping children safe.

What’s in it for you?
- Work at scale
- Be a part of a unique programme
- Opportunity to participate in the solution: You get to play a key role in building systems

within the Blocks where the voice of young adults, adolescents and women are heard

and plan community-based solutions to ensure children are in schools, safe and

supervised.
- Prospect to inform policy level changes

What does a Program Associate's / Trainer’s role include?

At Aangan, our Associates enable marginalised communities to participate in decisions

that affect them and their children directly. They help build trust as well as create

strong communication channels between the community (specifically women and girls)

and the local administration.

To keep this ecosystem humming, our Associates get to the root
- a. they engage meaningfully with women and young adults in the community

b. create platforms for communities and local administration to share child harm trends and data from their communities to raise concerns and access their rights to safety, education and participation

c. they coach community representatives until they are able to take concrete steps to ensure safety of children from various harm and risks.

Trainer will understand the trends emerging from the engagement with the

communities and the stakeholders and prepare appropriate and informative reports.

As a Trainer, a typical day might include the following:

- Inspire local administration to acknowledge the unsafe situations faced by

children in their disaster prone communities and build systems to supervise that

children are in schools, safe and supported
- Motivate communities to relook into survival strategies adopted during disasters

and its impact on the safety of children in the long run
- Guide communities to get together and voice their issues so that the process and

product of collectivization is owned by the community.
- Lead training sessions with community representative groups from 2 districts in

West Bengal to ensure that they,
- can facilitate safety conversations with adolescent girls
- can facilitate community-based solutions with the support of local

governance systems
- support vulnerable families to become resilient to reduce and respond to

child harm in the communities
- Get field based information and present the data in need based formats.
- Contribute to the design of training sessions to be used across Aangan’s

intervention in the State
- Be a part of a pool of trainers at Aangan who contribute to building internal

capacity for training and facilitation
- Document learnings and insights to be able to feed into the district’s strategy to

achieve desired outcomes
- Document learnings from trainings to be able to feed into the organisation’s

training plans and build internal capacity

The job might be for you if:

- You are an engaging facilitator who has led many a successful large group

conversation
- You have the interest to work and mobilise local stakeholders like school

principals, panchayat systems etc to act and respond to ensure children are

supervised during and after climatic disasters and are in schools, safe and

supported
- You are able to skilfully traverse the line between facilitating and

coaching/mentoring
- You believe that listening directly from community is essential to creating

solutions that impact them
- You are a clear communicator and you speak eloquently

Competencies and Abilities
- 2+ years of prior training experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Proficiency in Bengali and English
- Creative and critical thinking ability
- Mindset to work in team
- Adept at meeting deadlines
- Ability to motivate an attitude of learning before, during and after the sessions
- Willingness to listen and learn and respect different perspectives brought into

the sessions
- Organized and ability to manage time well
- Willingness to travel to remote areas

Education and Experience
- Post Graduate
- At least 2 years of experience with training groups of adults and children
- At least 2 years of experience in the area of Child Protection or community-based

work

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: ₹30,000.00 - ₹55,000.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Cell phone reimbursement
- Health insurance
- Paid time off

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Fri