Program Associate, Gegep

Position Overview:
The Gender Equality and Girls’ Education Program (GEGEP) Associate spends the majority of his or her time providing guidance and capacitating the Social Mobilizers (SMs) and assists the Program Officer in carrying out all activities of the GEGEP. The position will be field based and will involve frequent travel to the areas of work. The work will entail providing-guidance to social mobilizers, supporting and sometimes facilitating SM trainings, working with SMs regularly, as defined in the guiding documents to ensure that they are effective in their roles in working with girls. They will also be responsible for strengthening linkages with like
- minded organizations, liasioning with block/district level officials, regular program and financial tracking, collecting program data and entering it into RtRs database and determining and delivering material support for girls participating in the program. The Program Associate will be required to be in field visit around 60% of time. The Program Associate reports to the Program Officer and manages a set of SMs and a program administrative assistant.

Roles & Responsibilities:
A. Program Implementation and Training (Manage Social Mobilizers)- Managing, guiding, and enhancing capacity of a team of Social Mobilizers.- Lead all weekly and monthly review and feedback sessions with direct reports.- Guiding SMs in planning and facilitating Room to Read’s Girls' Education Program activities. Support may include guiding an SM set her schedule of life skill session with girls, observing a session, and providing feedback to the SM, or other activities needed to capacitate SMs to succeed in their core responsibilities.- Capacitate and guide SMs to mentor girls both in person and through remote mentoring. This may include providing ideas for group discussion topics and coaching the SMs on how to handle difficult topics or ideate with them to identify opportunities for learning visits and engaging resource speakers.- Lead all learning/exposure visits of girls with support from SMs.- Guiding the SM in identifying and supporting girls at risk of dropping or failing out of school using Room to Read’s risk and response protocol.- Conduct regular review meetings (on-line and in-person) with SMs (as per protocol) to discuss and identify solutions to challenges that SMs are facing in program implementation and in working with the girls and communities.- Develop yearly goal and conduct annual performance review of SMs.- Lead all the Social Mobilizers’ trainings under the guidance of PO. This may include planning, developing, and facilitating and/or co-facilitating training sessions both in person and online.- Participate in regular trainings and meetings with Room to Read staff conducted by the Country Office.- Ensure feedback is given to specific Social Mobilizers or Program Admin Assistant and recorded in written regularly.- Develop a school profile for each of the enhanced schools and regularly updated.- Identify and document case studies at least 4 in a year and/or as required.- Participate in donor field visits and provide information to donors about Room to Read’s Girls’ Education Program as needed.- Facilitate in developing one state level newsletter with girls.
- B. Family, school, and community engagement- Guide and hand hold Social Mobilizers to conduct parents’ workshop and parents meeting as planned.-
- Identify local needs of the community and explore and ideate with SMs and POs regarding probable parents meeting topics.-
- Regular meeting and providing program update to school staff including head teachers and creating playing the role of a catalyst promoting the school to think of girls education and solutions to problems affecting girls in the catchment area of the school with support from SM.-
- Lead 4 school engagement meeting each year (as per module).-
- Develop and update list of scholarship schemes and entitlements with parents in an accessible format.-
- Guide SMs to conduct all meeting with community level stakeholders such as SMC, VLCPC etc.-
- Maintain a database of all the schemes and benefits our girl’s scholars are getting and facilitating all girls to get the same.-
- Lead all community campaigns in respective schools with support from SMs.- C. Material Support- Lead the targeted material support need assessment process.-
- Cross verification of the girls proposed for material support.-
- Collate data and share further to PO.-
- Will be responsible for the programmatic part of the procurement process such as raising PR for approval of PO and State Manager, inter-departmental follow ups and oversee distribution.- D. Liaising, networking, and building linkages at the field, block, and district level- Networking and liaison with all block and/ or district level government departments and officials-
- Networking and liaison with all village/ ward level stakeholders Plan and organize trainings and meetings for government offici