Programme Coordinator

Section 1 | About Udayan Care

Udayan Care believes that a family is an anchor for the development of a strong and balanced individual. “Udayan” is a Sanskrit word meaning “Eternal Sunshine”. Like the sunlight nourishes life on earth, our programs are designed to nurture and strengthen individuals and their families.

Registered in 1994 as a Public Charitable Trust, Udayan Care works to protect and nurture vulnerable children in a family-like environment, support the education of young girls and provide vocational skills to women and youth, in 34 cities across 15 states of India. Our mission at Udayan Care falls under #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #8, #10, #11, #16 & #17 SDG goals.

**Udayan Ghar Program **focuses on creating a family-like environment for children in need of parental care. Children grow up under the guidance of mentor parents and utmost care is taken for individual attention for every child. The Ghar program also extends into Aftercare to cater to young adults, who on turning 18 move out of childcare homes.

**Udayan Shalini Fellowship Program **is a one-of-a-kind initiative that provides financial assistance, personality development, and employment opportunities to deserving and talented girls from weaker socio-economic backgrounds. The end objective of the program is to create educated, aware and confident women who take charge of their lives and strengthen their birth families as well as their own families.

**The IT program and Skill Development Centres **provide livelihood options to underprivileged youth and women close to home such that they can contribute to the family income, lessening the burden on the primary earner of the family whilst enhancing their independence

Our **Advocacy work **is focused on ensuring and enhancing the rights of children without parental care. Our advocacy team works closely with the Governments of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh in partnership with UNICEF, to build, operate and hand over projects for organizing aftercare youth. Since 2020, Udayan Care’s Aftercare Outreach Program supports youth leaving other Child Care Institutions.

Udayan Care is the founding organization for Biennial International Conference on Alternative Care. BICON was conceived in 2014, to bring together stakeholders to discuss regional challenges, best practices, and emerging issues related to family strengthening and alternative care for children and youth in South Asia.

Section 2 | Purpose of the Role

The role holder is accountable for comprehensive coordination of all activities as planned under Udayan Care’s Aftercare are Outreach Programme implemented by the A.R.T. department. AOP started in 2020, aims to facilitate and support Care Leavers in the eight domains of the ‘Sphere of Aftercare’ with focus on providing financial as well as handholding and mentoring support for educational and vocational skills attainment and set up a model on Aftercare to establish evidence of its positive impact in their lives.

Section 3 | Key Responsibilities

Overall responsible for project coordination in the city
- Work directly with aftercare youth on-boarded in the project, different stakeholders, such as government, funding agencies, mentors and corporations, other NGOs/CCIs, institutes and agencies or consultants, etc. to ensure deliverables in a timely manner
- Assist project lead in taking strategic decisions for each beneficiaryManage monthly programme expenses
- Coordination and completion of project deliverables on time within defined budgetEnsure delivery of workshops, coordination with resource persons, and managing online and in person logistics
- Make quality reports in timely manner
- Ensure partnerships for skilling, placement and networking directly of the nature that serves AOP to meet its objectives
- Facilitate placements in jobs and internships/exposure for AOP youth
- Coordinate with other departments at Udayan Care to ensure all aspects of each project are compatible in teamwork spirit
- Enhance department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Any other job or related task as advised by the AOP Lead, ART Director/ Managing Trustee/ ED

Weekend hours shall be required.

Section 4 | Experience, Qualifications and Skills Experience
- Minimum 2 years of work experience in national/multi-state level NGO with working experience with youth and skill building being preferable.
- Experience working with youth from underprivileged community Educational Qualifications Masters in any recognized discipline with a preference for social work or law courses from an institute of repute. Skills Requirements:

- Must have excellent documentation and verbal communication skills, both client-facing and internal skills
- Good organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (MS word, excel, power-poi