Centre Coordinator

**Coordinator - UCIT Program**

**Location: Secundrabad (Hyderabad)**

**Reports to: Regional Coordinator / Sr. Manager - Operations**

**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 of Project Manager is critical to the success of Udayan Care’s initiatives. This is an opportunity for a highly motivated individual to play an important role in IT education with enormous potential impact.

The Project Manager will report to the Head of the UCIT Programme on a regular basis providing updates on the progress of the various activities. Any challenges or problems in relation to completion of the various activities will be highlighted at the earliest opportunity.

**Section 3 | Key Responsibilities**
- Take lead to ensure the smooth functioning of the project (IT Centre - Mumbai, Maharashtra), manage the overall operation to ensure optimum utilization of available resources
- Lead proper staff management (including recruitment as per requirement), maintain decorum in center, manage procurement as per organizational policy, cash management (fee & petty expenses)
- Manage center reporting, documentation, ERP, donor visits, etc.
- Develop strategies & implement them on the ground to fill the vacant seats as per set targets batch-wise and course-wise. Making presentations at nearby coaching centers, student mobilization campaign work, community surveys, etc.
- Develop networking in nearby offices to make sure the placement of students in relevant jobs with good entry-level salaries as per set targets
- Plan monthly roster to review the staff performance as per set deliverables and conduct assessment to review training progress of students
- Organize co-curricular activities at the centers for the holistic development of trainees.
- Organize large and small group workshops, social service activities, and annual day celebrations at IT Center.

**Section 4 | Experience & Qualification**
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in project coordination/management
- Excellent command of MS Office (Word, PowerPoint & Excel)
- Graduate or post-graduate preferably in commerce
- Zeal to work closely with the underserved community youth
- Willing to travel

**Section 5 | Skills and knowledge**
- Strong analytical skills and good judgment
- Good communications skills, networking and relationship-building skills with a wide range of individuals in public, private and non-profit sectors
- An ability to work successfully under pressure with the capacity to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines.
- Strong personal and social values
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