Life Skills Education Mentors

BACKGROUND

The Hans Foundation (THF), established in 2009, is a Public Charitable Trust that works towards creating an equitable society to enhance quality of life for all through the empowerment of marginalized and underprivileged communities in India. The Hans Foundation works for the Health and Wellbeing of remote and under-served groups, with an additional focus on children, persons with disabilities and women. THF also works for holistic Education and Livelihood development of our communities. Our Two-Fold Strategy involves identifying and working within Aspirational Districts and high poverty index in the North, North-East and East regions within specific states, as well as catering to lower-income and migratory populations in cities, through urban programs.

Over its 15 years of existence, THF has reached more than 35 million beneficiaries through its programs. THF works with communities through direct implementation of projects on the ground in addition to providing local management and monitoring support to not-for-profit organizations in India funded through THF USA and RIST.

GENERAL

Name of Position – Life Skills Education Mentor.

Location of Job: Baran, Rajasthan

Type of Employment: Contractual for a period of one-year, renewable basis performance and project requirement.

No. of Position: 01

Reporting to: Project Coordinator.

JOB PURPOSE

The Life Skills Education Mentor spends the majority of her time providing support to the tutors, facilitating Life skills and career guidance sessions with students, home visits to the students, organizing parents/community meetings, and assisting the Program Coordinator in carrying out all activities of the project. The position will be based in a selected school and will involve regular visits to the targeted schools and community. The incumbent will also be responsible for strengthening linkages with SMCs, collecting program data, undertaking monitoring as required, and entering it into the THF's database. This position will have a direct interface with adolescent students in Govt. schools. The LSE Facilitator reports to the Project Coordinator. This position will closely work with the Tutors, Career Guidance Counsellor, and Project Coordinator.

Duties & Responsibilities:

A. Program Implementation:

• Program Implementation and Training {Provide support to tutors and facilitate Life skill sessions, and career guidance to students (as per program design)
• Support tutors to set the schedule of academic support as per students' needs, observing tutoring classes, and providing hand-holding support as per the requirement.
• Undertake regular field-based monitoring as per the approved monitoring plan
• Fill out the monitoring forms, consolidate, and report to the office.
• Support and facilitate the administration of baseline assessment tools for all the students and stakeholders.
• Facilitate the monthly/quarterly meetings of school teachers (cluster/block/ level) to discuss and identify solutions to challenges faced in program implementation and in working with the students.
• Participate in regular training and meetings with the THF team.
• Ensure feedback is given to specific schools/tutors and recorded in writing regularly.
• Participate in government stakeholders/SMT visits to program locations and provide information to donors/stakeholders about the Program as needed.
• Participating in Career Guidance activities

B. Liaising, networking, and building linkages at the field, and block level:

• Establish and strengthen monitoring mechanisms at the school/block level while working closely with the governance systems
• Liaison with the government to strengthen the mainstreaming of reporting and monitoring mechanisms related to the Program
• Building linkages with like-minded organizations for referral services for students after discussing with the Program coordinator.
• Providing support to tutors in maintaining academic records as decided.
• Providing support to tutors in periodic assessment of the girls and keeping records for the same.
• Ensuring Quality program at the field level:
• Understand and work on factors that may impede the quality and fidelity of Life skills on the field.
• Tracks to see if quality standards are being met and provide updates to PC
• Use academic support observations form and basis tool to provide feedback to school tutors and the Project Coordinator

C. Planning, Reporting and Documentation:

• Ensure tutors are keeping program records as decided per the program design.
• Collect the data and provide to PC/PM as needed and agreed as per data flow mechanisms
• Collect the data (MIS), provide it to the PC/PM, and enter it into THF's database (as indicated).
• Document best practices, case studies, photos and lessons learned and share with the Team.
• Flag challenges/issues/timely alerts to the reporting manager to ensure smooth implementation.
• Collect student's attendance records from the school and submit them to Project Coordinator.
• Prepare the home visits and stakeholders meetings (meeting with parents, SMCs, school authority, and teachers) reports and collect the attendance data for the same and submit it to the Project Coordinator.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Education/ Social Work/Development/Gender Studies or equivalent to these.
• 1-2 years of relevant work experience in areas of education, gender and life skills.
• Prior experience working closely with school teachers and the government.
• This position requires extensive travel to the homes of students and other schools /block levels.
• Good interpersonal skills and a team player.
• Good understanding of MS Word and MS Excel for reporting purposes.
• Strong organizational and planning skills including the ability to monitor progress of program implementation.
• Prior experience in facilitation and training

THF is an equal opportunity employer that encourages women, people with disabilities, and those from economically and socially excluded communities with the requisite skills and qualifications to apply for positions. We do not discriminate in employment on the basis of caste, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other such matter.