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Senior Program Associate Room to Read 2024

  • Deadline: Feb 10, 2024

  • Qualification (Education): Postgraduate

  • Experience Required: 3-6 Year

About Job Profile

Project Management/Coordination

The Senior Program Associate in Girls Education and Gender Equality (Accelerator) spends time to assist Senior Program officer to implement program with quality and carrying out all activities of GEGEP Accelerator in state. The position will be based in State office and will involve frequent travel to field. The work will entail providing support to GEGEP Sr.PO in Documentation of all activities, draft quality case stories/success stories and planning of PC training and Teachers and wardens training.

He or she will also be responsible for strengthening linkages with like- minded organisations, 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 reports to the Senior Program Officer.

Primary Responsibilities include

Support to Senior Program officer (Planning, Reporting and Documentation):

  • To document each programmatic activities with the support of Program Coordinators.
  • To short list the ideas of Change from the accelerator institutions and work on the stories to make it impactful.
  • Participate in regular trainings and meetings with Room to Read staff.
  • Participate in donor site visits and provide information to donors about Room to Read’s Girls’ Education Program as needed.
  • Collect data from monthly reports of program coordinators and provide compilation to SPO.
  • Analysis of program data and share report to SPO.
  • Document best practices, case studies, photos and lessons learned and share with SPO.
  • Documentation of donor Reports, including case studies, best practices and lessons learned including donor field visits.
  • Work on the concept notes of the program district or state specific.

Liasioning, networking and building linkages at the field, block and district level:

  • Plan and organize trainings and meetings for government officials (block and district level).
  • Building linkages with like-minded organisations for referral services for girls after discussing with Senior Program Officer.
  • Take lead to build up networks for girls’ education at district level with the support of POs.
  • Take Senior Program Officer for creating visibility of GEP in District and support POs for creating visibility at State level. Also, she will look after logistic arrangements of state level visibility event.

Ensuring Quality program at the field level:

  • Share learnings from INCO level review meetings.
  • Understand and work on factors that may impede quality and fidelity on the field.
  • Tracks to see if quality standards are being met and provide updates to PO.
  • Use LS observations form and basis this provides feedback to Program coordinators.
  • Analyses the availability of materials for LS session, mentoring and material support and provides corrective feedback to program Coordinators as needed.

Annual planning and budgeting:

  • Participate in the annual planning and budgeting process.
  • Ensure budget forecasting for the month and submit bills timely with support of the program Assistant.
  • Support SPO in expense tracking, fund projection and fund requests.

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

 

  • Basic MS Office skills.
  • Strong organizational and planning skills including the ability to monitor progress of program.
  • Ability to juggle multiple priorities simultaneously and take initiative.
  • Prior success working closely and building relationships with diverse groups of people.
  • Prior experience in facilitation and/or training.
  • Experience working with and or counselling adolescent girls.
  • Familiarity or experience with gender issues, girls’ education and/or community development.
  • Hindi and English language fluency is mandatory.

 

Other Information:

To be successful at Room to Read, you will also: 

  • Have passion for our mission and a strong desire to impact a dynamic nonprofit organization.
  • Be a proactive and innovative thinker who achieves results and creates positive change.
  • Have a very high level of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness.
  • Embrace diversity and a commitment to collaboration.
  • Thrive in a fast-paced and fun environment.

 

Job Functions

  • Salary Range: NA LPA

  • Employment Type: Full Time

  • Work Mode: Work from Office

How to Apply

If you are interested in taking up the role, please apply through this link.

If you qualify and are interested in taking up the role, please apply through this link.

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Room to Read

  • State: Chhattisgarh

  • City: Raipur

About Organisation

Room to Read Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children®, Room to Read is creating a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality through education. We are achieving this goal by helping children in historically low-income communities develop literacy skills and a habit of reading, and by supporting girls as they build life skills to succeed in school and negotiate key life decisions.

We collaborate with governments and other partner organizations to deliver positive outcomes for children at scale. Room to Read has benefited more than 39 million children and has worked in 23 countries and in more than 182,000 communities, providing additional support through remote solutions that facilitate learning beyond the classroom. Room to Read aims to benefit 40 million children by 2025.

  • State: Chhattisgarh

  • City: Raipur


Contact Details:

Contact Phone: 7714089348

Contact Email: info@roomtoread.org

Date of Posting/Posted On: Jan 15, 2024

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