Assistant - Programme Implementation (Community Mobiliser)

Bal Raksha Bharat; Tijara; On-site; INR 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restaurant of field-based role

Job summary

Bal Raksha Bharat is seeking a Project Assistant- Community Mobilizer in the Bhiwadi area to identify and enroll children aged 6 to 14 into MACs and support MAC operations, life-skills delivery, and access to social protection schemes. The role requires field work six days a week and building relationships with schools, parents, and local health facilities.

The candidate will maintain MIS data, conduct home visits, and collaborate with stakeholders to promote child rights and wellbeing within

Qualifications

• Experience >01 to 02 years of community mobilization/teaching.
• Graduate degree in a relevant field is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Identify enrolment of children in MACs who are not in mainstream schools.
• Improve access to identified social protection schemes.
• Facilitate health camps with Govt. PHC support.
• Build awareness on menstrual health and hygiene.
• Undertake growth monitoring anthropometry of children (0-5 years).
• Assist in delivering life-skills education to MAC participants.
• Support Academic Support Fellows for smooth MAC operation.
• Conduct home visits and follow-up with mainstreamed children.
• Mobilize active participation of children and communities in planning and evaluation.
• Build capacity of families and communities to engage local leaders.
• Follow up on commitments by leaders to improve wellbeing of children.
• Sensitize stakeholders about children’s rights and responsibilities.
• Document progress and best practices; share with Project Coordinator.
• Timely MIS data collection and submission to project lead.
• Submit weekly/monthly work plans and monthly progress reports.

Skills

Community mobilization

Vulnerable communities

Communication skills

Networking

Time management

Conflict handling

Rapport building

Local context understanding

Education

Graduate degree

Job description

Job Title

Project Assistant- Community Mobilizer

Grade

I

Department

Programme Operation

Reporting to

Assistant Manager/ Manager

Location

Bhiwadi

Role Purpose

The Assistant - Community Mobilizer will be responsible for identifying and enrolling children aged 6 to 14 years to the Multi Activity Centres (MACs) and providing support in the operations of the MACs including supporting children to use materials provides, assisting in delivering life-skills education, access to identified and sustainable social protection schemes, child rights, health camps, menstrual hygiene management and growth monitoring support to AWC.

S/he will also be responsible for maintaining cordial relationship with external stakeholders at the community level along with schools, parents, PHC, AWC, community leaders.

Also, this role required 6 days working in the field (only second and forth Saturday will be off)

Role responsibilities

• Identification enrolment of children in MAC, who are not going to mainstream schools in the intervention area.
• Improve access to identified and sustainable social protection schemes
• Facilitate health camps in support with Govt. PHC
• Building awareness on Menstrual Health and Hygiene issues
• Undertake Growth Monitoring Anthropometry of the children (0-5 years)
• Assist in delivering life-skills education to children enrolled in MAC.
• Provide support to the Academic Support Fellows in smooth operation of MAC.
• Undertake home visits and follow up with children who have been mainstreamed in formal schools
• Mobilize and facilitate active participation of children and their communities to participate in planning, monitoring and implementation and evaluation of community development initiatives.
• Build the capacity of children, families, and community to collectively engage local leaders on identified issues.
• Follow-up on commitments by leaders on improvement of the wellbeing of children.
• Sensitize children, guardians/parents, and other stakeholders about children's rights and responsibilities to identify child violations
• S/he would document periodic progress, case studies of best practices, etc. of her assigned area and share with the Project Coordinator/Assistant Manager.
• Timely collection and submission of all MIS-related information and data to the project lead.
• Submit the work plan on a weekly/monthly basis to the project lead.
• Submit monthly progress reports to the Project lead.
• Any other work assigned by the line manager.

Measures of Performance

• Past experience in Community mobilization/ teaching.
• Quality and quantity of Project / Programme Implementation.
• Efficiency and quality of reports /documents generated under the project.
• Quality of PIP and compliance of work plan and cash flow.

Approval Authority

For budgetary authority and similar matters, refer to Scheme of Delegation.

Reporting

• Direct (solid-line) to (administrative): Project Coordinator
• Matrix (dotted-line) to (functional): PIU heads
• Direct reports (line management responsibility if any): Project Lead

Key relationships

• Internal Stakeholders (collaborates with): Children their families, Schools, Community stakeholders, FLWs, AWC and other relevant stakeholders.

Candidate specification

Essential

• Experience >01 to 02 years of relevant experience in community mobilization/teaching

Desirable

• Graduate degree

Skills Knowledge

• Well-versed with community mobilization
• Experience of having worked in vulnerable communities with children, adolescents, youths, and community stakeholders.
• Proficiency in communication skills and ability to build relationships with community people, adolescents youths
• Networking and influencing skills
• Organizational skills and time management skills
• Efficient to deliver project activities with quality
• Ability to handle conflict situations in the field and ability to encourage children, adolescents, youths, and parents to participate in project level activities
• Outgoing with rapport-building and networking skills
• Ability to perform in a full-time field-based position
• Understanding of the local context

Behavioral

• Strong commitment to the aims and objectives of BRB
• Child safeguarding and respect for women community
• Excellent communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Excellent Writing skills with more than average knowledge on MS Office package