Assistant - Programme implementation Unit (Academic Support Fellow)

Bal Raksha Bharat; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 400,000 - 560,000; Full time

Job summary

Bal Raksha Bharat invites applications for an Assistant Support Fellow to strengthen experiential teaching practices in schools. You will work between teachers and children, support training, prepare session plans, and maintain records and MIS to support monthly and quarterly reports.

Responsibilities include coordinating with managers, facilitating trainings, and ensuring timely delivery of project activities while upholding safeguarding policies and local office procedures.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years of teaching experience with Children development projects/NGOs.
• Experience in teaching English, Science or Math to Grades 3-8.
• Strong written and verbal communication and reporting skills.
• Familiarity with MIS and data management tools.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement project activities; be the focal person for area activities.
• Facilitate trainings and refresher workshops with teachers at multiple levels.
• Prepare session plans and timetables with teachers and school teams.
• Develop teaching-learning materials and assess learning activities.
• Maintain records, MIS and field documents for monthly/quarterly reports.
• Coordinate with Assistant Manager and other stakeholders; ensure timely reporting.
• Support data collection, field visits, and donor reporting as needed.
• Ensure adherence to child safeguarding and office procedures.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Travel willingness

MS Office

Education

B.Ed./M.Ed./Bachelor's in Social Work

Tools

MS Excel

Google Spreadsheets

Canva

Kobo tools

Job description

GOAL:

TO EMPOWER EDUCATORS BY ENHANCING THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF EXPERIENTIAL TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS, AND EQUIPPING THEM WITH ESSENTIAL 21ST-CENTURY SKILLS TO EFFECTIVELY PROMOTE STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUCCESS.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Assistant Support Fellow is the key focal person between teachers and Children. The Academic Support Fellow (ASF) will be responsible for the overall operations of the execution of experiential teaching learning practice by the teachers in classroom session including suggestive improvement in learning skills, literacy skills and life skills including supporting children in academic activities, maintaining documentation, and managing school relationship, data and records. The ASF will support to teachers and facilitate in academic classes conducted in te school with trained teachers. He / She is responsible for preparing meeting minutes reporting of meetings/training with different Teachers, students, School management, block and cluster resource persons based on the needs of the project. ASF will create a healthy and supportive environment in offices, and schools in which all activities can be delivered by supporting and coordinating with local communities and appropriate stakeholders to meet the project objectives with quality with timely deliverables support to other project facilitators for coordinating meetings training.

Key Deliverables:

• Support the Assistant Manager - Be the focal person to plan and implement project activities,


• awareness building, establish linkages, at the area wise/Cluster level as per the project design and time frame. Contribute his/her actions for strengthening of a project strategy to fulfill the overall project objective and its quality parameters.


• - Facilitate the Trainings programme, refresher training with teachers, block and district level consultation and build capacities of teachers and other officials at various levels


• - Prepare the session plan for school, for training and refresher workshop and take session as per requirement.


• - Develop academic timetables and design innovative Teaching-Learning Materials (TLMs) for children with joint engagement of school teachers.


• - Facilitate and Involve in all assessment including pre, post test, Baseline and end line studies, copy checking, and date entry in prescribed format.


• - Undertake regular schools visits, regular basis, observed the classroom session of teachers in the context of experiential teaching learning practices, initiate feedback and suggestion measure in consultation with teachers and record field visit in prescribed format.


• - Maintain records, MIS and field documents to support the monthly and quarterly reports.


• - Documentation of best practices, case studies for sharing with donor and to publish in internal journals


• - Preparation and sharing of Monthly and Quarterly field reports to Assistant Manager or State Office with accurate information for support MIS at state level


• - Support the Assistant Manager and other team members at SPO for timely and quality project/donor reporting as per the time line. Coordinate with Assistant Manager/Manager for cross sharing, learning and improving the quality of the project.


• - Support SC Info/BRISK data collection and collation as and when required


• - Support the field visits of Donor or teams from SPO, PIU level and NSO


• - Abide the local office administrative procedures including the terms of timings, code of conduct, child safe guarding policy as per the BRB s staff charter


• - Adhering to all financial norms and procedures of Bal Raksha Bharat


• - Undertake appropriate additional responsibilities as assigned by the line manager

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

• Accountability:- S/he should be accountable for evaluating his/her performance or behavior related to work/community/children/society for which s/he is responsible. The term is related to responsibility but is regarded more from the perspective of oversight.


• Ambition:- S/he should desire to achieve a particular goal as well as aspiration in respect of the project.


• Collaboration:- S/he should work in a collaborative method with respective stakeholders (direct or indirect) and will make something together. To collaborate is to commit to the possibility of producing an outcome greater than one that would be developed in a silo.


• Creativity :- Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others.


• Integrity:- Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. S/he must be truthful and honest with him/herself and others and should align own personal behavior and his/her action will be aligned with own values, principles and ethics. S/he would have her self-awareness and have really explored the value system.

Reporting:

• Direct (solid-line) to (administrative): Assistant Manager-Project


• Matrix (dotted-line) to (functional): Not applicable


• Direct reports (line management responsibility if any): Assistant Manager-Project

Candidate specification:

Essential (Required) Desirable (Asset)

Experience

• - Minimum 3-5 years of experience in teaching ( Especially English, Science, Math with Grade 3-8th standard) and working with children Development projects /working NGOs


• - 6-7 years of experience in teaching, working in the development sector for bachelor degree holder


• - Working in education projects with special experience in working with education projects (Schools and Children)


• - Experience in working with Government departments


• - Excellent verbal, written, and communication skills, fluency in the local language and Hindi English


• - Self-motivated ablity to work in a team


• - Strong MIS skills for developing and designing MIS for Scholarships including Google spreadsheets, Canva, Kobo tools, and Excel.

Qualifications

• - B.Ed./M.Ed. /Bachelors Degree in Social work with adequate experience in the field. Preference given to those having degree in teaching.


• - Good communication and reporting writing skills


• - Knowledge in MIS and data management


• - Team player


• Degree/Diploma

Skills Knowledge

• - 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


• - Team Player leader


• - Willingness to travel


• - Willingness to work irregular hours when the job dictates (such as for events, in emergency response times etc)


• Essential

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• - High degree of professional and personal integrity


• - Positive attitude: High motivation, proactive flexible-yet-uncompromising


• - Quick learner


• - Respect for deadlines


• - Attention to details


• - Ability to work long hours under pressure


• - Team player


• - Willingness to abide by SC BR s Child Protection Policy


• - Willingness for extensive travel within and in the state.

Disclaimers:

• - Commitment to and understanding of BRB aims, values, and principles


• - Recruitment and selection procedures, which include rigorous background checks, reflect our commitment to the protection of children from abuse


• - BRB aims to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applications irrespective of age, race, colour, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief or creed. Women candidates are encouraged to apply. We are also open to applications from people who want to work flexibly.

Child Safeguarding level required/ appropriate for the role:

Level 1

• The role holder will not have contact with children and/or young people, or access to personal data about children or young people, as part of their work; therefore a police check will not be mandatory unless the content or location of the role changes, in which case the Child Safeguarding level will be reviewed.

Level 2

• Either the role holder will have access to personal data about children and/or young people as part of their work; or they will be working in a regulated position (accountant, barrister, solicitor, legal executive); therefore a police check will be required.

Level 3

• The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

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