Consultant - Project Coordinator

Child Rights and You (CRY); Panchkula; On-site; INR 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Child Rights and You (CRY) in India is seeking a dedicated project coordinator to lead field interventions, build capacity of teachers and mobilisers, and establish linkages with government stakeholders. The role focuses on driving social change through evidence-based advocacy and close collaboration with community partners.

The ideal candidate will have 2–3 years in community development, education or child rights, with strong coordination, data management and reporting skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in community development or child rights programmes.

Responsibilities

• Overall coordination of the project to ensure timely deliverables.
• Build capacity of CAC teachers and mobilisers; improve volunteers' engagement in community development.
• Identify and build capacity of Change agents in the community to drive social transformation.
• Develop linkages between community and system for better access to services.
• Establish linkages with government stakeholders to increase community participation.
• Analyse beneficiary data collected by project staff and plan interventions.
• Contribute to analysis and updating of issues affecting children in the locality.
• Ensure evidence collection from field interventions and advocate for policy changes.
• Facilitate admissions of children to hostel facilities and linkages with social security schemes.
• Plan, manage daily activities and implement project deliverables.
• Coordinate with regional agencies, government, and CSO partners to deliver outputs.
• Facilitate planning sessions, capacity building and field-based engagement activities.
• Monitor project activities through field visits and spend more time at field level.
• Establish proper flow of information and maintain communication.
• Conduct regular community needs assessments and share with CRY Coordinator.
• Verify field expenses by checking expenditure nature.
• Submit well-prepared project updates to the CRY Coordinator on time.
• Collect case stories from community mobilisers and share monthly.

Job description

Role & responsibilities :

• Overall coordination of the project intervention to ensure timely deliverable.
• Building capacity of CAC teacher and Mobiliser and Improve volunteers engagement in community development.
• Identify and build capacity of the Change agents within the community and motivate them to work towards bringing social transformation in the reference community.
• Developing linkages between community and system for increased accessibility of services.
• Establish linkages with Govt. stakeholders to increase participation of reference community in the local governance structure.
• Analysing the data of beneficiary collected by project staffs and develop plan of intervention.
• Contributes to the analysis and periodic updating of issues affecting children in the locality area.
• Ensure evidence collection from the field level intervention and advocate with relevant stakeholders to bring policy level changes in favour of the reference community.
• Facilitate community and children in the process of admission of children in hostel facilities and linkages with social security schemes.
• Responsible for the planning, daily management, and implementation of project deliverables.
• Serve as the frontline person that stimulates action, liaises with the regional agencies, provincial government and CSO partners and facilitates the delivery of project initiatives in the assigned area/s Coordinates with the other stakeholders and the Operations to ensure the delivery of outputs according to plan in the area(s) of assignment.
• Facilitate the planning sessions, capacity building and field based system engagement activities
• To monitor project activities through field visit. More and more time should be spent at field level.
• To establish proper flow of information and maintain proper communication.
• Community need assessment should be done at a regular basis and sharing with CRY Coordinator.
• To verify all field level expenses by checking nature of expenditure.
• Responsible for the timely submission to the CRY Coordinator of well-prepared project updates and reports that may be required in the areas of project
• Collect case stories from Community mobilisers and share it with CRY Coordinator on monthly basis
• Maintain data of other consultants

Preferred candidate profile :

• Min 2 to 3 years of relevant experience in the position in community development, child rights, education, , or related development programmes.
• Experience in managing community development or child rights projects.
• Experience in working with government departments, local governance institutions, CSOs, and community-based organizations.
• Experience in project planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting
• Experience in data management, beneficiary tracking, and evidence-based advocacy.
• Experience in donor reporting, documentation, and field-based programme management