NGO Project Coordinator

Child Rights and You (CRY); Gurugram District; On-site; INR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Child Rights and You (CRY) in India seeks a Project Coordinator to lead community level initiatives, build capacity of teachers and volunteers, and establish strong linkages with government and social services. The role focuses on field-based delivery, data collection, and advocacy for child rights within the local governance framework.

The candidate will oversee planning, daily management, and stakeholder engagement to drive social transformation and ensure timely project deliverables in the

Qualifications

• Experience in planning, implementing and coordinating community level projects.
• Experience in training, facilitation and awareness generation.
• Experience working in child rights.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project intervention to ensure timely deliverables.
• Build capacity of CAC teachers, mobilisers and volunteers.
• Develop linkages between community and system for services access.
• Establish linkages with government stakeholders to boost participation.
• Monitor activities through field visits and produce updates.
• Collect case stories and report to CRY monthly.

Skills

Facilitation

Communication

Coordination

Data Management

Excel

Documentation

School Outreach

Community Outreach

Project Management

Team Management

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Overall coordination of the project intervention to ensure timely deliverable.
• Building capacity of CAC teacher, 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 team on monthly basis.

Preferred candidate profile

Skills: Facilitation skills, communication skills, Coordination, Data Management and knowledge in excel, documentation skills, school and community outreach, Project Management, Team Management

Competencies: Knowledge of child rights, Project planning and implementation, Stakeholder management, Team supervision

Kind of experience

• Experience in planning, implementing and coordinating community level projects involving children, families and communities.
• Experience in training, facilitation and awareness generation.
• Experience working in child rights.