Program Manager - College based

Magic Bus India Foundation; Pune District; On-site; INR 446,000 - 558,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cell phone reimbursement

Health insurance

Provident Fund

Job summary

Magic Bus India Foundation seeks a Lead to deliver the Livelihood programme at district level, ensuring youth engage with the employment exchange and are placed in work or training.

You will manage a team of help desk executives, mobilisers, trainers and placement officers to deliver interventions and ensure strong outcomes, while coordinating with regional and national partners.

Qualifications

• Requires relevant degree or professional qualification from a reputed institution.
• Experience delivering youth-focused interventions (17–25 age group) and positive outcomes.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with 2 years in frontline staff management.

Responsibilities

• Lead district-level delivery of the Livelihood programme coordinating with youth and employers.
• Manage a team of staff and local partners to ensure quality interventions.
• Oversee partnerships at district, regional, and national levels.
• Record and analyse data to improve programme delivery and outcomes.
• Provide career counseling and guidance to youth for work or training placements.

Skills

Team management

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Career counseling

Monitoring and reporting

Education

Relevant degree or professional qualification

Job description

Role:

Lead the delivery of the Magic Bus Livelihood programme at district level ensuring youth engaged with the employment exchange and are successfully placed in work or training.

Manage a team of help desk executives, mobilisers, trainers and placement officers to deliver high quality interventions and transition support ensuring a sharp focus on outcomes.

Manage partnerships at District level and contribute to strategic partnerships management at Regional and national levels.

Specific Responsibilities:

Manage Magic Bus resources (budgets & Office), staff and local partners to ensure the full offer of employment exchange programme is available to youth in the district.

Lead a team of staff delivering employment exchange programme at district level and manage all aspects of their performance.

Achieve targets at each stage of intervention including mobilisation, boarding of youth and employers, counselling and placement in work or training.

Support staff to do effective mobilisation, counselling of youth, identification of their strengths & limitations, training and life skills needs and overall targets for the programme.

Formulate personal development plans for each youth that sets out their training schedule and work or training targets.

Provide high quality career counseling and impartial Information, Advice and Guidance that empowers youth to make positive choices about potential careers.

Oversee district level community need assessments and mapping exercises of other stakeholders in the local areas (government / NGO/ private and corporate foundations).

Support the Regional head of Livelihood Programme with key updates.

Ensure district level staff record interventions and activities with youth effectively and data is reported and analysed to improve the quality of work on ground with youth.

Identify and respond to risks that could lead to youth dropping out of the programme.

Work with employers to ensure adequate placement opportunities exist at a local level for youth completing the programme.

Maintain partnerships with skills training providers to help youth enrolled under employment exchange programme to take the benefit of trainings.

Monitor the effectiveness and quality of partner interventions and their training delivery.

Documenting the best practices, Narrative reports, Case studies, and provide any other relevant update pertaining to the project.

Work with colleagues in the Livelihood Programme teams at regional level to continuosly improve the quality of Magic Bus Livelihood (employment exchange and training) and ensure our work is always safe and enjoyable.

Reporting to:

Regional Director

Staff Reporting:

Mobilization Officer, Placement Officers, Youth trainers, Help desk officers

Desired Competencies:

Strong operational and team management skills that can be tailored to lead Magic Bus staff, training partners, employers and local colleges.

Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills.

Strong financial management skills including managing budgets and using staff and centre resources flexibly to meet need.

Sharp focus on outcomes and how to shape interventions to achieve the maximum impact with youth on the programme.

Build positive relationships with youth and motivate individuals to achieve defined targets of taking up work or further education.

Able to undertake need assessments with youth that sensitively identify youth’s personal strengths and limitations.

Can implement new processes and ways of working across an operational staff team.

Can-do attitude and willingness to use own initiative to solve ground level problems

Willingness to work evenings and weekends occasionally as required by programme.

Qualification and Experience (essential unless otherwise stated):

Relevant degree or similar professional qualification from a reputed institution.

Experience of working with and achieving positive outcomes for youth in age 17-25 year olds or a portion of this age range.

Minimum 5 years of experience with 2 years managerial experience of frontline staff delivering interventions to youth

Exposure to Govt. departments and their way of functioning (desirable)

Experience of handling Budget and doing financial and resource planning at local level.

Knowledge of youth needs with regard to progressions into work or training.

Direct experience of career counseling and providing Information, Advice and Guidance to youth across a range of issues.

Experience of need assessment and/or creating personal plans and targets with youth.

Experience of either employability skills, job placement, Livelihood Programme or vocational training programmes either directly or indirectly

Experience of reviewing progress against individual’s programme targets

Experience of engaging with wider stakeholders in disadvantaged communities including parents, schools, colleges, panchayats.

Experience of providing guidance and support to young people on a range of development issues including career or education choices.

Experience of working with Partners and being accountable for youth placements

Experience of managing high volume placement programmes which includes multi-level sourcing and placements

Experience of working with colleges and placement drives in colleges

Pay:

₹40,000.00 - ₹50,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Cell phone reimbursement
• Health insurance
• Provident Fund

Work Location:

In person