Social Worker

Bright Future; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,00,000 - 4,50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated social worker to enhance community engagement through educational programs. This role involves collaborating with schools and community centers to promote youth development and life skills. You will facilitate stakeholder interactions, organize impactful events, and mobilize youth participation to ensure successful program outcomes. Join a mission-driven organization that connects education with employability, making a significant difference in the lives of adolescents and their communities. If you're passionate about empowering youth and fostering community growth, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills are crucial for engaging stakeholders.
• Experience in planning and managing events is essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Conduct community mapping and engage stakeholders to boost program participation.
• Organize workshops and events to raise community awareness and involvement.

Skills

Planning and event management skills

Influencing and counselling skills

Written and oral communication

Resource mobilization

Networking

Excellent communication with stakeholders

Documentation

Basic computer skills (MS PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Analytical and critical thinking skills

Leadership skills

Problem-solving skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Job description

DESCRIPTION: The social worker is focused on working with schools, CBTC (Community-based Training Centre), and YDTCs (Youth Development and Training Centres) to drive Bright Futures programs and initiatives. The purpose of this role is to actively engage with stakeholders effectively to increase their participation in the organization's programs. This in turn will help them to support the adolescents and youth development in the areas of life skills and employability skills. Doing so helps Bright Future realize its vision of connecting education to employability right from the school level.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Conduct community mapping and profiling exercises to identify key stakeholders and schools to partner with.
2. Design and facilitate the stakeholder engagement activities in line with the findings of the above exercise.
3. Organize events/sessions/workshops for communities with parents, youth groups, NGOs, and other stakeholders to build awareness in the community through the CBTC - Community Building and Training Center.
4. Create youth and adolescent and school pipelines and the database ready for the program to achieve the goal smoothly with the help of alumni and Change Leaders stakeholders and mobilization of youth and adolescents to ensure minimum expected enrollments in the programs.
5. Mobilization of youth and adolescents to ensure minimum expected enrollments in the programs.
6. Conduct follow-ups on calls with children, parents, alumni, and other stakeholders or home visits to ensure regular attendance of the youth and their parents in the program and to proactively address any issues that may prevent the same.
7. Coordinate with the relevant authorities to get permissions to bring aspirants for exposure visits to ensure smooth implementation of exposure visits (for both Livelihood and Step to Livelihood programs).
8. Monitor (Drama for Development) D4D activities and handhold Change Leaders through the implementation of the D4D program.
9. Maintain documentation on the program to be input into the monitoring and evaluation system.
10. Maintain the data of mobilization, planning, (Social Worker and CL) stakeholder forms, community profile forms, permission letters file, minutes of meetings, individual meet forms, photographs of events, community events reports, and school profile forms.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE:

1. About areas in which there is a need to work with adult stakeholders: including identifying parents with parenting and other challenges, and how to educate them on possible solutions.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

1. Planning and event management skills.
2. Influencing and counselling skills, written and oral communication, resource mobilization.
3. Networking.
4. Excellent communication with stakeholders.
5. Documentation.
6. Basic computer skills (MS PowerPoint, Excel, and Word).
7. Analytical and critical thinking skills, leadership skills, problem-solving skills.
8. Strong interpersonal skills.