Social Worker

Bright Future; Jabalpur; On-site; INR 279,000 - 390,600; Full time

Job summary

Bright Future is seeking a dedicated Social Worker in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, to enhance stakeholder participation in community development initiatives. The role focuses on mobilizing youth, organizing events, and conducting community profiling to ensure effective program implementation. Candidates should have a Master's in Social Work or Social Sciences, with at least one year of relevant experience. Strong communication, planning, and engagement skills are essential for success. Join us in connecting education to employability!

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year experience in community work, preferably with youth or adolescence.
• Knowledge of working with adult stakeholders to address parenting challenges.

Responsibilities

• Conduct community mapping and profiling exercises for stakeholder identification.
• Design and facilitate stakeholder engagement activities.
• Organise events for communities with parents and youth groups.
• Create a database of youth and adolescents for program facilitation.
• Mobilize youth and adolescents for program enrollments.
• Conduct follow-ups to ensure regular program attendance.
• Coordinate with authorities for exposure visits permissions.
• Monitor the D4D activities and support Change Leaders.
• Maintain program documentation for monitoring and evaluation.

Skills

Planning and event management skills

Influencing and Counselling skills in Written and Oral Communication Resource Mobilization

Networking

Excellent communication with stakeholders

Documentation

Basic Computer Skills (MS PowerPoint, Excel and Word)

Analytical and Critical thinking skills

Leadership skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Education

Master of Social Work or Social Sciences

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 Future's 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 is 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

• Conduct community mapping and profiling exercises to identify key stakeholders and schools to partner with.
• Design and facilitate the stakeholder engagement activities in line with the findings of the above exercise.
• Organise 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.
• Create Youth and adolescent and Schools pipeline 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 enrolments in the programs.
• Mobilization of youth and adolescents to ensure minimum expected enrolments in the programs.
• Conduct follow-ups on a call 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.
• Coordination 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).
• Monitoring of (Drama for Development) D4D activities and handholding Change Leaders through the implementation of the D4D program.
• Maintain documentation on the program to be input into the monitoring and evaluation system.
• 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, School Profile forms.

COMPENSATION

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Qualifications: Master of Social Work or Social Sciences
• Years of Experience: With a minimum of 1-year experience in community work or preferably with Youth or Adolescence

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE

• 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

• Planning and event management skills
• Influencing and Counselling skills in Written and Oral Communication Resource Mobilization
• Networking
• Excellent communication with stakeholders
• Documentation
• Basic Computer Skills (MS PowerPoint, Excel and Word)
• Analytical and Critical thinking skills Leadership skills, Problem-Solving Skills