Social Worker - Bright Future

Bright Future; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Future is seeking a dedicated social worker in Ahmedabad, India, to engage with schools and community stakeholders. The role involves conducting community mapping, organizing workshops, and mobilizing youth and adolescents for various development programs. Candidates should have a Master of Social Work or Social Sciences and at least one year of relevant community work experience. This position offers competitive compensation and the opportunity to positively impact youth lives and educational outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year experience in community work, preferably with youth or adolescence.

Responsibilities

• Conduct community mapping and profiling exercises to identify key stakeholders.
• Design and facilitate stakeholder engagement activities.
• Organize events/sessions/workshops for communities.
• Create youth and adolescents and schools pipeline and maintain database.
• Mobilize youth and adolescents for program enrolments.
• Conduct follow-ups to ensure attendance.
• Coordinate with relevant authorities for exposure visits.
• Monitor Drama for Development activities.
• Maintain program documentation.
• Manage community event data and reports.

Skills

Planning and event management skills

Influencing and counselling skills

Networking

Excellent communication

Documentation

Basic computer skills

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.
• 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.
• Create youth and adolescents 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: Best in the Industry 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 in communication with stakeholders.
• Documentation.
• Basic computer skills (MS PowerPoint, Excel, and Word).
• Analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Leadership skills, problem‑solving skills.