Job Description

•Manage Magic Bus resources (budgets& centres), staff and local partners to ensure the full offer of Livelihood programme is available to youth in the district. •Lead a staff team delivering LaQshya programme at district level and manage all aspects of their performance. •Achieve targets at each stage of intervention inlcuding mobilisation, needs assessment, skills training delivery and placement in work or education. •Support frontline staff to complete comprehensive needs assessment 1:1 with youth to identify 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 education targets. •Provide high quality career counselingand impartial Information, Advice and Guidance that empowers youth to make positive choices about potential careers. •Ensure each new starter receives a structured induction programme •Oversee district level community nee

Eligibility Criteria

•Post Graduate in Social Work or similar professional qualification from a reputed institution. •Experience of working with and achieving positive outcomes for disadvantaged 17-25 year olds or a portion of this age range. •Minimum 2 years managerial experience of frontline staff delivering interventions to children/youth. •Budget responsibility and experience of financial and resource planning at local level. •Knowledge of youth needs with regard to progressions into work or further education. •Direct experiene 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, youth development 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 inc

Desired Candidate Profile

Post Graduation - Post Graduate-Other

•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 including the ability to design training schedules and operatinal centre timetables. •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 occasiona

Organization Details

• Organization Name:Magic Bus
• About Organization:Magic Bus is one of India’s most innovative organisations, that has been working on creating a lasting solution to end povertysince 1999 by working with children and youth from childhood to livelihood. Through our Youth Development programme we nurture young people to grow up into self-reliant, confident individuals, ready for jobs or higher education. Magic Bus has 700 employees, 8000 volunteers and reach out of 2,25,000 children. We operate in cities, towns and villages in 14 states including our regional Head Quarters based in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Karnataka. Magic Bus also has its global fund raising offices in UK, US, Germany and Singapore. Magic Bus offers a dynamic work environment for committed professionals interested in learning and growing with the organization.
  
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