Placement And Partnerships Officer

Posted By: Magic Bus

Mumbai

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Children/Youth and Volunteering

Job Description

•Support youth to achieve the skills training, mentoring and employer activities outlined in their individual Personal Development Plans. •Engage and motivate youth positively at all times ensuring youth are aware of their weekly timetables and attend the correct sessions. •Deliver a sharp focus on achieving successful youth placements in work, training or further education and supporting youth to sustain these for 6 months. •Create partnerships with employers who can offer youth potential job placements, work experience and workplace visit opportunities. •Broker partnerships with external training organisations and colleges that will enable youth to ahieve their desired job or education outcome. •Responsible for mapping institutions (government / NGO/ private and corporate foundations) that provide skills training opportunities in the local areas. •Support youth to access funding and scholarship opportunities that enable them to take up higher education opportunities. •Create and foll

Eligibility Criteria

•Relevant degree 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. •Knowledge of youth needs with regard to progressions into work or further education. •Experience of partnership working including referrals and monitoring partner delivery. •Experience of either employability skills, job placement, youth development or vocational training programmes either directly or indirectly (desirable) •Experience of reviewing progress against individual’s training programme targets (desirable) •Experience of engaging with wider stakeholders in disadvantaged communities including parents, schools, colleges, panchayats. •Experience of providing guidance to young people on a range of development issues.

Desired Candidate Profile

Graduation - Graduate-Other

•Ability to build positive relationships with youth and motivate individuals to achieve defined targets of taking up work or further education. •Strong partnership building credentials with ability to tailor style and methods when working with employers (and employee volunteers), training partners, specialist organisations. •Excellent team worker with strong oral and written communication skills including good level of professional english. •Can-do attitude and willingness to use own initiative to solve ground level problems •Well organised working style with excellent time management skills. •Willingness to work evenings and weekends occasionally as required by programme. •Ability to collect and process delivery evidence and data in line with key performance indicators for the programme.

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 an outreach 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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