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 exercise 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 event/Session/workshop 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 data base ready for
the program to achieve the gaol smoothly with help of alumni and Change
Leaders and 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 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 inputs into the monitoring
and evaluation system.
Maintain the data of mobilization, planning, (Social Worker and CL)
stakeholder forms, community Profile forms, permission letter file, Minutes of
meetings, Individual meet forms, Photographs of Events, Community Events
reports, School Profile forms
COMPENSATION: Best in the Industry
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 QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Qualifications: Master of Social work or Social Sciences
Years of Experience: With minimum of 1 year experience in the community work
or preferably with Youth or Adolescence
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Planning and event management skills
Influencing and Counselling skills
Written and Oral Communication
Resource Mobilization
Networking
Excellent in communication with stakeholders
Documentation
Basic Computer Skills (MS Power Point, Excel and Word)
Analytical and Critical thinking skills
Leadership skills
Problem Solving Skills
Strong Interpersonal skill
This role has a required 6 days working
Post Graduation - MSW