Position: Capacity Building Officer

Organization: EmpowHER India

Location: Maharashtra

Job Description

At present empowHER India works with more than 600 adolescent girls in rural areas of the Karjat block, Raigad district. The main aim of the program is to address the needs of adolescent girls and provide programs such as life skills, health, gender-equality, security and get them in the mainstream of society. We aim to reach out to 1 million girls by developing a scalable model for adolescent girls.

empowHER India is seeking to hire a candidate for the position of Training & Capacity Building Officer for the Adolescent Girls Program. The ideal applicant will possess the knowledge and skills to train and create curriculums for the adolescent girls program. The ideal candidate would help empowHER India strengthen the adolescent girls program by ensuring continuous ideation, novelty and innovation through the curriculum development. This job position has a requirement to spend time in the  field (Panvel, Karjat and other Talukas). Those looking to gain valuable experience with an established organization are encouraged to apply.

Key responsibilities:

Conduct training of trainers (TOT) of the community village trainers, adolescent girls, teachers and staff associated to empowHER India.
Develop or revise modules to meet the needs of the groups to be trained. Build strong content for training – presentations, flipcharts, training videos, webinar materials etc with easy and understandable content and language. Identify different ice break activities for the sessions.
Work closely with the field operations teams and conduct community mobilization if needed.
Provide feedback to the village trainers and check whether the records are properly maintained and competencies of village trainers have increased with the innovative content development.
Prepare the documentation of the training conducted and develop simple training assessment and feedback materials for report writing.
Ensure that all training and capacity building activities are held as per the plan and program guidelines.
Undertake field visits for quality implementation and monitoring of programs aimed at increasing the coverage of Project strategic interventions.   
Assist the Program Head in preparing the training calendar and provide feedback on the program implementation and design issues. Participates in any other activities which may be required to be undertaken to fulfil the objectives of the organization.
 

Qualifications

Graduate or Postgraduate degree in Education/Social Science/ Social work with at least 5 to 8 years of professional experience.
Has experience in training Life skills, Health and Gender security modules.
Has at least 3 years of experience as a master trainer, curriculum developer or content designer.
Excellent communication skills in Marathi and Hindi language
Readiness to travel extensively to remote and rural locations.
Desire to work in the social sector and passionate to make a change in society.
Earlier experience in training adolescent girls’ programs is highly preferable.
Effective presentation and documentation skills.
Can work on MS Office such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.

Application Process:

Please email your CV and a letter of interest to careers@empowherindia.org with the subject line:

“Training & Capacity Building Officer- Adolescent girls:  Your Full name”.  

Only shortlisted candidates who fulfil the above criteria shall be contacted.

The salary is INR 3.6 to 4.8 lakhs per annum which shall be decided based upon experience and skill set.

The last date to apply is 31st August 2021