Position: Program Associate

Organization: Quest Alliance

Location: Rajkot

Apply: https://questalliance.zohorecruit.com/careers

Responsibilities: 

1. Support Facilitators in Vocational Training Centres 

• Visit VTIs to provide offline & online support to trainers with curriculum planning, delivery of content etc

• Organize and conduct career connect events and activities 

• Conduct sessions physical and virtually with students

• Enrol Facilitators and students on Quest App and Bharat Skill portal and ensure to access Quest Digital content

• Ensure that the trainers and centres gradually become independent and adept at using the content

• Facilitate, Co-Facilitate, Participate and contribute offline/online in Principal’s Meeting, Master Trainer Workshop with Lead Facilitators  

• Support Master Trainers in effective delivery of training of trainers

• Co-facilitate any Trainer Tribe online engagement through MasterClasses and other mediums of online facilitation

• Guide, mentor and manage Interns, Fellows and facilitators 

• Support operations and logistics involved in meetings, workshops and events

2. Participate and Contribute to the Training of Trainers

• Identify training needs

• Support with the Coordination of the training

• Facilitate sessions as and when required during Tots

3. Documentation and Reporting

• As per requirements, conduct baseline and endline tests/Focus Group Discussions as and when needed.

• Responsible for the coordination and for writing reports as per the project requirement

• Documentation of Centre, trainer and students success stories

• Advocate workshops, events and activities through electric, print, social networking platform and other media

• Following up with ITIs to share data of students and Institutes as required by M&E framework.

4. Contributing to Industry Engagement Strategies in Gujarat

• Co-ordinating, facilitating Industry Engagement activities - Inviting

• employers to do guest lectures at Institutes; organizing placement events.

5. Support any other activities related to My QUEST Program whenever needed. 

Requirements

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• A Master’s degree in Social Work/Rural Management or other development disciplines, with 2-4 years of work experience preferably in the Education/Vocational Training sector

• Good communication skills in English, Hindi 

• Ability to draft compelling reports grounded in data

• Ability to train facilitators and youths for the vocational training program

• Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player

• Knowledge of issues in vocational training space and the social development sector in India.

• Proficient in MS Office tools, and the Internet.