Position: Program Officer

Organization: Quest Alliance

Location: Ahmedabad

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

About the Secondary Schools Program

Quest Alliance has been working in the secondary school for the past few years. The program was initiated in 2015 with 4 schools. It scaled to 10 states in 2019 with the goal to reach out to 200,000 adolescent girls by the end of three years. The program will work with 8 to 10 implementing partners across 1000 government schools. 

Role & Responsibility

Program Management

• Operational oversight of the program in 13 districts of Gujarat
• Work closely with thematics to ensure quality implementation of of Depth and Scale model
• Ensure operational plans are in place to achieve high quality delivery against program objectives, quality standards and targets. 
• Lead the planning and review meetings and ensuring participation and quarterly reviews are conducted as planned 
• Support the team to regularly review processes and materials. 
• Lead on identifying and evaluate potential risks related to the impact of the program and take necessary steps to include risk mitigation in program reviews and design
• Lead the planning and execution of district level events such as hackathon, summer camp through the Facilitators 
• Make regular visits to interact with the team and ensure program objectives are met and maintaining the Organization Culture

Relationship Management – Stakeholders (Internal and External)

• Lead the engagement & initiatives at District level and State level
• Ensure implementation of block/dist level ideathon/hackathon
• Ensure implementation of boots camps as cluster/block/District level
• Work closely with fellows to see over quality execution at school level 
• Make visits to schools for both Depth and Scale Model 

All these are to be done in coordination with the departments/schools as per the requirements. 

Reporting

• Submit all the relevant monitoring reports on time. Ensure all the relevant data for the project is available well in time
• Work together with M&E focal point to track project progress based on the M&E framework
• Share quarterly reports with relevant Government officials and data for donor reporting 
• Ensure the program process is documented and enough case studies are in place to show the impact or progress of the program. 
• Ensure the data is analyzed and feeds into the planning and review meeting
• Be available for regular line management meeting and the appraisal processes 

Required Skills and Experience

• A Graduate/Postgraduate degree in any discipline (preferably social work, development, education, gender studies, rural development)
• 2-3 years of work experience preferably in the Education sector
• proven ability to network and establish collaborative relationships with a variety of actors, including Education department
• Willingness to travel extensively
• A strong personal commitment to the values of Quest Alliance
• Language Skills – Gujarat (mandatory) Proficiency in English for reporting purpose 

 We are looking for people who:

• Are passionate about the challenges India is facing in education and employability domain
• Have an exposure to work on STEM on careers
• Can work with ambiguity
• Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player