Position: Project Lead Education and Wellness Initiatives

Organization:  Barefoot College International

Location: Rajasthan

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Planning, Strategizing:
● Develop all aspects of the Solar Digital Community School model end-to-end by
ensuring design and delivery of content and training, and related field activities.
● Work towards improving the learning outcomes of the children by improving the
online and offline digital school curriculum
● Coordinate with the Curriculum team, Training team to overlook the (re)designing of
the Barefoot Education curriculum and Teacher/Parent training plan based on the
inputs from the ground team
● Support strategizing for wellness initiatives training and implementation
● Drafting the annual budget for the DCS and PIE projects with quarterly breakdown.
● Create M&E framework with collaboration with the BCI’S M&E team
● Provide inputs for grant writing and fundraising
● dentify risks and conflicts in achieving deliverables in alignment with organizational
vision, and plan accordingly to mitigate such risks and resolve conflicts.

Project Implementation:
● Supervision of project managers, to supervise the DCS, PIE and wellness initiatives
● Regularly monitor the quality of implementation of the Barefoot Education
Curriculum, Parents in Education curriculum and wellness modules in communities in
coordination with the Curriculum team and the Core field implementation team.
● Regularly monitor the quality of implementation of the Barefoot Training
programme in coordination with the Training team.
● Monitor project budget and track expenditures/transactions and handle the project related financial administration, including adherence to all organizational policies and practices.
● Closely track and follow up committed deliverables under projects related to the community interventions.
● Ensure implementation of M&E methodologies , and collation of relevant case studies and impact assessment reports.
● Help build positive relations within the team and external parties and all stakeholders.
● Ensure all members of the team and relevant stakeholders are up-to-date with relevant project information and regular communication to groups to create and organization-wide understanding of the programme.

● Ensure upward capacity building of team members and conduct review exercises Partnership Liasioning and Communication:
● Maintain strong relationships with the community partners. Conduct regularmeetings to collect update on implementation of the program
● Reach out to networks and form partnerships relevant to the enhancement of the quality of implementation of DCS PIE and wellness initiatives.
● Represent the organization in relevant platforms related to the program as deemednecessary by the reporting manager.
● Ensure that all communications through media relations, social media etc aremanaged.
● Ensure all members of the team and relevant stakeholders are up-to-date with relevant project information and regular communication to create an organization- wide understanding of the programme.

Documentation and Reporting:

● Ensure all documentation, records, proposals, reports, presentations, summaries are prepared, meets quality standards, in a detailed and timely manner and follow up to gain necessary approvals.
● Encourage ideation, pilot and documentation of results (Success, failure, learnings)for new innovative impact-oriented intervention design in the communities, in consultation with and approval of the relevant department heads
● Report the progress of implementation of the projects regularly to the Educationlead and Education coordinator.
● Support the reporting manager in necessary administrative activities required for theorganizational and departmental functioning

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
● Excellent communication skills and know how to work independently.
● Enjoys working closely with and learning from people of diverse backgrounds.
● Bilingual – Comfortable and fluent in English and Hindi. Capable of translatingcommunication in either language.
● Highly comfortable with digital interfaces with an acumen for self-directed learning.
● Demonstrates ability to manage staff and a team; holding employees/colleaguesaccountable for achieving results.
● Demonstrates good judgement; approachable and professional; solid problem-solvingskills; self-motivation; well organized.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Overall work experience of 5-6 years with at least 2-3 years of background in the education sector, preferably managing projects with respect to pedagogy.
Any Graduate or Post Graduate with experienced candidates can apply

COMPENSATION
Barefoot College International recognises that the right candidate will have a significant impact on the success of the organisation and is prepared to offer an attractive compensation package for the non-profit sector.The compensation shall  be competitive and commensurate with experience. Range – 4-5L per annum