Position: Social Worker

Organization: Bright Future

Location: Hyderabad

Apply: https://100.keka.com/careers/applyjob/13767?source=linkedin

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 in turn will help them support the development of the adolescents and youth in 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 exercises 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
• Organize events/Sessions/workshops 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 database ready for the program to achieve the goal smoothly with the 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.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

Qualifications: Master of Social work or Social Sciences

Years of Experience: With a minimum of 1 year experience in the community work

or preferably with Youth or Adolescence

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 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 requirement of 6 days working