Door Step School Hiring For Counsellor at Mumbai, Maharashtra Full Time

Door Step School (DSS) was established in Mumbai, India in 1989 with the aim of addressing literacy amongst the marginalized sections of society. The school provides education and support to the often-forgotten children of pavement dwellers, slum dwellers and construction site families. The school has since expanded to cover both Mumbai and Pune and has successfully reaches out to over 1,20,000 children annually. Many of these children are not enrolled in school and have limited access to books and a place to study. Additionally, many children (particularly girls) drop out of school to work or care for younger children. With neither support nor resources at home some children also suffer from very low learning levels.

Since inception Door Step School has been striving to provide multiple educational services, as per the needs of the children through Balwadis (kindergarten), School Enrolment services, Study classes for children, literacy classes for out of school children, computer literacy classes and libraries for all. Door Step School provides a school bus service for younger children and also runs a mobile school for street children and for those who work and live in congested areas where there is no space to run a class on a regular basis. While conducting all these programmes, Door Step School is flexible in terms of timings, location of classes and there is no limit on minimum number of children to start a new class.

In 1999, Door Step School (Door Step School) decided to intervene and collaborate with MCGM to support them in imparting quality education to the children. Such intervention was considered essential in view of the problems of non-enrolment, wastage and stagnation observed over the years of working in the urban slum communities. It was aimed at facilitating the learning process as well as making the school a place conducive for learning. Door Step School achieves its goal by running various educational programmes like Reading Promotion activities, Libraries, Remedial Class(Study Class), Mental health project, Pre-School(Balwadi) amongst others in the Municipal schools.

Special Responsibilities:

· As a Counsellor your main responsibilities will be to screen and identify children with developmental disabilities/emotional and behavioural problems and offer appropriate intervention, individually or in groups. To do this effectively you will need to intervene at different levels, i.e. teachers, students and the parent community.

· Children diagnosed with a disability will require to be referred for occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech therapy as needed.

· You will have to prepare and create different modules, activities as per the program’s need.

· You will have to do the planning of sessions.

· You will also be monitoring and training volunteers placed within the community setting with the aim of facilitating skill and content based learning for specific students.

· You will be directly accountable to the Area Coordinator, Program Coordinator and Director and your assignments can be decided in consultation with them.

· You will have to represent the organization at different platforms and other.

Requirements

Educational Qualifications and Experience

– Post Graduate in Counselling, any additional courses

– At least 2 to 4 years’ experience in the Mental Health Counselling, education sector. Community/School level experience would be an added advantage

Skills, Attitudes and Abilities:

– Fluent in English, Hindi and Marathi

– Excellent inter-personal and communication skills

– Effectively problem solve and multi-tasker.

– Ability to build rapport and develop positive relationships

– Able to work well within a team and be an effective leader who can create a warm and encouraging team dynamic

– Produces high-quality, meticulous and detailed written work

– Is able to create, manage and work within budgets.

– Effectively communicates and represents Door Step to the public

– Ability to meet the deadlines, work under pressure in resource constrained environment.

The position reported above is based in Mumbai and requires local travel, therefore candidates from Mumbai with an experience and comfort with travelling will be given preference.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹10,000.00 – ₹16,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Cell phone reimbursement
• Commuter assistance
• Health insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Day shift

Experience:

• total work: 1 year (Preferred)