Designation Block Officer

Location Block Office

Employment type Renewable fixed term contract

Report to District Program Officer

Functional reportees Field Co-ordinators

Employment level Middle

Organization Background

Established in 2007, Educate Girls (a project of ‘Foundation to Educate Girls Globally’) is holistically tackling issues

at the root cause of gender inequality in India’s education system that has helped to ensure over 90% enrolment

and higher attendance as well as improved school infrastructure, quality of education and learning outcomes for

all girls.

Our comprehensive model helps communities assess their school situation, initiate action plans and empowers

them to sustain positive results at the lowest cost. Educate Girls believes that if girls in the most backward gender

gap districts are educated now, they will have the potential to enter the formal economy, gain employment and lift

their families out of poverty. By leveraging the government’s existing investment in schools, Educate Girls delivers

measurable results to a large number of beneficiaries and avoids duplication or parallel delivery of services.

Because of the sustainability and scalability of the model, Educate Girls has grown from a 500-school pilot project

in the Pali district of Rajasthan to now serving thousands of schools, reaching millions of children in some of India’s

most remote areas. The non-governmental organization has a management and outreach office in Mumbai and

operations in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and is committed to launching interventions in multiple new

geographies across India over the coming years.

For further details about organization, please visit www.educategirls.ngo

Our Values

Gender Equality Being able to treat people equally irrespective of gender

Integrity Possess the ability to “know and do” what is right

Excellence Being outstanding or extremely good, striving to lead by performance excellence

Collaboration

Working effectively and inclusively with a range of people both within and outside of the

organization

Empathy

Being able to understand and share the feelings of another and use that understanding

to guide our actions

Our Competencies

Strategic Thinking – Think big yet

act focused

Taking Ownership – Feel

responsible & accountable

Analytical Thinking – Stay true to

your data

Developing Talent – Growing and taking people

together

Ensuring Alignment – Think differently but work

together

Overview of the role:

The Block Officer is responsible for all the field co-ordinators and Team Balika members in a block. The block

officer should provide guidance and support to the Field Co-ordinators and Team Balika and ensure provision good

qualitative education for every girl in all government schools with basic infrastructure and child-friendly

environment in each village under his block. The role requires extensive field travel in the rural parts of India.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• To spread awareness and the cause for girl education

• To achieve all tasks set towards the cause focused by Educate Girls

• Community mobilization

• Enrollment, liaison

• Motivation and retention of team members

• Empowerment of SMC

Obtain all Village profiles

• Conduct a door to door survey to gather information on out of school girls, school facilities, teacher

motivation, accessibility of school, community issues etc.

Identify out of school girls in every village

• To conduct a door to door survey and consult the Child Tracking Survey by the government

School Information Campaign/School profile in every village

• Situation of girl enrolment at primary and upper primary level

• To help conduct pre-tests and post test

• Requirements for school improvement

Enrolment drive in each village

• To mainstream out of school girls age 6-14, including drop outs and never enrolled girls through

community based enrolment plans

• Organize Gram Shiksha Sabha, Ma Beti Sammelan and Mohalla Meeting – discuss all issues faced by

children where parents and girl child are both invited to be oriented towards girl child education

Recruiting and Coordination with Team Balika in every village

• Advertising for the position by word of mouth to SMC members, teachers, alumni of Team Balika

program, anganwadi workers etc.

• To organize the recruiting process of Team Balika

• Monitoring of Team Balika

School Management Committee and School Improvement Plans for every school

• To form and conduct SMC meetings to discuss issues and work towards solving problems

• Making School Improvement Programs (SIP) with SMC

• Getting School Improvement programs approved

• To take valid action on passed SIP

• To be in regular contact with SMC members, Head Master and Village Sarpanch

Training

• To attend all training sessions and workshops designed by Educate Girls for activities in your designated

block

• To make sure all Field Coordinators and Team Balika from the Block undergo regular training

Reporting

• Daily report writing

• Fortnightly and monthly meetings with Field Coordinators and District Program Manager

• Report through tell calling/ PMS/ Spine /

Preferred Education Background:

• Masters in Social work/Diploma in Social Work

• Fluent in Hindi and local dialect and basic knowledge of English

Preferred Work Experience:

• A minimum experience of 2 years as social worker.

Preferred Skill Set:

• Experience in block management / enrollment / education

• Good contextual knowledge of local issues, organizational relationships, social and cultural constraints

and realities, and environmental conditions, Right to Education, Child Psychology, and Community

Motivation

• Should have good communication skills in Hindi and local dialect
  

• Open minded, Methodical, ability to manage stress and responsibility

• Strong presentation and facilitation skills, Report writing

• Time management, Convincing abilities

• To facilitate meeting and training with villagers

• Ability to deal with difficult people

• Strong potential for negotiation

• Counseling and guidance

“Educate Girls is committed to achieving 50/50 gender balance in its staff. Female candidates are strongly

encouraged to apply for this position.”