
Educate Girls
Job Title Block Program Officer
Department Operations
Position Location District (Field)
Type of Agreement Renewable fixed-term contract
Position Reporting District Program Officer (Direct Reporting)
Position Reportees Field Coordinator
Position Level Middle
Educate Girls – An Overview:
Vision- We aim to achieve behavioural, social and economic transformation for all girls towards an
India where all children have equal opportunities to access quality education.
Background- Educate Girls (a project of ‘Foundation to Educate Girls Globally’) is a non-profit
organization that focuses on mobilizing communities for girls’ education in India’s rural and
educationally backward areas. Strongly aligned with ‘Right to Education Act’ or the ‘Samagra Shiksha’
the organization is committed to the Government’s vision to improve access to primary education for
children, especially young girls. Educate Girls currently operates successfully in over 20,000+ villages
in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. By leveraging the Government’s existing investment
in schools and by engaging with a huge base of community volunteers, Educate Girls helps to identify,
enrol and retain out-of-school girls and to improve foundational skills in literacy and numeracy for all
children (both girls and boys). This helps deliver measurable results to a large number of children and
avoids parallel delivery of Services.
We are at www.educategirls.ngo for detailed information on our vision, mission and programs.
Position Overview:
The position is responsible for an allocated block (consisting of a cluster of villages targeted for
intervention), ensuring end-to-end programmatic and operational support to Field Coordinators and
Team Balika (local youth volunteers). The incumbent acts as a bridge between field and district level.
The position is responsible for generating awareness and the cause for girl education, mobilizing
community members, ensuring enrolment and retention of targeted beneficiaries in the education
program and ensuring effective stakeholder management, including government departments and
functionaries. The position entails extensive field travel in the project location/s.
Position in the Organogram:
Position Key Responsibilities:
Enrollment & Retention-
- Mainstream out of school girls age 6-14, including drop outs and never enrolled girls through
community-based enrolment plans
- Identification of Out of School Girls in every village; conduct survey and consult the Child
Tracking Survey by the government
- Conduct home visits, door to door survey to gather information on out of school girls, school
facilities, teacher motivation, accessibility of school, community issues
- Organize Gram Shiksha Sabha, Ma Beti Sammelan and Mohalla Meeting- ensuring
participation by parents and girl child ; promoting school enrolment process
- Community based micro planning of enrolment activities and for driving enrolment. Conduct
monthly meetings with Government to drive enrolment.
- Collect& Maintain details of dropped out or irregularly attending children
- Assessment of girl enrolment at primary and upper primary level
- Formation /orientation/ meetings of School Management Committee (SMCs).
- Preparation & follow-up of School Improvement Programs (SIPs).
- Identify the hotspots with low retention rates & intensify community mobilisation efforts
Learning & Training-
- Conducting baseline assessment and endline assessments
- Deliver the full GKP curriculum and plan for each session. Conduct rapid assessments and
course correct when feedback received.
- TB Handholding for TB GKP schools
- Build awareness, buy-in and support of parents and teachers
- Attending and coordinating all training workshops such as Community mobilization training ,
Enrolment Training, SMC Training, Bal Sabha/Life Skills training, GKP training
District Operations Lead / Assitant Lead
District Program Officer
Block Program Officer
Field Coordinator
Team Balika
- Ensuring all Field Coordinators and Team Balika from the Block undergo regular training
- Take lead and Facilitate formation of Bal Sabha; deliver the life skills program.
- Stakeholder Management & Liaison-
- Active engagement with local functionaries at village & block level
- Interaction and progress brief to Govt. Officials on Monthly,Quarterly,Half Yearly & Annual
basis
- Formulate andconduct SMC meetings and School improvement plans and approval of plans
- To be in regular contact with SMC members, Head Master and Village Sarpanch
- Team Balika recruiting, engagement, handholding and monitoring
- Orientation on Volunteer Engagement
- Donor engagement and visits
Reporting, Documentation& Administration –
- Ensuring documentation of all activities on regular basis
- Update regular reports (on a daily basis)
- Fortnightly and monthly meetings with Field Coordinators and District Program Manager
- Report through tell calling/ PMS/ Spine
- Master Data Finalization
- Budget utilization; variance tracking
- Risk mitigation & conflict management
Desired Incumbent Profile:
Personality: Tech-Savvy, Self-driven, result-oriented with a positive outlook. Must have clear focus on
high quality output. Empathic communicator, ability to see things from the other person’s point of
view. Sufficiently mobile and flexible for frequent travel. Ability to get along with variety of individuals
and a team-player.
Work Life Balance: Must be mature and domestically secure. Able to work extended hours on
occasions when required.
Technology skills: Must be adept in use of MS Office, particularly Excel and Word, and ideally Access
or similar database to basic level, Internet and email. Open for learning and adapting to new
technologies being introduced in the organization.
Specific Job Skills & Values:
- Sound contextual knowledge of local issues, organizational relationships, social and cultural
constraints and realities, and environmental conditions, Right to Education, Child
Psychology, and Community Motivation
- Ability to multitask and perform under stress situation
- Ability to treat people equally irrespective of gender
- Integrity towards the work and ability to “know & do” what is right
- Striving to lead by performance excellence
- Working effectively and inclusively with a range of people both within and outside of the
organization
- Empathy
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.
Desired 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