Tata Steel Foundation Looking For Assistant Manager-Education at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, Full Time

WHO ARE WE: Tata Steel Foundation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Steel Limited and was instituted on August 16, 2016. With over 1500 members spread over ten units and six states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Punjab, the Foundation is a CSR implementing organization focused upon co-creating solutions, with tribal and excluded communities, to address their development challenges. The organization is committed to playing a larger role in India’s sustainable development by embedding wider economic, social, and environmental objectives through its programmes and underscored by a vision to create an enlightened and equitable society.

Location: Jamshedpur, Jharkhand

Employment Type: Contractual (renewal on a yearly basis)

Purpose of the role: On Field implementation of Masti Ki Pathshala education programme along with administrative management through daily monitoring and effective community mobilization by liasoning with various stakeholders including community, schools and government, efficiently handle MIS, exigency-based situations, therewith mainstreaming the vulnerable children’s groups to the respective schools to attain CLFZ in and around the periphery of Jamshedpur.

Responsibilities:

• Community mobilization through liasoning with various stakeholders including community, schools, and government, (including vulnerable children’s groups) to attain CLFZ in and around the periphery of Jamshedpur.
• Survey out-of-school children and enroll them in Non-Residential Bridge Courses (NRBC) and Residential Bridge Courses centers (NRBCs) with the aim to provide Right to Education (RTE) in private and government schools.
• Survey eligible children in and around the periphery of Jamshedpur from the community and facilitate the process of admission with proper documentation under RTE Sec-12(1)(c).
• Survey women from in and around the periphery of Jamshedpur and enroll them for Functional Literacy program to acquire functional skills along with financial literacy and key citizen entitlement.
• Liaison with local govt. & semi-govt. schools and implement FLN(Foundational Literacy and Numeracy) program in schools as per NEP guidelines.
• Monitoring & supervising of proper functioning & implementation of NRBCs, RBCs, FLNs, Functional Literacy & other new initiatives under Masti Ki Pathshala programme.
• Establish and strengthen the committees in the community such as Mother’s committee, Youth Committee, SMCs, Girls Right Protection Forum (GRPF), Child Right Protection Forum (CRPF), Bal Adhikar Suraksha Samity (BASS) and organize regular meetings thereby encouraging active community participation, ownership, sustainability, facilitating discussion and decision making to reach the most vulnerable and addressing the underlying issues affecting education like gender disparities, child labour and awareness.
• Organize orientations, meetings, and workshops from time to time regarding (RTE, Child Rights, FLN, SMC, Child Parliament etc.) for stakeholders, parents, community GRPF, CRPF, BASS and SMC members.
• Handle all kinds of exigencies arising with utmost safety at the RBC centers (Runaway cases, Medical Emergency, etc) NRBCs, FLNs, Functional Literacy centres & other new initiatives in coordination with stakeholders, parents, reporting managers & team.
• Prepare and manage MIS, reports of all the interventions carried out pertaining to data, documentation, achievements, progress and maintain a record in coordination with the team members and report on regular intervals to the reporting manager.

Minimum Qualification :

Graduate, Preferably BSW/MSW . Those with MSW / Rural Management shall be given additional weightage.

Work Experience : 0-3 years

Behavioural Skill Sets

• Aligned to TATA Values (Integrity, Responsibility, Excellence, Pioneering, Unity & Respect)
• Ability to engage across stakeholder groups, peers and communities
• Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative approach
• Self-Motivated, Result oriented, Sensitive to cultures & diversity
• Demonstrable creative and innovative ability
• Willingness to travel to project sites as required and work in challenging conditions

Technical Skill Sets

• Knowledge of RTE & Elementary Education System (K-12 would be preferrable).
• Project Planning, Management, Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Digital ability is a must, Adept in Computer Literacy, dexterous with MS-Office.
• Good language and communication skills, read-speak-write English & Hindi.