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Andhra Pradesh
Districts Consultants
We are looking for multiple Districts Consultants who will be responsible to work closely with the teachers, and district officials and ensuring smooth implementation of the program at the school level. Each consultant will be responsible for managing programs in schools of two districts. The responsibilities include orientation of the teachers and district officials for enhancing more support and systemic buy-in. Training of teachers on the aspects of computational thinking and 21st century skills and conducting workshops with students at the school level.
Role and Responsibilities:
Hands on with the Sector / Module Content and Learning Outcomes
- Ensure you stay connected with students
- Be prepared with content knowledge and use training skills
- Make sure requisite material is available in your class
- Be aware of your students and have a through understanding on who wants to work, who wants to study further and who’s confused about post training decision
Timely and Effective Delivery of Sessions
- To implement the project STEM for Girls in secondary schools.
- Acknowledge them by the importance of STEM education and its career scopes.
- Work with students to build their self-confidence.
- Content delivery with the help of a given manual like gender norms, life skills, digital literacy, coding, etc.
- Capacity building of students by creating interactive classrooms.
- Acknowledge them by the importance of 21st-century skills.
- Enabling Girls to break the barriers for accessing technology.
- Create, maintain and develop database of students’ contact details for online engagement and develop content for online engagement for students.
- Update databases of parents’, teachers’ contact numbers , addresses which is possible for offline engagement with all the stakeholders.
- Work with State Project Office to identify areas for intervention in online mode
- Develop content for engaging students on thematic areas of project
- Take engaging sessions with the students and maintain record of the same
Relationship Management
- Engagement with Teacher / Headmaster:
- Also perception building of STEM program to HM and Teacher
- To strengthen Parents’ teacher relations.
- Build and manage the relationship with Teachers and HMs.
- Engagement with Parents:
- Parents teacher meeting
- To engage them STEM for girls’ project and importance
- To make them strong to share their thought and ideas regarding the project
- To engage them by giving some examples of gender stereotypes.
- To build and manage relations with parents
Reporting:
- Provide regular written and verbal reports tracking progress against the work plan and implementation schedules. Ensure all the program report including case studies, photographs reaches the M&E focal point at the stipulated time
- Use the appropriate M&E tools for reporting
- Support coordination of baseline/ endline and other assessments, as and when required.
- Collect student data from the Institutes to help with the compilation of the donor report . Ensure students data is updated in centre database
- Make sure trainers and principal at the institute know about our work through simple monthly reports
Adherence to Systems and Processes:
- Adhere to all the finance and HR policies of the organisation
- Uphold the values of Quest Alliance
Investment in self-learning:
- Identify the development needs and have the development goal for the year in place
- Take ownership to track progress and for one’s own learning
- Complete all the self learning goals for the year
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
District Officer
The role will work as part of School program team and coordinate with other members of the Quest team to ensure efficient and effective implementation of projects undertaken by Quest Alliance.
Program Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
- Operational oversight of the program
- Take responsibility for effective program delivery, review the implementation and monitor within the agreed standards
- Ensure there is a work plan in place for the state, region(s), and everyone is able to contribute and implement accordingly.
- Identify and develop learning within the program and facilitate the capturing of these learnings
- Lead on identifying and evaluating potential risks related to the impact of the program and take necessary steps to include risk mitigation in program reviews and design
- Work together with M&E focal point to track program Progress based on the Monitoring and Evaluation framework.
- Lead on reporting both internal and external, in accordance with the program M&E framework and based on the regular reporting agreements of the project.
- Contribute to the development of the project budget
- Ensure the spending is within the budgeted limits and the financial policies are adhered to.
Relationship Management – Stakeholders
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Govt. of Health departments, health professionals and stakeholders in the state.
- Ensure all Health professionals receive the appropriate support and updates to implement the program effectively.
- Organize and lead the capacity building activities in coordination with the Training & Content Manager
- Ensure additional support needs of the Health Department are identified, assessed and any reasonable adjustments are made to their journey.
- Support the development and implementation of innovative engagement and retention processes.
- Support with the donor visits
- Ensure each Health professionals are able to meet the data reporting standard by giving them the necessary inputs, support and having agreed timelines in place for reporting
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
District Coordinator
The District Coordinator School program and will be responsible to build state wise strategies for the state in the program , he/she will play an important role in achieving its end goal which is to help young people initiate new things by developing a strategy for engagements and collaborations with the stakeholders for the assigned State/ District.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Programme Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
- Ensuring operational efficiency
- Taking responsibility for effective program delivery by ensuring operational plans are in place for the state team, programs are delivered according to the work plan and reviews are held within the team periodically.
- Identify and develop learning within program and facilitate the capturing of these learnings
- Lead on identifying and evaluate potential risks related to program delivery and its impact and take necessary steps to mitigate them
- Anchor the Monitoring and Review process for the state with continuous validation by:
- – Making field visits and documenting case studies
- – Ensuring data collection and quality on kobo
- – Reviewing tableau dashboard for monitoring partner program metrics and capturing the efforts
- – Reviewing data quality on student portal
- Financial Management :
- Ensure that financial procedures, practices and values are adhered to across the team.
- Be part of the planning process for the team to ensure effective budget is in place and it is adhered to
- Ensure partner budgets are in place and review spend as per the plan, raise red flags in case of any inconsistencies
Relationship Management – Stakeholders
- Identify, develop and manage relevant partnerships with other CSOs to implement the program effectively
- Ensure partner plans are in place, reviews are streamlined and partner reports are coming in on time
- Develop and sustain the relationship with the Government Education departments and other concerned departments
- Coordinate effective field visits for the donors to understand the progress of the program being implemented; this would include scheduling appointments with relevant government ministries.
- Anchor partner visits in the context of program review and facilitation for strengthening alignment of processes with the program design
- Lead and participate in all program events to raise the profile of the organisation
- Represent Quest Alliance in local and state forums and platforms
- Identify appropriate stakeholders and partners for program delivery as and when required
- Ensure MoUs with key partner organisations are in place and operational;
- Ensure that key staff at the state and district Government have a clear understanding of and regular involvement in the programs
- Identify opportunities for joint activities with the government staff (e.g. shared workshops etc.).
- Share monthly reports with the relevant Government officials and ensure that the joint project review is conducted every 6 months
- Work closely with the state lead in Gujarat to ensure alignment across of all Quest’s program in the state
- Identify state specific fundraising opportunities and support partners in fundraising for the programs
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Gujarat
Districts Consultants
We are looking for multiple Districts Consultants who will be responsible to work closely with the teachers, and district officials and ensuring smooth implementation of the program at the school level. Each consultant will be responsible for managing programs in schools of two districts. The responsibilities include orientation of the teachers and district officials for enhancing more support and systemic buy-in. Training of teachers on the aspects of computational thinking and 21st century skills and conducting workshops with students at the school level.
Role and Responsibilities:
Hands on with the Sector / Module Content and Learning Outcomes
- Ensure you stay connected with students
- Be prepared with content knowledge and use training skills
- Make sure requisite material is available in your class
- Be aware of your students and have a through understanding on who wants to work, who wants to study further and who’s confused about post training decision
Timely and Effective Delivery of Sessions
- To implement the project STEM for Girls in secondary schools.
- Acknowledge them by the importance of STEM education and its career scopes.
- Work with students to build their self-confidence.
- Content delivery with the help of a given manual like gender norms, life skills, digital literacy, coding, etc.
- Capacity building of students by creating interactive classrooms.
- Acknowledge them by the importance of 21st-century skills.
- Enabling Girls to break the barriers for accessing technology.
- Create, maintain and develop database of students’ contact details for online engagement and develop content for online engagement for students.
- Update databases of parents’, teachers’ contact numbers , addresses which is possible for offline engagement with all the stakeholders.
- Work with State Project Office to identify areas for intervention in online mode
- Develop content for engaging students on thematic areas of project
- Take engaging sessions with the students and maintain record of the same
Relationship Management
- Engagement with Teacher / Headmaster:
- Also perception building of STEM program to HM and Teacher
- To strengthen Parents’ teacher relations.
- Build and manage the relationship with Teachers and HMs.
- Engagement with Parents:
- Parents teacher meeting
- To engage them STEM for girls’ project and importance
- To make them strong to share their thought and ideas regarding the project
- To engage them by giving some examples of gender stereotypes.
- To build and manage relations with parents
Reporting:
- Provide regular written and verbal reports tracking progress against the work plan and implementation schedules. Ensure all the program report including case studies, photographs reaches the M&E focal point at the stipulated time
- Use the appropriate M&E tools for reporting
- Support coordination of baseline/ endline and other assessments, as and when required.
- Collect student data from the Institutes to help with the compilation of the donor report . Ensure students data is updated in centre database
- Make sure trainers and principal at the institute know about our work through simple monthly reports
Adherence to Systems and Processes:
- Adhere to all the finance and HR policies of the organisation
- Uphold the values of Quest Alliance
Investment in self-learning:
- Identify the development needs and have the development goal for the year in place
- Take ownership to track progress and for one’s own learning
- Complete all the self learning goals for the year
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
District Officer
The role will work as part of School program team and coordinate with other members of the Quest team to ensure efficient and effective implementation of projects undertaken by Quest Alliance.
Program Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
- Operational oversight of the program
- Take responsibility for effective program delivery, review the implementation and monitor within the agreed standards
- Ensure there is a work plan in place for the state, region(s), and everyone is able to contribute and implement accordingly.
- Identify and develop learning within the program and facilitate the capturing of these learnings
- Lead on identifying and evaluating potential risks related to the impact of the program and take necessary steps to include risk mitigation in program reviews and design
- Work together with M&E focal point to track program Progress based on the Monitoring and Evaluation framework.
- Lead on reporting both internal and external, in accordance with the program M&E framework and based on the regular reporting agreements of the project.
- Contribute to the development of the project budget
- Ensure the spending is within the budgeted limits and the financial policies are adhered to.
Relationship Management – Stakeholders
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Govt. of Health departments, health professionals and stakeholders in the state.
- Ensure all Health professionals receive the appropriate support and updates to implement the program effectively.
- Organize and lead the capacity building activities in coordination with the Training & Content Manager
- Ensure additional support needs of the Health Department are identified, assessed and any reasonable adjustments are made to their journey.
- Support the development and implementation of innovative engagement and retention processes.
- Support with the donor visits
- Ensure each Health professionals are able to meet the data reporting standard by giving them the necessary inputs, support and having agreed timelines in place for reporting
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
District Coordinator
The District Coordinator School program and will be responsible to build state wise strategies for the state in the program , he/she will play an important role in achieving its end goal which is to help young people initiate new things by developing a strategy for engagements and collaborations with the stakeholders for the assigned State/ District.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Programme Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
- Ensuring operational efficiency
- Taking responsibility for effective program delivery by ensuring operational plans are in place for the state team, programs are delivered according to the work plan and reviews are held within the team periodically.
- Identify and develop learning within program and facilitate the capturing of these learnings
- Lead on identifying and evaluate potential risks related to program delivery and its impact and take necessary steps to mitigate them
- Anchor the Monitoring and Review process for the state with continuous validation by:
- – Making field visits and documenting case studies
- – Ensuring data collection and quality on kobo
- – Reviewing tableau dashboard for monitoring partner program metrics and capturing the efforts
- – Reviewing data quality on student portal
- Financial Management :
- Ensure that financial procedures, practices and values are adhered to across the team.
- Be part of the planning process for the team to ensure effective budget is in place and it is adhered to
- Ensure partner budgets are in place and review spend as per the plan, raise red flags in case of any inconsistencies
Relationship Management – Stakeholders
- Identify, develop and manage relevant partnerships with other CSOs to implement the program effectively
- Ensure partner plans are in place, reviews are streamlined and partner reports are coming in on time
- Develop and sustain the relationship with the Government Education departments and other concerned departments
- Coordinate effective field visits for the donors to understand the progress of the program being implemented; this would include scheduling appointments with relevant government ministries.
- Anchor partner visits in the context of program review and facilitation for strengthening alignment of processes with the program design
- Lead and participate in all program events to raise the profile of the organisation
- Represent Quest Alliance in local and state forums and platforms
- Identify appropriate stakeholders and partners for program delivery as and when required
- Ensure MoUs with key partner organisations are in place and operational;
- Ensure that key staff at the state and district Government have a clear understanding of and regular involvement in the programs
- Identify opportunities for joint activities with the government staff (e.g. shared workshops etc.).
- Share monthly reports with the relevant Government officials and ensure that the joint project review is conducted every 6 months
- Work closely with the state lead in Gujarat to ensure alignment across of all Quest’s program in the state
- Identify state specific fundraising opportunities and support partners in fundraising for the programs
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Training Officer – Youth Program
Work as part of the Youth program and support in capacity building and quality management initiatives designed for trainers who are part of the MyQuest network such as Govt ITI trainers, Quest fellows/trainers and VTI trainers. This opportunity is based in Ahmedabad.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Training Delivery, Coordination and Management
- Lead Training of Trainers for partner organizations (ITI, VTI etc) in Western region (includes logistics, material, team and experience management of TOTs)
- Anchor all TOT reports in Western region
- Co-design the training agenda, whenever required, for TOTs in Gujarat
- Provide feedback & support, as required, to Master Trainers in MyQuest
- Work closely to build process and systems around Trainer Recognition
- Support in designing the Trainers, Master Trainers and Partner journey maps
- Develop a clear calendar for trainings in 2021 for webinar Design & Delivery
- Co-lead the Design and delivery of the internal & Partner Capacity building of the Western Region (ITI & VTI)
- Support in achieving all the deliverables of the Knowledge partners(VTI) as planned
Contribute to Quality management initiatives of MyQuest Facilitator and Content Development Team
- Anchor the design and the Implementation of Learning Experience matrix in all the regions (VTI)
- Conduct Learning Experience Matrix (on a need basis) at partner Vocational Training Institutes in the Western region
- Review the effectiveness and quality of the MyQuest internal facilitators at ITIs in the region every quarter
- Collect feedback on Toolkits (Quest online and offline content) from Trainers & Students periodically
Cascade Model
- Conduct the effective training of Master Trainers training on Employability skills curriculum implementation in the Western region
Drive Trainer Tribe engagement among all the trainers both internal and external
- Responsible for onboarding all trainers in ITI & VTI Space in the state of Western region in TT Platforms.
- Support the Project lead in engaging with trainers online and offline. Play an active role in the overall strategy to build a strong online network
- Facilitate atleast 1 session on Trainer Tribe
- Create/Curate and Share one learning post per month on TT platform
Relationship Management – Stakeholders (Internal and External)
- Support in the Capacity building of MyQuest internal facilitators – Western region
- Support MyQuest internal facilitators/fellows at NSTIs and Govt ITIs by implementing the Facilitator Support Strategy in the region
- Take part in workshops, discussions involving MyQuest internal facilitators
- Support MyQuest internal facilitators in the region for conducting events, relationship management at the institute, if required.
- Co-create and adhere to team norms, vision, learning goals and strategic plans of MyQuest Facilitator and Content Development team
Team Management
- You may have to manage interns or fellow in the program as relevant
Reporting
- Support in data collection, impact assessment and content development initiatives of Facilitator and Content Development team
- Anchor TOT Dashboard data for Western region
- Participate and contribute in team meetings and reviews, staff engagement activities.
- Support all reporting requirements such as quarter reviews, annual reviews
Qualification:
- A Master’s degree in Social Work/Rural Management or other development disciplines, with 2-3 years of work experience preferably in the Education/Vocational Training sector
- Good communication skills in English and Hindi
- Ability to draft compelling reports grounded in data
Ability to train facilitators and youths in the vocational training program and ITI - Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player
- Proficient in MS Office tools, and the Internet.
We are looking for people who:
– Are passionate about working to solve challenges in education and employability domain
– Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player
– Flexible with travel
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Program Officer – Youth Program
The role, based in Surat, will work as part of the Youth program team and coordinate with other members of the Quest team to ensure efficient and effective implementation of projects undertaken by Quest Alliance.
MyQuest / Youth Program’s objective is to provide a holistic development platform for young people as well as provide a lifelong, continuous learning opportunity to disadvantaged youth. We use content, pedagogy and technology, to drive the delivery of teaching and learning. Through our signature blended learning approach we develop critical life-work skills that are critical for success in the 21st century. Our curriculum includes media elements like games, videos, audio, and visuals as well as the use of dictionaries for vernacular translations.
Role and Responsibilities:
Program Implementation and Quality
- Operational oversight of work with Skill Development Department
- Support in the development of operational plans to achieve high quality delivery against program objectives, quality standards and targets.
- Support the Sr. Program Manager to regularly review processes and materials.
- Lead on identifying and evaluate potential risks related to impact of the program and take necessary steps to include risk mitigation in program reviews and design
- Anchor content deployment, feedback and improvement for the state
- Develop and manage training calendar for all partners and projects
- Create Master Trainers amongst partner organizations
- Enhance QUEST’s trainer support system for the state (which includes offline and online methods to help trainers improve their practice)
- Ensure Life Skill & Gender becomes integral part of the program
- Building Employers network through meetings
Partnership Building, Management and Capacity Building
- Build and maintain strong relationships with the stakeholders of the designated geography
- Build partner network and looking to onboard knowledge partner to execute long term engagement through partner network
- Initiate new partnerships with NGOs, I.T.Is and Employers as per the state plan
- Organise and lead the capacity-building activities in coordination with the Training & Content Manager
- Ensure additional support needs of the Institutes are identified, assessed and any reasonable adjustments are made to their journey.
- Support the development and implementation of innovative engagement and retention processes.
- Support with the donor visits
- Ensure to meet the data reporting standard by giving them the necessary inputs, support and having agreed timelines in place for reporting
- Co-ordinating & facilitating Industry Engagement activities – Inviting employers to do guest lectures at Institutes & organizing placement events.
People Management
- Provide leadership and high-quality performance management to a team of Program Associates/ Facilitators, empowering them to deliver to a high standard.
- Build the capacity to excel in their roles, supporting their professional development. Support, mentor and coach them as part of their professional development and help them to be highly effective in their work.
- Conduct periodic performance management meetings and reviews as per the Organisation requirement
- Lead the recruitment and induction of new member for your team you manage
- Ensure that the team works together to share learning and to exchange skills
- Visit their centers to support your team with curriculum planning, delivery of content etc;
- Implement all relevant People policies and procedures.
- Ensure all employees managed have updated C.Vs, professional goals and they receive periodic feedback on their performance.
Data Management, Monitoring and Evaluation
- Lead the data management of the region
- Ensure all the relevant data is available on time
- Ensure the monitoring tools are understood by the team and is used for reporting
- Support the M&E focal point with baseline, end line and other relevant assessments
- Submit all the relevant monitoring reports on time
- Ensure the program process is documented and enough case studies are in place to show the impact or progress of the program.
- Ensure the data is analyzed and feeds into the planning and review meeting
Other
- Other duties as required.
- Participate and contribute to team meetings and reviews
- Seek regular capacity building support from team
- Adhere to all the finance and HR policies of the Organization
- Be a role model for others to Uphold the values of Quest Alliance
Qualifications & Skills
- A Master’s degree in Social Work/Rural Management with minimum 4-5 years’ work experience preferably in the Education / Vocational Training sector
- Good communication skills
- Program management and evaluation skills
- Ability and interest to train facilitators and youths
- Knowledge of issues in youth employability and the social development sector in India.
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Should be willing to travel 1-2 weeks a month
- Proficient in MS Office tools, and Internet
- Most importantly, candidate should be self-motivated, enthusiastic and an energetic team player
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Training Officer, Youth Program
Work as part of the Youth program and support in capacity building and quality management initiatives designed for trainers who are part of the MyQuest network such as Govt ITI trainers, Quest fellows/trainers and VTI trainers.
Roles and Responsibilities:
1] Training Delivery, Coordination and Management
-
Lead Training of Trainers for partner organizations (ITI, VTI etc) in Western region(includes logistics, material, team and experience management of TOTs)
-
Anchor all TOT reports in Western region
-
Co-design the training agenda, whenever required, for TOTs in Gujarat
-
Provide feedback & support, as required, to Master Trainers in MyQuest
-
Work closely to build process and systems around Trainer Recognition
-
Support in designing the Trainers, Master Trainers and Partner journey maps
-
Develop a clear calendar for trainings in 2021 for webinar Design & Delivery
-
Co-lead the Design and delivery of the internal & Partner Capacity building of the Western Region (ITI & VTI)
-
Support in achieving all the deliverables of the Knowledge partners(VTI) as planned
2] Contribute to Quality management initiatives of MyQuest Facilitator and Content Development Team
-
Anchor the design and the Implementation of Learning Experience matrix in all the regions (VTI)
-
Conduct Learning Experience Matrix (on a need basis) at partner Vocational Training Institutes in the Western region
-
Review the effectiveness and quality of the MyQuest internal facilitators at ITIs in the region every quarter
-
Collect feedback on Toolkits (Quest online and offline content) from Trainers & Students periodically
3] Cascade Model
-
Conduct the effective training of Master Trainers training on Employability skills curriculum implementation in the Western region
4] Drive Trainer Tribe engagement among all the trainers both internal and external
-
Responsible for onboarding all trainers in ITI & VTI Space in the state of Western region in TT Platforms.
-
Support the Project lead in engaging with trainers online and offline. Play an active role in the overall strategy to build a strong online network
-
Facilitate atleast 1 session on Trainer Tribe
-
Create/Curate and Share one learning post per month on TT platform
5] Relationship Management – Stakeholders (Internal and External)
-
Support in the Capacity building of MyQuest internal facilitators – Western region
-
Support MyQuest internal facilitators/fellows at NSTIs and Govt ITIs by implementing the Facilitator Support Strategy in the region
-
Take part in workshops, discussions involving MyQuest internal facilitators
-
Support MyQuest internal facilitators in the region for conducting events, relationship management at the institute, if required.
-
Co-create and adhere to team norms, vision, learning goals and strategic plans of MyQuest Facilitator and Content Development team
6] Team Management
-
You may have to manage interns or fellow in the program as relevant
7] Reporting
-
Support in data collection, impact assessment and content development initiatives of Facilitator and Content Development team
-
Anchor TOT Dashboard data for Western region
-
Participate and contribute in team meetings and reviews, staff engagement activities.
-
Support all reporting requirements such as quarter reviews, annual reviews
- A Master’s degree in Social Work/Rural Management or other development disciplines, with 2-3 years of work experience preferably in the Education/Vocational Training sector
- Good communication skills in English and Hindi
- Ability to draft compelling reports grounded in data
- Ability to train facilitators and youths in the vocational training program and ITI
- Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player
- Proficient in MS Office tools, and the Internet.
- Are passionate about working to solve challenges in education and employability domain
- Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player
- Flexible with travel
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply. Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Program Officer, Youth Program
The role will work as part of the Youth program team and coordinate with other members of the Quest team to ensure efficient and effective implementation of projects undertaken by Quest Alliance.
Role and Responsibilities:
1] Program Implementation and Quality
-
Operational oversight of work with Skill Development Department
-
Support in the development of operational plans to achieve high quality delivery against program objectives, quality standards and targets.
-
Support the Sr. Program Manager to regularly review processes and materials.
-
Lead on identifying and evaluate potential risks related to impact of the program and take necessary steps to include risk mitigation in program reviews and design
-
Anchor content deployment, feedback and improvement for the state
-
Develop and manage training calendar for all partners and projects
-
Create Master Trainers amongst partner organizations
-
Enhance QUEST’s trainer support system for the state (which includes offline and online methods to help trainers improve their practice)
-
Ensure Life Skill & Gender becomes integral part of the program
-
Building Employers network through meetings
2] Partnership Building, Management and Capacity Building
-
Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders of the designated geography
-
Build partner network and looking to onboard knowledge partner to execute long term engagement through partner network
-
Organise and lead the capacity-building activities in coordination with the Training & Content Manager
-
Ensure additional support needs of the Institutes are identified, assessed and any reasonable adjustments are made to their journey.
-
Support the development and implementation of innovative engagement and retention processes.
-
Support with the donor visits
-
Ensure to meet the data reporting standard by giving them the necessary inputs, support and having agreed timelines in place for reporting
-
Co-ordinating & facilitating Industry Engagement activities – Inviting employers to do guest lectures at Institutes & organizing placement events.
3] People Management
-
Provide leadership and high-quality performance management to a team of Program Associates/ Facilitators, empowering them to deliver to a high standard.
-
Build the capacity to excel in their roles, supporting their professional development. Support, mentor and coach them as part of their professional development and help them to be highly effective in their work.
-
Conduct periodic performance management meetings and reviews as per the Organisation requirement
-
Lead the recruitment and induction of new member for your team you manage
-
Ensure that the team works together to share learning and to exchange skills
-
Visit their centers to support your team with curriculum planning, delivery of content etc;
-
Implement all relevant People policies and procedures.
-
Ensure all employees managed have updated C.Vs, professional goals and they receive periodic feedback on their performance.
Data Management, Monitoring and Evaluation
-
Lead the data management of the region
-
Ensure all the relevant data is available on time
-
Ensure the monitoring tools are understood by the team and is used for reporting
-
Support the M&E focal point with baseline, end line and other relevant assessments
-
Submit all the relevant monitoring reports on time
-
Ensure the program process is documented and enough case studies are in place to show the impact or progress of the program.
-
Ensure the data is analysed and feeds into the planning and review meeting
4] Other
-
Other duties as required.
-
Participate and contribute to team meetings and reviews
-
Seek regular capacity building support from team
-
Adhere to all the finance and HR policies of the Organisation
-
Be a role model for others to Uphold the values of Quest Alliance
Requirements:
-
A Master’s degree in Social Work/Rural Management with minimum 4-5 years’ work experience preferably in the Education / Vocational Training sector
-
Good communication skills
-
Program management and evaluation skills
-
Ability and interest to train facilitators and youths
-
Knowledge of issues in youth employability and the social development sector in India.
-
Fluency in spoken and written English
-
Should be willing to travel 1-2 weeks a month
-
Proficient in MS Office tools, and Internet
-
Most importantly, candidate should be self-motivated, enthusiastic and an energetic team player
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply. Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Karnataka
System Administrator
IT Manager roles and responsibilities are a combination of technical and functional management roles. It is essential to have excellent communication and coordination skills to successfully integrate various functions in a coordinated manner and deliver the responsibilities to the team’s satisfaction.
The role needs to be conversant with all the technical as well as IT operations aspects for integrated software management. They are expected to handle various requirements like Cloud management, System management, User Management, Upgrades, Testing, etc. for the in-house software systems within the Organization. The three areas of focus are cloud management, requirement and planning and system administration.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- System Administration
- Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for softwares on AWS servers (Linux and Windows)
- Managing the user administration and other software configuration requirements
- Helping in the implementation of new development tools and software projects
- Cloud Management
- It involves overseeing the deployment, operation, and maintenance of cloud-based infrastructure and services offered by AWS but not limited to. This includes planning and implementing strategies for managing instances, storage, databases, and other AWS resources, ensuring that they are optimized for performance and cost efficiency.
- Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the security and compliance of the AWS infrastructure, as well as ensuring that disaster recovery and business continuity plans are in place.
- Must stay up-to-date with the latest AWS technologies and services, evaluate new features and functionalities, and provide guidance and training to team members to ensure that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to work with AWS effectively.
- Requirement and Planning
- The IT manager must plan and implement strategies for the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of both cloud and on-premise systems.
- Understanding the needs of stakeholders, Team members and conveying them to development vendors
- Managing periodic progress reporting to the management and the team leaders
- Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
- Planning projects and being involved in project management decisions
- Produce feedback as part of the continuous improvement process
Required Experience:
- Experience as a System Administrator or in a similar software engineering role
- Proficiency with Git workflows
- Knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
- Must have Bachelor in Computer Science
Soft Skills:
- Good communication, Adapting communication to different people profiles
- Quick Learner with Rigorous Applying methods with patience
- Capacity for analysis and synthesis, Identifying root cause analysis
- Versatile (able to switch between technical and functional expertise)
- Capability to identify issues, project delays, system failures, etc.
- Open-minded, Curious, and Team Spirit Working in a team environment
We are looking for people who:
- Are passionate about working to solve challenges in the education and employability domain
- Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player
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Senior Manager – Fundraising
At Quest you will get the opportunity to apply your skills and contribute to addressing issues around quality education and skills training. The organization gives you the space to learn and grow in a fun and engaging environment. We have an eclectic group of people working at Quest drawn from diverse disciplines including Education, Technology, Design, Youth Development and Business.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Build strategies and execute outreach to foundations, CSR’s and family offices (with support of the fundraising and leadership team)
- Strategize and execute the fundraising plan to achieve the organizational fundraising targets
- Build and manage key funder relationships and partnerships with foundations, family offices and CSR’s
- Lead potential funder requirements – manage the fundraising lifecycle from lead generation, proposal and budget development, clarifications and closure of grants
- Oversee progress of projects and regular funder communication along with the project lead.
- Represent Quest in forums, events, networking conferences and be a spokesperson for Quest’s work
- Work closely with the leadership team, Fundraising Director and CEO to establish fundraising strategies/goals, identify new opportunities and maintain funder relationships
- Collaborate with marketing team to establish funder communications and other channels to enhance Quest credibility with funders
We are looking for people who:
- Are passionate and have an understanding about the challenges India is facing in education and employability domain
- Diligent in their work and able to work with multiple teams to get things done.
- Can work independently is a go-getter and enjoys interacting with Indian and overseas philanthropy and is a great communicator
- Can deal with ambiguity and proactively explore solutions
Skill Sets:
- Experience in fundraising/ writing proposals for school/education programs
- Experience in fundraising with foundations, family offices and HNI’s would be a plus
- Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
Initiative and self driven
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Product Manager, Learner Experience
Quest App is our flagship product, and is a digital learning platform developed for students and facilitators to learn 21st Century skills anytime, anywhere contributing to their personal and professional growth. Quest App is built using gamification principles, and is available as an online/offline webapp as well as a mobile app.
Role and Responsibilities:
● Day to day product ownership for Quest App as the go to platform to serve Quest’s learners across the School & Youth ecosystem
● Understand end user needs, local environment and challenges so that the user journey on our product truly supports their development in the real world in collaboration with the UX research team
● Ownership for product features including registration, library, community etc
● Work with the user research, design, data and technology teams to build out new features & improve existing product features
● Ensure timely development and launch of new features in collaboration with our in house tech team and external tech partners
● Ensure that data informs decision making. Define key metrics and data reporting in collaboration with the analytics team to ensure we continue to iterate and make the product better.
● Partner with key stakeholders in the program, content and marketing teams to ensure our products can reach and benefit our end users.
● Collaborate with the program and marketing teams to drive adoption of our products including training design & onboarding experience for new users
Requirements:
● 2+ years relevant experience as a product manager with consumer internet products or services
● Experience working with design & engineering teams to build & launch features
● Familiarity with agile development methodologies with in house tech teams/ outsourced teams
● Analytical skills to make data informed decisions
● Storytelling, communication and presentation skills
● Ability to influence without authority in a dynamic environment
● Technical background is a bonus
● Experience in the education technology sector or building online learning experiences is a bonus
● We welcome candidates with prior experience in adjacent roles with relevant product experience: product design/ product analyst/ technical program manager/ product marketing/ user research etc
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Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Product Manager, Educator Experience
At Quest Alliance we transform learning ecosystems through education technology, capacity building, and collaboration to build 21st-century skills for learners and facilitators. We are a not-for-profit that engages with learners, educators, civil society, government institutions demonstrate and enable scalable and replicable solutions in school education and vocational training.
Role and Responsibilities:
● Day to day product ownership for Quest App as the go to platform to serve Quest’s Educators across the School & Youth ecosystem
● Understand end user needs, local environment and challenges so that the user journey on our product truly supports their development in the real world in collaboration with the UX research team
● Ownership for product features including registration, library, batches, community etc
● Work with the user research, design, data and technology teams to build out new features & improve existing product features
● Ensure timely development and launch of new features in collaboration with our in house tech team and external tech partners
● Ensure that data informs decision making. Define key metrics and data reporting in collaboration with the analytics team to ensure we continue to iterate and make the product better.
● Partner with key stakeholders in the program, content and marketing teams to ensure our products can reach and benefit our end users.
● Collaborate with the program and marketing teams to drive adoption of our products including training design & onboarding experience for new users
Requirements:
● 2+ years relevant experience as a product manager with consumer internet products or services
● Experience working with design & engineering teams to build & launch features
● Familiarity with agile development methodologies with in house tech teams/ outsourced teams
● Analytical skills to make data informed decisions
● Storytelling, communication and presentation skills
● Ability to influence without authority in a dynamic environment
● Technical background is a bonus
● Experience in the education technology sector or building online learning experiences is a bonus
● We welcome candidates with prior experience in adjacent roles with relevant product experience: product design/ product analyst/ technical program manager/ product marketing/ user research etc
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Product Marketing
Quest Experience Lab is a multidisciplinary product team at Quest Alliance, that works at the intersection of research, design and technology for learning. It creates engaging learning experiences for the education and employability sector.
Quest App is our flagship product, and is a digital learning platform developed for students and facilitators to learn 21st Century skills anytime, anywhere contributing to their personal and professional growth. Quest App is built using gamification principles, and is available as an online/offline webapp as well as a mobile app.
Role and Responsibilities:
● Drive successful Quest App adoption among learners & educators in collaboration with product management, program & marketing teams.
● Own marketing & communication for Quest App to serve our learner and educators across the School & Youth ecosystem; across online and offline channels
● Develop a deep understanding of the app’s features, benefits, and value proposition, and how it can help users achieve their goals.
● Develop Quest App positioning and value props; ensure they are reflected in all our communication across key online & offline channels.
● Work closely with the marketing team to drive the right content & media strategy for Quest App including PR, social media etc.
● As a key member of the product team, size new opportunities & perform competitive benchmarking. Work closely with the product managers to ensure successful new feature launches.
● Ensure successful Quest App training & onboarding. Work closely with the program teams to ensure that the Quest app features & benefits are communicated effectively to new users during training & onboarding. Collaborate with the marketing team in the creation of online & offline communication materials to support training like FAQs, emails, posters, training scripts, guides, videos, demos etc.
● Ensure data and consumer insights inform our decision making. Define and monitor KPIs to drive successful adoption of Quest app in conjunction with the program & analytics team.
● Be the voice of the customer to inform the product roadmap & strategy; distil & share insights informed by research to the product team in collaboration with the UX research team.
Requirements:
● Strong research & analytical skills
● Ability to influence without authority in a dynamic environment
● Past experience working with consumer internet products or services
● Excellent communication skills to work with a variety of stakeholders across the organisation
● Ability to write, design and create compelling communication materials including FAQs, emails, posters, training scripts, guides, videos, demos etc
● Consulting background is a bonus
● Advertising/ Marketing background is a bonus
● Design/ Research background is a bonus
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Product Analyst
Quest Experience Lab is a multidisciplinary product team at Quest Alliance, that works at the intersection of research, design and technology for learning. It creates engaging learning experiences for the education and employability sector.
Quest App is our flagship product, and is a digital learning platform developed for students and facilitators to learn 21st Century skills anytime, anywhere contributing to their personal and professional growth. Quest App is built using gamification principles, and is available as an online/offline webapp as well as a mobile app.
Role and Responsibilities:
● Own data science, analytics and reporting for Quest App to serve our end users across the School & Youth ecosystem
● As a key member of the product team, develop a deep understanding of our product and end users through the use of data
● Develop subject matter expertise on all data pertaining to the usage, engagement and adoption of the Quest App
● Develop a deep understanding of where and how users experience friction on our product backed by reliable data. Share insights about user experience, funnel drop offs and conversions to support the product team.
● Support the testing of new features by building out the AB testing plan and key metrics to measure success; capture key metrics in collaboration with product managers & engineering
● Enable the product team to become self reliant through the design and development of regular reporting, dashboards etc
● Work with engineering & data teams to ensure data quality, tracking, pipelines to ingest and consume data reliably.
● Ensure proper design of Data models across data warehouses.
● Ability to perform data extraction and transformation tasks.
● Ensure data accuracy and sanity of data systems.
● Developing and maintaining databases, data systems – reorganising data in a readable format
● Performing analysis to assess quality and meaning of data.
Requirements:
● Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
● Past experience working with consumer internet products or services
● Written & spoken communication skills to work with a variety of stakeholders across the organisation
● Experience presenting and visualising data; turning data into stories
● 3+ years of SQL
● 2+ data modelling and data warehousing
● 2+ years on any BI tool like Tableau, Power BI, SRSS, Superset
● Experience with ETL on Talend is a bonus
● Experience with Apache Superset is a bonus
● Consulting background is a bonus
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Test Engineer
Quest App is our flagship product, and is a digital learning platform developed for students and facilitators to learn 21st Century skills anytime, anywhere contributing to their personal and professional growth. Quest App is built using gamification principles, and is available as an online/offline webapp as well as a mobile app.
Quest Experience Lab is a multidisciplinary product team at Quest Alliance, that works at the intersection of research, design and technology for learning. It creates engaging learning experiences for the education and employability sector.
Role and Responsibilities:
● Build automated testing systems for application validation
● Document and monitor testing outcomes and establish steps to remedy problems
● Analyze current technologies used within the company and develop steps and processes to improve testing procedures
● Detailed understanding of how to properly document test cases and create effective and focused testing plans
● Work closely with program teams to ensure the application is working properly
● Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including time and scope involved
● Define clear goals for all aspects of a product test and develop steps for their proper execution
Requirements:
● Master’s/ Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field is preferred
● Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
● Excellent knowledge in testing skills (design test plan and test strategy, writing test cases, executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs)
● Good level in SQL/database
● Advanced understanding Experience with software engineering, customer experience and design architecture
● Ability to work with various departments to facilitate the orderly execution of a proposed project plan
● Advanced knowledge of testing methodologies and when certain strategies are recommended
● Extensive knowledge and experience working with various operating systems and backend programming
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
User Research
As a User Research Associate at QEL, you will apply your human-centred design and research skills to help further our mission of creating self-learning experiences for learners and facilitators.
You will play a critical role in inspiring change at all stages of Quest App’s development through exciting written, oral, and visual representation of your research findings. These findings would inform the identification and development of important engagement strategies for Quest App. You would contribute in a big way, to the learners’ experience on App being more intuitive, fun and quite possibly, magical.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Lead all the user research initiatives at QEL and build a user-centric mindset in the team
- Be the ‘voice of the user’ in the team to and help the team gain deep understanding of the end users
- Motivate the team to participate in user research activities
- Plan, Design, Prepare and Carry out user research activities to support the design, development and continuous improvement of our product – Quest App
- Synthesize the research data into meaningful and actionable insights
- Communicate research findings and insights and provide data-driven recommendations to all the stakeholders
- Create concise and compelling research documents including research plans, guides, results documentation etc.
- Demonstrate good understanding of the design thinking process
- Model insights gained from user research into standardised user personas and user journey maps, to drive the organizational understanding of the users
- Be informed of digital trends and competitive softwares, that would support and standardize user research systems and processes and strengthen them.
- Build capacities of other team members at Quest Alliance on carrying out user research and deriving meaningful insights
- Able to work autonomously and multi-task in an agile environment
Qualification & Skill Sets:
- 1-2 years of relevant work experience
- Minimum Graduation in any discipline. Applicants with Design/Psychology Degree or Diploma would be preferred
- Prior experience working with an ed-tech platform will be preferred
- Prior experience of using design thinking to solve for problems would be preferred
- Be able to conduct both qualitative and quantitative research
- Understanding of the strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply these from discovery to production to post-launch
- Be able to collaborate well with the internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written), to be able to tell the story based on research findings in an articulate and objective manner
- Working knowledge of how to use softwares such as Miro, Mural, Figma, Canva, etc. to create compelling visuals and prototypes
- Open to travel to different locations within India to do research studies
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Social Media Officer
The role will anchor and develop Quest Alliance’s social media presence. Being part of a dynamic, creative and supportive team, you will be taking ownership of creative projects, and craft compelling social-sector narratives. This includes writing authentic, compelling stories and thoughtful updates to bring our mission to life for a variety of audiences and channels. As part of the creative team, you will make sure our communications are both on-brand and effective, driving value for our key stakeholders.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Collating content for QA’s social media channels. Plan content strategy and create a publishing schedule with the program and Executive team for the quarterly calendar.
- Maintain consistency of Org narrative, tone and style across channels
- Anchor audio-visual content and edit for social channels, text composition and formatting
- Support social media campaigns (including promotions) for organization and program teams.
- Support social media review and assessment; share analysis [monthly and quarterly]. Evaluate the success of campaigns using analytical tools and reporting systems for all QA social media channels. Compile reports / presentations for team meetings, and make recommendations for improvements and changes to optimize our social media strategies.
- Ensure all media channels adhere to brand standards. Ensure brand safety across all our social media channels owned and earned.
- Maintain Brand guidelines and standards, support Brand positioning exercises
- Support the strategy and implementation of Quest to Learn – Lead organizational campaigns (digital and offline) in design and implementation.
- Support content collation and publishing on QA website
- Support content collation and designing for newsletters.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelors / Masters degree; Communication, Design, Journalism or similar major is a plus
- Fluent in graphic design. Knows to work with a basic design tool like Canva / Photoshop. Using video tools like Adobe Spark, Premier Pro, After Effects (or the likes) is a plus.
- Extensive experience using Microsoft office, Google Suite [Drive, Slides, Sheets and Docs]
- 2+ years of experience working with social media accounts for the development sector in India or with a social media agency. Proven experience of digital marketing/ running paid promotions
- Excellent English communications skills, both verbal and written. Knowledge of other languages is a plus.
- Strong presentation skills
- Intensive experience in key social media platforms — Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram
- Openness to learn and explore new technologies
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate, be creative, resourceful, problem-solve, follow-through and work independently
- Sound understanding of media landscape – news and social
- Should be willing to travel (post-COVID)
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Database Coordinator
We are currently seeking a data coordinator who can help strengthen the culture of data-driven decision-making easy-to-comprehend within the organization by creating user-friendly and easy to comprehend dashboards and visualization of different types of data. The job role might also require you to learn new tools and technologies fast, and you should have in-depth knowledge of visualization platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, and database management as well as basic programming and scripting skills. You will help to build efficient and stable data pipelines using ETL processes that can be easily maintained in the future. You should have expertise in the design, creation, management, and business use of large datasets.
You will build ETL pipelines to ingest the data from heterogeneous sources into our system. You should have excellent business and communication skills, and be able to work with program owners to understand their data requirements and help them make data-related decisions using your ETL knowledge and experience.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Gather requirements and business process knowledge in order to transform the data in a way that’s geared towards the needs of end users
- Design, implement, and continuously expand data pipelines by performing extraction, transformation, and loading activities
- Build data visualisation as per analytics requirements on Superset
- Maintain and improve already existing processes
- Ensure that the data architecture is scalable and maintainable
- Work with the program, data and technology teams in designing and delivering correct, high quality data
- Investigate data to identify potential issues within ETL pipelines, notify end-users and propose adequate solutions
- Prepare documentation for further reference
Education and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or related disciplines
- Experience and knowledge of visualisation/ dashboarding using tools like Apache Superset or Tableau/ Power BI. Prior experience of working with Superset would be an advantage
- SQL knowledge (query performance tuning, index maintenance, etc.) as well as an understanding of database structure
- Prior experience of working with data collection tools including Google and KoBo and building ETL pipeline via Talend
- Advanced knowledge of Python or R
- Knowledge of data modelling principles
- Organisational skills: time management and planning
- Expert level Knowledge and experience of working with Talend
- Knowledge of various SQL/NoSQL data storage mechanisms and Big Data technologies
- High attention to detail
- Passionate about complex data structures and problem solving
- Ability to pick up new data tools and concepts quickly
- Good written and verbal communication skills
We are looking for people who:
- Are passionate about working to solve challenges in the education and employability domain
- Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Women and Work Specialist – Youth Programs
The Women and Work Specialist is responsible for integrating the gender pedagogy into learning resources, training models, strategies to engage with families, institutes, industry and partners to promote gender equity across the programs implemented within the context and scope of the overall Youth Program’s Initiatives.
The specialist shall be responsible for Gender inclusion especially increased women participation in the youth skill development programs implemented by Quest Alliance. The Specialist primary responsibility is overseeing and ensuring the gender inclusion component in consultation with Associate Director – Youth Programs as well as cross functional leads and key staff members of Quest Alliance. The elements of successful gender inclusion include; increased women participation in non-traditional trades of Industrial Training Institutes, Vocation Training Institutes, improved percentage of course completion, employability, self-employment of women in the emerging sectors like green initiatives, ensuring the standards of quality of gender inclusion inputs are highest level for stakeholder satisfaction.
Within the context and scope of the overall Youth Program, the Roles & Responsibilities of the Women and Work Specialist are to:
- Develop various gender-responsive strategies and interventions to demonstrate what works in promoting gender equity and equality in skills development sector covering the Industrial Training Institutes and Vocation Training Institutes/Centres
- Influence ministries of education, skills development and other policy makers to formulate and implement policies that will achieve greater and better participation of girls / women in Industrial Training Institute and Vocational Training Centres
- Provide key inputs for gender inclusion advocacy campaigns, raises awareness among stakeholders and members of local communities on the social and economic value of women participation in the skills sector
- In close collaboration with program leads, build partnerships and closely with ministries and other partners to replicate and scale up its successful gender responsive program models
- Provide leadership and coordination to the Gender Inclusion in the content, training and ongoing gender based pedagogical inputs to program team and the Master Trainers
- Lead and build Gender Inclusion strategy in consultation with coordination team and stakeholders
- In close coordination with MyQuest coordination team, Operationalise the gender strategy
- Provide strategic inputs and support MyQuest and Quest Leadership Team to strengthen the gender inclusion strategy for internal and external stake holders through Future Rights Skill Network (FRSN)
- Monitor the gender inclusion strategy and implementation, collect feedback from the stakeholders for periodical update in-line with evolving context and standards
- Build gender inclusion awareness and capacity building for the program implementing teams
- In collaboration with program and M&E team, develop case studies, position papers on the gender inclusion in the skills development sector
- Contribute to the conceptualization and development of Program / Project frameworks with the specific focus on gender inclusion
- Manage the project resources and assigned budget to avoid under- or over-spending and ensure submission of timely reports and financial updates
- Participate in professional and training events as identified by MyQuest
- Contribute towards the development of proposals for new projects/scale ups or expansions
- Attend to any other duties assigned by MyQuest and Quest Alliance
Role Requirements:
Qualifications
- A Postgraduate Degree in Social Work/Education (Required)
- Certified Courses on Gender Inclusion (Desirable)
Experience
- Minimum of 8 years experience in Gender inclusion space / teaching / training / capacity building
- Minimum of 5 years direct work experience in gender inclusion in education, skills develop sectors
- -Proven track record of delivering services with high impact and high-quality results
- -Experience in community mobilization and gender sensitization initiatives, learning resources development and training in the areas of gender mainstreaming
- -Experience of working with women and aspects of gender and diversity and inclusion
- -Demonstrated report writing, position papers, advocacy and policy dialogues around gender inclusion
- -Part experiences around using technology for learning would be a great to have
Skills
- Excellent awareness on the sensitivity and gender inclusion in the education, skills and work space
- Ability to use MS office suite
- Can work independently, with minimal supervision
- Is passionate about the challenges India is facing in educating its youth population and gender inclusion
- Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with multicultural teams, government ministries and diverse stakeholders
- Ability to ensure quality deliverables and project timelines while maintaining high attention to detail
- Demonstrated skills for efficient and timely project planning, scheduling and managing
- Sound judgment, excellent English communication skills and interpersonal skills
- A strong personal commitment to the values of Quest Alliance
- Open to travel locally and across the country
- Can deal with ambiguity and proactively explore solutions
- Demonstrated understanding of the technical areas of research, monitoring and evaluation.
- Planning and Organizational skills.
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We look forward to your application.
Senior Research Officer – Knowledge Hub
We seek dynamic, creative individuals passionate about research and understanding our stakeholders. We work in over 11 states with learners and teachers, giving us a unique opportunity to understand diverse contexts and initiate research in some of the cutting-edge themes in education and skilling.
We are an ambitious team using innovative experimental methods and collaborations with international institutions committed to bringing value to the sector, the learners we engage with, and the work we do.
We are looking for individuals fired with passion who want to expand their horizons while bringing value to the team and the work we do. In this role you will be part of the Knowledge Hub of Quest Alliance. This is an interdisciplinary role that focuses on primary and secondary research, capturing, synthesizing and disseminating knowledge that is shaping or is likely to shape the discourse in education, youth skilling, education technology in the coming decade. The senior research officer will work closely with the Research Specialist in formulating research agenda for the organization and in carrying out primary and secondary research.
Role and Responsibilities:
[1] Assist in coordinating research studies that inform and shape Quest Alliance’s work
[2] Coordinate & support with research activities largely related to the Education and Youth Skilling sector
a. Assist in research design and methodology
b. Investigate and consolidate secondary research studies
c. Assist in anchoring the research studies as per the plan
i. Coordinate logistics in case of primary research
ii. Contribute to training, data collection, entry and clean-up
iii. Assist in analysis (both quantitative and qualitative) and report writing
d. Document the insights to suit different styles of knowledge products including long form articles, op-eds, blog posts, social media, videos etc.
[3] Assist in incorporating qualitative methodology for different programs of QUEST Alliance
[4] Assist in information dissemination within the various programs in Quest as well as to external stakeholders for different purposes
Eligibility:
- Post Graduate degree/ qualifications in social sciences or related field
- 3+ years of experience in qualitative research preferably in skills development, education and livelihood sector.
- Passionate about the challenges India is facing in the education and employability domain.
- Willingness to travel to field locations, as per need to conduct research
- A strong interest in working with design research and a commitment to communicate in a succinct, crisp and engaging fashion. An interest to look for newer ways of conducting research
Skill Sets:
- Excellent internal, written and verbal communication skills. Proficiency in Hindi and/or other regional languages preferred
- Familiarity and experience with different forms of media for research dissemination will be advantage
- Good knowledge of current qualitative and quantitative research methods
- Experience in managing research and coordinating with research agency/consultants – would be an advantage
- Ability to write and plan research briefs, reports and other dissemination material.
Desirable Skills:
- Design Research
- Experience in use of experimental and innovative methods
- Experience in use of interesting dissemination formats including building immersive experiences and museum like engagements among others
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply. Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Social Media Officer
The role will anchor and develop Quest Alliance’s social media presence. Being part of a dynamic, creative and supportive team, you will be taking ownership of creative projects, and craft compelling social-sector narratives. This includes writing authentic, compelling stories and thoughtful updates to bring our mission to life for a variety of audiences and channels. As part of the creative team, you will make sure our communications are both on-brand and effective, driving value for our key stakeholders.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Collating content for QA’s social media channels. Plan content strategy and create a publishing schedule with the program and Executive team for the quarterly calendar.
- Maintain consistency of Org narrative, tone and style across channels
- Anchor audio-visual content and edit for social channels, text composition and formatting
- Support social media campaigns (including promotions) for organization and program teams.
- Support social media review and assessment; share analysis [monthly and quarterly]. Evaluate the success of campaigns using analytical tools and reporting systems for all QA social media channels. Compile reports / presentations for team meetings, and make recommendations for improvements and changes to optimize our social media strategies.
- Ensure all media channels adhere to brand standards. Ensure brand safety across all our social media channels owned and earned.
- Maintain Brand guidelines and standards, support Brand positioning exercises
- Support the strategy and implementation of Quest to Learn – Lead organizational campaigns (digital and offline) in design and implementation.
- Support content collation and publishing on QA website
- Support content collation and designing for newsletters.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelors / Masters degree; Communication, Design, Journalism or similar major is a plus
- Fluent in graphic design. Knows to work with a basic design tool like Canva / Photoshop. Using video tools like Adobe Spark, Premier Pro, After Effects (or the likes) is a plus.
- Extensive experience using Microsoft office, Google Suite [Drive, Slides, Sheets and Docs]
- 2+ years of experience working with social media accounts for the development sector in India or with a social media agency. Proven experience of digital marketing/ running paid promotions
- Excellent English communications skills, both verbal and written. Knowledge of other languages is a plus.
- Strong presentation skills
- Intensive experience in key social media platforms — Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram
- Openness to learn and explore new technologies
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate, be creative, resourceful, problem-solve, follow-through and work independently
- Sound understanding of media landscape – news and social
- Should be willing to travel (post-COVID)
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply. Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Program Coordinator – Placements
The Program Coordinator - Placement will be part of our Youth Employability program - Youth Program and will be responsible to be a bridge between young people and employment opportunities, he/she will play an important role in achieving its end goal which is to help young people initiate their career journeys by developing a strategy for engagements and collaborations with the stakeholders for the assigned region.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Providing Placement support to Industrial Training Institutes, Polytechnics and Vocational Training Institutes :
- Ensuring support to program implementation partners to organise Industry engagement activities effectively and monitoring the same.
- Building capacity of Placement officers of program implementation partners to plan and organise placement related activities at their institutes.
- Planning and organising trainings for Placement officers
- Orientation on placement systems and best practices.
- Conducting Demo’s on Industry engagement activities.
Anchoring, Coordinating and Executing Placements strategies & plans in the region.
- Making an annual plan and calendar of placement activities in the region by collaborating with regional teams.
- Planning and Conducting Employer engagement events.
- Anchor Placement officers engagement through regular calls and review meetings.
- Planning and Conducting Employer engagement events Including placement fairs.
Design Strategy and Implementation for Alumni Tracking and Support Alumni & Family Engagement for the Region
- Using a constructive approach, designing and developing the strategy for Alumni tracking across Region to understand the learners mindset and impact post completion of the program.
- Implementation of Alumni tracking through ICF, Intern, Placement cell at ITI, Partners across ITI & VTI.
- Support program team on Alumni & Family engagement at Women ITI in session delivery or Industry support.
- Build capacity of the program team on key placement session delivery.
Relationship Management – Stakeholders (Internal and External)
- Building an active working relationship with representatives of companies, Industry bodies and Placement officers.
- Building a robust database of employers by networking with employers, industry bodies to make it available to program implementation partners.
Team management
- Ensure they have clear performance objectives and development plans.
- Support, mentor and coach them as part of their professional development and help them to be highly effective in their work.
- Serve as a role model at all times
- Ensure human resource policy and procedure is adhered to by team
- Ensure their welfare with support from the People team
- Lead the recruitment and induction of them
Skills Required:
- Experience in placement of candidates at Fresher level of a NGO or of Technical institutes is preferred.
- Knowledge of liasioning with companies and experience of industry connect including the role of placement of students within organizations.
- Previous experience of customer/client contact especially establishing and developing effective links with companies in the relevant discipline/field.
- Experience of working & training of young adults for Jobs, On the Job Training, etc.
- Good computer skills (i.e. Good at Data Analysis)
- Must be able to work to meet the needs of the placements service.
- Willing to undertake external visits & should be open to traveling across locations
- A team player and able to negotiate and consult with all those engaged with
Attributes:
- Must be able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the placements service.
- Willing to undertake external visits & should be open to traveling across the state
- Must be a team player and be able to negotiate and consult with all those engaged internally and externally within the placement space
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted! We look forward to your application.
Communications Manager – Schools
The Communication Manager - Schools will play a strategic role in planning and leading communication efforts across all intervention states. They will ideate and articulate the strategy that best tells the story through an impact lens, and hold together all other pieces, such as PR, social media, documentation, reporting, and others, such that each of these adds to the larger narrative. This will involve coordinating and closely collaborating with the program and the MarComm teams.
Role and Responsibilities:
Communication Strategy, Content and Design
- Articulate the communication strategy including any branding related work for the Schools program and operationalize it.
- As part of the strategy, design and deliver creative communication campaigns
- As part of the strategic program and organization events, strongly build in the communication work to reinforce the program narrative
- Weave the organization narrative into the program narrative to build consistency
- Be well versed with the program strategy and impact to include key elements into the communication strategy
- Anchor the PR strategy for the Schools program. Provide content and ensure media presence about the program.
- Coordinate with the program team to set-up a system of collecting compelling case stories from the field across stakeholders – students, teachers, school facilitators, partners, government officials and schools. In some cases, travel to the field to capture in-depth stories that showcase impact and change in lives
- Provide content (drafting) and editorial support for program communication materials including (but not limited to) quarterly and annual reports, funder reports, posters, flyers, invites and digital media messaging
- Support the MarCom team on PR, digital marketing and social media strategy for the organization
- Work strategically with state teams to understand state-specific advocacy and communication needs, such that PR pieces, advocacy pieces and videos speak to the larger program narrative
- Work closely with the research and data team to understand ground level insights and program impact and design communication strategies around disseminating those
- Make regular field visits to be in touch with the program experience and generate communication artifacts based on that experience
Coordination
- Be the SPOC for all program-related communications materials and adhere to content-creation processes. Ensure written briefs are created collaboratively, completed and signed off on; coordinate with program team for base content, follow-up on timelines for deliverables, field queries and clarifications from MarCom team, ensure early-warning in case content deadlines are not being met.
- Ensure compliance with organization, program and partner brand guidelines on all program collateral.
- Establish a social media calendar for the program and ensure content flow in a timely fashion. This includes digital campaigns around key days such as International Girl Child Day, and so on.
- Supervise the work of Communications Associates in writing and editing case stories tailored to different audiences and platforms (funder reports, social media posts, partner events, website content, program brochures, presentations, etc.)
- Supervise the work of Communications Associates in building a repository of case studies, photographs, videos, quotes, and media articles for the program
- Supervise the work of the Design Associate in designing communication materials and liaise with the MarCom team for larger design and/or video projects
- Manage the communication budget and keep track of all spends
Documentation
- Liaise with colleagues on field or external vendors, and/or travel to field locations to source compelling images and videos that capture and effectively communicate the essence of the program
- Basic photography and video documentation of program events
- Ensure digital assets are systematically archived for future use
Vendor Management
- Manage external vendors for design, video, and/or other projects as suitable for program needs
- Be the SPOC for all external vendor relationships
Event Support
- Provide event support as required to the program/organization
- Lead branding for program events
Relationship Building and Management – Stakeholders (Internal &/ External)
- Work collaboratively across teams, including executive leadership, to produce the channel-appropriate content
- Coordinate with vendors, external agencies, and consultants
- Develop processes for internal collaboration
- Mentor the Communications Associates and the Design Associate, and give clear direction, and chart growth pathways for them
Team Management
- Ensure that all employees managed have clear performance objectives and development plans
- Support, mentor and coach the team as part of their professional development and help them to be highly effective in their work
- Ensure that the team works together to share learning and to exchange skills
- Serve as a role model at all times
- Coordinate training and other capacity-building initiatives for staff as required
- Provide guidance and expertise to the Coordination team as required
- Ensure People and FAIT policies and procedures are adhered to by the team
- Ensure staff welfare with support from the People team.
- Ensure that all your team members have a clear job description, performance objectives, development plans, and they receive performance reviews
- Lead the recruitment and induction of new members for your team you manage
Required Experience and Skills:
- 6-8 years of experience in communication roles, preferably in the social impact sector
- Multitasking and managing different deliverables within tight deadlines
- Coordinating across different teams, and managing conflict
- Responding positively to feedback
- Ability to take initiative, work independently and make decisions
- Creativity and innovative thought process, research and updated about market trends
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply. Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Database Coordinator
We are currently seeking a data coordinator who can help strengthen the culture of data driven decision making within the organization by creating user friendly and easy to comprehend dashboards and visualization of different types of data. The job role might also require you to learn new tools and technologies fast, and you should have in-depth knowledge of visualization platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, database management as well as basic programming and scripting skills.
You will help to build efficient and stable data pipelines using ETL processes which can be easily maintained in the future. You should have expertise in the design, creation, management, and business use of large datasets.
You will build ETL pipelines to ingest the data from heterogeneous sources into our system. You should have excellent business and communication skills, and be able to work with program owners to understand their data requirements and help them make data-related decisions using your ETL knowledge and experience.
Responsibilities
- Gather requirements and business process knowledge in order to transform the data in a way that’s geared towards the needs of end users
- Design, implement, and continuously expand data pipelines by performing extraction, transformation, and loading activities
- Build data visualisation as per analytics requirements on Superset
- Maintain and improve already existing processes
- Ensure that the data architecture is scalable and maintainable
- Work with the program, data and technology teams in designing and delivering correct, high quality data
- Investigate data to identify potential issues within ETL pipelines, notify end-users and propose adequate solutions
- Prepare documentation for further reference
Education and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or related disciplines
- Experience and knowledge of visualisation/ dashboarding using tools like Apache Superset or Tableau/ Power BI. Prior experience of working with Superset would be an advantage
- SQL knowledge (query performance tuning, index maintenance, etc.) as well as an understanding of database structure
- Prior experience of working with data collection tools including Google and KoBo and building ETL pipeline via Talend
- Advanced knowledge of Python or R
- Knowledge of data modelling principles
- Organisational skills: time management and planning
- Expert level Knowledge and experience of working with Talend
- Knowledge of various SQL/NoSQL data storage mechanisms and Big Data technologies
- High attention to detail
- Passionate about complex data structures and problem solving
- Ability to pick up new data tools and concepts quickly
- Good written and verbal communication skills
We are looking for people who:
- Are passionate about working to solve challenges in the education and employability domain
- Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply. Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Orissa
Senior Education Officer – Program Implementation
We are looking for an experienced person who has worked in the area of education, particularly in the govt schooling space. The role has a huge scope of ensuring implementation of the programme in the state through the teachers of the govt school. The personnel should have and proven skills to lead and design training and development of any new content especially in the areas of 21st century skills and STEM. Having good command and understanding of working in Ed-Tech programmes will be beneficials.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Lead and ensure timely execution of all training and capacity building initiatives planned for the internal team, teachers, students and other stakeholders at the district level.
- Lead and ensure development of content according to the strategy for the programme. In the initial month major focus will be given to the computational thinking and coding skills modules for the students
- Ensure development of content strategy and its timely implementation
- Drive experimentation and innovation strategies within the team of program associates working in each district.
- Ensure that the workplan is being adhered to and implementation of the programme is being done according to the commitments
- Ensure that the field visit plans are made and adhered to.
- Ensure that the team is looking at the data and decisions are being made accordingly
- Ensure that the monthly planning and review meetings at the district level is being organized, the Programme Associates are prepared for them and supported to facilitate them
- Identify the CSOs working in each of the district, find synergies and collaborate to work together
- Support in identifying and building partnerships with non-profits, social entrepreneurs to strengthen the Ed-Tech programme in the state.
- Conduct policy research in education technology and develop papers for advocacy
- Serve as a role model at all times
- Coordinate training and other capacity-building initiatives for staff as required
- Support, mentor and coach the team of Program Associate as part of their professional development and help them to be highly effective in their work.
- Lead the recruitment , induction and onboarding of new member for your team you manage
- Ensure that the team works together to share learning and to exchange skills
- Ensure that any incidents of child abuse, child marriage or any other violation of child rights are reported to the program lead
Required skills and Experience:
- Minimum 5-6 years of work experience, in capacity building related roles
- Hands-on experience with working on coding/ computational skills/ STEM and life and career skills for school students
- Prior experience working in government schools
- Prior experience of facilitating training and workshops for the govt. Teachers and officials at district/state level
- Willingness to learn and influence prevalent practices in education ecosystem
- Deep understanding of the National Education Policy and State Curriculum Framework
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills in English and Odia (preferred)
- Excellent IT skills
- Willingness to travel extensively
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with other teams
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Districts Consultants
We are looking for multiple Districts Consultants who will be responsible to work closely with the teachers, and district officials and ensuring smooth implementation of the program at the school level. Each consultant will be responsible for managing programs in schools of two districts. The responsibilities include orientation of the teachers and district officials for enhancing more support and systemic buy-in. Training of teachers on the aspects of computational thinking and 21st century skills and conducting workshops with students at the school level.
Role and Responsibilities:
Hands on with the Sector / Module Content and Learning Outcomes
- Ensure you stay connected with students
- Be prepared with content knowledge and use training skills
- Make sure requisite material is available in your class
- Be aware of your students and have a through understanding on who wants to work, who wants to study further and who’s confused about post training decision
Timely and Effective Delivery of Sessions
- To implement the project STEM for Girls in secondary schools.
- Acknowledge them by the importance of STEM education and its career scopes.
- Work with students to build their self-confidence.
- Content delivery with the help of a given manual like gender norms, life skills, digital literacy, coding, etc.
- Capacity building of students by creating interactive classrooms.
- Acknowledge them by the importance of 21st-century skills.
- Enabling Girls to break the barriers for accessing technology.
- Create, maintain and develop database of students’ contact details for online engagement and develop content for online engagement for students.
- Update databases of parents’, teachers’ contact numbers , addresses which is possible for offline engagement with all the stakeholders.
- Work with State Project Office to identify areas for intervention in online mode
- Develop content for engaging students on thematic areas of project
- Take engaging sessions with the students and maintain record of the same
Relationship Management
- Engagement with Teacher / Headmaster:
- Also perception building of STEM program to HM and Teacher
- To strengthen Parents’ teacher relations.
- Build and manage the relationship with Teachers and HMs.
- Engagement with Parents:
- Parents teacher meeting
- To engage them STEM for girls’ project and importance
- To make them strong to share their thought and ideas regarding the project
- To engage them by giving some examples of gender stereotypes.
- To build and manage relations with parents
Reporting:
- Provide regular written and verbal reports tracking progress against the work plan and implementation schedules. Ensure all the program report including case studies, photographs reaches the M&E focal point at the stipulated time
- Use the appropriate M&E tools for reporting
- Support coordination of baseline/ endline and other assessments, as and when required.
- Collect student data from the Institutes to help with the compilation of the donor report . Ensure students data is updated in centre database
- Make sure trainers and principal at the institute know about our work through simple monthly reports
Adherence to Systems and Processes:
- Adhere to all the finance and HR policies of the organisation
- Uphold the values of Quest Alliance
Investment in self-learning:
- Identify the development needs and have the development goal for the year in place
- Take ownership to track progress and for one’s own learning
- Complete all the self learning goals for the year
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
District Officer
The role will work as part of School program team and coordinate with other members of the Quest team to ensure efficient and effective implementation of projects undertaken by Quest Alliance.
Program Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
- Operational oversight of the program
- Take responsibility for effective program delivery, review the implementation and monitor within the agreed standards
- Ensure there is a work plan in place for the state, region(s), and everyone is able to contribute and implement accordingly.
- Identify and develop learning within the program and facilitate the capturing of these learnings
- Lead on identifying and evaluating potential risks related to the impact of the program and take necessary steps to include risk mitigation in program reviews and design
- Work together with M&E focal point to track program Progress based on the Monitoring and Evaluation framework.
- Lead on reporting both internal and external, in accordance with the program M&E framework and based on the regular reporting agreements of the project.
- Contribute to the development of the project budget
- Ensure the spending is within the budgeted limits and the financial policies are adhered to.
Relationship Management – Stakeholders
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Govt. of Health departments, health professionals and stakeholders in the state.
- Ensure all Health professionals receive the appropriate support and updates to implement the program effectively.
- Organize and lead the capacity building activities in coordination with the Training & Content Manager
- Ensure additional support needs of the Health Department are identified, assessed and any reasonable adjustments are made to their journey.
- Support the development and implementation of innovative engagement and retention processes.
- Support with the donor visits
- Ensure each Health professionals are able to meet the data reporting standard by giving them the necessary inputs, support and having agreed timelines in place for reporting
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
District Coordinator
The District Coordinator School program and will be responsible to build state wise strategies for the state in the program , he/she will play an important role in achieving its end goal which is to help young people initiate new things by developing a strategy for engagements and collaborations with the stakeholders for the assigned State/ District.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Programme Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
- Ensuring operational efficiency
- Taking responsibility for effective program delivery by ensuring operational plans are in place for the state team, programs are delivered according to the work plan and reviews are held within the team periodically.
- Identify and develop learning within program and facilitate the capturing of these learnings
- Lead on identifying and evaluate potential risks related to program delivery and its impact and take necessary steps to mitigate them
- Anchor the Monitoring and Review process for the state with continuous validation by:
- – Making field visits and documenting case studies
- – Ensuring data collection and quality on kobo
- – Reviewing tableau dashboard for monitoring partner program metrics and capturing the efforts
- – Reviewing data quality on student portal
- Financial Management :
- Ensure that financial procedures, practices and values are adhered to across the team.
- Be part of the planning process for the team to ensure effective budget is in place and it is adhered to
- Ensure partner budgets are in place and review spend as per the plan, raise red flags in case of any inconsistencies
Relationship Management – Stakeholders
- Identify, develop and manage relevant partnerships with other CSOs to implement the program effectively
- Ensure partner plans are in place, reviews are streamlined and partner reports are coming in on time
- Develop and sustain the relationship with the Government Education departments and other concerned departments
- Coordinate effective field visits for the donors to understand the progress of the program being implemented; this would include scheduling appointments with relevant government ministries.
- Anchor partner visits in the context of program review and facilitation for strengthening alignment of processes with the program design
- Lead and participate in all program events to raise the profile of the organisation
- Represent Quest Alliance in local and state forums and platforms
- Identify appropriate stakeholders and partners for program delivery as and when required
- Ensure MoUs with key partner organisations are in place and operational;
- Ensure that key staff at the state and district Government have a clear understanding of and regular involvement in the programs
- Identify opportunities for joint activities with the government staff (e.g. shared workshops etc.).
- Share monthly reports with the relevant Government officials and ensure that the joint project review is conducted every 6 months
- Work closely with the state lead in Gujarat to ensure alignment across of all Quest’s program in the state
- Identify state specific fundraising opportunities and support partners in fundraising for the programs
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Telangana
Districts Consultants
We are looking for multiple Districts Consultants who will be responsible to work closely with the teachers, and district officials and ensuring smooth implementation of the program at the school level. Each consultant will be responsible for managing programs in schools of two districts. The responsibilities include orientation of the teachers and district officials for enhancing more support and systemic buy-in. Training of teachers on the aspects of computational thinking and 21st century skills and conducting workshops with students at the school level.
Role and Responsibilities:
Hands on with the Sector / Module Content and Learning Outcomes
- Ensure you stay connected with students
- Be prepared with content knowledge and use training skills
- Make sure requisite material is available in your class
- Be aware of your students and have a through understanding on who wants to work, who wants to study further and who’s confused about post training decision
Timely and Effective Delivery of Sessions
- To implement the project STEM for Girls in secondary schools.
- Acknowledge them by the importance of STEM education and its career scopes.
- Work with students to build their self-confidence.
- Content delivery with the help of a given manual like gender norms, life skills, digital literacy, coding, etc.
- Capacity building of students by creating interactive classrooms.
- Acknowledge them by the importance of 21st-century skills.
- Enabling Girls to break the barriers for accessing technology.
- Create, maintain and develop database of students’ contact details for online engagement and develop content for online engagement for students.
- Update databases of parents’, teachers’ contact numbers , addresses which is possible for offline engagement with all the stakeholders.
- Work with State Project Office to identify areas for intervention in online mode
- Develop content for engaging students on thematic areas of project
- Take engaging sessions with the students and maintain record of the same
Relationship Management
- Engagement with Teacher / Headmaster:
- Also perception building of STEM program to HM and Teacher
- To strengthen Parents’ teacher relations.
- Build and manage the relationship with Teachers and HMs.
- Engagement with Parents:
- Parents teacher meeting
- To engage them STEM for girls’ project and importance
- To make them strong to share their thought and ideas regarding the project
- To engage them by giving some examples of gender stereotypes.
- To build and manage relations with parents
Reporting:
- Provide regular written and verbal reports tracking progress against the work plan and implementation schedules. Ensure all the program report including case studies, photographs reaches the M&E focal point at the stipulated time
- Use the appropriate M&E tools for reporting
- Support coordination of baseline/ endline and other assessments, as and when required.
- Collect student data from the Institutes to help with the compilation of the donor report . Ensure students data is updated in centre database
- Make sure trainers and principal at the institute know about our work through simple monthly reports
Adherence to Systems and Processes:
- Adhere to all the finance and HR policies of the organisation
- Uphold the values of Quest Alliance
Investment in self-learning:
- Identify the development needs and have the development goal for the year in place
- Take ownership to track progress and for one’s own learning
- Complete all the self learning goals for the year
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
District Officer
The role will work as part of School program team and coordinate with other members of the Quest team to ensure efficient and effective implementation of projects undertaken by Quest Alliance.
Program Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
- Operational oversight of the program
- Take responsibility for effective program delivery, review the implementation and monitor within the agreed standards
- Ensure there is a work plan in place for the state, region(s), and everyone is able to contribute and implement accordingly.
- Identify and develop learning within the program and facilitate the capturing of these learnings
- Lead on identifying and evaluating potential risks related to the impact of the program and take necessary steps to include risk mitigation in program reviews and design
- Work together with M&E focal point to track program Progress based on the Monitoring and Evaluation framework.
- Lead on reporting both internal and external, in accordance with the program M&E framework and based on the regular reporting agreements of the project.
- Contribute to the development of the project budget
- Ensure the spending is within the budgeted limits and the financial policies are adhered to.
Relationship Management – Stakeholders
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Govt. of Health departments, health professionals and stakeholders in the state.
- Ensure all Health professionals receive the appropriate support and updates to implement the program effectively.
- Organize and lead the capacity building activities in coordination with the Training & Content Manager
- Ensure additional support needs of the Health Department are identified, assessed and any reasonable adjustments are made to their journey.
- Support the development and implementation of innovative engagement and retention processes.
- Support with the donor visits
- Ensure each Health professionals are able to meet the data reporting standard by giving them the necessary inputs, support and having agreed timelines in place for reporting
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
District Coordinator
The District Coordinator School program and will be responsible to build state wise strategies for the state in the program , he/she will play an important role in achieving its end goal which is to help young people initiate new things by developing a strategy for engagements and collaborations with the stakeholders for the assigned State/ District.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Programme Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
- Ensuring operational efficiency
- Taking responsibility for effective program delivery by ensuring operational plans are in place for the state team, programs are delivered according to the work plan and reviews are held within the team periodically.
- Identify and develop learning within program and facilitate the capturing of these learnings
- Lead on identifying and evaluate potential risks related to program delivery and its impact and take necessary steps to mitigate them
- Anchor the Monitoring and Review process for the state with continuous validation by:
- – Making field visits and documenting case studies
- – Ensuring data collection and quality on kobo
- – Reviewing tableau dashboard for monitoring partner program metrics and capturing the efforts
- – Reviewing data quality on student portal
- Financial Management :
- Ensure that financial procedures, practices and values are adhered to across the team.
- Be part of the planning process for the team to ensure effective budget is in place and it is adhered to
- Ensure partner budgets are in place and review spend as per the plan, raise red flags in case of any inconsistencies
Relationship Management – Stakeholders
- Identify, develop and manage relevant partnerships with other CSOs to implement the program effectively
- Ensure partner plans are in place, reviews are streamlined and partner reports are coming in on time
- Develop and sustain the relationship with the Government Education departments and other concerned departments
- Coordinate effective field visits for the donors to understand the progress of the program being implemented; this would include scheduling appointments with relevant government ministries.
- Anchor partner visits in the context of program review and facilitation for strengthening alignment of processes with the program design
- Lead and participate in all program events to raise the profile of the organisation
- Represent Quest Alliance in local and state forums and platforms
- Identify appropriate stakeholders and partners for program delivery as and when required
- Ensure MoUs with key partner organisations are in place and operational;
- Ensure that key staff at the state and district Government have a clear understanding of and regular involvement in the programs
- Identify opportunities for joint activities with the government staff (e.g. shared workshops etc.).
- Share monthly reports with the relevant Government officials and ensure that the joint project review is conducted every 6 months
- Work closely with the state lead in Gujarat to ensure alignment across of all Quest’s program in the state
- Identify state specific fundraising opportunities and support partners in fundraising for the programs
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form here.
Women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Uttar Pradesh
Training & Documentation Officer
At Quest you will get the opportunity to apply your skills and contribute to addressing issues around quality education and skills training. This role is based in Devipatan Division (UP).
Roles and Responsibilities:
Content Development
- Document secondary information, policies, program and relevant best practices.
- Develop and customize relevant content & support in the conceptualization of framework development including content, design, toolkit, and process for the program.
- Develop and customize relevant content for EWS based on field insights
- Support in the conceptualization and support the framework development including content, design and process for the program
- Support in creating content for toolkit, digital (whatsapp, voice messages) and non-digital follow up triggers for the different stakeholders
Training & Capacity Building
- Co-Design, anchor and Implement cascade mode of training with SRG, ARP, HM & teacher.
- Work with the master trainer group at state/district level and hand hold them for knowledge transfer.
- Synthesize insights from training into meaningful and actionable steps. Bring in field insights into the capacity building design and review.
- Guide implementation team to compile training reports received from training and field implementation team and share concise and compelling documents.
- Build capacity of the District Officers for effective delivery of the training program and make them understand the content/ curriculum.
- Participate in state level training programs, workshops, meetings.
Program Facilitation:
- Facilitate workshop at district and state level for Government Engagement .
- Participate in all the training sessions and design workshops. Facilitate relevant sessions during training and workshops.
- Co-design workshops and webinars that are reflective and help various stakeholders to move towards being change agents in the government education system.
- Co Design workshop and curate resource materials for the stakeholder
- Identifying and capture the best innovation ideas / good practices during project period and supporting in incubating those ideas.
- Conduct field visits to field locations to capture insights from stake holders.
Documentation and Qualitative Research
- Design, Anchor and Implement all the documentation activities for the Projects.
- Design Field Insights to support design, development and continuous improvement of EWS program design, processes and content.
- Synthesize the training data into meaningful and actionable insights
- Prepare Reports and Communicational Material based on findings and insights
- Create concise and compelling research documents including research plans, guides, results documentation, reports etc.
- Provide major update for social media platform of the organization on major events and program.
Framework Development
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- Demonstrate good understanding of the design thinking process.
- Capture and Document Secondary information, policies, program and best practices relevant to EWS
- Able to conceptualize and lead the framework development including content, design and process for the program
- Support in creating content for toolkit, digital (whatsapp, voice messages) and non-digital follow up triggers for the different stakeholders
- Help stakeholders in design and execution of projects at various levels that would address the issues of Educational challenges
Monitoring and Reporting
- Providing regular written and verbal reports tracking progress against the work plan and implementation schedules.
- Support in developing appropriate M&E tools for reporting
- Ensuring all the program report including case studies, photographs reaches are consolidated at the stipulated time
- Prepare and Document Monthly and Quarterly Report
Others
- Implementing all relevant activities.
- Participating in team meetings and reviews, staff engagement activities.
- Seeking regular capacity building support from team.
- Adhering to all the finance and HR policies of the organization.
- Upholding the values of Quest Alliance.
- Other duties as required. Occasionally working on weekends and holidays for which compensatory leave can be taken.
Deliverables:
- Develop and Test EWS framework – Content, System and Processes
- Test Tools and Processes in the field for EWS. Capture, document and share data, Insights from different stakeholders.
- Conduct and Document Training Need Analysis
- Conduct and Document All Stakeholder Capacity Development Activities including team (District, Block and Schools)
- Develop and Revise EWS framework, content, manual, tools and processes based on field insights
- Develop and Implement Training related M&E framework, Design and Tools
- Share all reports and data as per schedule
Qualification:
- A Master’s degree in Social Work/Rural Management or other development disciplines, with 2-3 years of work experience preferably in the Education sector
- Good communication skills in English and Hindi
- Ability to draft compelling reports grounded in data
Ability to train facilitators and youths in the vocational training program and ITI - Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player
- Proficient in MS Office tools, and the Internet.
We are looking for people who:
– Are passionate about working to solve challenges in education and employability domain
– Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player
– Flexible with travel
Contact
Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.