Job Description

Our programme in Jharkhand needs a competent and motivated Trainer/ Sr. Trainer to join our team. The individual will have the opportunity to be part of a programme that builds platforms or child safety systems in schools to facilitate dialogue between empowered community women groups and School authorities like Principals and teachers to ensure children are in schools, safe and supported.

Why work with us?

Work at scale: You get the opportunity to interact, engage and flex your expert facilitation muscles to inspire, motivate and mobilize community women and girls from across 3 districts in Jharkhand

Be a part of a unique programme: You get to play a key role in building systems within the schools where the voice of adolescent girls and women is heard and plan community-based solutions to ensure children are in schools, safe and supported.

This programme allows for one to travel extensively (approx. 180 days in a year) across 3 districts to train and mobilize local community women.

What does a Trainer’s role include?

At Aangan, our Trainers enable marginalized communities to participate in decisions that affect them and their children directly. They help build trust as well as create strong communication channels between the community (specifically women and girls) and the school systems.

To keep this ecosystem humming, our Trainers get to the root – a. they engage meaningfully with women in the community b. create platforms for schools, women and girls to share child harm trends and data from their communities to raise concerns and access their rights to education, safety and participation c. they coach women until they are able to take concrete steps to ensure safety of children from various harm and risks.

As a Trainer a typical day might include the following:

Conduct and assist in quarterly training sessions with women groups from specific blocks across 3 districts in Jharkhand to ensure that the,

women groups can facilitate safety conversations with adolescent girls

women groups with the support of school and other local governance systems can facilitate community-based solutions

support vulnerable families to become resilient to reduce and respond to child harm in the communities

Regular interaction with the School Principals and other local stakeholders to ensure that the school safety systems are institutionalized and that they are accountable towards the program

Inspire and motivate women groups through training with the objective to build their knowledge and skills on child protection

Instill a sense of ownership and group cohesiveness among the women groups and the school systems and draw from them relevant experiences and local knowledge

Coach women groups until they are able to take concrete steps to ensure safety of children from various harm and risks

Train the women groups to collect data, observe and capture trends, identify gaps and issues and provide solutions to address gaps in a timely fashion

Identify and respond to gaps in the implementation of the program to ensure that the overall outcomes are met

Creating cross learning opportunities among community groups

Collate and develop case studies and stories from the field

Work closely with the Data Field officers in collecting and collating data from the field and using the data in strategizing the implementation plan

Be a part of a pool of trainers at Aangan who contribute to building internal capacity for training and facilitatio

Competencies and Abilities

3+ years of prior training experience

Excellent communication skills

Proficiency in Hindi, Bengali and English

Creative and critical thinking ability

Ability to motivate an attitude of learning before, during and after the classroom sessions

Willingness to listen and learn and respect different perspectives brought into the sessions

Organized and ability to manage time well

Willingness to travel to remote areas

Education and Experience

Graduate/Post Graduate.

At least 2 years of experience in the area of Child Protection or community-based work

Experience with training groups of adults preferred

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