Job Description

Aide et Action (India) Recruitment 

Aide et Action (India):

Aide et Action (India) is a development organization working in the field of education. In India Aide et Action is registered as a Not-for-Profit organization under Section 25 (corresponding to Section 8 Companies Act 2013) of the Companies Act, 1956.

We at Aide et Action, work with the vision of ‘Changing the world through education’. Our mission is to ensure access to quality education for the most vulnerable and marginalised populations, especially children, so they can take charge of their own development and contribute to a more peaceful and sustainable world.

Our programs are managed through Offices in Bhopal, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad & Patna.  In line with the emerging needs of our organization, we now seek to fill in the following positions. 

Position:                             Consultant (Project – National Care Leavers Network)

Number of vacancies:         2

Location:                             Delhi/NCR, India (blended)

Nature of position:              Consultant

Duration:                             11 months

Languages Required:          English, Hindi

Summary of Position:

The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 and the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Model Rules, 2016 contain legal provisions that make Aftercare of children, who have attained the age of eighteen years and are leaving a Child Care Institution, the responsibility of the state, for three years, and in exceptional circumstances, for two additional years. The National Youth Policy, in 2014, states that “while the government is working to create support and rehabilitation systems for youth at risk, it is essential to simultaneously build systems to ensure that youth are not forced to put themselves into situations that constitute physical or mental risk. A targeted awareness and outreach program for youth that are likely to be at risk must be developed and undertaken as a matter of priority.” In this context, Aide et Action through its Guwahati Regional Office will be implementing the “Facilitating effective transition of care leavers from Alternative Care to Independence” project supported and funded by UNICEF, Delhi, India office. The project aims at building a National Level association of all State Care Leavers associations to provide a pan-India support platform for care leavers. The initiative shall function as the hub for various initiatives supporting Care Leavers across the country and facilitating common grounds that shall help in facilitating effective mainstreaming of the Care Leavers in the country.

The Mission Vatsalaya outlines After-care with aim to support the children who are leaving a childcare institution on completion of 18 years of age by providing them with financial support to facilitate their re-integration into mainstream of society. Such support may be given from the age of 18 years up to 21 years, extendable up to 23 years of age to help her/him become self-dependent. In spirit of above, many states have formal or informal networks of care leavers. The networks are essentially involved in supporting care leavers with legal identity documents, housing, job placement and mental-emotional support for their overall wellbeing. Many networks are still at a developing stage and progressing towards being self-reliant and sustainable. Many states are yet to form networks or formally bring together care leavers. Here also, the challenge is to ensure active participation by females and to reach-out to even vulnerable groups like physically and mentally challenged groups, those who are HIV/AIDS infected and those who are from LGBTQ+ community. In short, the care experienced groups is in itself a vulnerable section and there is even more vulnerability among them. Many of them are not traceable with no proper database at state or national level. Thus, this programme aims to further expand and strengthen the national level platform for care leavers towards sustainability. The National Care Leavers Network is an independent body of care leavers, owned, managed, and run by care leavers themselves. An external body comprising of representatives from NGO, government and other stakeholders may provide handholding support for a short period of time till the collective is up and running on its own, and systems of leadership, membership and operations are set up. Specifically, the initiative aims to promote the setting up of care leavers networks in all states and facilitate the creation of an umbrella national care leavers network that works as a federation of all state level associations and NGO led networks. Currently the core membership of National Care Leavers Network is 35 care leavers from nine states.

In above context, the project NCLN is looking forward for two consultants to join project team and help NCLN becoming self-sustainable with Pan-India outreach.

Key Functions

Support states with no networks in setting-up state networks.

Strengthening and expanding the National Care Leavers Network.

Profiling the network at National Level and advocacy on identified issues/issue for rehabilitation of care experienced youths.

Make NCLN sustainable and establish the functional guidelines for fund raising

Co-ordinate with communications fellow for social media engagement around program events (both pre and post event), blogs, op-eds, publications and other key communication opportunities

Coordinate events online and offline

Work in tandem with project lead and AeA staff on any required task

Support and co-ordinate the functioning and outreach of Dashboard

Support and co-ordinate the functioning and outreach of national level coordination for tracking care-experienced youths and state specific activities 

Qualification and Experience:

This position is most suitable for a professional who has worked on care experienced youths/rehabilitation or themselves are care experienced youths. Preference will be given to care experienced youths.

Master’s degree in development work/social work/management

At least three years of full-time post-study work experience preferably on child rights/children issues and project management

Excellent reading writing skills in English and Hindi.

Experience in project implementation at field level and direct beneficiary outreach

Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

Strong team working ability and co-ordination skills

Ability to take the initiative, brainstorm, think creatively, juggle multiple priorities and work under pressure with tight deadlines.

The candidate must be willing to try new approaches and ideas and be innovative.

Flexible and self-motivated, with capacity to multi-task and prioritize, a self-starter having ability to manage the tasks with minimum guidance

Proficiency in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint is a must

Preference will be given to skillful candidates who are also care experienced 

Compensation: The consultancy is spread from May 2024 till March 2025. The incumbent will be paid on monthly consultancy fee of INR.45,000 per month. Travel and per diem allowances will be as per AEA’s policies and subject to project budget provisions. Relocation support will not be provided.

To apply: Aspirants who possess experience & competences as per the job specification mentioned & consider themselves suitable are encouraged to email their updated CVs along with a Cover Letter highlighting their suitability for the position to recruit.guwahati@aide-et-action.org   with the subject line: Consultant – Project-NCLN by 25th April 24. Incumbents are also requested to kindly provide details of their current/last drawn salary in the covering note.

Aide et Action is an equal opportunity employer. Women candidates are encouraged to apply.

Due to the high volume of applications, not all applicants will receive a response from Aide et Action. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted further. We regret the inconvenience.

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