Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title Project Coordinator-Awareness & Legal Literacy

Department: Program Implementation

Reporting to Project Manager

Location Varanasi, U.P.

Duration of the project Till Dec 2025

Grade: C1

Level Of Contact With Children: 1 – Direct contact with Children

The position holder shall be responsible to adhere & work within the ambit of Plan India’s Safeguarding & Gender Equality Policies.

ABOUT PLAN INDIA

Plan International (India Chapter), also referred to as Plan India, is an Indian registered not-for-profit organization that is constantly striving to advance welfare and development for children and equality for all girls and women in India. Through its grassroots social development work, Plan India seeks to create lasting impact in the lives of poor and vulnerable children, their families and communities, by gender transformative child-centered community development.

Since 1996, Plan India has improved the lives of millions of children and young people by enabling them to access and benefit from the safety nets and schemes of the government for child protection, quality education and healthcare services, healthy environment, livelihood opportunities and participation in community development. To know more about Plan India, visit www.planindia.org

PROJECT OVERVIEW

To promote a child friendly learning environment for children from underprivileged communities and with special needs, Model School Project will directly benefit more than 3600 children studying from the two government Schools as well as the children and women from nearby communities, through hardware and soft activities for awareness and quality education. It is expected that with improved infrastructure, amenities quality of education will improve in these two schools which will lead to more number of children being admitted in these schools.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Project Coordinator will play a crucial role in organizing training sessions for children, parents, and School Management Committees (SMCs) on various topics as per the project objectives. These include Legal Literacy, sessions addressing laws on prevention of Child Marriages, Protection of Children from sexual offences, Equal wages for women, Sexual Harassment at the workplace, Constitutional rights, Digital Learning encompassing cyber safety for girls, methods to report cyber threats, as well as Child Protection and other pertinent subjects. These sessions aim to enhance awareness and capacity building among the target audience. The main responsibilities of the Project Coordinator include planning and implementing training and awareness activities, reporting and documenting the impact of the sessions, monitoring the ongoing hardware and soft activities in schools, and potentially assigning additional responsibilities as per project requirements

KEY FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Training Activities

• He / She shall plan and implement training and awareness activities as per the objectives of the project with a target audience of children, School Management Committee members and parents.

• He / She shall make training calendar for the sessions, coordinate with school authorities, communities near by the targeted schools, and encourage the children and parents for participating in the training sessions.

• Overall planning of training sessions, coordination with the Resource Persons, and confirmation for the Resource material/content.

2. Reporting and Documentation:

• He / She shall be responsible for documenting and making the reports of the sessions.

• To document the impact of the sessions.

• Feedback from the participants and scope of improvements for the sessions shall be documented.

3. Monitoring of ongoing activities in School:

• As per the requirement of the project, he / she will be assigned responsibilities for looking after day to day activities of the project in the school/s.

4. Other work:

• Liaising and linkages with various stakeholders and duty bearers.

• He / She may be assigned additional responsibilities as per the project requirements.

ELIGIBILIT

1. Education: The ideal candidate should possess a university degree in law or a related field in legal studies

2. Experience:

• The candidate should have a minimum of 3-6 years' experience in the legal field, with a demonstrated track record of working with children and communities.

• Prior experience of organizing trainings in communities/schools.

• Experience of developing quality project report and other documents.

• Spoken, reading & written fluency in English & Hindi is essential.

• Essential computer skills in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

3. Female candidates are preferred for the role.

Travel Requirement: 70% of the total time.

Compensation and Employment:

Plan is an equal opportunity employer and qualified women candidates are encouraged to apply. Our policies and procedures reflect our commitment to child rights and child protection.

How to apply:

Please send us your updated resume along with suitability note (single Word document only) at planindiacareers@planindia.org.

Kindly mention “Project Coordinator- Legal Literacy’ in the subject line.

Considering the volume of applications only shortlisted candidates will be contacted by the HR Team.

LAST DATE TO APPLY 3rd May 2024

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