Girls’ Education Coordinator – CARE

CARE is a not-for-profit organisation working in India for over 68 years, focusing on alleviating poverty and social injustice. We do this through well-planned and comprehensive projects in health, education, livelihoods and disaster preparedness and response. Our overall goal is the empowerment of women and girls from poor and marginalised communities leading to improvement in their lives and livelihoods.

During FY 2021-22, CARE India directly reached out to 84.3 million people through 93 projects across 21 states, covering more than 290 districts. We are part of the CARE International Confederation, working in more than 100 countries for a world where people live with dignity and security.

CARE India seeks a world of hope, tolerance, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. Our goal is to ensure that women and girls from the most marginalized communities are empowered, live in dignity and their households have secure and resilient lives. CARE India aims to accomplish this goal by working with 50 million people to help them have quality health, education, livelihoods and overcome the effects of disasters.

www.careindia.org | Regd. as CARE India Solutions for Sustainable Development

POSITION/DESIGNATION Girls’ Education Coordinator
GRADE/LEVEL Grade G
PROJECT/UNIT Engaging with the Process of Annual Work Plan and Budgeting (AWP&B) at the State level for More Resources for Girls’ Education
PROJECT DURATION One year
POSITION DURATION 10 months
REPORTS TO Gender Specialist
LOCATION Guwahati, Assam
TRAVEL 30% of total time

Skill Minimum Qualification MSW – MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK

Required Experience 3 – 6 Years

PROJECT DETAILS
This project is funded by Malala Fund which aims to engage with the process of Annual Work Plan and Budgeting (AWP&B) at the State level for More Resources for Girls’ Education.  As per the latest estimate by the Ministry of Education, India has 15 crore children and youth who are out of formal education system[1]. Moreover, the children who are part of the system, grade appropriate learning remains a big question which is evident from the results of National Achievement survey, 2021. The latest DISE data[2] also highlights a sharp decline in gross enrolment ration of girls especially from elementary to secondary and higher secondary level.  Therefore, it requires urgent attention to school education along with gender responsive planning and budgeting by the government at various levels to promote gender equity which is one of the key objectives of the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan as well.

Malala Fund, has formed a network of Education champion who are the local organisations continuously working to promote girls’ education in the state of     Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Through the strategic partnership grant, CARE India has been providing its technical assistance for evidence-based engagement with concerned stakeholders in education system.

The project is designed to work very closely with the education department of Assam, Bihar and UP to allocate more resources for girls’ education by engaging in Annual work plan process through gender responsive strategies and gender budgeting, and at the same time building capacities of the ECN to strategically engage with the AWP process at various level. Therefore, CARE India will set up a Project Management Unit in girls education unit of Secondary education department for continuous engagement.

JOB SUMMARY
Gender Specialist is a key position that will be located in one of the intervention states and within the education department. S/he will be accountable for project implementation with technical support from the GEP unit at Central Support Office, New Delhi. The person will be accountable for building perspective and capacity of government functionaries and ECN on gender, inclusion and AWP in the intervention state. The person will be responsible for conducting all the activities in the intervention state as per the project work plan as approved by donor.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Support in Gender and Inclusion approach in state annual work plan & budgets for education in intervention state

• Provide support in conducting critical review of the state/district plans and PAB minutes of previous years to identify the gaps and best practices around context specific strategies for girls’ education.
• Identify the need for building perspective and capacities of the state and district officials on gender inclusive practices with special focus on gender budgeting and monitoring
• Develop training modules and training agenda for the training programs for government officials
• Provide support in continuous engagement with state/district officials on gender responsive annual work plan & budget through periodic meetings and trainings

Support ECN (in Assam) for strategic engagement in education planning and budget process

• Develop understanding on the initiatives taken by ECN in Assam
• Support ECN on systematically progressing on SMC engagement strategy through experiential workshops
• Offer need-based technical support to ECN with specific focus on evidence-based influencing for girls’ education
• Develop training agenda and training manual for ECN training
• Provide support for ECN in collating evidence for strategic engagement in AWP&B process and in organising block/district level consultations with concerned stakeholders

Networking, Knowledge, Management and Learning 

• Ensure documentation of all meetings, workshop and training program with government and ECN
• Perform any other task assigned by the line manager as per project/ organizational requirement

KEY RELATIONSHIPS
Director Program, Head GEP and technical team, Project team, Key officials at state level in intervention state (Assam)

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Post graduate degree in education/gender studies/ Social Work
• Minimum of 3-4 years’ experience of working in education sector with focus on girls’ education

Desirable

Prior experience of working with state governments/district level (education department)

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

Communication skills:

• able to articulate and communicate well to all stakeholders (both verbally and in writing) to meets the different needs (training, presentation, policy pitch)

Language skills:

• able to read, write and speak in Hindi and English at an expert level

IT skills

Proficiency in the use of Windows packages- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Internet