Officer (Skill Education) – Lend A Hand India

Lend A Hand India is a leading multi-state NGO working in skill education sector since last 13 years with partnership with 24 States/UTs across India. At its core, Lend A Hand India strives to facilitate the “school to work” transition of 14-18 years old school children. Its project management teams provide Systems change support to the State Samagra Shiksha offices across India, in alignment with the Co-Impact (a donor collaborative of Gates/Rockefeller/Skoll/Nilekanis etc) vision and mission of sustainable change and development. Currently, 10,000+ schools and 10 lakh + students are a part of this program with around 200 team members working PAN India.

Lend A Hand India’s innovative approach has been recognized by Ashoka, CNN-IBN, ICICI Foundation and Dasra. Lend-A-Hand India’s major funding partners include Ashmore Foundation, Axis Bank Foundation, Bajaj Auto, Credit Suisse, eClerx, EMpower Foundation, Godrej Agrovet, Great Eastern Shipping, Human Dignity Foundation, JP Morgan Chase, MacArthur Foundation, Macquarie Group etc. Our co-founder, Sunanda Mane was awarded the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship for the approach and work done by Lend-A-Hand India.

Job Description

IndustryNon Profit Organization Management

Position Summary

You need to believe that the change can be brought only by being part of the system and from “within the system”. You need to be able to keep your egos and logos out of the door and live by 3Ps in life – Patience, Persistence & Perseverance. You also need to believe that, we all are great at making policies but not so great at implementation and you need to be ready to change that!

Under the aegis of the MOU signed between the state’s “Samagra Shiksha” under the Department of Education and Lend A Hand India, the Officer (Skill Education) will be responsible to lead program management and monitoring support to ‘Department of Education – Samagra Shiksha’ for the implementation of scheme of vocational education in that state. The candidate will be embedded within the Deptt of Education co-located in its office. Our agreement with the government says, they will give us table and chair, fan is optional…everything rest we will bring !

Principal Responsibilities:

Represent Lend A Hand India within the state department of education, help formulate and execute the policy to scale up vocational education within the state in partnership with the state government

What You’ll Do:

§  Liaison and support Samagra Shiksha officials in planning, execution and monitoring of vocational education activities through the school academic year

§  Document and draft official letters and proposals, file noting, presentations, etc.

§  Develop monitoring strategies and ensure timely implementation of program requisites

§  Support on Data Collection and Reporting to provide data based decision making

§  Budgeting and planning of vocational education components

§  Organize and facilitate/lead meetings and events with multiple stakeholders

§  Liaison with Govt. officials to ensure seamless implementation of Vocational Education scheme

§  Coordination with various state departments and external parties (such as NSDC, Sector Skill Councils, Vocational Training Providers, PSSCIVE etc.) involved in execution of vocational/skill education

§  Develop industry linkages and facilitate their active participation on the skill development efforts

§  Networking and advocacy with state and district administration

§  Keep the self-updated with latest schemes and govt. programs relevant to the skill ecosystem

§  Collaborate with internal and other state’s team to use and share learnings and practices

How We’ll Help You Grow:

There is no limit to how much or how fast you can grow in this role. Here, you will truly experience what it is like to work with the government and get your voice in the policy making and execution. With time, you will be able to build a strong understanding of our program, the problems we are looking to solve, student needs and pain points, and more.

This is the best role to get a bird’s eye view of the vocational education, giving you an opportunity to quickly grow into multifaceted roles. Based on the interest and expertise that you develop with time, candidates can expect to go on to either lead their own teams, launch us in new markets or create new products.

Requirements

What You Need to Bring:

§  2-3 years of work experience (in addition to fellowship experience, if any)

§  A keen interest in learning about business

§  You are an entrepreneur at heart

§  You do not wait for instructions and guidelines but belief in taking end-to-end ownership of things

§  You are excited to learn new things and do not shy away from going above and beyond the traditional growth paths

What Will Get You Brownie Points:

§  Past experience of working with the government

§  Understanding of the development sector in general or education sector in particular