State Programme Manager

Cluster Manager (CM)
Location : Dholpur, Rajasthan
About Magic Bus
Founded in 1999, Magic Bus works with children and young people living in poverty, in India, taking them from a childhood full of challenges to a life with meaningful livelihoods. We equip children and young people in the age group of 12 to 18, with the skills and knowledge they need to grow up and move out of poverty. Children on the Magic Bus program successfully fend off destabilizers such as child marriage and child labor to complete school and become first generation salary earners having secure careers in the organized sector.
Our youth-centered Livelihoods Program connects the aspirations and potential of young people to available market opportunities. We build their employability skills and map job potential based on individual strengths and mobility. We work with support structures like parents, teachers, the community at large and local government institutions to ensure social, emotional, and economic well- being for all young people living in that area. Our approach mobilizes the entire ecosystem available to the child or young person to create transformational change in their lives.
We operate in cities, towns, and villages in 23 states including our regional Head Quarters based in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi, and Karnataka. Magic Bus also has its global fund- raising offices in UK, US, Germany, and Singapore. Magic Bus offers a dynamic work environment for committed professionals interested in learning and growing with the organization. Get a real view of life at Magic Bus.
Check out our website http://www.magicbus.org/ Core Accountabilities:
1. Ensuring awareness of programme and support through schemes with block/ cluster level
officials in the allocated field area
2. Enabling heads of school and teachers across schools to participate in the programme through regular visits, encouragement
3. Managing and ensuring trained, regular and professional Life Skills Enablers who are Magic Bus employees (6-8) who implement the programme in letter and spirit
4. Maintaining, analyzing data for programme efficacy
5. Writing and submitting reports – narrative and financial, as required
6. Upholding the values of the organization at all levels of the intervention
Core Deliverables
1. To provide programmatic and supervisory support in programme implementation to the Program Manager and is a mid-level manager, directly managing a team of 6 – 8 Life Skills Educators.
2. Mapping the area of operations in the cluster and the communities, playgrounds, schools etc.
3. Partnership management and liasoning with local bodies, communities, schools, government institutions, etc.
4. Identifying & supporting the recruitment of Life Skill Educators and Community Coordinators in respective project.
5. On field team management and supervision.
6. Rolling out and taking ownership of technology adaptation within the cluster.
7. Identify training needs of staff and accordingly plan for capacity building programs / trainings for the team members
8. Preparing annual programme implementation plan and roll out with regular tracking of performance indicators of the project.
9. Responsible for data accuracy and updated record keeping of project documents in line with the Standard Operating Procedures.
10. Regular project reviews, strategy building for smooth programme implementation.
11. Effective financial management and control of programme budgets to monitor and oversee underspending and variance.
12. Collecting and documenting the progress on program outcomes to be shared with HO on quarterly basis
13. Documenting and sharing program updates with block officers and critical government officials on quarterly basis
Qualification:
• Candidate must have Masters in social work or any equivalent qualification
• Minimum 5-7 years of work experience in the social sector
• Good communications, facilitation and managerial skills are required
• Must have solid ground job experience
• Must have experience in report writing and MIS tracking
• Must have experience of managing donors in field
• Fluent in the local language. Additionally local dialect knowledge will be appreciated
• Preference will be given to candidates having experience of working with teachers
• Basic knowledge in Microsoft excel & word
CTC : 3,60,000/-P.A
To Apply:
bishwajeet.mishra@magicbusindia.org and himanshu.sharma@magicbusindia.org