Program Associate, Girls’ Education Program

Position Overview:
The Girls’ Education Program (GEP) Associate spends the majority of his or her time providing guidance and capacitating the Social Mobilizers (SMs) and assists the Program Officer in carrying out all activities of the GEP. The position will be field based and will involve frequent travel to the areas of work. The work will entail providing guidance to social mobilizers, supporting and sometimes facilitating SM trainings, working with SMs regularly, as defined in the guiding documents to ensure that they are effective in their roles in working with girls. They will also be responsible for strengthening linkages with like- minded organizations, liasioning with block/district level officials, regular program and financial tracking, collecting program data and entering it into RtR’s database and determining and delivering material support for girls participating in the program. The Program Associate will be required to be in field visit around 60% of time. The Program Associate reports to the Program Officer and manages a set of SMs and a program administrative assistant.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Program Implementation and Training (Manage Social Mobilizers)
Managing, guiding and enhancing capacity of a team of Social Mobilizers.
Lead all weekly and monthly review and feedback sessions with direct reports
Guiding SMs in planning and facilitating Room to Read’s Girls' Education Program activities. Support may include guiding an SM set her schedule of lifeskill session with girls, observing a session and providing feedback to the SM, or other activities needed to capacitate SMs to succeed in their core responsibilities.
Capacitate and guide SMs to mentor girls both in person and through remote mentoring. This may include providing ideas for group discussion topics and coaching the SMs on how to handle difficult topics or ideate with them to identify opportunities for learning visits and engaging resource speakers.
Lead all learning/exposure visits of girls with support from SMs.
Guiding the SM in identifying and supporting girls at risk of dropping or failing out of school using Room to Read’s risk and response protocol.
Conduct regular review meetings (on-line and in-person) with SMs (as per protocol) to discuss and identify solutions to challenges that SMs are facing in program implementation and in working with the girls and communities.
Develop yearly goal and conduct annual performance review of SMs
Lead all the Social Mobilizers’ trainings under the guidance of PO. This may include planning, developing and facilitating and/or co-facilitating training sessions both in person and online.
Participate in regular trainings and meetings with Room to Read staff conducted by the Country Office.
Ensure feedback is given to specific Social Mobilizers or Program Admin Assistant and recorded in written regularly.
Develop a school profile for each of the enhanced schools and regularly updated
Identify and document case studies at least 4 in a year and/or as required.
Participate in donor field visits and provide information to donors about Room to Read’s Girls’ Education Program as needed.
Facilitate in developing one state level newsletter with girls.