Job Description - Centre Cum Placement Incharge
Location(s)*
AT-Kamat Ali, Alibag, Raigarh, Alibag, Maharashtra- 402201
SOS Children's Village Raipur Airport Road, Mana Camp, Post, Banarsi, Raipur, Chhattisgarh 492015
Experience (Min - Max)*
Graduate with minimum 4-5 years experience in managing the skill development centre or experience in placement of candidates of vocational training
Preference
Male/Female
Employment type: Full time
Reporting to :Head VTC
Department: VTC
Overall Responsibility: Overall Centre Management and ensuring youth needs assessment, vocational skills training and are successfully placed in work.
Roles & Responsibilities
• Recruit and induct Centre livelihood staff for delivering programme at centre level and manage all aspects of their performance.
• Ensure quality programming and placements
• Quality programme reporting and documentation and partner management and timely coordination for financial reporting and documentation
• Manage SOS VTC resources (budget and centre), staff and local partners to ensure the full offer of programme is available to youth in the centre.
• To be accountable for youth placements in the Centre
• Lead a staff team Achieve targets at each stage of intervention including mobilisation, needs assessment, skills training delivery and placement in work.
• Support frontline staff to complete comprehensive needs assessment 1:1 with youth to identify their strengths and limitations, training and life skills needs and overall targets for the programme.
• Formulate personal development plans for each youth that sets out their training schedule and work or education targets.
• Provide high quality career counselling and impartial Information, Advice and Guidance that empowers youth to make positive choices about potential careers.
• Oversee all centers community need assessments and mapping exercise of other stakeholders in the local areas (government / NGO/ private and corporate foundations).
• Ensure centre level staff record interventions and activities with youth effectively and data is reported and analysed to improve the quality of work on ground with youth.
• Identify and respond to risks that could lead to youth dropping out of the programme.
• Work with employers to ensure adequate placement opportunities exist at a local level for youth completing the programme.
• Monitor the effectiveness and quality of partner interventions and training delivery.
• Manage mentoring arrangements in the centre including matching youth to mentors and supporting mentors as required.
Desired Competencies:
• Strong operational and team management skills that can be tailored to lead SOS VTC staff, training partners and employers.
• Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills including the ability to design training schedules and operational centre timetables.
• Strong financial management skills including managing budgets and using staff and centre resources flexibly to meet need.
• Sharp focus on outcomes and how to shape interventions to achieve the maximum impact with youth on the programme.
• Build positive relationships with youth and motivate individuals to achieve defined targets of taking up work or further education.
• Able to undertake need assessments with youth that sensitively identify youth's personal strengths and limitations.
• Can implement new processes and ways of working across an operational staff team. Can-do attitude and willingness to use own initiative to solve ground level problems Willingness to work evenings and weekends occasionally as required by programme.
Qualification and Experience (essential unless otherwise stated):
• Relevant Graduate or Post Graduate degree or similar professional qualification from a reputed institution.
• Experience of working with and achieving positive outcomes for disadvantaged 18-25 year olds.
• Minimum 2 years managerial experience of frontline staff delivering interventions to children/youth.
• Knowledge of youth needs with regard to progressions into work or further education.
• Direct experience of career counselling and providing Information, Advice and Guidance to youth across a range of issues.
• Experience of need assessment and/or creating personal plans and targets with youth.
• Experience of either employability skills, job placement, youth development or vocational training programmes either directly or indirectly
• Experience of engaging with wider stakeholders in disadvantaged communities including parents, schools, colleges, panchayats.
• Experience of providing guidance and support to young people on a range of development issues including career or education choices.
Interested candidates can share their cv at recruitment.hgs@hgedu.org