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Name of the Position: Consultant – Project Coordinator
Location: Ahmedabad , Gujarat, Haridwar, Uttarakhand
About United Way Bengaluru
United Way is a not-for profit-organization that seeks to engage with and empower local communities. We have a worldwide network of local chapters, where each chapter addresses the key challenges facing a particular geographic community. We strive to:
- Analyse the root causes of societal problems
- Create awareness about issues that affect communities
- Mobilize communities to participate in development
- Build platforms for communities and the government to work together
- Provide financial and skill-based assistance
- Promote social and policy change that strengthens communities
Our global network provides the foundations for increased community impact. It comprises multidisciplinary capabilities, distributed at the global, regional, national and local levels, strengthened by centers of excellence.
About Consultant – Project Coordinator
Reporting to
Project Manager
Project description
United Way Bengaluru is implementing STEM learning classroom project in 35 Government schools in 7 locations and Scholarship support program for 200 students in 5 locations. This is a CSR funded project with rigid timelines and defined deliverables to be achieved.
Key responsibilities
- Facilitating workshops in schools as per regular intervals
- Develop good and cordial relationships with the stakeholders at the schools, government departments and the community
- Communicate requirements to relevant departments and project manager to keep progress on track
- Identification of candidates for the scholarship program
- Background verification of student details for scholarship program
- Coordinating offline and online interviews of students for the scholarship program
- Verification of candidates fees structure and bank details for the smooth distribution of payments
- Conducting offline and online mentoring sessions for the students
- Work with the project manager and the Vendor in construction of STEM classroom as per the agreed plan of work, quality and timeline
- Provide training to the school teachers regarding any specific areas as required
- Ensure all activities are completed as per the plan and timeline
- To make preparation for donor visits and volunteering activities as and when needed
- Be part of the periodic project review meetings and present the updates including weekly / monthly /quarterly reports
- Complete ownership of the photo / video documentation especially the infrastructure work for STEM learning classroom and field visits for scholarship program
General responsibilities
- Ensure professionalism at all times and demonstrate exemplary prioritization skills
- Ensure that the organization policies and protocols are being adhered to at all levels
- Ensure strict adherence to data confidentiality and security
- Willingness to travel frequently, sometimes at short notice, including to rural and remote places as per need of project or organization
- Be available for volunteering, disaster response and other emergency needs
- Work closely with project manager
- Take responsibility in managing assigned projects whenever necessary
Note: The roles and responsibilities outlined above are not meant to be an exhaustive. Flexibility is required and to carry out any other related duties that are necessary for the optimum functioning of the organization as a whole within the employee’s skills and abilities. The candidate should be available whenever a need is pointed out or becomes apparent or as reasonably instructed.
Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications
- Candidate with any degree
- Experiences of working on Scholarship/Skill development/ STEM Projects
- Good experience and understanding of community outreach activities
- Experience of up to 4 years, more than 4 years is advantage
- Proficiency in English and in local language
- Past experience of working in CSR domain will be helpful
- Sound understanding and implementation of work ethics
Skills
- Proactive and self-motivated
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritize tasks
- Good interpersonal skills and a team player
- Good data management and computer skills — MS Office
- Able to meet deadline and produce quality outputs
- Humility, honesty, integrity and ability to maintain confidentiality, able to learn new systems, methods, processes and procedures
- Open to new challenges and project domains
Salary
25,000/- per month
Kindly send applications at hr@uwbengaluru.org by 30th August, 2021 with Subject Line of “ Project Coordinator- Location Name”
with the following
- Detailed CV not more than 3 Pages
- Suitability Note – Not more than 1 Page
- 3 Professional References