Associate, Operation

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Position Title: Associate, Operation

Location: Dehradun (Uttarakhand)

Organization Profile:

Founded in 2000 on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children®, Room to Read develops children’s foundational literacy skills, as well as life skills that promote gender equality. Committed to accelerating learning outcomes for more children, more quickly, we have benefited 45 million children across 28 countries. In India, we are working since 2003 and have positively influenced lives of more than 18 million children. Presently, we work across the 12 Indian states of Chhattisgarh, New Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh. Learn more at www.roomtoreadindia.org.

Position Overview:

The Program Associate will be part of the Core Operation Team and would assist Senior / Manager Operation and the State operation team in smooth functioning of the RtR program implementation.

Responsibilities:

Planning and Management:

• Develop a good understanding of all RtR programs, their inter-linkages in view of the convergence.
• Responsible for GEP (Girl’s education Program) operations and also assisting in carrying out the additional work of literacy operations.
• Create a tracker of the states allocated and update it regularly, including procurement.
• Follow up with the state teams and admin. department, on various reports, ICs (Internal committee), and budget related issues, especially for GEP program.
• Assist in AP&B process and support state program teams.
• Coordinate with admin team for timely procurement of various provisioning of programs.
• Analyse budgets and forecasts from the states. Follow up on the variances in ICs and spending at the state level.
• Coordinate with other program teams, especially GEP program for timely redressal and mitigation of various operational issues.
• Bring in operational efficiency in existing systems with that are easily adaptable at the field level

Reporting:

• Reviewing the monthly and quarterly program reports of GEP including dashboards and provide suggestions to concerned state teams and departments as and when required, in coordination with RM&E (Research monitoring and evaluation) department.
• Generate independent reports on GSD (Global solution database) to monitor program implementation, as well as perform data analysis, in coordination with RM&E department Document best practices and lessons learned during field work and share with Program staff at state and country level.
• Facilitating the PIM at field level and its implementation at all levels in close coordination with state teams and departments, in coordination with RM&E department.

Other:

• Participate in any other activities which may be required to be undertaken to fulfil the objectives of the organization.
• Attend internal meetings (Literacy, GEP review, planning, workshops, coordination meeting etc.) and external workshops as and when required.
• Undertake field visits of both GEP and LP as required, in consultation with Senior /Manager Operations.
• Follow up on donor visits in various locations, in coordination with Communications and Dev team for both GEP and LP (Literacy Program).

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in education / social sciences or equivalent.
• Masters in education / social sciences or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in program operations.

Compensation:

Room to Read offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. Benefits include thirteenth month bonus, health insurance and a retirement plan. The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing transforming the lives of millions of children in developing countries on literacy and gender equality in education.

Application Procedure:

Kindly CLICK HERE to submit the application.

Room to Read is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to identifying and continually developing the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds.

Room to Read is a child-safe organization; all personnel are expected to adhere to Room to Read’s Child Protection Policy and Child Protection Code of Conduct.

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