Senior Program Manager

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. 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. Our Govt partnership programme is designed to collaborate with the government school system to train teachers to provide life skill education to adolescents in grades 6 to 10.

 

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 operate in 24 states and UTs. 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/

 

In Chhattisgarh, we are currently working in two districts namely Kanker and Kondagaon in partnership with SCERT and Samagra Shiksha, Government of Chhattisgarh with outreach of 40,000 tribal students through building capacities of teachers and systems to deliver life skills inputs in govt. schools.

The key objective of the programme is to

• Develop a scalable model in collaboration with the State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT) and the Department of School Education (Samagra Shiksha) to integrate life skills education in government schools of Chhattisgarh.
• Improve life skills among adolescents and equip them with competencies  to manage destabilizers in life.
• Improve school regularity among adolescents, leading to completion of secondary education.
• Equip teachers from government schools to deliver life skills education in the school system.
• Enable school education system with mechanism to monitor and evaluate impact of life skills delivery in government schools.

The project will support the SCERT/Department of Education in the State of Chhattisgarh to integrate life skills curriculum aligned with the National Education Policy 2020 and NCF 2023 for school education, into the state curriculum.

 

Role:

• To provide leadership and support implementation of “Teacher-led life skills programme” in close collaboration with SCERT and Samagra Shiksha, Raipur Chhattisgarh.
• Building and managing a team of professionals, prepare monthly team plan and monitor project activities on regular basis. Providing strategic direction to the project and team
• Building partnership and work in close collaboration with Government offices such as Department of School Education, SCERT, DIET, district level officials and other stakeholders
• Ensuring timely delivery of training to all relevant stakeholders such DRGs, teachers and project staff etc
• Minuting meetings with Government Departments and record keeping for internal and external purposes
• Responsible for successful implementation of programme in coordination with the Human resources, Finance, Admin and IT teams
• Writing and submitting reports – narrative and financial working closely with Regional office and other functional areas
• Regular review and monitoring of progress and financial situation
• Upholding the values of the organization at all levels of the intervention
• Accountable for delivery, outreach and quality of programme

 

Specific Responsibilities:

Recruiting and Managing the Team

 

• Ensure timely recruitment of Teams in collaboration with the recruitment teams
• Identifying SSOs and DPMs throughout the region
• Making sure all team members comply with the organization policies
• Providing them with guidance on the program deliverables, weekly and monthly goal setting.
• Ensure efficient communication within the Team

 

Training the project team

 

• Plan capacity building programs / trainings for the team members along with GP Head, Regional Director and Programme Development team
• Organize their training schedules as per the calendar prepared in collaboration with other relevant function immediately after joining

 

Program Management

 

• Preparing Quarterly/Six Monthly/ Annual Action Plan
• Ensure implementation of program in a structured equitable manner
• Follow ups on schedule / updates and checks on progress and performance of the team
• Overall managing and overseeing team’s time, personnel, and resources.
• Monthly updates, Quarterly/ Half-yearly/ Annual reports to Ops team and Institutional Partnership team
• Reporting to Govt as and when required

 

Monitoring and Evaluation

 

• Accountable for data accuracy in the state
• Records / Report Writing and data management
• Feedback and Review

 

Budget & Financial Management

 

• Manage and Handle budget related issues
• Handle all accounts and finance matters from the program end
• Reporting expenses
• Manage Approvals for Assets, properties and Personnel in the state

 

Reporting to: Regional Director/GP Head,

 

Staff Reporting: Cluster Managers (Direct Report)

 

Qualification and Experience (essential unless otherwise stated):

 

• Masters in Social Work, Rural Development, any Social Sciences or equivalent
• 7+ years’ experience in social development sector with Education sector understanding and at least 2 years in a similar leadership role working with Government Agencies
• Experience of managing large team
• Must be able to adhere to the highest ethical and moral standards and be able to display transparency.
• Must have Government partnership experience and working with multiple stakeholders
• Good communications, facilitation and managerial skills are required
• Must have experience in report writing and MIS tracking
• Fluency in English and Odia is mandatory.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft excel, Power Point & word.

 

Application process:

All applicants are requested to mention the following along with their resumes

Total years of Experience:

Current/Last drawn CTC:

Notice period:

Interested candidates to share their resume on mail ID apoorva.punekar@magicbusindia.org

CTC Budget: 8.5 lakhs p.a. (Travel and mobile additional)

Tags Candidate to have experience in social development sector with Education sector understanding and in a leadership role working with Government Agencies