Job Description

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About the Organisation:

Reach India Trust - a nationally recognised NGO headquartered in Kolkata – is working in poverty endemic states of India with a mission to enable women and young girls to build futures of health, hope and dignity for themselves and their families by bringing knowledge, life skills and linkages. Reach India Trust has been promoting demonstrable and replicable models for capacity building across different geographies focusing on young girls in the age group of 10-19 years and women’s self-help groups (SHG’s). The organisation focuses in the east and northeast including in Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Sikkim & West Bengal.

About the Project:

Reach India Trust with support from its corporate partner Tech Mahindra Foundation is currently implementing a program on vocational skill building for unemployed and marginally poor youths. The program known as SMART promotes market appropriate skills for youths mobilised from urban slums, provide 4 months course to them, grooming them for interviews and with support of employers assist them to gain better employability options.

Job Profile

Name of the position: Community Mobilizer

Number of Position: 1 (One)

Application closing date: 18th November 2024

Location: Kolkata (West Bengal)

Eligibility Criteria:

• Preferably Graduate in the field of Arts or Social Work

• Masters in Arts or Social Work can also apply

• Should be have basic computer knowledge well conversant with MS Office (MS –word, Excel and Power point)

• Should be fluent in Bengali and Hindi. Should be able to conversate in English

Compensation: CTC – Upto INR 1.8 Lakhs per Annum.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• To identify the new location of slums in and around Kolkata where the middle level educated youth including women of the poor families are available and they have the need to gain employment for improvement of their economic status.

• To prepare a strategic plan in coordination with the Centre Manager to make need assessment of the youth of the poor slum localities.

• To make sure of the door to door house visit of the poor families, location wise in Kolkata

• To call them in a focus group discussion (FGD) and give project orientation for them on the facilitation and opportunities that they may explore a gainful employment.

• To make sure that the parents are invited in the same FGD for necessary counsel prior to the selection of potential candidate.

• To ensure the target candidates and enroll their names with full address including pin code and mobile no along with E-MAIL-ID, if available, in a separate sheet of paper in the meeting.

• To meet the potential employers to ascertain that the trained candidates are placed in suitable employment.

• To make sure for preparation of profile of each selected candidate in format and keep them as office record in the VTC.

Report writing and Documentation:

• Documentation on the social mobilization of the centre as Reach India initiatives

• Develop case studies and preparing communications materials as per TMF model

• Coordinate for project documentation for the Tech Mahindra Foundation

• Coordinate, implement and documentation of the social mobilization processes with the support of other staffs, if any.

How to Apply

Please send the updated resumes along with the Cover letter to hr@reach-india.org with Subject Line as “Application for the post of Community Mobilizer”.

About Company

Reach India Trust is a registered non-governmental organization (NGO) working the field of Education & Literacy, Health & Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, Micro Finance (SHGs), Rural Development & Poverty Alleviation, Womens Development & Empowerment, Youth Affairs, etc. The NGO works towards the promotion of sustainable development. The NGO was established in 2006?. The registration number of the organization is: 3781?(20-07-2006)?. The organization is operational in West Bengal, India.

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