Country: India
Closing date: 12 Aug 2016
Job Title: Project Coordinator
Department: Programs
Location: Mumbai, India
About the organization
Fundación Educación y Cooperación vision is a world where all children fully enjoy their rights and lead a life of dignity. Our mission lies in working with children and their communities to promote just and equitable societies that guarantee their rights and well being. The three core values that govern our work include social commitment, based on fairness and solidarity; equity to create greater justice; and, respect for difference and diversity.
We are an independent International Nongovernmental Organization operational in 17 countries. The organization’s head-office is located in Barcelona (Spain). Fundación Educación y Cooperación takes a rights-based approach to supporting children in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Spain, grounded in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
Our target groups include out of school children; children of construction workers; street children; children of tribal groups; children with disability; youth from marginalized communities and duty bearers linked to the lives of these children.
Our approach involves working with local communities, civil society actors and public institutions that are in direct contact with children and young adults – without substituting for, or playing the role of, the State. We are positioned and committed toward enabling and ensuring children’s rights in India, particularly in Maharashtra.
Job description
- Prepare results and rights based concept notes, project proposals and budgets in collaboration with partner organizations. Maintaining timelines and adhering to the best practices and quality processes.
- Prepare monitoring reports (technical and budgetary) and support partners in documenting all the aspects of implementation and reporting comprehensively to Fundación Educación y Cooperación
- Validate all projects reports after due analysis, review and follow up ensuring coherence and relevance in narrative reports and integration with financial reports for quality project management.
- Effectively conduct program monitoring and evaluations to improve program performance, and program status report.
- Ensure Rights-based and results-based programming approach fully incorporated into all phases of program and projects processes.
- Work with program team and partners to design and enhance M&E tools, indicators, protocols, surveys and evaluation instruments to strengthen quality data collection, analysis and reporting on projects.
- Contribute to the development of Country Strategy Plan through providing assessments, reviews, good practices, lessons learnt and innovative strategies.
- Actively contribute to planning and coordinating state level events, possible collaborations/networks or alliances with guidance from the line manager, head of programs.
Qualifications of successful candidate
- Masters degree in Social Sciences/Social Work or related fields.
- Minimum 3-8 years of professional work experience in program design planning, monitoring and evaluating projects, interfacing with the government and other stakeholders. Initiative, ability to analyze and focus on outcome will be required to fulfil the role.
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English and knowledge of local languages is desirable.
- Should be willing and able to travel extensively.
How to apply:
Interested and qualified candidates kindly mail your resume and a cover note explaining how you meet the qualifications required for this job to info.india@educo.org by 12/08/2016
Fundación Educación y Cooperación professes and maintains equal employment opportunity in its recruitment. There will be no discrimination on the basis of religion, caste, community, physical disabilities or gender in its recruitment.