About the Organisation

Room to Read seeks to transform the lives of millions of children in low-income communities by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education. Working in collaboration with local communities, partner organizations and governments, we develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and support girls to complete secondary school with the relevant life skills to succeed in school and beyond.

About the Position

The Literacy Facilitator (LF) will be responsible for supporting and coaching teachers, librarians, and principals in the literacy program schools to help them adopt to new ways of working with children that increase the children’s literacy skills and habit of reading.  They will report to the Literacy Program Officer/Associate and will not have any direct reports. This position is based at project location (District/Block/Mandal/ Cluster).

Roles & Responsibilities:

Program Understanding:

  • Develop a thorough understanding of Room to Read’s Literacy program design
  • Support literacy program intervention across assigned project schools and ensure adherence to the program design
  • Provide reflective feedback on program design and implementation (especially with respect to progress towards outcomes) and demonstrate a solution oriented approach
  • Serve as a technical resource to the schools in the area of language development, literacy skills and reading.

School Visits:

  • Undertake school visits with government resource person at cluster levels every day, except for days when on official travel and leave.
  • Regularly observe, demonstrate and coach Grade 1 and 2 teachers in delivering the instructional component of the Literacy Program.
  • Conduct informal assessment of at least 5 children during every school visit and discuss with teachers and share report to supervisors.
  • Regularly observe, demonstrate and coach teachers and librarians in the implementation of the model library period, reading activities and library management practices.

Training, Workshop and Meeting:

  • Participate and facilitate in regular teacher and librarian trainings (both center based and school based) related to the Literacy program (Instruction, library activities and management)
  • Participate in development of materials, training modules and other technical resources as required
  • Attend professional development training and workshops at block/district/state/national level, as required.
  • Attend review meetings at block/district/state within RtR and with government stakeholder, as required, and complete all programmatic reports on a timely manner
  • Participate in monthly review meetings with CRC’s at school level.

Planning, Reporting and Documentation:

Compile and analyze ongoing reading skill assessments data conducted by school and plan school wise corrective action in discussion with supervisors.

  • Tracks and reports library monitoring data to ensure timely and accurate reporting to stakeholders.
  • Conducts ongoing planning, documentation, and reporting.
  • Write monthly reports to supervisor including progress data of CICO and status of student reading skill, in a template provided by RtR.
  • Documents best practices and lessons learned and shares with the Literacy program team.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor Degree in education / social sciences or equivalent
  • Minimum 2- 3 years of relevant experience in development projects, preferably in education
  • Teaching experience at primary level preferred
  • Strong knowledge about education in general and language and reading practices and approaches in particular
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Good interpersonal skills and a team player
  • Critical thinking and analytical skills

Compensation:

  • The salary range for this position will be determined based upon the experience of the candidate hired.
  • Health benefits are also provided.
  • The non-monetary compensation includes a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, meaningful, and rapidly growing organization that is changing the world through the lifelong gift of education.

Location

  • Jharkhand

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