School Coordinator - Social Work

Overview of the Social Work team:

The approach of the social work team is, to support and empower children to lead safe, healthy and happy lives, through strong partnerships that enrich the child's environment. The social workers support and empower children by working closely with the parents to increase their investment in their child's life education, health and emotional well-being; bettering the lives children lead in the community. This is done through community awareness drives, partnering with other organizations and initiating projects in the community; focusing on the health of children through medical camps, offering guidance for medical concerns, increasing awareness in children and their parents about health, hygiene and sanitation; capacity building of the School Management Committee (SMC) to support the school during events, bettering the services offered to students and to increase parental investment in the school; working closely with students to increase their awareness about personal safety and health; supporting victims of sexual offences and their parents to heal; and working closely with teachers to increase their understanding of families and communities the students come from, so as to provide a context to the teachers for their interactions with the students and their parents.

The Counsellors and Social Workers collaborate to support the school in the Youth Development and the Community Engagement goals of the School Development Framework. To do this they work in partnership with the School Leader, the teachers and the Network Support Team members.

Roles and Responsibilities of Social Workers:

1. STUDENT LEARNING AND WELFARE

Planning and executing the Admission process

Maintaining average school attendance

Control student dropout rate and academic continuity

Maintaining Student Documentation

Health & Nutrition along with Mid day meal distribution

Socio-emotional support to students

Child Safety

2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Knowledge and Understanding of the community

School Community Engagement Goal

NGO networking sourcing

3. PARENTS AS PARTNERS

Parent engagement

Parent welfare

4. SMC (Capacity building and involvement of the members)

Building the capacity of the SMC members

Engaging the SMC in school-wide initiatives

Engaging the SMC in community level initiatives

5. HELPER GROWTH AND EMPOWERMENT

School support

Building the capacity of helpers

6. GOVERNMENT LIAISONING

Maintain healthy relations with the various government agencies

Government documentation compliance

Experience:

1-2 years of experience working with communities and children

Knowledge/Skills:

Strong Oral and Written communication skills

Good planning and organizing skills

Understanding of English, Hindi and Marathi (verbal and written)

Knowledge and understanding of social issues

Proficient in MS Office (Excel, word and PowerPoint)

Education:

Preferably Masters in Social Work