Life Skills Coordinator

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Job Description – Life Skills Coordinator The Leadership Academy Facilitator under the supervision of Gateway Project Manager assesses students’ development needs and delivers Leadership Academy modules through interactive sessions and activities. Ensures implementation of Leadership Academy curriculum by developing sessions and teaching materials. Develops pre-, formative and summative assessments to evaluate effectiveness of sessions and collaborates with the Manager to refine lessons. Key responsibilities and accountabilities: Duty 1: Leadership Training · Use knowledge and understanding of best practices in leadership development, to implement Leadership Academy sessions. · Plan and facilitate student sessions using engagement strategies to make content comprehensible to all learners. · Track and resolve issues systematically in a timely and efficient manner while making adjustments as needed. · Create and implement a system to track student progress. Duty 2: Administration · Support the PM in design and implementation of Life Skills curriculum. · Assesses the students’ leadership needs. · Support Maintain all the relevant records such as assessment, enrollment, attendance, Reports, students’ work, pictures and material purchase records. · Submit quarterly reports to the Project Manager · Support the manager in tracking expenses and budget. Duty 3:Monitoring and support · Use multiple measures, including performance based assessments to evaluate student progress toward learning objectives. · Systematically track pre, formative and summative assessments for each training module. Duty 4: Professional Development · Commitment to continuous improvement through developing professional knowledge and skills. · Attends in-house or external trainings with a positive attitude and willingness to learn. Duty 5: Graduate Internship and scholarship · Support in finding and disseminating internship and/or scholarship information among DIL graduates. · Help students in preparing scholarship applications and arrange preparatory sessions as and where needed. · Support PM in tracking graduates related information and help compiling it for further dissemination. Duty 6: Aahang trainings · Coordinate with Aahang team for conducting trainings with DIL schools keeping a track of the activities. · Keep the ICT/RRP project team informed about these trainings and activities. DIL Core Values and Commitments; • Transformation : We transform lives and empower communities by pursuing innovative ideas and approaches that improve students' learning outcomes and soft skills • Excellence : We are committed to achieving the highest level of impact through excellence in service delivery and educational products • Collaboration : We take a democratic and participatory approach in all aspects of our work • Equity : We exercise fairness, compassion and respect when dealing with each other and those around us • Integrity : We strive to set high moral and ethical standards for ourselves and to gain the trust of others • Transparency : We exercise strong internal controls and transparency and are fully accountable to our donors and the people we serve • Flexibility : We drive and embrace change and are willing to try out different, pioneering approaches DIL is committed to ensuring that DIL staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the DIL’s Child Protection Policy.