*Position Title: ConnectEd Coordinator*
*Job Description*
*Program Summary*
World Education, Inc. and Alcatel-Lucent, through its Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, have forged a partnership to implement ConnectEd, a US$6 million global initiative to provide educational and digital skills training opportunities for children and adolescents in disadvantaged areas across six countries. This initiative will serve approximately 9,000 young people from disadvantaged communities over three years. Some 70 percent of these young people will be girls and young women. The program started in April 2011. From Year Two implementing countries have been Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India and Indonesia.
In Indonesia, the ConnectEd program began in 2012, making it the newest of the ConnectEd country programs. The program is overseen by World Education Indonesia and works with a local implementing partner called Yayasan Bina Insan Mandiri (YABIM). YABIM provides educational and vocational training opportunities to disadvantaged street youth in the greater Jakarta area. The engagement of Alcatel-Lucent employees in implementing the program is a crucial element of ConnectEd globally and is a significant focus of the program in Indonesia.
Position Summary
The ConnectEd Coordinator will be responsible for overseeing all aspects related to the ConnectEd program in Indonesia. She/he will ensure that the program design is in alignment with the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation’s requirements and that it is adequately supported and overseen throughout the life of the program. She/he is responsible for ensuring that implementation meets its targets and is of a high quality, that the work plan is carried out in a timely manner, that Alcatel-Lucent employees are actively involved in program implementation through volunteering, that the program maintains high visibility and that budgetary and financial management is appropriately carried out. She/he will be expected to report to and coordinate with the ConnectEd central team in World Education’s headquarters’ office in Boston, MA, USA. She/he is expected to develop and maintain a close working relationship with the Alcatel-Lucent Indonesia office to ensure their full engagement in the program.
*Duties and Responsibilities *
Work closely with World Education Indonesia supervisors and World Education’s central ConnectEd team to:
*Job Description*
*Program Summary*
World Education, Inc. and Alcatel-Lucent, through its Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, have forged a partnership to implement ConnectEd, a US$6 million global initiative to provide educational and digital skills training opportunities for children and adolescents in disadvantaged areas across six countries. This initiative will serve approximately 9,000 young people from disadvantaged communities over three years. Some 70 percent of these young people will be girls and young women. The program started in April 2011. From Year Two implementing countries have been Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India and Indonesia.
In Indonesia, the ConnectEd program began in 2012, making it the newest of the ConnectEd country programs. The program is overseen by World Education Indonesia and works with a local implementing partner called Yayasan Bina Insan Mandiri (YABIM). YABIM provides educational and vocational training opportunities to disadvantaged street youth in the greater Jakarta area. The engagement of Alcatel-Lucent employees in implementing the program is a crucial element of ConnectEd globally and is a significant focus of the program in Indonesia.
Position Summary
The ConnectEd Coordinator will be responsible for overseeing all aspects related to the ConnectEd program in Indonesia. She/he will ensure that the program design is in alignment with the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation’s requirements and that it is adequately supported and overseen throughout the life of the program. She/he is responsible for ensuring that implementation meets its targets and is of a high quality, that the work plan is carried out in a timely manner, that Alcatel-Lucent employees are actively involved in program implementation through volunteering, that the program maintains high visibility and that budgetary and financial management is appropriately carried out. She/he will be expected to report to and coordinate with the ConnectEd central team in World Education’s headquarters’ office in Boston, MA, USA. She/he is expected to develop and maintain a close working relationship with the Alcatel-Lucent Indonesia office to ensure their full engagement in the program.
*Duties and Responsibilities *
Work closely with World Education Indonesia supervisors and World Education’s central ConnectEd team to:
- Maintain positive relationships with the key contact persons from Alcatel-Lucent Indonesia, and work with these contacts to develop a catalog of volunteering opportunities in ConnectEd for Alcatel-Lucent employees
- Facilitate the process of YABIM management and Alcatel Lucent coordinators working together to design, advertise, and support employee engagement activities
- Collaborate with YABIM management to ensure careful programmatic and financial monitoring takes place
- Coordinate with ConnectEd Senior Teacher Trainer around teacher support activities
- Work with ConnectEd’s global team to meet all reporting requirements, including writing success stories and interviewing program participants
Throughout the life of the program:
- Provide oversight to ensure the effective implementation of activities by the NGO partner to achieve stated goals and objectives, within budget parameters and according to the timebound work plan.
- Make regular site visits to monitor implementation of activities by NGO partner
- Continue to coordinate closely with the Alcatel-Lucent contact person and assist in carrying out Alcatel-Lucent volunteer recruitment, planning activities, ensuring they are carried out, tracking volunteer activities, publicizing events that have occurred and responding to any issues relating to employee engagement in a timely manner
- Ensure the partner NGO is collecting required monitoring and evaluation data and that it is of good quality
- Provide reports to the central ConnectEd team as requested (both through a reporting matrix template that will be provided, as well through regular email updates as directed, and scheduled twice-monthly phone calls with the ConnectEd central team)
- Represent the program to donors, authorities, local partners, and other stakeholders.
- Foster relationships with local authorities and other stakeholders to ensure program buy-in.
- etc
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Be fluent in written and spoken English. (This is crucial to success in the position).
- Hold a university degree.
- Have a minimum of 5-7 years experience in project coordination, project management, or communications/ public relations.
- Excellent communication skills – report writing, networking – and computer skills.
- Have the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Possess a strong attention to detail, good organizational and coordination skills.
Desired starting date: Mid of March 2013
Application Instructions:
Interested applicants, please submit cover letter and vita by email to Rieni Handayani, Office Manager, World Education Indonesia (we-admin.hrd@indo.net.id). Files must be either in Microsoft Word or PDF format, and must be named with the applicant’s last name, followed by first name, then either “Vita” or “Cover Letter.” (Ex: Handayani_Rieni_Vita.doc;
Handayani_Rieni_Cover Letter.pdf).
Application Deadline: Sunday January 20, 2013
Application Instructions:
Interested applicants, please submit cover letter and vita by email to Rieni Handayani, Office Manager, World Education Indonesia (we-admin.hrd@indo.net.id). Files must be either in Microsoft Word or PDF format, and must be named with the applicant’s last name, followed by first name, then either “Vita” or “Cover Letter.” (Ex: Handayani_Rieni_Vita.doc;
Handayani_Rieni_Cover Letter.pdf).
Application Deadline: Sunday January 20, 2013
