Role Description
Coordinating strategy and execution:
She/He has to bring together different stakeholder voices and sector practitioners from across the state to share best practices and insights, engage in dialogue, analyze new trends in learning, validate approaches, and build on new ideas around the education-skills divide, and the future of work and learning. in this role you will
Coordinate the webinars and physical events by bringing practitioners together
Develop the concept note and agenda design in partnership with various teams
Anchor the newsletter & contribute to the blog to share with the sector
Organising educators, government stakeholder meetings by fostering a community of practitioners across the MCT work districts to enable MCT 4c approach key skills and mindsets to create long-lasting change within the intervention districts of Karnataka
Organise regular roundtable convening key stakeholders of government offcials from DoE and KREIS in the space to gather and curate diverse perspectives.
Hosting an annual event to recognize and celebrate innovative practices of the educators within the government spaces
Strategic Advocacy Support :
Coordinate the state wide Advocacy working group to develop the point of view on various issues like gender, 21st century skills and system change.
Work closely with the karnataka state team to develop concept notes and advocacy plans for the state in partnership with CSOs, governments and funders
Developing policy and advocacy strategy that take into account external trends and in-depth understanding of needs and issues impacting young people on employment and education
Represent Quest alliance internally and externally as required including coalitions, task forces, panels, committees, etc.
Develop presentations and synthesis of external reports to help the leadership communicate key organisational perspectives and positions
Develop and maximize strong and effective relationships with key decision makers such as government, UN agencies and other influencer so that Quest Alliance is looked to for policy and program direction
Develop effective strategic relationships with other organizations working in aligned areas to maximize impact of Quest Alliance’s policy positions Communicate priorities and promote buy-in of advocacy campaigns among NGOs, institutions and allies
Delivering campaigns through partnerships and consultations to achieve the objectives for each issue selected.
Ideate and strategise on research initiatives to inform the advocacy strategy and influence the change
Writing, publishing and disseminating advocacy briefs
Funding Liaison
Preparing and marketing proposals for fundraising projects related to advocacy and research
Overseeing the fulfillment of donor-funded advocacy projects;
Relationship Management - Stakeholders (Internal &/ External)
Develop effective strategic relationships with other organizations working in aligned areas to maximize impact of Quest Alliance’s policy positions, Communicate priorities and promote buy-in of advocacy campaigns among NGOs, institutions and allies
Represent Quest alliance internally and externally as required including coalitions, task forces, panels, committees, etc.
Organise regular roundtable convening key stakeholders of government offcials from DoE and KREIS in the space to gather and curate diverse perspectives.
Work with district officials BRP, CRPs in ensuring they are trained on MCT.
Support the district officials in school visits and see that MCT is taken up within the district forums/dialogues.
Reporting
Maintain open lines of communication that aid in a transparent process management
Integrate research findings into a wide variety of dissemination materials
Submit all the relevant reports on time. Ensure all the relevant data for the project is available well in time
Work together with M&E focal point to share reports with stakeholders as per plan
Ensure the data is analysed and feeds into the planning and review meeting
Be available for regular line management meeting and the appraisal processes
Document the processes for the state and keeping it updated