School Social Worker
School Social Worker
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Job Description
Overview
iTeach Schools is a fastgrowing community of transformational schools focused on providing a free foundational and excellent education to secondary students. We operate nine schools from Grades VIII to X across Pune collaborating with the Pune Municipal Corporation. (Breeze through our sixyear journey here or get a peek into a typical school day here!
Our students belong to Punes most underresourced households. Our schools exist to give them a fighting chance at college career and citizenship through which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
We are known for our stellar results worldclass Professional Development exciting leadership opportunities and nurturing work culture. In our seventh year we serve 2000 students and 1350 student alumni through a strong team of nearly 170 staff members. In the academic yearwe are looking to expand our community of schools and are looking for exceptional individuals to lead these efforts!
Responsibilities:
All our students come from difficult backgrounds economically and socially. The Social Worker will be responsible for ensuring that our students get the maximum support possible from all stakeholders outside of the school to enable them to succeed in school and their career. These stakeholders could be parents community members medical professionals government officials and so on. The Social Worker will be especially responsible for the most struggling students who will not succeed in school without full involvement of the stakeholders mentioned earlier.
The three different parts of the role are as follows:
A Student Welfare:
Understand community profile and orient teachers about community and parents
Collating complete student and parent information at the time of admission
Identifying monitoring tracking and solving issues linked to student attendance punctuality and retention through regular home visits
Providing intensive support to difficult students via investment of stakeholders
Ensuring our students avail of all required services outside school such as medical check ups documentation (caste certificates income certificates etc) scholarships LD testing etc
Conducting SocioEmotional Learning classes in school
B Parent Engagement:
Plan the parent engagement strategy with the School Leader
Effectively implement the strategy decided (through meetings workshops etc)
Use the Parent Meetings as the forum to build ties with parents and find solutions for challenges in the community and their lives
Form School Management Committee and facilitate their regular meetings and projects
Ensure a section of parents are volunteering to help with school operations
C Community Development:
Identify and procure resources from community which will enhance the education experience for our students (eg: after school study space ground library etc)
Be the bridge between the community and the school
Establish and enhance school relations with the corporators and local influencers
Education & Experience:
Required: MSW with specialization in MPSW or FCW with strong grades.
Required: Very strong on the ground projects during MSW.
Required: Experience of minimum 2 years working with underprivileged populations.
Preferred: Experience of working directly with youth of the age group 1418.
Location: Pune
Employment Type
Full-Time
