Job Description

Overview
iTeach Schools runs free and high-impact secondary schools and a college-to-career program for the
most disadvantaged students of Pune and PCMC. Like many Indian cities, both of these public education
systems only go up to Grade VII, leading to the poorest students being unable to finish their schooling.
In 2023, with a staff of 250 members across nine schools, we will serve 2800 students and 2000+ alumni

• giving students a fighting chance at college, career, and citizenship. We aim to grow to 30 schools and

10,000 students over the next five years.
Take a peek into our world here.


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


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 \xe2\x80\x9cdifficult\xe2\x80\x9d 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 Socio-Emotional Learning classes in school

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

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

Experience and Competencies

• 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 under-privileged populations.
• Preferred: Experience of working directly with youth of the age group 14-18.

Location: Pune