Magic Bus India Foundation

Magic Bus India Foundation, founded in 1999 by Matthew Spacie, stands among the top five NGOs in India dedicated to education and skill development. Our organisation equips adolescents and young individuals with essential life skills and knowledge to thrive during the transition from childhood to livelihood.

Our mission is to create a world where young people break free from poverty, leading fulfilling and rewarding lives while making positive contributions to their communities. We achieve this by enabling adolescents to complete their secondary education, providing them with the necessary skills for employment, and connecting them to job market opportunities. Our target age group ranges from 12 to 24 years.

We operate two flagship programs: the Adolescent Programme and the Livelihood Programme.

1. In our Adolescent Programme, we prioritise the instillation of life skills and the enhancement of education. Through our network of 2,770 connected schools operating in 72 districts across 24 states, we have positively impacted the lives of over 1 million adolescents, with an impressive 51% participation rate of girls.

2. The Livelihood Programme focuses on enhancing employability by providing specialised skills training and connecting young individuals to sustainable livelihood opportunities. Through our 95 Livelihood Centres and 825 Colleges, we offer sector-specific training, job placements, and post-placement support. This programme, operational in 13 states, has achieved an impressive 56% participation rate among girls and has successfully facilitated the placement of 2,02,429 youths to date.

Key Responsibilities:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

- End to end manage the projects including tracking project progress, red flags, challenges and concerns

- Create meaningful reports through data analytics to showcase the project progress

- Schedule and coordinate for regional meetings

- Participate and actively contribute in meetings

- Observed F2F delivery of offline sessions and share observations and reports

- Upload SOPs, videos other relevant tools for reference on regular intervals of time

- Support in coordination and timely submission of case stories and bi- annual reports

- Manage budgets and have understanding of utilization and expenses

- Work on SOPs, M&E framework and other result based models to improve program efficacy

DATA MANAGEMENT:

- Collate and review all data pertaining to the program and covering the life cycle of young person (enrolment, training, placement and retention)

- create dashboards on critical M&E parameters and release weekly/fortnightly and monthly reports to the regional team and Sr. Management

- Responsible for data analysis and presenting trends of the overall project

- Track the progress of young people's performance and raise timely alerts for non-completion

- Facilitate pre and post-test of young people

- Work on the internal data submission tracker to see what data is pending and accordingly alert the regional teams

- Share outcome data (placement) with the regional team for ensuring that % placement as per M&E framework is achieved.

- Regularly cross-check Sixer class/MIS data to ensure that there are no data discrepancies

- Handhold regional teams and regularly sort any queries or challenges they face in filling data

- Support Sr. Manager on funder reports and other updates viz a viz data

TRAINING & CAPACITY BUILDING:

- Facilitating sessions on SOPs, data management and tools as and when required

- Supported in planning and organising National Meets

- Additionally take up any other roles and responsibilities within the project as assigned

Desired Competencies:

- Sound knowledge and hands on experience of excel and advanced excel

- Ability to manage and draw inferences from large scale data

- Ability to support with project management as required

Qualification and experience

- 10+ years of work experience in data analytics and have understanding of how data helps in project management

- Excellent communication and team work skills

- Is able to work independently with little handholding support

- Excellent at advanced MS

- Self starter

- Has good reporting skills