Programme Manager – Skilling and Employability – CCS – Govt Partnership -Karnataka

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Job Title: Programme Manager –Skilling and Employability-CCS-Govt Partnership-Karnataka

Department: Program Strategy and Impact

No of Positions: 1

Reporting to: Sr.Thematic Lead- CCS-Karnataka

About the project

Mobile Creches plans to establish a State Childcare Knowledge Hub to bring together key departments—including Women & Child Development, Skilling, Health, Labour, Education and Rural Development—to align policy, financing, quality standards and certification pathways for the childcare sector. The initiative will strengthen state capacity to develop and scale certified skilling pathways, registration systems and recognised childcare job roles aligned with national standards, enabling the transition of informal caregivers into a skilled and certified childcare workforce.

Through a pilot of publicly funded, quality childcare services, the programme will demonstrate how professionalised childcare systems can expand women’s participation in the care economy while improving access to quality early childhood care and development services. The initiative will generate evidence, operational tools, implementation frameworks and costed models to inform policy reform and support replication across states.

Eligibility Criteria

• Education: Master’s degree in early childhood education, Human Resource Development, Social Work, Education, or a related field.
• Experience: 7 to 12 years of experience in vocational training, skill development, or managing large-scale training programs (experience in early childhood care or the development sector is highly preferred).
• Sector Knowledge: Deep understanding of the care economy, early childhood development milestones, and vocational certification frameworks.
• Key Skills & Competencies:
  • Program Management: Proven ability to scale training operations across multiple geographic locations.
  • Instructional Design: Skilled in creating engaging learning materials for diverse audiences, including adult learners with varying literacy levels.
  • Stakeholder Management: Ability to collaborate effectively with government bodies, corporate CSR partners, NGOs, and frontline community workers.
  • Empathy & Leadership: A people-centric mindset with a strong passion for empowering women and low-income workers

Roles and Responsibilities

• Curriculum Development & Pedagogical Standards:
  • Design Training Frameworks: Develop comprehensive training curricula covering Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), child nutrition, safety, hygiene, and socio-emotional development.
  • Integrate Modern Tools: Incorporate digital literacy, play-based learning methodologies, and modern child-tracking tools into the training modules.
  • Standardization: Align the curriculum with national vocational standards, childcare certifications, and evolving industry regulations.
• Program Execution & Training Delivery:
  • Rollout Training Programs: Oversee both foundational and continuous training programs for newly recruited and existing creche workers.
  • Hybrid Modalities: Manage a mix of classroom training, on-the-job mentorship, and e-learning initiatives.
  • Capacity Building: Train and manage a team of master trainers and center supervisors to ensure uniform training quality.
• Employability & Career Progression:
  • Career Pathway Mapping: Build transparent promotion metrics, transforming entry-level creche workers into senior caregivers, supervisors, or center managers.
  • Certification Partnerships: Collaborate with government bodies, vocational universities, and accreditation agencies to provide recognized certifications
  • Skill Monetization: Design frameworks that link skill milestones directly to wage hikes, performance bonuses, and better benefits.
• Quality Assurance, Monitoring & Evaluation:
  • Competency Assessments: Establish audit mechanisms and practical tests to measure the skills and behavioral competence of creche workers
  • Impact Evaluation: Track key metrics such as training completion rates, worker retention, and the resulting improvement in childcare quality indicators.
  • Feedback Loops: Gather data from center audits and parent feedback to regularly update training content.

Application Procedure

Interested candidates should submit their CV, cover letter, and details of last drawn CTC to hradmin@mobilecreches.org and Manjunath.b@mobilecreches.org within 10 days of the advertisement. Subject line: Application for Project Manager- CCS-Govt Partnership-Karnataka. Fill out form: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/Q0utb8dBef

Note: Submission of a cover letter and details of last drawn CTC is mandatory.

About Organization

Mobile Creches, (MC) a pioneer NGO, has been operational since 1969, providing childcare and health services to more than 15,000 children every year in the National Capital Region, through workplace and community-based crèches and daycare centres, every year.

MC pioneered the cause of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) and focuses on young children under six years in urban slums and children of migrant workers at construction sites. MC’s multi-pronged approach-providing childcare services to young children at worksites, urban slums, rural and tribal communities, working with parents and communities to amplify the ECD agenda, enhancing linkages with government ECD services, training the ECD workforce, influencing government policies, promoting research in the field of ECD; addressing both the short and long term needs of children. It is officially recognized as the National Creche agency by the government and is on the path of accelerating ECD services for the children of marginalized communities by scaling up in partnership with the government and other players in civil society.

Children showing signs of growth faltering, undernutrition, or wasting will be identified at an early stage, referred to appropriate health facilities, and systematically followed up to support recovery. A strong emphasis will be placed on improving nutrition outcomes through age-appropriate feeding practices, regular growth monitoring, and strengthened coordination with government nutrition and health systems.

Mobile Creches currently working with Govt Departments, CSO Partners and also have the direct intervention in Karnataka. The centres cater to children aged 7 months to 6 years, ensuring nutrition, health, hygiene, safety, protection, and early stimulation for holistic development, while also linking families to government entitlements. Growth-faltering, underweight, and wasted children are identified, referred to health facilities, and followed up for recovery. As an organization, Mobile Creches adheres to a strict safeguarding policy. All staff, volunteers, interns, vendors, consultants, etc. are obliged to be aware of the conditions of this policy, be a signatory to this, and follow the norms.