Kopila Valley School (KVS)
"A world where every child is safe, educated, loved"
KVS is a nonprofit school managed by the Kopila Valley Sewa Samaj, an NGO registered in Surkhet, Nepal, and funded by BlinkNow Foundation USA to provide world-class education to the neediest children who deserve the best education. Our mission is to change the world by empowering Nepal’s children. We provide our students a free education, educational materials, health treatment and medicine, counseling, and a place to live. With our innovative future program, we strive to provide our children with career guidance, and scholarships for further studies.
The BlinkNow Foundation is a 501(c)(3) based in New Jersey which, through its country office in Nepal, oversees these programs in rural Nepal. Every day we strive to create a sustainable organization working to educate all of Kopila’s children until they are ready to enter the world as happy, skilled, confident, self-sufficient adults. We believe we can serve as a model for quality education in Nepal. We will strive to provide our children with scholarships (should they choose to pursue higher education), the skills required to enter the world as global citizens, and ambassadors for change.
Position Summary:- Student Enrichment Officer
The School Enrichment Officer will coordinate with KVS and KVSS, and will provide children of different ages with the opportunity to engage in enrichment activities to learn and enhance overall experiences that deepen their understanding both academically and socially. This position will make children’s life fun and inspiring.
Work Location: Birendranagar -4, Surkhet
Application Deadline: 30 April 2023
The Main Responsibilities
- Lead students enrichment activities
- Manage students and guide them to prepare for employment skills.
- Liaise between students, teachers and the organization to create a better learning place
Detailed Responsibilities
Lead students enrichment activities
- Organize campaigns, events, and projects to help students raise their profile and extend their reach.
- Work collaboratively with the teachers, and the management and programs team for student capacity development through organizing different enrichment activities in-campus and outside.
- Coordinate with relevant team members in the organization and facilitate the students to participate in the leagues and competitions.
- Organize different trips/site visits for the students coordinating with the relevant team members and ensuring its safety.
- Collect and document all the student enrichment activities related information
- Attend relevant college groups, associations' meetings when needed for initiating new ideas for students' enrichment activities.
Manage students and guide them to prepare for employment skills
- Support students on project work, and encourage them to develop their employability and leadership skills with confidence.
- Help students increase their performance and the creativeness through engagement and participation in different events/activities
- Collaboratively work with the team of the future for student’s practical work and their placement
- Coordinate with teachers and ensure that the students behave in a good manner in the classroom, and in the practical areas in the campus.
Liaise between the students, teachers and the organization to create better learning place
- Liaise between the organization, teachers, and students and help create a better learning environment and build good relationships with the students, teachers and with the team members in the organization
- Identify student demand (need) for enrichment activities, and coordinate with relevant curriculum development teams to prepare suitable instruction materials for the activities to develop student’s vocational skills linked to the enrichment activities.
- Support and marketing events by attending presentations and other relevant activities/events to promote college life
- Encourage students to interact and engage in classroom activities.
- Help the school to minimize any issues that create barriers to the learning and development of the students.
Additional expectations
- Takes ownership of change and engage and encourage innovation
- Build positive working relationships and environment in the organization by bringing solutions to the discussion table.
- Report to the manager on a weekly basis, and as needed in case of urgent activities.
- Build and maintain a strong relationship with the students, teachers and relevant stakeholders.
- Attend weekly staff meetings, and share operational updates.
The above list of responsibilities is not comprehensive, and the Student Enrichment Coordinator may be required to take on additional responsibilities, as determined by his/her Manager.
Must Haves
- Education and Experience: University Graduate in any discipline (University students with hands-on experience in similar field).
- Language: A good communicator, and fluent in English and Nepali
- Skills and Abilities: Ability to manage, mentor and lead students, their activities
- Passionate about and cares for children and vulnerable population; initiator, and competent in managing operations and logistics in the organization.
- Works collaboratively and independently with the least supervision required.
Key Characteristics
- You believe that we can change the world, in the blink of an eye
- You believe in making decisions that put children first
- You are self-motivated, organized, and approachable
- You enjoy creating systems, keeping records, and increasing efficiency
- You are always looking for new ways for our team to work smarter instead of harder
- You are detail-oriented and conscientious. You make sure nothing slips through the cracks
- You have a strong work ethic and a willingness to pick up new skills. You are comfortable multi-tasking
- You are positive, patient, and a clear communicator who is comfortable working with both Kopila Valley staff in Nepal and the BlinkNow staff in the United States
- You are an empathetic person, with a knack for putting out fires before they start and soothing conflicts brewing beneath the surface
- You require little supervision and are flexible. You understand that you will be wearing many hats in this role, many of which are not explicitly included in this job description
Application Procedure
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Note: No telephone inquiries will be entertained. If your application is a good fit, we will follow up with you directly for the screening process.