We always need talent to work with the craft persons, to learn with them and to grow with them. Field travels, challenging working conditions and a place in a young, driven team are what we offer. If you're someone who believes in "Career and Cause", we would love to hear from you. People with a genuine interest in contributing to community and the maturity to understand that working with the marginalized requires the best talent and not a "last career option" can apply

At KRITI, we value the following traits in our employees:

  • A perspective to look at this job as a cause rather than as a career
  • Commitment and compassion to work on the third largest marginalized community in India
  • Ability to look at crafts from the perspective of livelihoods
  • Patience to rework the crafts value-chain to make it affordable for different income segments
  • Commitment to quality

Current Openings

Vocational Training assessment and placement coordinator, Hyderabad

Organisation name: Kriti Social Initiatives

Salary: Based on experience and ability to take on program responsibility. Read more

Computer Centre coordinator

Organisation name: Kriti Social Initiatives

Location: Sheikpet Nala, near Tolichowki, Hyderabad

Salary: 30k – 40k per month Read more

Vocational Training assessment and placement coordinator, Hyderabad

Job title: Vocational Training assessment and placement coordinator, Hyderabad

Organisation name: Kriti Social Initiatives

www.kriti.org.in

Kriti is a not for profit organisation that promotes skills training and livelihoods for women and education of children. We work in the slums in Hyderabad. Kriti has a number of centres where training on skills such as tailoring and beautician is given to women. Through this training, we enable women to learn new skills and become eligible for a job.

We have four training centres for tailoring training courses under Project Milan at Rasoolpura, Suraram, Bhoiguda and Talabkatta. We are running beautician training program at Bhoiguda, Suraram and Tolichowki. Over 600 women every year receive free vocational training through Kriti and we look forward to helping the women start earning income through the program.

A full-time placement coordinator is required for managing the admission and placement activities for the batches that complete the training program. They will also assist in the other program components as follows:

Mobilisation of women for training:

  • Dissemination of information through slum leaders, any centres present in the slum
  • Distribution of pamphlets for mobilizing women
  • Home visits to talk to women about the training and courses

Enrolment of trainees:

  • Help trainer to fill up enrollment forms
  • Counsel and shortlist students

Case stories

  • conduct interview of beneficiaries and write case stories
  • write 2 case stories from every center monthly

Placement of trainees :

  • Visit tailoring units, boutiques (tailoring) and beauty parlours for vacancies
  • Accompany the students for interviews at different organisations
  • Follow up with students and trainees after placement
  • Build a database of beauty parlours and boutiques in the areas around each center and regularly keep in touch with them regarding placement and performance of our candidates
  • Build a database of past students so that we can be in touch with the students about any interesting job opportunities that are identified

Explore areas for new centres

  • Visit different areas in Hyderabad and get information about it
  • Search for rooms in the new place

Skills/qualification required

  • Bachelors degree in social work or related field
  • Freshers/1- 2 years of experience of working in the field with the marginalised community
  • Experience of conducting surveys
  • Experience in skill development programs in tailoring with livelihood linkages will be a plus
  • Strong communication skills in Hindi and Telugu is a must and ability to do softskills training will be a plus

Compensation: Based on experience and ability to take on program responsibility

To apply send your CV to : contact@kriti.org.in

Computer Centre coordinator

Job title: Computer Centre coordinator

Organisation name: Kriti Social Initiatives

www.kriti.org.in

Kriti Social Initiatives (Kriti) is an Indian Not for Profit organization (Public Charitable Trust) established in 2009 with a vision to alleviate poverty of the urban poor. Kriti works with women and children in the slums of Hyderabad to help them on the path towards economic independence and a better quality of life through improvement in the livelihoods of women and education for the children..

Kriti is running Project Pratibha to train school children in government schools and private schools on basic computer skills. We are working in three government high schools in Sheikpet Mandal and also running an independent computer training centre in Sheikpet that is open to all children in the community. The curriculum includes basics of computers, MS Office, logical reasoning, Python programming, Scratch programming and robotics.

Role:

Kriti is looking for motivated and experienced person, preferably with good knowledge of computer applications and training to manage this project.

  • Liaise with the schools where the centres are located to ensure that a proper timetable is set up for the children and that the timetable is being followed
  • Monitor the training delivery at the centre to ensure that the curriculum is being delivered as per plan and work with teachers to improve teaching effectiveness
  • Coordinate with the teachers to share teaching best practices, monitor student attendance, ensure that lesson plans and teaching aids are available at the centres
  • Monitoring and reporting on the program including student attendance, curriculum delivery, assessments and student performance on a daily / weekly / monthly basis
  • For the independent centre, work on strategies to improve enrolment and good student learning outcomes
  • Monitor the use of hardware set up at all the centres and ensure that Kriti hardware and infrastructure is maintained well and in good conditio
  • Develop case studies and visual documentation for impact assessment of the program.
  • Work with Kriti team to develop fundraising proposals and identify new locations to scale up the program.
  • Develop additional training components such as resume writing, interview preparation, spoken English etc that will help candidates who are looking for jobs
  • Run the summer camp program during month of May in 2-3 schools

We are looking for a hardworking person who will lead this program for maximum impact and be part of the team. Minimum qualifications:

  • Graduation from a good college
  • Good knowledge of computer applications including basic programming
  • Candidates with working knowledge of Hindi and Telugu will be preferred
  • Should have strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Should have 2-3 years work experience, preferably in a field related to computer training

Salary - 30k – 40k per month

To apply for this job, write to contact@kriti.org.in