2024 Magic Bus India Foundation
Host Organization: Magic Bus India Foundation
Website: http://magicbus.org
Organization Profile: Magic Bus India Foundation is one of the leading NGOs in the education and skilling space in India. Over 24 years, the organisation has established its presence across 72 Districts in 24 states and UTs of India. Magic Bus works with young people in the age group of 12 to 25 years by equipping adolescents and youth from underserved communities with life skills and employability skills that enable them to thrive in the transition from childhood to livelihood.
The Childhood Programme is designed to empower adolescents (12-18yrs) with life skills and education enhancement to enable them to complete secondary education. Magic Bus has established a network of 302 Community Learning Centres (CLCs), reaching 2,770 schools with 51% girl participation. The Livelihood Programme equips youths (18-25yrs) with skills that enhance their employability and enable them to adapt to the ever-evolving job market. With 95 Livelihood Centres, 825 college tie-ups and 8 Entrepreneurship Incubation Centres, the programme has enrolled 56% young women. Over the past two decades, Magic Bus has empowered over 10 Lakh adolescents and placed more than 2 Lakh youths in sustainable jobs across India. Magic Bus has been selected as one of the top implementing agencies for the first Skill India Bond programme implemented by NSDC with the support of various market players. Magic Bus India Foundation’s exemplary work has garnered several awards, most recently, the ASSOCHAM award for Best NGO, recognized by HundrED as one of the top 100 education innovations, Great Place to Work® certified for three consecutive years and recognized as one of India’s Top 10 NGOs to work for. More than 2500 staff across the country leading these valuable jobs.
City: Delhi NCR
Internship format: In-person
Internship Department: Program Operations
Work description:
NBSA project
- The Project Volunteer led Life skill program is an innovative project that is implemented under a government-run Literacy program i.e Nav Bharat Saksharata Abhiyan (NBSA). Since the program design of Nav Bharat Saksharata Abhiyan (NBSA) is voluntary based, Magic Bus took this opportunity to be associated with the NBSA project and utilize this opportunity to utilize the services of Volunteers to impart life skill education to adolescents. This approach is being tested in the Ajmer district. Based on the experience, Magic Bus is working with the Department of Literacy Education to scale up to other districts. The project shall in parallel work with the district education department to build the capacities of District and Block resource group members.
Panchayat Led Life Skill Innovation Project
- This is a pilot initiative to test the Hypothesis “If we capacitate Panchayat on the importance of the Life skill and FNL, we expect Panchayat shall take the ownership of delivering the same to adolescents in their respective communities”. Magic Bus is focusing on demand creation and providing all possible technical support to sustain these efforts in the long run. The implementation process has been started with sensitization and concretization of PRI members on the importance of Life Skills and FNL signing an MoU with the interested Panchayat and sharing the cost of the Budget. As the project progresses, the cost-sharing ratio of Panchayat shall increase and gradually it will be taken over by Panchayat.
Number of Opening(s): 2 (one for each project)
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 20 – Aug 10 2024): Six days a week, 30-35 Hours
Work Attire: Formal attire is preferable at the office and Semi Formal attire at the field.
Local Language: Hindi
Local language level needed: Not required
Additional desired intern qualifications: Good communication, and documentation skills, knowledge of MS-office (intermediate level), ability to do Focused Group Discussions, prepare questionnaires, and lead the assignments with limited resources. Zeal to work in the office and at the community level. Ready to take responsibility. Innovative.
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City: Mumbai and Delhi
Internship format: In-person
Internship Department: Livelihood
Work description: Magic Bus, working in the skilling ecosystem, provides a plethora of livelihood programmes, including the Youth Skilling Programme, Connect with Work Programme, Digital Programmes, and Entrepreneurship Development Programme. These programmes help to build the youths from underserved households with transferable life and employability skills and there on transit them to sustainable workforce, with secured employment in customer-centric job roles within the service sector. These programmes are backed by innovative technology tools, strong partnerships, and engagement with stakeholders.
Based on above we expect the interns to be worked in following areas
- Content and curriculum development on life and employability skilling – using AI-Bot, LMS, and self-learning materials.
- Impact assessment tools and system creation including quality tools and process development
Number of Opening(s): 2 (one for Delhi – regional office and one for Mumbai – Head Office)
Work Hours and Internship Start/End Dates: (Monday to Friday, June 24 – Aug 16 2024): Five days a week, 40 Hours
Work Attire: Formal
Local Language: Hindi
Local language level needed: Not required
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