Monday, July 19, 2010

Careers in non profit Sector

Serve the society and earn the money


A job of satisfaction(introduction)

NPO management sector is one of the fastest growing sectors as per the recent researches. A number of national and international ngo are setting up their operations in India. This is the main reason of increasing manpower requirement in this sector. A lot of fruitful opportunities are waiting for the youngsters in non-profit sector. It not just gives them a nice remuneration but also gives a sense of satisfaction thru serving the society in a better way. The NGO management program is designed to use the management strategies in social service sector so that the non-government organizations can plan specific goals and achieve them easily. It organizes their important documents effectively such as annual working reports, project reports, campaign details e.t.c. It also helps Non-government organizations in commuting with government authorities and in collaboration with other similar working non-government organizations. This course also seeks to convey a thorough understanding of the organizational framework under which NGO’s function. Another facet is the distribution of portfolios among the members of the organization as per their skills. It entirely focuses on the management of the organization. NGO management courses prepare the individuals with the understanding that will enable him to formulate strategies and operational pathways. He will also be able to manage the entire activity of the organization as well as chalk out financial campaign and other policies as per the necessities of the organization.

Necessary Skills

This course is available at postgraduate level. All the people who have done their graduation in any stream can do this course. As you know it’s a non-profit management course, so to do this, one should have a keen interest to manage the things and situations. The students should also have interest in serving the society and traveling in remote areas. The knowledge of local language will become an added advantage for the aspirants.

In this course, one learns to develop a better understanding towards the entire subject range in detail and from a much more realistic perspective.

Key features of npo management courses: In this course, students will get aware with the financial and administrative management as well as awareness with global issues, environmental issues and the socio economic development in the world at large. They will also get focused on community development, developing human resource and finance, leadership skills, socio cultural perspective and management of information. Experienced NGO professionals, social workers, and volunteers can also study these courses.

A. Financial and Administrative Supervision- In this aspects the students got the thorough knowledge of financial and administrative knowledge of ngo about donations to fundraising as well as planning and implementation of volunteer ship campaigns.

B. Awareness about Global Issues- this feature will make students aware with global issues which helps them to design a fundraising proposal as per the international circumstances. It helped a lot to Non profit organizations in fueling their ongoing projects while recessions.

C. Awareness about Environment- This feature will make students aware with the environmental issues such as global warming, green house effect, deforestation, marine conservation, biodiversity. Actually, some parental organization grants only for some specific environment related project. Therefore, to understand these things will surely give a boost in their career.

D. Awareness about global socio-economic scenario- This feature deals with the socio economic aspects such economic security, economic and racial justice, ecological democracy, economic independence, ecumenical relations e.tc.

E. Community Development- This feature makes them aware with social issues such as civil participation, civic and community service, communal harmony. Community services and community based programs

F. Management of Information- In this feature, they learn to arrange the information in a right manner. It deals with the information as the proposed donor, their past donations and the way of donating in old projects, plus the level of negotiations and the reasons of refusals of proposals and many more. The arrangement of information’s in a right manner will help them in creating winning strategies.

G. Organization of Issue Based Campaigns- in this feature the students will learn to prepare an issue based campaign. It is necessary to know the needs of a campaign before organize it. In issue-based campaign, the focus is on the specific issues instead of covering a standard working area. For example, a campaign that is made to provide the education to the children’s at primary level will work specifically on primary education.

H. Developing Human Resource and Finance- In this feature the will students learn to develop the human resources thru community service programs, volunteer ship campaigns and all. It helped them to be economic in their entire projects.

I. Attainment of Socio Cultural Perspective- it deals with the culture related issues. In this way, they learn that how they can work efficiently in a specific culture. In addition, what changes they need to adapt while working with another culture.

J. Social Entrepreneurship- this section makes them aware with the concept of social entrepreneurship. It helps them to develop social entrepreneurship programs thru self-help groups, skill training to the small farmers, Computer educations to the unemployed youth.

K. Leadership- it is a very important aspect of the course. It develops the leadership in the individuals so that they can be able to take the appropriate decision in the crucial situations

How to get Enrolled…

The basic requirement to be enrolled in this course is being a graduate. While some institutions are open to take admission via first come first serve process but some institutions are also takes admissions thru the entrance examinations.

Institution

Here are some institutions who have offered their courses in NPO management.

Sr.No.

Institutions

Duration of course

Qualification

Date of application

1-

Amity Institute of NGO Management

2 years

Graduation

2-

AnnamalaiUniversityDirectorate of Distance Education, (Tamil Nadu)

2 years

Graduation

3-

Bharathidasan University
Centre for Distance Education,

Tiruchrappali (Tamil Nadu)

2 Years

Graduation

4-

Madurai Kamaraj University,

Directorate Of Distance Education, (Tamil Nadu)

2 Years

Graduation

Opportunities IN NPO management.

As a number of NGO are operating their project in India that makes many opportunities for trained & skilled individuals of this field. After the completion of the course one can be hired on the post of an NGO manager, NGO project coordinator, community service providers and research fellow in NGO projects. NGO human resource and finance manager

You can align yourselves with reputable institutes that are working in various domains of community development such as the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Amity Institute of NGO Management, Women’s Emancipation Projects, AIDS Awareness Projects, Juvenile Delinquents rehabilitation program etc.

This is a line of work that offers a plethora of opportunities abroad. There are many NGO’s operating on an international scale such as the United Nations, UNICEF, NATO, and UNESCO, WHO, Social service provider and the like.

Then you have organizations like Amnesty International, Red Cross, World Bank, Green Peace and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. All these organizations have job opportunities in various segments of their organization.