Magic Bus - Head - Curriculum

Magic Bus works with children and young people taking them on a journey from Childhood to Livelihood and out of poverty. By enabling children to complete secondary education, delay their age of marriage, and skilling young people to be in jobs, we are helping move a generation out of the vicious cycle of poverty.

Founded by Matthew Spacie in 1999, Magic Bus equips children and young people in the age group of 12 to 18, with the skills and knowledge they need, to grow up and move out of poverty. This takes them from a childhood full of challenges to a life with meaningful livelihoods. Since its inception, Magic Bus has transformed the lives of one million children and young people, helping them move out of poverty.

JD:

- Conceptualize and develop age-appropriate and need-specific content using activity-based learning.

- Liaison with research, trainers and program managers to regularly update, customize and revise existing content.

- Overseeing curricula and facilitation standards with curriculum team .

- Review and edit curricula and other content documents once written and designed by curricula writers, ready for publication and dissemination.

- Coordinate instructional materials, and finalise for deploying the content

- Ensure high quality and cost-effective translations of all the curricula materials in Life skills and academics

- Ensure user-friendly books/manuals on all areas of content/curriculum.

- Collaborate with partners to develop content for the remedial learning programs for upper-primary, secondary and higher secondary school students, as required.

- Create and monitor the teacher interaction plan.

- Assess the curriculum's overall effectiveness with participants

- Use technology for tracking program delivery, assessing learning levels and training the implementation teams.

- Train the program implementation teams on program delivery and work with the teams for regular support.

- Respond to the queries from field team in a collaborative and cooperative manner.

- Manage various vendors for outsourcing content writing and translations work.

- Ensure high standards of instruction by curriculum team

Desired Competencies :

- Excellent content designing / writing skills.

- Knowledge & experience in curriculum and content development

- Understand basic behavioural change theory, child psychology, pedagogy and andragogy.

- Knowledge of conceptualizing and developing curriculum in the domain of Education, Gender, Health, Life Skills, Leadership and Livelihood is desired.

- Experience in teacher training content development and training

- Familiar with social issues like child rights, gender discrimination, education, among others

- Ability to conduct independent study or research for design and re-designing the programme.

- Evidence of leading/developing a team

- Evidence of leading learning and curriculums

Additional requirements :

- Dealing with External Bodies, like Government, Academia, Corporate, Research Bodies etc.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and one of the Indian Language

- Proficiency in computer usage

Qualification and Experience:

- Masters degree in Social Work / any other Social Sciences / Management

- Desirable: The incumbent should have additional qualifications supportive for the role and its requisite responsibilities

- 10 plus years in the social sector out of which 8 years must have been in a similar role. Multi domain experience and a proven track record of performance in a similar role and stability on the previous roles shall be an added advantage