Magic Bus - Head - Curriculum/Programme Development

Key Responsibilities :

- 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

- 6 plus years in the social sector out of which 4 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