Program Manager - NGO

Hiring for non-profit organisation that focuses on providing education, healthcare, and livelihood opportunities to underprivileged students.

Roles & Responsibilities of Programme Manager:

- Coach Fellows to achieve whole-school outcomes, such as student learning, teacher, and school leader development.

- Empower Fellows by developing their skills and competencies through regular learning and development spaces

- Build partnerships with stakeholders including the school management, the government and donors to ensure the long-term sustainability of our efforts

- Contribute to broader fellowship priorities such as fellow recruitment and selection, strategy, donor reporting and expansion

Preferred Education Qualification / Experience:

- Experience of managing people / projects

- Teaching and/or content creation experience is desirable

- Any Graduate, post-graduate or fellowship

- Experience in managing/designing a fellowship would be an advantage

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- Prior experience teaching in a formal classroom & an ability to coach people to be exceptional teachers

- Ability to design and drive outcome-oriented plans through the team's collective effort

- Ability to design and facilitate adult learning spaces

- Ability to gather and analyse data to inform decisions

- A good understanding of the education ecosystem including policies, curriculum frameworks and functioning of school systems.

- Good written and verbal communication skills in English (and Tamil would be an advantage)

- Good computer knowledge and MS Office skills.

- Emotional maturity to work with the perspectives and needs of diverse team members

- Highly resourceful team-player, who is also self-driven.

- Forward looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions