Programme Manager - Education

Programme Manager - Education

Key responsibilities :

To identify project needs and develop holistic plans to achieve the intended outcomes :

- Design and evolve the scope and sequence of the project plan using frameworks that best suit the needs of the program

- Engage with internal and external stakeholders to foresee project path and guide your team in pivoting effectively

- Effectively communicate with senior bureaucrats, education officials to provide programmatic updates and make modifications to project plans.

- Identify and establish partnerships with multiple knowledge partners across the state towards a productive collaboration

To advise and support the state on the roadmap :

- Support the state government in charting out long term goals

- Present data backed research insights to the state government officials to support strengthening of key domains of the programme.

- Conduct regular needs assessments to identify needs and challenges of the stakeholders (internal as well as external) associated with the project

- Liaison with state government institutions (e.g., SCERT, College of Teacher Education)to ensure a seamless communication flow between the Peepul team and all the key stakeholders

To lead impact assessment :

- Set systems and processes to track project milestones, outputs and outcomes of the program.

- Create structures to track, identify and share data regularly with key internal and external stakeholders.

- Provide insights and inputs to the M&E team for developing tools and techniques required for project's impact measurement

- Work closely with the senior leadership team to meet funder requirements, including but not limited to creating periodic progress / impact reports

- Arrange field visits for supporters / funders / senior leadership team at appropriate junctions of the program to showcase progress and impact of the program

To lead the execution and implementation of the programme at scale :

- Support Program Director/Program Lead in implementing the programme effectively at scale

- Collectively work with team members in the state towards high quality execution of the program on ground sharing key insights

- Codifying best practices from the program and disseminating them internally and externally towards building knowledge of the organization and allowing replication across the ecosystem

- Manage a team of project managers and project coordinators towards successful and smooth work execution

Person Specification :

Experience :

- At least 7 years of total work experience

- Experience of managing large scale projects with diverse stakeholders preferably in government settings

- Demonstrated ability of achieving project outcomes within timelines

- Understanding of education ecosystems in India

- Strong working knowledge of Hindi and English (oral and written)

Behaviours and attributes:

- A strong desire to influence government education system, working with the existing government structures

- A deep understanding of the context and challenges of the government stakeholders

- Ability to present complex information into simple, actionable points making it accessible to individuals with varying skill levels.

- Attention to detail, including proof reading and editing skills for materials shared internally and externally

- Ability to build strong and sustainable relationships across various government education functionaries

- Ability to iterate on work quickly, based on feedback, following a process of
continuous improvement

- Bias to action, with an ability to step back and see the larger picture

- Intellectually curious, open to learning

- Flexible and adaptable style, responding positively to changing demands

- Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills

- Enthusiasm for taking on a start-up role, in what will be a fast-paced, growing, changing network

- Performance orientation - sets and achieves high standards for self and others