Project Lead - EdTech

Position Summary :

One of the key areas of non-profit work is EdTech (Education Technology). Under this thematic area, we focus on how technology can be leveraged to improve the teaching-learning experience within classrooms and at homes - through both student-focused and teacher-directed interventions. Our goal is to leverage technology to improve foundational learning in primary grades and provide remediation support in middle school.

We do this by funding the creation of public goods to improve the quality of the supply, providing grants to build capacity of early-stage organizations that cater to the target population, building evidence on the efficacy of different EdTech solutions to understand what works and what doesn- t, through government test beds and by driving innovation within government systems by reforming public policy advocacy and strengthening government capacity to enable sustainable large-scale adoption.

- The Project Lead, EdTech will be responsible for driving the evidence generation agenda for EdTech. With very limited knowledge in the ecosystem on successful EdTech models driving student learning, one of the core goals for the team is to plug for this lack of evidence. It is imperative to identify promising hypotheses and build rigorous evidence around these different EdTech models, particularly for the low-income context.

- The project lead will have to develop and manage relationships with policy-makers, researchers, grantee organizations, implementation partners or any other organization company may support to conceptualize and execute on programs/projects that can enable the creation of knowledge around EdTech in India. The Project Lead, EdTech role directly reports to the Senior Project Lead/Director, EdTech.

Key responsibilities include, but not limited to :

- Support and lead the growing EdTech portfolio to build rigorous evidence around different models of implementation

- Manage implementation/evaluations for portfolio partners end-to-end, i.e. from design to execution and reporting phases.

- Support partner/grantee organizations in conceptualizing and designing programs for implementation

- Ensure delivery on outcomes by partner/grantee organizations as per mutually agreed goals

- Build a pipeline of researchers to - globally and in India - seek advisory/lead the EdTech evaluations in India

- Create research papers, advocacy notes to share results from evaluations in the ecosystem

- Identify innovative hypotheses based on current and future trends in EdTech and build a pipeline of potential solutions for evaluation

- Promote coordination and cumulative learning among non-profits demonstrating best practices in specific areas of education

Required Qualifications, Skills and Abilities :

- Masters or equivalent degree required (background in education, public policy or statistics preferred)

- 5 - 8 years of experience with exposure to the education/EdTech sector, especially in monitoring and evaluation roles

- An understanding of statistical techniques and research methodologies used in the social sciences

- Excellent communication and project management skills

- Ability to build & manage relationships with multiple stakeholders

Desired Qualities :

- Entrepreneurial spirit and - can-do- attitude

- Operating style suited to working in a small-organization setting, where teamwork, collaboration and resourcefulness are highly valued

- Excellent leadership skills, including ability to manage multiple projects at a time