Project Manager - Education

Project Manager

Position Summary :

The PL/SPL, CIP will be responsible for facilitating the high-quality implementation of the FLN program in collaboration with our program partners in different States. He/she will achieve this by building capacity in different internal and external stakeholders by designing protocols, quality scorecards and setting up sustainable systems. A professional with experience in designing and implementing large scale education transformation programs in government or affordable private school space is ideal for this role.

- Teacher training and mentoring design

- Create/review products based on principles of structured pedagogy

- Implementation Quality assurance

- Knowledge generation and advocacy

- Travel

- 20-30% of the work time of this role will be field travel to tier 2,3 towns in our focus states

Skills and Qualifications:

- Ideal candidate should have a strong on-ground implementation experience of large-scale education programs backed by a solid background in evidence-based pedagogy, curriculum development, assessment, teacher preparation and instructional coaching.

- Strong academic background from a reputed institute with a post-graduation or a fellowship in education

- At least 6+ years of hands-on education on-ground program implementation experience in a demanding education enterprise or non-profit workplace, designing and implementing large-scale programs, designing training modules and coaching/mentoring protocols, supporting teacher-coaches, solving implementation breakdowns (especially in low-capacity settings)

- Ability to model effective teaching and coaching practices drawn from own classroom teaching experience and research evidence such as structured pedagogy, balanced literacy, concrete representational abstract (CRA) in mathematics, competency-based assessment etc.

- Excellent people management and project delivery skills, including the ability to lead a small specialist team, create project plans and dashboards, drive execution, manage multiple projects at a time, influence internal and external stakeholders.