Project Manager

Position Summary:

- Conduct diagnosis, design solutions, and facilitate implementation through first principles problem solving

- Prepare strategic roadmaps and implementation plans with goals and milestones

- Identify operational bottlenecks and weaknesses, and devise resolution pathways

- Set-up project management processes and guidelines

- Develop and manage strong working relationships with key bureaucrats at the state level including Principal Secretary, State Project Director, etc.

- Manage day to day operations and liaise with the state to ensure the required buy-in, inputs, permissions and resources are made available.

- Actively build internal capabilities and support team members by sharing learnings, providing feedback, and ensuring their training and development.

Educational Qualifications and Experience Required:

- Ideal candidate should have a strong on-ground implementation experience of large-scale education programs backed by a solid background in examination reform, 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 5+ 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)

- 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

- Candidates with experience of working in the north-east region of India will be given preference.

Key Skills and Attitude For the roles, ideal candidates are those who:

- Are passionate about education reform and want their actions to have an impact on-ground.

- Are driven to learn and solve some of the most pressing problems in our education system

- Are comfortable working a small-organization setting, where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued

- Are driven to excel in their work, showcasing a high level of innovation and perseverance

- Have an entrepreneurial spirit and 'can-do' attitude

- Value a T-shaped approach to work, with both breadth collaboration and innovation across disciplines and depth in specific areas of expertise. Compensation Remuneration will be competitive with Indian development sector pay scales and will depend upon the candidate's skills and experience levels.

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