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Website Pratham

About Pratham

Pratham was founded in 1995, to provide pre-school education to children in Mumbai slums. Over the last 25 years, Pratham has grown to be one of the largest non-profit organizations working to provide quality education to children and youth in over 20 states and union territories across the country, through a range of interventions.

Pratham is a widely recognised organization, having received notable awards such as the Lui Che Woo Prize, WISE Prize for Innovation, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Henry R Kravis Prize in Leadership and the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year for Public Service. For more details, refer to www.pratham.org

About the Learning Excellence Program, Gurugram

Part of Pratham’s flagship Read India Program, the Learning Excellence Program supports children in primary schools in villages of Gurugram district with a particular focus on children lagging behind their class-appropriate learning levels. In this program:

Local educated young women are trained in activity-based learning methods where reading, comprehension, conversation, vocabulary building and basic math are the focal points of learning in direct classroom teaching in schools.
The Local women teachers engage in direct classroom teaching and improve the basic literacy and numeracy skills among children in the age group of 6-14 years.
Literacy groups are set up in schools, where reading material is provided to foster the habit of reading and enhance listening and comprehension skills among children.
The program has benefitted more than 1,00,000 children since its inception besides helping more than 1,000 local educated young women to develop into agents of social change.

Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day support, including administration and analytical tasks
Act as an analyst for system enhancements and/or projects
Perform data validation to assure integrity, accuracy and consistency, identify the root cause of data inconsistencies and process defects, and implement timely corrective actions
Conduct data collection and analysis using SQL, PowerBI and Python
Collaborate with operation teams to provide statistics or data that can help to drive insights
Work with subject matter experts and Senior Management to understand business questions, processes, and related data
Document processes and research, standards, guidelines, and best practices for teams utilizing the solution

Requirements

First year graduate or 3rd year undergraduate in Software/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related fields.
Understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and IT
High resilience and strong communication skills
Self-motivated, willing to learn and adapt quickly to deliver the end results
Passionate about working in education and NGO space and making a difference.

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