Job Opportunity for Associate, Program Learning at Simple Education Foundation in Delhi

Simple Education Foundation (SEF) is a not-for-profit organization based in Delhi. We’re a diverse group of educators, engineers, teachers, economists and storytellers, who share a common vision of quality education for all children in India. Our team is young, dynamic, bold and audacious enough to make this vision come true in our lifetime.

We believe that every child deserves an excellent education irrespective of where they are born, that their socioeconomic status does not determine who they want to be and who they can be. At SEF, our vision is to empower children to build a better tomorrow and we believe that this will happen when our public education system is fixed and it has the ability to provide all children with equal opportunities.

Our mission is to reinvent 50000 government schools as centres of high-quality learning for all children by 2030. And we intend to do that by building high-quality and sustainable government school transformation programs that work at the intersection of parents, teachers and principals.

About the role:

The Program Learning Associate will be the backbone of validating our inventions with data and evidence. They will have a bird’s eye view of all the programs running to provide high-quality education under the ambit of SEF. The Associate will be responsible for integrating learnings culled from all our projects run across urban spaces.

The individual we’re looking for:

• Will Design and publish intervention impact reports for our programs in Delhi.
• Will analyse and collate data across programs to inform growth, learning and program strategy
• Will Build repository of evidence backed interventions, practices and processes at SEF
• Will be passionate about research, evidence-based design and documentation
• Will be highly analytical and competent to extract meaningful trends, patterns and insights from data and research.
• Will be excited about driving excellence in the implementation
• Will have the zest for continuous and independent learning and improvement
• Will have a knack for designing, executing and evaluating interventions for social change
• Will continuously ponder and articulate what will it take to transform the educational landscape in India

You must have:

• 2-4 years of experience in a minimum of which 2 years of teaching experience and preference will be given to those with prior experience in monitoring and evaluation.
• Knowledge of program design and learner-centric pedagogical practices
• Excellent research and documentation skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• The wherewithal to work under ambiguity and be innovative with limited resources
• Patience to navigate all kinds of unprecedented challenges and failures
• Thorough knowledge of monitoring and evaluation tools
• Mandatory proficiency in Excel and G Suite (proficiency in Stata and Tableau will be an added advantage) 

At SEF, you will:

• Work closely with the Chief Program Officer, Learning and Insights Lead and implementation teams to gather learnings and insights
• Will support in documenting research-rooted evidence to develop the best educator practices
• Create structures and tools that will effectively support our educational initiatives
• Write journals/articles/blogs to document key insights from these training

You will need to:

• Have a strong desire to make a difference
• Be comfortable with nonprofit salaries
• Be quick on your feet as a decision-maker
• Meet targets and deadlines as required
• Be willing to take up additional responsibilities outside your profile if need be
• Commit to working with us for a minimum of 2 years, as change takes time

Salary and benefits

Compensation will be between Rs, 4,50,000 – Rs 6,00,000 based on the experience of the candidate and will include the following perks

• The dedicated sum to avail health insurance and Learning and Development opportunities
• Paid well-being and period leaves
• Monthly reimbursements for phone and internet bills
• Inclusive and diverse teams
• Great Place To Work certified

Please note that preference will be given to those from minority communities including women, trans and non-binary people from Muslim and other religious minority communities.

To know more about us and our work, go to: www.simpleeducationfoundation.org

Location – Delhi

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