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The Associate, School transformation- Sandbox schools, will support the Manager and be responsible for bringing the programmatic vision for sandbox school alive by constantly aligning the team’s activities with the short, medium and long term project goals.

What we do

Madhi works closely with the Tamil Nadu School Education Department to conceptualise and implement large scale quality improvement programmes in Tamil Nadu’s government schools. Over the course of the next 5 years Madhi will strengthen its existing programmes in the state (as well as undertake new programmes) with the singular aim of ensuring transformative improvement in the quality of school education in Tamil Nadu. Madhi’s programmes in Tamil Nadu are consolidated under a single umbrella called Project: TN Soars, comprising 3 critical projects: 1. Ennum Ezhuthum (The Tamil Nadu state Foundational Learning Mission), 2. TechForEdSystems and 3. Tamil Nadu STEAM Model Schools.

Ennum Ezhuthum: We are currently also working as the ‘Chief Management Partner’ for Tamil Nadu’s official Foundational Learning Mission, The ‘Ennum Ezhuthum Mission’ – a Rs. 500 Cr Mission of national and regional importance aimed at universalising foundational learning for all children in Tamil Nadu’s 37,000 government schools.

Project MALA: Project MALA aims to create high-tech, low-tech and no-tech tools which can support child-educators (parents, teachers, volunteers) to build the neuro-linguistic exposure that children require to acquire language proficiency through oracy. Children in rural areas or from low income households have minimal exposure to the English language- particularly oracy. They find the existing english language learning tools inadequate to build fluency in spoken English and also have difficulty in reading to learn from English sources. Project MALA aims to leverage technology and contextually built learning resources to solve this problem.

Tamil Nadu STEAM Model Schools: To ensure holistic growth of children from underserved communities and to empower them with the skills to work toward their dreams, the Department of School Education has embarked on an ambitious project of setting up ‘Tamil Nadu Model Schools’ that will serve children from the most marginalized backgrounds and equip them with skills and knowledge such that their disadvantages get mitigated and no longer impede their success in academics, work and life. Madhi has joined the Department to assist in the setting up of these 38 Model Schools, each exemplifying the principles of equity and inclusion in letter and spirit, enabling every student, irrespective of their background, to receive equal opportunities to aspire and achieve their goals.

Your team

The Sandbox Schools Team’s primary objective is to improve the teaching-learning and administrative processes of a school towards strengthening foundational learning. The team shall ensure that all existing primary school programmes implemented by the department seamlessly blend into micro-innovations at the classroom-level.

About the role

The job description:

Below is an indicative set of responsibilities you will be required to lead as part of your role. We believe that a job description is best created collaboratively where the individual joining the team and the senior leadership team together define the role in greater detail so it reflects your aspirations and ambitions as much as it does the organisation’s needs. A detailed description will be jointly created once the selection process has been completed and you have accepted our offer of employment.

In this role some of your responsibilities will include:

Stakeholder Capacity building

Observe classrooms and strengthen feedback-loop mechanisms to improve teaching-learning
Conduct in-depth training sessions based on school/classroom/teacher-based needs
Co-observe classrooms with HM and support tracking of outcomes with the observation app
Support HM with effective execution of academic activities towards strengthening foundational learning and leadership development

Impact Measurement

Conduct baseline and endline student assessments in schools
Support the tracking of outcomes and verification of assessment data in the classroom

Community Engagement

Support in organizing the School Management Committee (SMC) meetings and Parent-Teacher Meetings (PTM) in school
Plan and conduct community awareness initiatives towards strengthening awareness around foundational literacy and numeracy

Team Management

Manage a team of Project Officers and constantly support the execution of Project MALA across schools
Ensure diligent compliance to established team management structures
Support the timely resolution of school/community-level challenges

You will thrive in this role if you:

You are excited about working in a school environment and building excellence.
Enjoy working with a variety of stakeholders.
Have exceptional planning skills and sets a high bar of excellence for yourself.
Thrive with autonomy and use it responsibly.
Embrace the diverse set of challenges a new project offers

Prerequisites include:

A bachelor’s degree or above, in any discipline
At least 2 years of relevant work experience
Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint; experience of working with g-suite would be an advantage
Strong conversational skills in Tamil, also being able to read and write Tamil would be an advantage

This role will report to: Manager, Sandbox Schools
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Remuneration: Rs 3,50,000 – 7,00,000 Lakhs p.a
Please note: You will be expected to bring your own laptop, with updated software (MS Office 2016)
For more information, please write to: apply@madhifoundation.org

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