Job Opportunity for Manager – Technology at EdIndia Foundation in Mumbai

Background:

EdIndia Foundation (www.edindia.org) is a not-for-profit organization focussed on leveraging technology and data analytics to create innovative solutions to impact education at scale. EdIndia believes that Technology has a huge potential to impact government schools at scale. EdIndia Foundation is the strategic CSR arm of Sterlite Power, and is member of Global Collective for SEL and Digital Learning set up by UNESCO.

EdIndia is reaching out to its clientele – teachers in particular and the school education system in general – through its programmes Pragyan, Nirnay and Teachable.

Pragyan is intervening in Government Schools and Institutions impacting more than 2 lakh teachers from Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tripura and Uttarakhand. The project aims to support teachers in enriching their classroom teaching/learning practices by making available teaching ideas and content as well as by discussing relevant issues through various e-platforms.

Nirnay is aimed at building a data driven culture in public eco-system. It analyses secondary data already available within the education domain and makes it available to a range of stakeholders to enable clear pedagogic and administrative implications. It is active in Tripura, Mumbai Municipality Arunachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Teachable is a program aimed at pre-service teachers (those studying for Teachership). It is creating content and addressing training requirements for Pre-Service Teachers for Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand. The project is one of a kind aimed at creating a cadre of skilled Future Teachers for India. EdIndia is “Mobile First” in most of its products and solutions. They include a “data analytics” solution for officials and management in public education system. It leverages secondary data in education system and renders it on a chrome app through easy-to-read visualizations and establishes a DSS (decision support system). Similarly, another mobile solution comprises of android app that works as a go-to platform for teachers to satiate their conceptual curiosity and gain pedagogical insights served through bite-sized videos and digital resources.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing Product Strategy and Roadmap for future versions and user interface improvements.

• Design and develop products and solutions, anchor its lifecycle from prototype/POC to sustainable growth and their adoption across affordable school education systems.

• Perform a Build vs Buy Analysis based on product development requirements. Initiate and manage technology-partner relations, as well as, build and manage a software team to deliver solutions.

• The role sets the vision for user experience. The role takes a lead to transform ideas into futuregrowth initiatives.

• Managing prioritisation & trade-offs between user experience (Teachers and other stakeholders), social impact, performance and post-launch support.

• Let users and data lead the way and oversee generating critical insights using analytics. The role requires a focus on listening to students and teachers and provide technical leadership in creating innovative products and solutions addressing needs of the public education system.

• Developing metrics, MIS & visualisation aligned to company & program performance to track success indicators & identify improvement areas.

• Prepare presentations and communicate findings from initiatives to Leadership and External stakeholders.

You could be a good match if you are:

• Managing prioritisation & trade-offs between user experience (Teachers and other stakeholders), social impact, performance and post-launch support.

• Let users and data lead the way and oversee generating critical insights using analytics. The role requires a focus on listening to students and teachers and provide technical leadership in creating innovative products and solutions addressing needs of the public education system.

• Developing metrics, MIS & visualisation aligned to company & program performance to track success indicators & identify improvement areas.

• Prepare presentations and communicate findings from initiatives to Leadership and External stakeholders.

• Experience managing vendor relations, understanding production cloud infrastructures using microservices & having interest on open-source technologies, social chat platforms and bots EdIndia works a lot with rendering various forms of content (text, audio, video, image, streaming etc). Thus, experience in content delivery tools to end-users will be preferred.

• You will work in a rapidly changing eco-system and demonstrate problem-solving leadership.

• Be an exceptional communicator and an agile/creative problem solver. Build relationships and collaborate across functions; get complex things done and drive impact.

• A self-starter and learning enthusiast: It’s a start up project and we want to work with people who enjoy building things from the bottom up. The products and solutions we are carving out are cutting edge and would expose the member to extensive mentoring on combining technology with social impact. Most of the work we do has not been tried before and initiative and a learning bent of mind will thrive in the project environment.

• A Team player: We are attempting to build a lean and flat organization. We are looking to get together with people who are more driven by passion than position or perks. Hence it is critical that one strives to add value to each team member and help everyone learn and succeed. This is essential condition to affect the mission positively.

• Passionate about open-source movement and sharing: We embrace the open-source movement and all the content we create is free and open source for anyone out there. We also believe in sharing our process and what we are learning periodically to create a community of practice. An alignment to the same is something we are looking for in all our team members

Location: Mumbai

Remuneration & Benefits: Remuneration will be competitive with Indian philanthropy pay scales and will depend upon the candidate’s experience levels.

EdIndia Foundation is a section 8 not for profit company focussed on leveraging technology and data analytics to create innovative solutions to impact education at scale. EdIndia has been provided incubation support by Sterlite Power and its group companies.