Job Opportunity for Program Associate – Schools Program at Quest Alliance in Bengaluru

The Program Associate will play a vital role in being the connection for the teachers, supporting the teachers in the uptake and completion of the course. They will solve the teachers’ queries and ensure all teachers complete the courses on time.

Location: Chitradurga, Karnataka

Role and Responsibilities:

Some of the key engagements of the Program Associate will be as follows.

• Chatbot Backend: The program Associate will drive discussions on course content, clarify questions, and share weekly reflections and send course deadline reminders
• Phone calls: To solve technical issues related to the virtual platform. Example: Log in access. Also to offer online tutoring one-on-one for all teachers on course-related areas as well as TOT design & delivery
• Discussion Forums: Program Associate will manage, supervise and respond to any discussions during online teacher course engagement 
• MasterClasses: help organize monthly MasterClasses with external guest faculty on interesting thematic areas related to pedagogical skills with the support of training manager.

Program Implementation and Planning

• Responsible for effective program delivery 
• Design, plan and execute innovation and experimentation within schools 
• Contribute to new content development
• Maintain the database and dashboard, ensure that it is error-free and up to date. Ensure M&E adherence and quality
• Continuous review of school implementation, monitoring the implementation within the agreed parameters

Training, Content, Capacity Building and Documentation

• Participate and contribute to Training of Trainers
• Ensure curriculum completion in school . Give timely feedback on content to facilitators 

Relationship Management – Stakeholders 

• Build relationships with the District government officials, principals and teachers to facilitate smooth implementation of the Program, including liasioning conducting orientations, review meetings, monitoring visits etc.
• Be part of the planning process for the team to ensure an effective plan and budget is in place and it is adhered to.
• Anchoring team meetings and catch ups with facilitators/fellows to handhold them throughout the implementation journey 
• Understand the overall school culture and environment and identify spaces, processes and opportunities to align the project approach into the school to transfer ownership of the project approach to school stakeholders

Reporting

• Document and share the best practices in the schools for publication in quarterly newsletters, social media and other channels.
• Provide regular written and verbal reports tracking progress against the work plan and implementation schedules
• Generate WhatsApp Bot , digital content app backend report and prepare analysis report on timely basis 
• Documenting and designing plans for following up with selected learners for in depth intervention to encourage them transition into higher education
• Use the appropriate M&E tools and the Dashboard to make sure that program implementation is data entered is being captured, represented and that project implementation is on track 

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of work experience in facilitation of training, workshop or preferably in the education development sector 
• Willingness to learn and influence prevalent practices in the education ecosystem
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills in English and Kannada (mandatory)
• Excellent IT skills 
• Willingness to travel within (50% travel) and outside of the State
• Ability to train, build the capacity of, and manage relationships with new people
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with other teams
• Ability to use technology and various virtual platforms like Google Hangout Meet, Zoom,
• WhatsApp, Google Classroom, and other google suite applications.
• Excited about working with children on life skills and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)

Contact

Interested candidates are requested to apply for the role by filling up the application form given here.

Women candidates are encouraged to apply. Due to the enormity of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.