Job Opportunity for Project Lead, FLN-DPMU Project at CSF in Aligarh

Team: Classroom Instruction and Practice (CIP)

Role: Project Lead, FLN District Project Management Unit (DPMU) Project

Required work experience: 6-10 years of relevant experience

Location: Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh)

About Central Square Foundation (CSF)

Founded in 2012, Central Square Foundation is a non-profit philanthropic foundation working with the vision of ensuring quality school education for all children in India. CSF has a mission focus on ensuring high-quality foundational learning for all children in India. To achieve this, we partner with individuals and social impact organizations to bring innovative solutions in education to build the capacity of the government to drive systemic impact. To know more about us and our work, visit www.centralsquarefoundation.org.

About the Classroom Instruction and Practice team

CSF has adopted a system reform approach where we partner with State governments to design and scale high-quality foundational learning programs. Our focus is on improving the existing state programs and to this end, the CIP team works on raising the quality of tools, training, and support available for teachers and academic support personnel implementing foundational learning in the classroom. We do this by collaborating with our program partners in states in improving their programs, curating and designing research-backed exemplar public goods, and generating evidence on different aspects in early learning through action research.

About the FLN District Project Management Unit (DPMU) Project

The FLN District Project Management Unit (DPMU) Project aims to drive deeper implementation of the NIPUN Bharat Mission at the district-level. The design of the project involves implementing key academic inputs in the context of larger governance reforms in the district. The project seeks to develop a chain of systemic reform from the district to classroom levels for improved FLN delivery leading to improved student learning outcomes. 

Position Summary

The Project Lead, FLN DPMU project will lead the implementation of the project at the district level and will be responsible for managing a team of 5 members. The key responsibilities are as follows:

Key responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining relationships with relevant district and block-level officials including but not limited to District Magistrate, Chief Development Officer, Basic Shiksha Adhikari, Block Education Officers and DIET Principal. 
• Providing academic, governance and monitoring oversight to the team for achieving key deliverables outlined in key inputs of the project.
• Leading strategic planning, goal setting and intervention by unblocking bottlenecks, advocating with relevant stakeholders and strong implementation focus for successful project delivery.
• Providing technical guidance and support for strengthening relevant review committees (including but not limited to District Steering Committee, District Task Force, Block Steering Committee).
• Managing the team effectively.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong project management skills with proven program implementation experience. 
• Demonstrated experience of leading teams in operations-oriented projects.
• Excellent people and project delivery skills, including the ability to create project plans, drive execution, manage multiple projects at a time, and maturity to influence multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Prior hands-on experience in the Indian education sector and with government stakeholders.
• Proven ability to design and drive data monitoring systems for large scale projects. 
• Strong analytical skills backed by a pragmatic bent of mind, able to drive actionable insights from data.

Compensation

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