Job Opportunity for Project Manager, Monitoring at CSF

Team: Classroom Instruction and Practice (CIP)

Role: Project Manager, Monitoring

Required work experience: 2-4 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 Manager will lead the development and adoption of data systems for strengthening monitoring practices and processes in the district. The key responsibilities are as follows:

Key responsibilities:

• Designing and operationalizing data collection tools and dashboards based on a thorough needs analysis of the district, and leading its technical maintenance.
• Driving adoption and usage of the district FLN dashboard by engaging with relevant stakeholders on building a data-driven decision making culture in the district.
• Strengthening the monitoring system to track implementation fidelity and inform course corrections in our program.
• Presenting regular reports based on data from the district FLN dashboard for internal analysis, and external advocacy for reforms.
• Conducting field visits for tool testing, dipsticks, training observations and Classroom Observation as needed.
• Coordinating with the Central team in Delhi for ensuring generation of high-quality monitoring data.
• Building and maintaining relationships with relevant district and block-level officials including but not limited to Basic Shiksha Adhikari, Block Education Officers and DIET Principal, SRG and ARP’s.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven technical skills in organizing information and data on Microsoft Office and Google Suite.
• Demonstrated experience in managing education data systems.
• Derive insights from large datasets for informing data-driven decision making at the district level.
• Excellent people management and project delivery skills, including the ability to 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 is preferred.

Compensation

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