Website Madhi Foundation
About Madhi :
Madhi Foundation was established in 2016 as a non-profit organisation committed to the cause of bridging the equity gap in education for children across India. The Foundation draws its inspiration from the Tamil proverb, “Destiny can be conquered with intellect (Madhi)”. Madhi Foundation specifically works to solve the foundational learning crisis in India. Our vision, “Foundational Learning First, so every child is set up for success”, guides our every action and gives our work the purpose and direction it needs.
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 and beyond.
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.
Enjoy English: Enjoy English is a tech-based product-service offering aimed at improving foundational English among children from low-exposure to English contexts. It is one of a kind idea that adopts an oracy first approach to language learning which is different from most programmes that adopt a subject teaching approach to English learning.
Communities Enabling Foundational Learning (CEFL): CEFL aims to equip the parents with the knowledge, skills and tools to understand the quality of foundational education their children receive in public schools and in turn, start advocating for improving the quality of education with stakeholders such as teachers, administrators and local political leaders. We support parents to establish peer groups and networks of parents and community members to support each other towards educating their child and collectively demand for the same.
What is the work culture at Madhi like?
– The work culture at Madhi is built both organically and inorganically. We articulate our core values and reinforce them through actions consistently. Team members imbibe Madhi’s values and help grow the culture. Our core values (Mission obsession, Empathy, Resilience, Integrity, Inquiry) form the basis of our actions, policy and interactions. Madhi nurtures a collaborative work culture where individual growth and team success go hand in hand.
– Given the nature of our work (our close partnership with the government) we often realise that we work with partners who espouse a work culture that is vastly different from ours which can sometimes create a sense of cultural dissonance. This is not something we are able to change and we expect team members to join us knowing full well that when working with critical partners and stakeholders there would certainly arise a need to adapt and accept the differences and the challenges that come from working in such an environment. We have been fortunate to find team members over the years who have joined us and helped build a strong and purposeful culture and despite our rapid growth we have been able to sustain our culture over time.
Your team (Programme Design & Delivery)
– The Programme Design & Delivery sub-vertical comprises four teams: Content Development, Capacity Building, Enjoy English (Delivery) and CEFL (Delivery). These teams are a multifaceted group; comprising content developers, curricular specialists, professional development architects, trainers, project managers and field staff all of whom prize dynamism and versatility in their approach to work. The sub-vertical works closely with the two other sub-verticals namely “State Reform” and “Data & Technology” counterparts to ensure that we are able to deliver high quality projects to all our stakeholders and learn from our implementation to iteratively improve the effectiveness of the programmes.
– The Programme Design & Delivery team core focus is to develop robust programme models, develop high quality materials and training modules to ensure effective implementation of Madhi’s programmes to attain Foundational Learning at scale. All Madhi’s teams work together seamlessly to make magic happen day after day, doing whatever it takes to take us closer to the vision of reimagining school systems to eliminate the foundational learning crisis in India.
– Project ‘Enjoy English’ aims to build an eminently replicable teaching-learning model and product-service offering to solve the problem of poor English literacy proficiency among early learners from low-income households, through a disproportionate focus on oracy.
About the role:
Senior Manager will work closely the Sub-Vertical Head of the Programme Design and Delivery sub-vertical of the Enjoy English project. The Senior Manager would lead highly skilled, energetic and multifaceted team members who excel in training, field work, work towards implementation of Enjoy English in all the focus districts
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. This role will keep evolving as per the program/project requirement and will need rigor from all stakeholders involved to make it successful
In this role, some of your responsibilities will include :
– Set and achieve goals along with sub-vertical heads and senior management, towards vision setting process and ensuring all objectives of the programme are met successfully
– Build strong relationships with partner schools and ensure efficient coordination for any activity that may come our way
– Contribute to overall project work planning; monitoring, evaluation, and learning; and communications
– Lead the highly skilled dream team and constantly strive to help them grow and realise their potential
– Periodically visit centers (across districts) and gather first-hand data to improve the quality of project implemented
– Ensure all team management structures are followed diligently and personalised support is provided whenever required
– Support in articulating Madhi’s strategic approach for the Enjoy English project by drafting presentations & reports
– Anchor the creation of baseline and endline assessments and plan its delivery across schools
– Develop a go-to-market strategy for EnEn and ensure we expand to new schools as per project scope and vision
– Manage a team of Associates and Managers to deliver high quality programmes across all partner schools
– Develop an observation schedule and ensure that all team members visit schools to ensure effective delivery
– Emulate the agility of the programme and ensure rigor in thought (programme strategy), action (programme delivery) and learning (programme documentation)
You will thrive in this role if you :
– Pride yourself on efficient communication skills with multi-levelled stakeholders, both in a public and private setting
– Thrive in a timeline oriented environment in planning and implementing projects
– Possess excellent leadership and coaching skills
– Have exceptional planning skills and set a high bar of excellence for yourself and your team
– Have a penchant for problem solving and innovation
– Are able to communicate with stakeholders both in Tamil and English
– Can create well designed presentation decks and crunch numbers on Excel sheets
Prerequisites include :
– At least 8 years of work experience preferably with a minimum of 4 years of experience the education sector
– Can create well designed presentation decks and crunch numbers on Excel sheets
– Experience of working with schools/classrooms will be will an added advantage
– Experience of working with school owners, leaders and other decision makers in a business development capacity
– Excellent written communication and report writing skills in English along with proficiency in oral communication in Tamil. Extra points if you possess written communication skills in Tamil
– At least 2 years of managerial experience with a team span of minimum 3 members
– A master’s degree in a relevant field of study from a reputed institution
– Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and G Suite
– Traveling to schools periodically for various aspects of the delivery of Enjoy English project
This role will report to : AD, Programme Design and Delivery
Location : Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Please note : You will be expected to bring your own laptop with updated software (MS Office 2016)
Remuneration : INR 12 LPA to INR 15 LPA
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