Website Madhi Foundation
About the role:
The Specialist, Content Development and Capacity Building will support the Senior Manager and guide
associates in the curriculum and instructional design processes for all projects. This involves co-creating
guidelines for all content pieces, including but not limited to worksheets, lesson plans, instructional videos and assessments. These curricular materials for grades 1 to 3 for literacy (English and Tamil) and Math will be benchmarked globally and customised to the local user.
The challenges you will help solve at Madhi
● Addressing the unique challenges that the public education space faces.
● Planning and implementing projects applying various permutations and combinations that ultimately address the foundational learning challenges
● Contribute purposefully to the growing body of knowledge on what works and what doesn’t work to improve last mile educational outcomes for children, through the public sector delivery; in particular- by contextualising findings to the Indian context.
● We are an outcome-driven organisation and we do not obsess over clocking in and clocking out. As the sub-vertical head, you will be responsible to identify ways in which we can hold your team accountable to a high bar of excellence with a singular focus on outcomes by setting up systems that let us keep our eye on the ball at all times.
The Job Description
Below is an indicative set of responsibilities you will be required to lead as part of your role. This is a hybrid role, and based on prior experience and interests, you may be more involved in one of the two core areas – content development and capacity building. 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. A detailed description will be jointly created once the selection process has been completed and you have accepted our offer of employment.
In this role, some of your responsibilities will include:
● Co-designing the overall curriculum development and capacity building strategies and driving effective implementation of the same.
● Co-creating frameworks and guidelines for curriculum development as well as capacity building which will anchor the processes adopted.
● Creating curricular materials, primarily paper-based and digital content for children and teachers of grades 1 – 3, that align with the finalised frameworks and guidelines.
● Creating capacity building materials to develop and evaluate the knowledge, skills and mindsets of key stakeholders crucial to project implementation, and facilitating training spaces as per the needs of the project/organisation.
● Ensuring all curricular and capacity building materials meet national and international quality standards through periodic reviews and propose improvements informed by research.
● Supporting Associates and Senior Associates sharpen their technical skills through structured feedback mechanisms and on-going professional development.
You will thrive in this role if you:
● Have a keen interest in pedagogy and strive to research extensively.
● Have a penchant for learning and can break down complex processes for stakeholders to consume easily.
● Have impeccable planning and task tracking skills.
● Can read and write in Tamil.
● Possess a growth mindset and are comfortable seeking solutions for problems that you may not immediately have an understanding of.
Prerequisites include:
● An undergraduate degree in Education.
● Teaching experience in low-income schools for at least two years.
● At least 4 years of relevant work experience in teaching, learning content development and teacher training with a minimum of 1 year in a managerial position.
● Experience of having directly managed a team of at least 2 entry-level team members
● Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint and all Google Suite applications
This role will report to: Senior Manager, Training and Capacity Building
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Please note: You will be expected to bring your own laptop with updated software (MS Office 2016)
Remuneration: INR 8 LPA to INR 10 LPA
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