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The Specialist, Holistic Education STEAM Model Schools, will anchor the end-to-end academic and co-scholastic activities for students and teachers – content, training and assessments. The Specialist will also be responsible for bringing the project vision for academics alive by consistently monitoring activities in partnership with various stakeholders of the system.

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. Madhi’s programmes in Tamil Nadu are consolidated under a single umbrella called Project: TN Soars, comprising 3 critical projects: 1. Ennum Ezhuthum (The Tamil Nadu state Foundational Learning Mission), 2. TechForEdSystems and 3. Tamil Nadu STEAM Model Schools.

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.

Project MALA: Project MALA aims to create high-tech, low-tech and no-tech tools which can support child-educators (parents, teachers, volunteers) to build the neuro-linguistic exposure that children require to acquire language proficiency through oracy. Children in rural areas or from low income households have minimal exposure to the English language- particularly oracy. They find the existing english language learning tools inadequate to build fluency in spoken English and also have difficulty in reading to learn from English sources. Project MALA aims to leverage technology and contextually built learning resources to solve this problem.

Tamil Nadu STEAM Model Schools: To ensure holistic growth of children from underserved communities and to empower them with the skills to work toward their dreams, the Department of School Education has embarked on an ambitious project of setting up ‘Tamil Nadu Model Schools’ that will serve children from the most marginalized backgrounds and equip them with skills and knowledge such that their disadvantages get mitigated and no longer impede their success in academics, work and life. Madhi has joined the Department to assist in the setting up of these 38 Model Schools, each exemplifying the principles of equity and inclusion in letter and spirit, enabling every student, irrespective of their background, to receive equal opportunities to aspire and achieve their goals.

Your team (STEAM Model Schools)

The TN Model Schools Project Team comprises 4 sub-verticals: 1. Content, 2. Training, 3. Mentoring & Counseling and 4. Data for governance. All the sub-verticals work together seamlessly and implement TN STEAM Model Schools across the districts in the state..

About the role

The challenges you will help solve in this role:

A brand new project offers a whole new set of challenges which may be one too many-some may be anticipated, most will be unanticipated. You will be responsible for taking it in your stride and looking at solving micro and macro problems on an everyday basis.
Information asymmetry – it’s a universal problem. Add to this a complex mix of stakeholders that we work on a continuous basis, we have the (im)perfect recipe for asymmetry to be all-pervading!
Your role will be to pay careful attention to what the stakeholders – internal and external – are feeling and doing, to ensure that everyone is on the same page on the project outcomes, all the time!
We are an outcome-driven organisation and we do not obsess about overclocking in and clocking out. You will be responsible to identify ways in which we can hold ourselves 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.
Fight inequity on a day-to-day basis – the Specialist will get an opportunity to transform the quality of learning processes for students across varied contexts in the public school ecosystem. The circumstances a child is raised in cannot determine what they can aspire to achieve in life.
Solving problems at scale – the Department is mammoth machinery and working on such a project can be daunting and exciting. You will be expected to continuously improve the processes and structures put in place to make the project implementation and stakeholder engagement a seamless exercise.

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. 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:

Set and achieve goals with the support of the Senior Manager, towards ensuring all objectives of the programme are met successfully
Ensure the creation of a robust academic plan for teachers and students in consultation with various stakeholders of the system
Synergise with external stakeholders for the smooth implementation of all academics and co-scholastic activities envisioned for the schools
Coordinate with relevant state teams to ensure smooth operations of all academic activities for content creation, teacher training and student assessments
Conduct field visits periodically to monitor the quality of academic activities and gather feedback from district teams
Regularly review teacher feedback on the quality of training and ensure strong SOPs are designed for conducting training
Regularly review teacher and student feedback on the quality of course content
Support the field and impact team to feed insights on both academic and administrative best practices observed on the field
You will thrive in this role if you:Have an insatiable thirst for knowledge on STEAM curriculum design for higher grades.
Obsess over time management & planning for all tasks regardless of the enormity or urgency.
Have outstanding contextual understanding of the overall education landscape in Tamil Nadu.

Prerequisites include:

At least 3 years of full-time work experience with prior experience in an academic role in curriculum/assessment design/teacher education
Experience of having written competitive examinations in TN/India for STEAM subjects would be an added advantage
Strong conversational skills in Tamil, also being able to read and write Tamil would be an advantage
Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint and all Google Suite applications

This role will report to: Senior Manager, STEAM Model Schools

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Remuneration: Rs 8,00,000 – 10,00,000 Lakhs p.a

Please note: You will be expected to bring your own laptop, with updated software (MS Office 2016)

For more information, please write to: apply@madhifoundation.org

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