Website Simple Education Foundation

Simple Education Foundation (SEF) is a not-for-profit organization based in Delhi. We’re a diverse group of educators, engineers, teachers, economists and storytellers, who share a common vision of quality education for all children in India. Our team is young, dynamic, bold and audacious enough to make this vision come true in our lifetime.

We believe that every child deserves an excellent education irrespective of where they are born, and that their socioeconomic status does not determine who they want to be and who they can be. At SEF, our vision is to empower children to build a better tomorrow and we believe that this will happen when our public education system is fixed and it has the ability to provide all children with equal opportunities.

Our mission is to reinvent 50000 government schools as centres of high-quality learning for all children by 2030. And we intend to do that by building high-quality and sustainable government school transformation programs that work at the intersection of parents, teachers and principals

About the role:

The system transformation is a multi-year program in partnership with the State Council for Education Research and Training, Delhi (SCERT) under the aegis of the Government of NCT of Delhi. The program aims to reimagine educator professional development across all government schools in Delhi by revamping the operations and process of educator professional development and also including aspects of personalised coaching for educators

The role will entail working with a team of 3 other full-time team members and working closely with the SCERT Delhi team to design, facilitate, monitor, document and manage operations for the entire program.

The individual we’re looking for:

Will be passionate about changing the landscape of educator professional development in India
Will facilitate operations and processes for The Will be able to lead a team of enthusiastic and talented educators and build a culture of achievement and support within the team

You must have:

3-5 years of experience in working in an operations team with a high volume of stakeholders
Experience of working with the government in the past will be an advantage
Excellent facilitation and interpersonal skills
Excellent communication proficiency in both Hindi & English
Intermediate proficiency in Excel and Data Analysis
Openness to feedback and commitment to unlearn and relearn
The wherewithal to work under pressure and be innovative with limited resources
Patience to navigate all kinds of unprecedented challenges and failures
Readiness to commit for minimum 2 years because it takes time to make a difference

At SEF, you will:

Work closely with the Program Team to train, observe and develop resource staff and teachers under the Educator Professional Development Program in collaboration with SCERT Delhi
Design and create structures and tools that will effectively support our program operations
Design and implement capacity-building workshops, competency frameworks, evaluation tools, etc that will support the program implementation
Work closely with 80,000+ stakeholders to ensure focused and aligned training for all educators
Write journals/articles/reports/blogs to document key insights from the program

You will need to:

Have a strong desire to make a difference
Be comfortable with nonprofit salaries
Be quick on your feet as a decision-maker
Meet targets and deadlines as required
Be willing to take up additional responsibilities outside your profile if need be

Salary and benefits:

Compensation will be between 5,50,000 INR to 8,00,000 INR based on the experience of the candidate and will include the following perks