Program Design Lead [Education], Varanasi

Location: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Role: Program Design Lead [Education], Varanasi

Experience: 2-5 Years

Salary: 6-7 LPA

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Overview of the Role:

You will manage the end-to-end design & monitoring of our Peer-Teaching Program towards Student Agency in the Varanasi and Sambhal districts working with SCERT, DIET, Block and Cluster level Education department actors & teachers to ensure successful program outcomes for all the students. You will be a part of the team which lays the foundation for the scale of Involve. This will include the following:

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Design

• Use primary and secondary research to identify the needs of the stakeholders
• Partner with Program Managers, government liaison teams, and monitoring & evaluation teams to ensure strong design–implementation alignment.
• Develop a strategic plan for supporting the field team, aligned to the scope of the project towards achieving student outcomes
• Ensure program designs are feasible for adoption by government machinery at district and state levels.
• Designing and Identification of different assets (Courses, Case studies, Tools, Projects, Session plans, Handbooks etc.) through various sources
• Visiting schools & being part of block review meetings to understand the quality of the program and implementation

1. Monitoring & Evaluation

• Work with M&E team to customize existing tech/systems to analyse the progress of the program (tools to monitor outcomes of various stakeholders) aligned to the program needs
• Frequent discussions with the team on the importance and quality of data collection
• Build feedback loops from district and school-level implementation into ongoing program refinement
• Managing data from the program and discussing with the team to make decisions

Requirements & Qualifications:

• Education: An undergraduate degree in any stream is a must; a master's degree is a plus
• Experience: Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in designing education programs. Experience with leading projects independently would be preferred
• Skills: Should be a good planner and a go-getter; able to work collaboratively in teams; strong communication (oral and written) skills in English and Hindi; Research skills; M&E and data analysis; session design (for student and adult learning)
• Strong work Ethics: Punctuality, Sense of environment, self-driven;
• Interests: Passionate about education
• Language : Written and verbal Fluency in Hindi and English is a must

HINDI ENGLISH