Lead Educational Specialist Capacity Building Assessments
Lead Educational Specialist Capacity Building Assessments
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About the Assessments Team
Founded in 2001 Educational Initiatives Private Limited (EI) is South Asias leading assessment research and educational technology organization motivated by the vision of creating a world where children everywhere are learning with understanding. Our goal is to reach a multitude of children across different strata of society irrespective of the kind of education they are receiving today or the curriculum they are following. With our focus on educational research assessments pedagogybased personalized adaptive learning (PAL) and a Science of Learning (SoL) repository of data and techniques to help children learn better we continue to strive to leverage the twin levers of cuttingedge educational research and a technologybased solutions approach to revolutionize how children in the K12 education space learn.
The Assessments team is in charge of creating and delivering highquality assessments capacity building and technical enhancement programs as part of Ei Shiksha a vertical of Ei that exclusively works with lowincome or government schools. It takes Eis expertise in assessments educational research and technologybased personalized adaptive learning and builds solutions/programmes/products contextualised for the BoP settings. This is done in collaboration with state governments international grantmakers corporate foundations and NGOs.
Over the past two decades EI has undertaken over 80 projects with 50 government and civil society partners 16 languages 40 detailed studies published) across geographies and sociolinguistic backgrounds in India and abroad for more than 10 million students across different grades. EI has offices in Bangalore and Ahmedabad in India with 350 staff members specializing in different aspects of assessments technology training and project management. The top executives at EI serve/have served as advisors on boards of several educational committees for the State and Central Government of India.
We have worked on several largescale systems change projects in India with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) Gujarat Secondary Education Board (GSEB) SCERT Haryana Bihar Education Project Council SSA Tamil Nadu Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) Himachal Pradesh Uttar Pradesh government agencies and the countries of Maldives and Bhutan. Our work has been funded by UNICEF the World Bank the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) the Department for International Development (DfID) UK The Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE) MacArthur Foundation Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF) Hewlett Foundation McKinsey Harvard University and the University of Newcastle.
The People
The key driver of EIs success is the quality of our staff. Our team includes over 300 professionals combining a unique depth of pedagogical and assessment expertise with experience working with schools government systems and toptier organizations in education and leading academic institutions. The team includes HBS IIM and IIT alumni university rankholders at PhD and Masters level in Science Social Sciences and Humanities along with teachers with several years of school experience curriculum and textbook developers and teacher trainers. The organization has specialized internal teams working on test development data science educational research psychometrics personalized learning and IT development.
For the roles ideal candidates are those who
- Are passionate about education reform and want their actions to have an impact onground.
- Are driven to learn and solve some of the most pressing problems in our education system
- Graduated (in any stream/discipline) from toptier colleges in India and abroad
- Have worked in similar roles
- Are comfortable working in a smallorganization setting where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued
- Are driven to excel in their work showcasing a high level of innovation and perseverance
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit and cando attitude
- Value a Tshaped approach to work with both breadth of collaboration and innovation across disciplines and depth in specific areas of expertise.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Develop and Manage Capacity Building Programs
- Manage the designing and conducting of training and workshops on Assessment processes Question making understanding results reports evaluator training postanalysis workshops etc. for projects.
- Design workshops on assessment architecture design and assessment item writing in various subjects in coordination with assessment experts and subject experts.
- Collaborate with internal teams (Content Development Pedagogical Research Assessments etc. and partner organizations (assessment vendors experts etc. to deliver highquality capacitybuilding collaterals.
- Interact with clients/stakeholders to understand the needs better and adapt the programs as per requirements.
- Create strategies and action plans to build and improve the structure that can be quickly customized to cater to the requirement of various capacitybuilding programs.
- Manage regular engagement with key stakeholders for assessments and/or regulatory work.
- Track key policy developments on Board Examinations and trends at international national and state levels to contextualise the capacity building as well as support other team members by providing consultative advice to Governments.
- Understand the design implementation administration evaluation and revision of assessments for projects handled by the team.
- Maintain appropriate documentation for the project.
- Travel to the field to conduct and/or evaluate the implementation of capacitybuilding programs
Organizational Development
- Expand the scope of projects by highquality dissemination through working papers publications etc.
- Identify strengths and areas of improvement needed to standardize and modularize the capacitybuilding offerings.
- Support in teams growth and learning needs and build their capacity around pedagogyrelated activities.
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience
- 35 years of experience in the education or development sector with at least 1 to 2 years experience in handling largescale capacity building/training programs related to education.
Required Skills
- A strong understanding of education instruction and assessments with a specific focus on training and capacity building.
- Strong understanding of Indias education landscape.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills and stakeholder management skills.
- The ability to learn fast and grasp Educational Initiatives models and business.
- Attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Ability to visualize and create concise and comprehensible content for various stakeholders.
- The ability to work collaboratively in teams and independently as a selfstarter.
- Strong analytical and criticalthinking skills
- Problemsolving attitude
- Meticulous documentation skills
- Willingness to travel to various remote locations
Preferred skills and qualifications
- A degree related to the field of education and development will be an added advantage.
- Candidates with relevant work experience in designing and conducting workshops/training in the education space.
- Knowledge of instructional design.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
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