Education Specialist Impact Project Management
Education Specialist Impact Project Management
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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.
Roles and Responsibilities
Large Scale Assessment Projects
- Work with manager and support in executing project management processes.
- Understand the project requirements and coordinate with internal teams (Content Development Pedagogical Research Assessments etc. and partner organizations (assessment vendors experts etc. to deliver the required project outputs.
- Support in managing projects endtoend effectively break down workstreams and ensure high outcomeorientation.
- Work with the team to prepare strategic roadmaps and implementation plans with goals and milestones.
- Support in identifying operational bottlenecks and weaknesses and devising resolution pathways
- Support the team to liaise with clients and maintain strong working relationships with clients.
- Actively build internal capabilities and support team members by sharing learnings and providing feedback.
- Support in Creating/Reviewing/ Facilitating highquality assessment tools for projects.
- Work with the data analysis team to complete the required analysis and unearth insights required for the project.
- Understand the reporting needs for the project and prepare reports as per the requirement.
- Maintain appropriate documentation for the project.
- Travel to the field to evaluate/implement or support project needs implementation of LSEP assessments with clients and understand clients work better.
- Support in teams growth and learning needs.
Organizational Development
- Expand the scope of projects by highquality dissemination working papers publications etc.
- Research learn and identify strengths and areas of improvement needed at a team level to conduct diverse projects.
Requirements
- 1 to 3 years experience in working in the development sector.
- 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
- Candidates who have previously handled largescale educationrelated projects.
- Experience working with government and/or NGOs.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
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