American India Foundation
Location
Amreli | India
Job description
ABOUT AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
The American India Foundation Trust (AIF) is committed to improving the lives of India's underprivileged, with a special focus on women, children, and youth. The Foundation does this through high-impact interventions in education, health, and livelihoods because poverty is multidimensional. Through its unique value proposition, working closely with local communities, the Foundation partners with NGOs to develop and test innovative solutions and with governments to create and scale sustainable impact. Founded over two decades ago, in the aftermath of the devastating Gujarat earthquake, as a humanitarian initiative by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji and Bill Clinton, American India Foundation Trust (AIF) has impacted the lives of 16.51 millions of India's poor across 36 States and Union Territories of India.
Registered as a Trust in India, with an independent Board of Trustees, AIF adheres to strict financial and governance standards, ensuring transparency, accountability, and responsible management of resources. As per statutory mandates, AIF is registered under FCRA, CSR, 80G, and 12A.
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ABOUT DIGITAL EQUALIZER PROGRAM
Digital Equalizer is AIF's flagship education program. DE envisions a world where all children from under-served communities, especially girls, are prepared for a career and life. The program is bridging India's digital divide by providing and integrating technology into underperforming, under-resourced public schools, training teachers in techno-pedagogy and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) methodology, and transforming classrooms into collaborative and interactive places for students to learn while preparing them for success in the 21st century global economy. Since its inception in 2004, the Program has empowered 7.25 million
children with interactive STEM experiences, trained 212,585 teachers in STEM pedagogy, and transformed 32,596 schools across 36 states and union territories of the country.
Brief / Objectives of the Project:
The AIF STEM-based Digital Equalizer program uses technology to bridge India's digital divide and transform under-resourced schools into dynamic places to teach and learn through collaborative, project-based learning.
The program works to impart teachers' training and sensitize HMs to increase the student's learning outcomes with a focus on STEM subjects.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
a) Responsible for EDUKIT (e-content) and STEM manual development in line with curriculum of grades 6 to 10.
b) Provide training on STEM activities.
c) Conduct training for teachers at DE schools of Gujarat.
d) Develop standardized Science and Maths kits that can be adopted across various states.
Responsible for implementation of the STEM Lab under DEEP Shaala project under the guidance and supervision of the Project Manager and Project Director.
e) Responsible for field visits to conduct STEM Workshops for Master trainers of Gujarat.
f) Capacity building of potential team members (CCs) on STEM model development.
g) Representing AIF for conducting STEM Workshops for Govt. and Non-Govt. organizations.
h) Visiting various organizations excelling in the field of STEM for further learning and development.
i) Implementing STEM initiative for futuristic projects in Gujarat.
j) Develop required content in given format for grade 6 to 10 as per the pedagogy and given methodology under the guidance of Project Manager.
k) Develop worksheet and quizzes for students in required format under the guidance of Project Manager and Project Director.
l) Responsible for validating the content developed by external agencies with respect to the project
requirements under the guidance of Project manager/Project Director.
m) Translating Central content into the regional language or validating translated documents.
n) Train team to develop content for any futuristic requirements.
o) Prepare the monthly, quarterly and annual report of the program as per the guidelines of Project Manager, as per requirement.
p) Assisting Project Manager on any other innovative idea implementation for STEM.
q) Database management as per mandate of the program to enhance programmatic output –
illustratively: Student enrolment, attendance in program sessions, responses to curriculum transaction and response analysis, case studies etc. Maintain professional integrity and ethical conduct of working at all times.
r) Any other work as assigned by the Project Manager/Project Director.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Post-graduation preferably in any field of Science or Maths with minimum 3 years of experience in content development & training.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:
Position Availability: Immediate/ at the earliest possible.
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