Educational Initiatives
Location
Udaipur | India
Job description
Work with Educational Initiatives
Founded in 2001, Educational Initiatives Private Limited (EI), is South Asia’s 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 in educational research, assessments, pedagogy-based 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 cutting-edge educational research and a technology-based solutions approach to revolutionize how children in the K-12 education space learn. 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, socio-linguistic 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 on 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 State and Central Government of India. We have worked on several large-scale 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, World Bank, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 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 University of Newcastle. The People The key driver of EI’s 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 top-tier organizations in education, and leading academic institutions. The team includes HBS, IIM and IIT alumni, university rank-holders at Ph.D. 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. Key Roles and Responsibilities 1. Operations and Strategy a. Lead Project Management within Assessments with complete ownership of a project b. Carry out test design and development end-to-end ensuring quality and timelines c. Lead meetings, communications and relationship management with clients d. Manage Ei’s internal information and knowledge repositories e. Ensure error-free deliverables like assessment tools, analyses aligned to project requirements 2. Large Scale Assessments, Capacity Building and Technical Transformation a. Manage activities related to capacity building of education officials and practitioners b. Create workshop training material and collateral including videos, manuals and other content c. Create and execute large scale benchmarking and diagnostics assessments 3. Organizational Development a. Ensure capacity building and training of the team through regular learning and development b. Expand the scope of projects by high quality dissemination- States Interaction, working papers etc. c. Travel for the project needs and documenting trip reports of the same appropriately Educational Qualifications • Graduates/ Post Graduates in Management, Operations, Education, Humanities or Sciences or preferred Experience Required • 3-5 years of experience, some of it working with the government preferably in delivering large-scale education programs • Fluent in written and verbal communications especially presentations, high quality report writing etc. • Experience in handling data and analysis Key Skills 1. Interest in and understanding of India’s education landscape 2. The ability to own, manage and develop an entire project management team end to end 3. Excellent oral and written communications and stakeholder management skills 4. The ability to learn fast, and grasp Educational Initiatives’ model and business 5. The ability to work collaboratively in teams and independently as a self-starter 6. Being detail-oriented, with strong analytical and critical-thinking skillsJob tags
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