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Educational Specialist, Assessments - HP


ConveGenius


Location

Shimla | India


Job description

About CGI

CGI (earlier known as Gray Matters India, GMI) is a leading educational assessment and impact evaluation company that enables child-centric education by providing child-specific diagnoses of learning levels and by providing actionable feedback to regularly monitor a child's development.We provide large scale educational assessments and program evaluation solutions to bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, corporate philanthropic foundations, federal and state governments, implementers, and private schools. Some of our clients and partners include British Asian Trust, Deshpande Foundation, Government of Haryana, Kaizenvest, Michael amp; Susan Dell Foundation, Palladium International, UBS Optimus Foundation, USAID, to name a few.

CGI works with students from lower-income communities in Government schools and Affordable Private Schools (APS). CGI has worked with 10,000+ schools, 15,00,000+ students across India and aspires to impact more than 50,000 schools, 30 million students and 100,000 teachers in the next 5 years. CGI currently develops assessment tools using modern measurement techniques (like Item Response Theory and Rasch Modelling) and contextualize the assessment methodology for Indian schools. For more information, please visit

CGI is part of ConveGenius (CG) group, an EdTech social enterprise driven to solve the challenge of educational equity and learning outcomes for children and youth in India. Currently, it reaches over 35 million students in India to provide them access to quality education through their EdTech solutions.

Role Summary

ConveGenius Insights (CGI) is seeking an ambitious professional with a result-oriented approach to join as an Educational Specialist , Assessments . The Assessment team is involved in creating engaging and insightful assessment tools that test the level of understanding of the content and competence in the subject skills of children. For this role, we are looking for a passionate individual who would love to go deeper into how children learn subjects and to lead the team in building high-quality learning modules and assessment tools that can uncover gaps in students' learning.

Initially the candidate will be positioned in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh to execute a project with the HP state government and post which the candidate may be relocated to Hyderabad as per business requirement. The key domains of work will include but not be limited to blueprint development, assessment research, item review and capacity building of state officials and teachers on assessments.

Tasks amp; Responsibilities

Role

The role mainly involves handling a team that works on the creation and review of engaging content for learning and assessment products, which includes the following:

  • Leading projects within the assessment, products amp; services team
  • Providing guidance, resources, and assistance to a team of assessment creators
  • Understanding research on pedagogy and teaching and helping the team translate that to creation of sound assessment tools
  • Setting up optimal processes for the creation and maintenance of existing and new assessments, including translations
  • Creating modules for training of teachers and state officials in the domain of assessments
  • Ability to review and revise existing content based on quality, technical correctness and student performance data, if needed, or guide the team for the same
  • Regularly check the quality of the question bank and set up maintenance processes to keep it updated
  • Reading and sharing summaries of research papers, articles related to education in national and international publications
  • Analysing large-scale student response data to figure out how children think and learn
  • Interacting with teachers and students for insights about students' learning

Education amp; Experience

  • Master's in Social Science/Assessment/Education/Educational Measurement, or a related field.
  • Experience: 7+ years of experience in assessment design,item development, and test blueprinting.
  • Preferred: Experience working with State governments on capacity building in the domain of assessments

Competencies

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Excellent proofreading skills
  • Ability to critically analyse assessment and learning content
  • Should like to engage in healthy debates and arguments that are critical for strong content and product development
  • Ability to critically analyse content to deliver a high-quality learning experience for the child
  • Sticking to tight schedules and effective workload management

Work Environment

CGI's work culture is entrepreneurial and results-oriented. CGI team is diverse with people from multiple backgrounds like education, business, engineering, development with varied experiences. The entire team at CGI comes together for one purpose, which is to make a significant impact on the quality of education by providing actionable insights.


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