Operations Manager

Role: Manager Operations Bangalore
Location: Bangalore
Experience: 1 years
Salary: Upto 5 LPA

A brief about Involve

Involve was founded by IIT Graduates Divanshu & Samyak who left their placements to build their dream. Through Involve we are reimagining education by building agency in school students targeting 1 million students in the next 5 years. We do that by leveraging a peer learningteachingbased approach. The approach emanates from our belief in Kids first and our key design principles: Cocreated with students Led by the students & participation by choice.

So far we have directly worked with 22000 students across India improving their learning outcomes (39% from the baseline to Endline maths) and the sense of ownership & leadership with our programs. Our core program of Peer Teaching has students in their formative years of age of 1216 teacher and mentor their juniors in public schools . We have also seen great improvement in the learning culture of the school teenage behavior etc. We are backed by some prominent institutions like the Central Square Foundation Nudge foundation for social entrepreneurship Wells Fargo TFIx to name a few.

We are a stellar team from diverse backgrounds and skills supported by experienced advisors to provide choice ownership and skills to our students. More about us at Deccan Herald Logical Indian YourStory & TBI .

Vision: All children will have ageappropriate agency to thrive.

Mission: To create an ecosystem of support for students through peerbased learning.

Overview of the Program:

Maargadarshi : Involving students in the process of learning through peerbased interventions.

The program includes facilitating peerbased spaces to provide a safe space for student voices in their learning process. This includes:

• Learning the concept of foundation math through peer teaching for students in lower primary grades with a CPA approach. (4th and 5th students teach their junior grades)
• Learning gradespecific math content in peer groups. The students explore different concepts through activities making it easier to understand these topics in their regular classrooms. (Covering grades 6th7th and 8th)

Overview of the Role:

The person will be responsible for managing the endtoend implementation of our Maargadarshi Program in respective schools through managing fulltime program Coordinators(community champions) to ensure successful program outcomes for all the students. This will include:

1. Implementation (65% of your Ops role)

• Create an action plan to implement the Maargadarshi program with Schools
• Coaching & coordination with coordinators for respective schools to ensure our program is implemented well
• Set up strong processes that enable smooth onboarding of school
• Periodic program reflection and course correction to improve the quality of the program
• Implementing new pilot projects individually apart from the core program of peer teaching

2. Manage relationships (25% of your Ops role)

• Foster positive relationships with coordinators teachers school staff and other stakeholders to get buyin on change efforts required at the school level
• Engaging external partnerships with organisations/people aimed at addressing pressing needs at the school site
• Engage corporate volunteers via activities for effective CSR management

3. Documenting and reporting (10% of your Ops role)

• Lead efforts to document and report progress & program gaps/challenges on a monthly basis
• Adapt tools or surveys to evaluate collect data and document stakeholders (parents teachers students) responses to intervention
• Analyse feedback from students and teachers to continually improve the effectiveness of the program and implementation
• Creating monthly reports for funders and govt stakeholders

Apply If you have:

• Experience: 12 years of experience in the education sector
• Education: An undergraduate degree in any stream is a must; a masters degree is a plus
• Skills: Should be a good planner and a gogetter; Should be able to manage onground operations; okay to commute long distances on certain days; be patient with the outcomes; getting things done by leveraging relationships; clarity in their thought process and great communication skills; Ability to manage and inspire people
• Should have a strong sense of data collection data analysis knowledge of statistics and be able to set structures for operational data
• Strong work Ethics: Punctuality Sense of environment selfdriven;
• Interests: Passionate about education; enjoys mentoring and coaching people

Why you should join us:

1) High Impact work; Strong ownership for your work and No hierarchy!

2) Mental Health : We offer a supportive space for our team members to prioritize mental health. Enjoy N number of sessions and weve got it covered! Your mental wellbeing matters to us.

3) Young and Amazing Team (IIT NIT Azim Premji University Teach for India): Read here IIT Grad Gives Up Rs 21 Lakh/Year Job Starts Initiative That Could Revolutionise Indias Education

4) We are fun . Like crazy fun! & we love memes! Ask anyone around :)

5) We are crazy about Food so you get brownie points for being a foodie!

People we are looking for :

We always hire for attitude first smarts next and then your skills . We are looking for individuals who align with our Vision and values and who have what it takes to solve the most complex of problems to build the next big education organisation!

What we promise to give you is steep growth and a great learning culture that we have built here.

Location: Anekal Bangalore (Should be fluent in Kannada both verbal and reading)

Excited

Remote Work :

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