Associate - Academics (Content Development & Capacity Building)

Your team (Academics) 

The Academics team consists of practitioners from teaching, teacher
training, content and

curriculum development backgrounds. The Academics (Content development and Capacity building
professionals) team is in charge
of ensuring that all curricular and capacity -building materials that Madhi
develops and collaborates on, align with our key pillars Accessibility,
Contextualization, Inclusivity and Learning Outcome -focused. This team also
owns the academic and training inputs across all programs and hence delivers
high -quality error -free content and training customised to individual project
needs.

About the role: 

The Associate, Academics will co -create curricular materials, including
but not limited to worksheets, lesson plans, instructional videos, and
assessments. These curricular materials for grades 1 to 3 for literacy (English
and Tamil) and Maths will be benchmarked globally and customized to the local
user. They will also be involved in developing session plans for
capacity -building workshops and facilitating the same to a variety of audiences
including teachers, parents, and other internal and external stakeholders.

The challenges you will help solve in this role

·       The Academics team at Madhi largely comes from teaching backgrounds with
exposure to modern and progressive education systems. As the Senior Associate,
you will channel this modern knowledge into the curricular materials for
under -resourced schools.

·       Addressing the unique challenges that the public education space faces.

·       Planning and implementing novel projects applying various permutations
and combinations that ultimately address the foundational learning challenges

·       Contribute purposefully to the growing body of knowledge on what works
and what doesn’t work to improve last -mile educational outcomes for children,
through the public sector delivery; in particular - by contextualising findings
to the Indian context.

The Job Description 

Below is an indicative set of responsibilities you will be required to
lead as part of your role. This is a hybrid role, and based on prior experience
and interests, you may be more involved in one of the two core areas - content
development and capacity building. We believe that a job description is best
created collaboratively where the individual joining the team and the senior
leadership team together define the role in greater detail so it reflects your
aspirations and ambitions as much as it does the organisation’s needs. A
detailed description will be jointly created once the selection process has
been completed and you have accepted our offer of employment.

In this role, some of your responsibilities will include 

·       Creating high -quality, error -free curricular
materials, primarily paper -based and digital content for children and teachers
of grades 1 - 3, that align with the finalised frameworks and guidelines.

·       Creating educational videos involves demonstrating in front of a camera
for real -time videos as well as storyboarding for animated videos  to
Create storyboards for animation and other videos.

·       Creating capacity -building materials to develop and
evaluate the knowledge, skills and mindsets of key stakeholders crucial to
project implementation and facilitating training spaces as per the needs of the
project/organisation.

·       Ensuring all curricular and capacity -building
materials meet national and international quality standards through periodic
reviews and propose improvements informed by research.

Requirements

You will thrive in this
role if you:

·       Have a strong interest in pedagogy and are driven to
conduct extensive research.

·       Demonstrate a passion for learning and simplify
complex processes for easy stakeholder understanding.

·       Are proficient in reading and writing Tamil.

·       Possess a growth mindset and are comfortable exploring
solutions to problems that may be unfamiliar at first.

Mandatory
prerequisites include:  

·       A bachelor’s degree preferably in the humanities or
social sciences

·       Excellent written communication skills in English

·       0 -2 years’ work experience in teaching, learning
content development or teacher training

·       Teaching experience in low -income schools will be an
added advantage.

·       Excellent knowledge of MS Office suite and Google Suite
applications

You will be expected to bring your own laptop with
updated software (MS Office 2016).