Project Manager/Associate

Educational Initiatives (Ei) is South Asia's leading assessment research and educational technology organization. With our focus on educational research, pedagogy-based personalized adaptive learning, and science of learning, we aim to transform how children in the K-12 education space learn. Within Ei, Ei Shiksha works with governments and India’s public school system. It aims to strengthen public education at scale and make high-quality learning accessible to students from marginalised socio-economic backgrounds. Over the past two decades, Ei Shiksha has undertaken over 80+ projects with 35+ clients across geographies, socio-linguistic backgrounds in India and abroad, for more than 10 million students across different grades. To find out more about us, log on to www.ei.study.

The Assessments team at Ei Shiksha creates/delivers high-quality learning assessments and helps organisations and governments develop their capacity to do the same. The team also undertakes impact assessments of educational interventions implemented by other organisations, developing learning measurement tools and training stakeholders on assessment systems and protocols, data analysis andreporting.

Position Summary

• Ideal candidate should have a strong on-ground implementation experience of large-scale education programs backed by a solid background in examination reform, curriculum development, assessment, teacher preparation and instructional coaching.

• Strong academic background from a reputed institute with a post-graduation or a fellowship in education

• At least 3+ years of hands-on education on-ground program implementation experience in a demanding education enterprise or non-profit workplace, designing and implementing large-scale programs, designing training modules and coaching/mentoring protocols, supporting teacher- coaches, solving implementation breakdowns

• Excellent people management and project delivery skills, including the ability to lead a small specialist team, create project plans and dashboards, drive execution, manage multiple projects at a time, influence internal and external stakeholders

Education Qualification and Experience Required

• Ideal candidate should have a strong academic background from a reputed institute with a post-graduation or a fellowship in education

• At least 3+ years of hands-on education on-ground program implementation experience in a demanding education enterprise or non-profit workplace, designing training modules and coaching/mentoring protocols, supporting teacher- coaches, solving implementation breakdowns (especially in low-capacity settings)

• Excellent people management and project delivery skills

• Candidates with experience of working in the north-east region of India will be given preference.

Key Skills and Attitude

For the roles, ideal candidates are those who

• Are passionate about education reform and want their actions to have an impact on-ground.

• Are driven to learn and solve some of the most pressing problems in our education system

• Are comfortable working a small-organization setting, where teamwork and resourcefulness are

highly valued

• Value a T-shaped approach to work, with both breadth collaboration and innovation across

disciplines and depth in specific areas of expertise