Academic Coordinator

Location: Uttarakhand Reporting Relationship: Academic Lead

Nature of Consultancy Number of position: 4
Employment:
**ABOUT AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION**

The American India Foundation is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged,

with a special focus on women, children, and youth. AIF does this through high impact

interventions in education, health, and livelihoods, because poverty is multidimensional. AIF’s

unique value proposition is its broad engagement between communities, civil society, and

expertise, thereby building a lasting bridge between the United States and India. With offices in

New York and California, twelve chapters across the U.S., and India operations headquartered in

Delhi NCR, AIF has impacted 12.9 million lives across 35 states and Union Territories of India.

Digital Equalizer is AIF's flagship education program. Since its inception in 2004, the Program has

empowered 5.4 million children with interactive STEM experiences, trained 182,025 teachers in

STEM pedagogy, and transformed 24,471 schools across 35 states and union territories of the

country. DE Program utilizes technology to bridge the educational and digital divide in India by

transforming under-resourced government schools into dynamic places to teach and learn through

collaborative, project-based learning and building 21stcentury skills amongst students, especially

girls.

**ABOUT DIGITAL EQUALIZER**

Digital Equalizer (DE) envisions a world where all children from under-served communities,
especially girls, are prepared for a career and life. The program is bridging India’s digital divide by
providing and integrating technology into underperforming, under-resourced public schools,
training teachers in techno-pedagogy and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics) methodology, and transforming classrooms into collaborative and interactive places
for students to learn while preparing them for success in the 21st century global economy. Since
its inception in 2004, the Program has empowered 5.4 million children with interactive STEM
experiences, trained 182,025 teachers in STEM pedagogy, and transformed 24,471 schools across
35 states and union territories of the country.

**Objectives of the project: **

Strengthen STEM school education in rural government schools.

Improve the performance of underprivileged girl students from government schools in
competitive exams.

Build the institutional capacity of 5 District Institute for Education Training (DIETs) on
STEM learning, techno-pedagogy, and preparation of students for the competitive exam
over 4.5 years.

Institutionalize best practices for sustainability through creation of a playbook in
partnership with the government and sharing evidence of the same.

**ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Academic coordinator will be the key focal point of contact at the DIET for the knowledge
management and would report to the Project Lead.

The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
**Relationship/Team Management**

Liaison and manage relationships with the DIET and Government Officials.

Devise strategies for rapid adoption and acceptance of programs among teachers and
principals under the DIET/other stakeholders.

program implementation.

Manage the master trainers and establish effective cascade model of DE program under
the DIET.

Create knowledge documents that improve program replicability.

Work closely with DIET faculty and teachers and support them in on ground
implementations.

**Content Management: **

Provide inputs to content development team for competitive exam preparations,
curriculum development.

Establish STEM incubation centre at DIET, STEM activities

Review of new content related to the program for inclusion/ expansion of the program.

Organize content as per the state syllabus to integrate PBL methods and hands on activities
in class room sessions

Be familiar with the question banks and assessment tools for grades 6-12

Have complete understanding of the complete model and content requirement.

Transact the curriculum as per the training schedule at DIET/cluster level.

**Documentation and Reporting: **

Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual team reports as per the mandate of the
program/ donor requirement/s related to content usage.

Ensure maximum usage of STEM incubation centre, maintain logbooks and activity
tracker.

Ensure reporting timelines of organization and donor.

Create repository of content, monitor usage of online content relevant/ pertinent to the
program.

Any other reports required by the PL/ academic head/program team of DE/ Donor
related to content.

**Capacity Enhancement: **

Create training frameworks and schedules.

Map the syllabus with the STEM lab manipulatives and draw training plan.

Support/ facilitate/ conduct training sessions for data management for the team and
relevant stakeholders on content.

Create Training materials for teachers and students

Work on enhancing his