Program Officer

Job Description About Us At Quest Alliance, we transform learning ecosystems through education technology, capacity building, and collaboration to build 21st-century skills for learners and facilitators. We are a not-for-profit trust that focuses on research-led innovation and advocacy in the field of teaching and learning. We engage with educators, civil society, government institutions and corporate organizations to demonstrate and enable scalable and replicable solutions in school education and vocational training. At Quest you will get the opportunity to apply your skills and contribute to addressing issues around quality education and skills training. The organization gives you the space to learn and grow in a fun and engaging environment. We have an eclectic group of people working at Quest drawn from diverse disciplines including Education, Technology, Design, Youth. About The Role The Program Officer (PO) plays a crucial role in guiding and mentoring District Teachers to implement Quest Alliance's Future Skills curriculum. This support includes program implementation, monitoring, and assisting teachers in successfully implementing the Future Skills curriculum, and its allied activities. The Program Officer also builds relationships with all district stakeholders and works closely with the training and content team. The Amazon Future Engineer project involves implementing a program where teachers are trained to implement a Future Skills curriculum on Artificial Intelligence and Future Careers. The Program Officer needs to make frequent calls and visits to the schools to observe, motivate and give critical feedback to teachers on the implementation of the session plans. Each Program Officer will be associated with 126 schools and they must regularly contact and connect with their schools to help drive quality implementation of the Future Skills curriculum. Additionally, the PO also needs to help the Sr. Program Officer (Program) in compiling Govt/ Funder reports every month, ensure monthly data collection and reporting by the teachers. Roles & Responsibilities Program Implementation and Planning - Take responsibility for effective program delivery, review implementation, and monitor within the agreed standards in the assigned Districts of Andhra Pradesh. - Ensure there is a proper weekly/monthly work plan in place for your district and you are able to follow and deliver accordingly. - Be well versed with the content/curriculum of the Future Skills curriculum on AI and Career and understand how the content is to be delivered in schools by Teachers. - Support and guide Teachers in organising and implementing the process effectively with all the teachers and students in your District. - Contribute to the design, plan/support and execute innovation and experimentation with Teachers & schools. - Ensure District level events which are part of the State plan are implemented and executed in a timely and efficient manner. - Ensure participation in Cluster/Complex-level meetings or related-trainings that are happening in the district to make visible our program and provide insights to a larger group of teachers on our work. - Ensure frequent and consistent communication and follow up with teachers and make sure there's a good relationship built with them - Identify the top performing teachers periodically and make sure they are recognised in all government as well as Quest forums (District/State level events, fortnightly calls, etc) Relationship Management - Stakeholders - Build relationships with the District government officials including District Collector, DEO, AMO, GCDO, DSO, Head Masters/Complex and Mandal/Cluster Resource people and Teachers during their school visits to facilitate smooth implementation of the Program, including liaisoning, conducting orientations, review meetings, monitoring visits, etc. - Work with the SPOs (Program and District Govt Engagement) to plan, calendarize and ensure joint monitoring visits with the District officials happen frequently to schools every month. - Understand the overall school culture and environment and identify spaces, processes and opportunities to align the project approach into the school to transfer ownership of the project approach to school stakeholders. Monitoring, Reporting & Documentation - Ensure all feedback from teacher's webinars and events is collected and collated in one place and shared with relevant team members for analysis. - Ensure the documentation, including case studies, photographs, and videos of the implementation schools, is collected and reaches relevant team members with the stakeholders signed consent in place. - Document and share the best practices in the schools by district officials, teachers & students for publication in donor reporting, quarterly newsletters, social media and other channels. - Use the appropriate M&E tools and the Dashboard to make sure that program implementation data entered by the stakeholders is being captured and represented and that project implementation is on track. Requirements Required Skills and Experience: - Minimum 4+ years of work experience in project implementation or school facilitation, and NGO sector, preferably in the education sector. - Interest in working with and building capacity of the Government secondary school Teachers. - Willingness to learn and influence prevalent practices in the education ecosystem - Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills in Telugu (Mandatory) and working knowledge of English. - Willingness to travel within and outside of the District. - Ability to train, build the capacity of, and manage relationships with new people. - Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with other teams. - Ability to use technology and various virtual platforms like Google Hangout Meet, Zoom, WhatsApp, Google Classroom, Chatbot and other google suite applications. - Excited about working with Teachers on Artificial Intelligence, 21st-century skills & Computational thinking. - Knowledge of artificial intelligence, hackathons, coding and the Ed-Tech tools would be an advantage and will be preferred. Benefits Salary: The pay band for the position starts at Rs. 35,000/- per month (cost to company) ( The salary offered will be commensurate with the experience and expertise of the candidate)