Literacy Specialist

A world where every child has access to quality education and can read with confidence is within our reach.

We are seeking a highly skilled Literacy Specialist to anchor and support all literacy inputs. This role will involve frequent travel to the field as well as regular interaction with education officials, partners, and external experts.

• Curriculum Development: Lead and design state level Curriculum, FLN approach, Literacy Materials and TLM, providing guidance to state FLN PMUs in reviewing and finalizing Learning outcome framework, curricular frameworks on Literacy as per NIPUN guidelines.
• Vision Building and Capacity Building: Orient state curricular group on FLN principles and approaches, build capacities of SRG, DRG and core groups at different level around FLN vision and approaches, provide technical guidance to FLN core group in designing and facilitating capacity building workshops on literacy at state and district level.
• Teacher Professional Development: Provide support in developing a roadmap for CPD of teachers on Literacy, enable development of a professional development framework on Literacy for the state, create professional development packages for teachers on Foundational literacy, support state FLN state level core group in developing teacher development package on Foundational literacy.
• Project Management: Regularly participate in coordination meetings with government counterparts, implementing partners, and internal teams to stay aligned on objectives, timelines, and deliverables, ensure the project/intervention is on track in the state.

• Education: Master's in Education/Social Sciences or equivalent.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, prior experience of working with state governments towards state reforms in literacy desired.
• Skills: In-depth knowledge about language and reading practices and approaches, including national and international research on the same, knowledge about early grade reading assessments, experience of having worked with program design and log frames an added advantage.