Marathi Literacy Expert

**Background**

**About Leadership For Equity (LFE)**

Leadership For Skilled Education Foundation (branded as Leadership For Equity, LFE) is a non-profit organisation (NGO) based in Pune, Maharashtra.

**We envision Public Education Systems That Refuse To Let Children Down.**

**APPROACH**: In our two-fold approach to change, we build the capacity of government system leaders, and we influence system processes. In partnership with the local and state education bodies, we co-create programs that shift teaching-learning practices and improve student learning and well-being. This work, coupled with our research and advisory support to influence policies, will help us create an effective government education system.

Over the last seven years, LFE has built the capacity of 2100+ system leaders and 40,200+ teachers to impact 8 million students across Maharashtra. Additionally, LFE is working in Haryana, & Andhra Pradesh. In Maharashtra, LFE works with five districts (Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Satara & Akola), three municipal bodies (Pune MC, Pimpri Chinchwad MC & Nagpur MC) & 5 state-level education bodies (School Education Dept, SCERT, Samagra Shiksha, Tribal Development Dept, & TRTI). In Andhra Pradesh, LFE works closely with the Samagra Shiksha Office, SCERT, & The World Bank on a multi-year strategic project to improve the quality of learning across 26 districts of the State. In the past, LFE has worked in Nagaland and Tripura to strengthen the delivery of large-scale academic programs.

**BELIEF**: We believe Public Education Systems are the gatekeepers of social **EQUITY**, especially when India's 120 million children continue to go to government-run schools. A multi-layered, complex, and systemic problem of educational inequity, will require a solution rooted in the **SYSTEMS** **CHANGE **approach. We believe that a **COLLECTIVE** effort by forging partnerships with governments, like-minded philanthropists, corporates, donors, nonprofits and grassroot organisations will help bring scalable and sustainable social change.

**About Content and Curriculum Vertical**

The Content and Curriculum vertical of LFE focuses on two key areas: developing high-quality educational resources and building stakeholder capacity to use them effectively. This includes creating curriculum frameworks, need analysis tools, instructional materials, digital content, blended learning courses, training design, and assessment frameworks tailored to program goals. Additionally, the vertical ensures that field teams are trained to implement these resources with the stakeholders.

**About FLN Mission**

The Ministry of Education (previously Ministry of Human Resource and Development - MHRD) passed the **National Education Policy 2020** (NEP) this year. NEP 2020 in its principles, accords the highest priority to achieving **Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN)** in all students of Grade 3 by 2025.

The announcement to set up the National FLN Mission is one of the path-breaking initiatives that the new policy prescribes for solving India’s learning crisis. It goes a step further and sets a deadline of 2025 to achieve FLN in the country. However, this new direction would require a common understanding of well-defined indicators to measure foundational skills like word recognition and oral reading fluency. To ensure the attainment of FLN among all students, the State needs to focus on this growth trajectory and continue to build on the factors that have led to earlier successes. Therefore LFE as an advisory partner to the Maharashtra State Department of School Education is keen to support the strategy and implementation of the state-wide FLN mission. For this, LFE is proposing to set up a support team under the SCERT, School Education Department to support the state authorities to lead this mission.

**Job Description and Responsibilities**:
The Marathi Literacy Expert will work closely with Program Associates and Implementation Coordinators to ensure the achievement of project goals. The role involves playing a critical role in creating resources for the project as outlined below: They include but are not limited to:
**Content development & review (70%)**
- Design overall scope and sequence for FLN contextualized to the needs of intervention districts.
- Decide on the content creation priorities based on the need assessment data.
- Ideate, create, and review teacher training content, including handbooks, lesson plans, presentations, activity guides, and videos.
- Align content with the Maharashtra state curriculum, National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and adult learning frameworks.
- Review scripts, storyboards, videos, and other content outputs as created by the team to ensure pedagogical soundness and rigour.
- Design teacher assessment tools to assess teacher knowledge, skills, and classroom implementation.

**Capacity building (30%)**
- Design and conduct monthly orientation sessions for the field team to build their capacity to e