Academic Excellence Associate

**About Ed fIRST**

Ed-fIRST is a not for profit organization, an independent provider of academic excellence in school education. The organization facilitates focused teacher capacity building programs in assessment strategies, modern assessment practices, Formative and Summative Assessment and other aspects of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment. It impacts the school head, teacher educator and teachers across the spectrum of schooling ranging from pre-school to post school.

The organization addresses gender and equity issues in school education, quality interventions including ICT and Whole School Assessment.

**Role Description**

**Key responsibilities**
- Towards teacher support and accountability and student learning improvement.
- Designing, piloting and developing the interventions. (e.g. Professional Learning Communities, supporting a cadre of mentor teachers, Recognition mechanisms, remedial learning and tech-based learning solutions etc.)
- Leading the pilot of interventions, documenting learnings and evolving the design to have greater impact at scale
- Working closely with team to build knowledge as well as build capacity towards improved implementation
- Support in designing the scope and sequence of the training curriculum for teachers, school leaders and education officials.
- Own the instructional design of blended training content end-to-end including creating engaging digital learning resources that are need-based, relevant and rigorous.
- Design high quality needs-assessment and post training assessments to track the impact of the capacity building interventions.
- Identify and map high-quality training content across multiple platforms and work towards curating and building a repository of professional development resources.
- Plan and sequence the implementation of programme interventions (such as

Training modules for teachers and Professional Learning Communities)
- Design and facilitate training sessions for teachers, school leaders and other key stakeholders.
- Attention to detail, including proof reading and editing skills for materials shared internally and externally
- Ability to present complex content/sessions into simple, actionable points making it accessible to individuals with varying skill levels.

**Person Specification**

**Experience**:

- Direct classroom and teaching experience of 3-6 years. An education degree in Education is preferred
- Awareness of education structures in India would be preferred.
- Experience of having led content creation for professional development initiatives
- Strong working knowledge of Hindi and English (oral and written)

**Behaviours and attributes**:

- A strong desire to influence education system.
- A deep understanding of the context and challenges of the government school teachers
- Ability to iterate on sessions quickly, based on feedback, following a process of continuous improvement
- Bias to action, with an ability to step back and see the larger picture
- Intellectually curious, open to learning
- Flexible and adaptable style, responding positively to changing demands
- Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
- A passion for education and a genuine commitment to Edfirst’s mission and values.
- The tenacity, flexibility, and resilience to adapt rapidly to changing priorities in a fastmoving, complex environment.
- High levels of personal impact with the ability to command the respect of wide range of senior stakeholders.
- Significant personal drive, energy, ambition, and enthusiasm.
- Performance orientation - sets and achieves high standards for self and others

**Skills and Knowledge**:

- Ability to create technical documentation and liaise with both tech and non-tech stakeholders effectively
- Proficiency in data visualization and presentation
- An appreciation for education overall, and specific areas of expertise in education (e.g. primary school curriculum, digital content delivery, school leadership, etc.) would be preferable
- Strong research instinct, ability to gather information, examine perspectives and create synthesized solutions/recommendations
- An ability to work successfully under pressure with the capacity to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills, to ensure the goals and operations of the project are well understood across all stakeholder groups

**Language skills**: Fluency in English and Hindi

**Selection**

The selection process will involve written tests/assignments, interviews and live demonstrations of expertise (e.g. taking a classroom session), with the senior management team of the organization.

**Reference checking & Probation**

**Salary**: Commensurate with experience

Schedule:

- Day shift

Application Question(s):

- How much time would you need to join?

Work Location: In person