Project Associate Tdd

Full-Time (Nashik - Palghar ) 2-3 years of experience in working on implementation of projects and facilitation Experience

**About Leadership For Equity (LFE)**:
Leadership For Skilled Education Foundation (branded as **Leadership For Equity, LFE**), is a non-profit (NGO) based out of 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, we hope to create an effective government education system.

Over the last 5 years, LFE has built the capacity of 2100+ system leaders, and 40,200+ teachers to impact 8 million students across Maharashtra. Additionally, LFE has recently expanded its operations and started working in another 3 states of India including Haryana, Tripura & Andhra Pradesh. In Maharashtra, LFE works with 5 districts (Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Satara & Akola), 3 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. And lastly in Haryana & Tripura, LFE works with SCERTs of both states in setting up targeted program management units (PMUs) to strengthen delivery of large-scale academic programs.

**BELIEF**: We believe Public Education Systems are the gatekeepers of social EQUITY, especially when India's 120 million poorest-of-the-poor 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 the project**:
**The Tribal Development Department (TDD)** of Maharashtra works for the underserved tribal population in the state in order to enable, empower and include them in the mainstream society. The Tribal Department works ceaselessly to address challenges in irrigation, health, education, and livelihood needs. However, about 70 percent of its focus area lies in enabling access to education for tribal students.

However, for all of these innovations to succeed and thrive, there is the backbone of middle management that needs to be strengthened through clear expectations and support structures as well as through their capacity development. Further, to enable timely awareness of successes and gaps, the senior leadership must have access to key static and dynamic data points, which will enable clear goal setting, monitoring and course correction. These background and supportive factors are invaluable for long term efficient and effective functioning of the department to enable quality education, which is the value addition that LFE wishes to co-create with, and contribute to the Tribal Development Department.

In order to better enable quality education in Ashram schools, the objective of this collaboration are the following priorities:
**Priority 1: Formation of Education Resource Cell**

Building and academic cell to prioritize focus and support in teaching learning quality and educational outcomes of students

**Priority 2: Role Clarity & Performance Management**: Providing recommendations for **better performance of the education cell**, by providing role clarity and setting up processes or systems for performance management within the department includes capacity development of staff as well.

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**About the Role: Description & Responsibilities**:
The **Project Associate **will work with TDD officers to ensure project goals are achieved. Additionally, the Project Associate will collaborate with members across the team and support manager/senior manager as and when required.

**Project Operations (40%)**:

- Support in working on the overall vision, strategy, and implementation plan for this project in conjunction with the Leadership Team at LFE
- Work with government stakeholders to co-design interventions that align with government needs as well as LFE’s organizational priorities
- Design and implement long term and monthly plans to implement priorities defined by functional verticals in alignment with the district strategy/ TOC
- Lead operations for the project, ensuring monthly, quarterly and yearly goals are on track
- Create mechanisms, tools etc. to track and evaluate progress towards