Project Associate, Curriculum

**About Peepul**

Peepul is an education-focused non-profit. **We dream and work towards creating an**

**education system in India that enables ‘every child to realize their potential.’**

We work closely with governments at the national, state, and local levels to transform

government schools and government systems. The poorest children in India study in

government schools and too many of them are falling through the cracks. We are

determined to ensure that they receive a high-quality education to help them succeed in life.

We are restless, resilient, and reflective. We aim high, we innovate, we work smart, we work

as a team and we use rigorous research to inform our work. We run systemic education

programmes that, together, ensure that we adopt a holistic view towards improving state

education systems. We are a fast-paced organisation that aims high.

Towards creating exemplar education ecosystems, some of what we do includes:
**i. Run Exemplar Schools**: we run exemplar schools in partnership with the

government to show what ‘great’ looks like. Starting with one school with 9 children

in 2015, we now have a network of 3 schools that directly impact 1,000 children.

**ii. Systemic Interventions**: we create systemic influence through large-scale

interventions such as teacher training, capacity building of government education

officials, working with district and state-level training institutes and advising on policy

reform.

**iii. Government Policy and Advisory**:we advise state governments on improving

governance and accountability structures through our work on quality assurance,

levers for school improvement and knowledge as practitioners of quality

improvement.

**iv. Thought Leadership**:we recognize the criticality of institutionalizing and codifying

our best practices, content, and processes so that they can be standardized, scaled

and can be adopted by government systems to improve government schools as well

as shared more widely with the education ecosystem in India.

**Job Description: Project Associate, Curriculum and Assessment
**Reports to**: Project Manager, Academic Content and Learning

**Location**:Delhi

**Start date**: Immediate

**Salary**:Commensurate with experience

**Role Context**

Peepul (formerly as Ark India) has been working in the South Delhi Municipal Corporation

(SDMC) school system since 2015, starting with Delhi’s first PPP school, that has consistently

shown excellent results; expanding later into wider teacher development through a

multiyear training programme, that has now evolved into the effort towards setting up

Teacher Development Centres in the state. Peepul has now embarked on a multi-year

system-wide transformation program in partnership with the SDMC, to holistically improve

the education system towards providing high-quality education for all students, by creating

high-performing teachers and an improved administrative system within SDMC. This

transformation program would serve as an exemplar of education system transformation in

the municipalities across the country.

The Project Associate must be someone with a strong understanding of curriculum and

assessment along with a knack for forging and maintaining a strong relationship with

government stakeholders.

**Role Description**

The role of the **Project Associate, Curriculum and Assessment **is critical to the success of

the continued partnership with the SDMC towards achieving quality education for all, and to

Peepul’s strategic objective of supporting quality improvement in the public-school system

in India. This is therefore an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to play a

key role in a flagship reform initiative with enormous potential impact.

The **Project Associate** will be an excellent team player, who will drive design and delivery of

interventions towards stronger support and accountability of teachers and academic officials

creative problem-solving and stakeholder management, towards the creation,

implementation, and impact tracking of high-quality initiatives towards improvement of the

quality of education in the SDMC.

**Key responsibilities**

**To support the design and delivery of projects and build a coalition of support**

**around them.**
- Work with senior government stakeholders and Peepul’s leadership, to support the

design, development, and implementation of key projects / interventions, as part of

the larger programme
- Define success metrics and growth aspiration for their projects/interventions, and

communicate these effectively with all stakeholders
- Work with in-house M&E team and external experts to develop appropriate project

evaluation tools, including rigorous academic assessment
- Designing, piloting and facilitating the development of **assessment tools** (formative

and summative), rubrics and remedial interventions in collaboration with

government counterparts

interventions that will lead to