Implementation Coordinator

**Background**

**About Leadership For Equity (LFE)**

Leadership For Skilled Education Foundation (branded as Leadership For Equity, LFE), is a non-profit (NGO). 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 effective government education systems.

**BELIEF**:We believe Public Education Systems are the gatekeepers of social EQUITY, especially when India's 120 million poorest of the poor children 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 grassroots organisations will help bring scalable and sustainable social change.

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

**APPROACH**:We focus on building system leaders by strengthening middle Management. This includes enabling Academic & Administrative Officers (Extension Officers, BEOs, DIETs, SCERT) to effectively lead quality improvement programs and run their departments. As well as, Equipping Teachers Mentors (URCs, CRG, BRG, CRCs) to improve the classroom practices of teachers in foundational learning and technology. In the last 5 years, we built the capacity of 2000+ system leaders, and 40,200+ teachers to impact 8.2 million students. We have co-created and implemented 7 different programs and have multi-year MoUs with 9 govt. bodies including District Zilla Parishads, DIETs, SCERTs, SSA, Department of School Education & Sports, Govt.

of Maharashtra, Haryana & Tripura, and currently expanding to Andhra Pradesh.

**About Andhra Pradesh Government Project**

LFE & Mantra4Change are coming together to support the Andhra Pradesh Government, which has been on an ambitious plan to revamp the government school system into a high-performing school system for serving children from underserved communities. Supporting Andhra’s Learning Transformation (SALT) project is a multi-organisational project focused on improving the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms. The project aims to enhance human capital and achieve a sustained reduction in learning poverty across all districts of the state.

**The SALT operation will support the GoAP in three key results areas**:

- Strengthened Foundational Learning
- Improved Quality of Student-Teacher Interactions and
- Strengthened Institutional Capacity for Service Delivery

The project will be implemented in close collaboration with the Department of School Education (DoSE), GoAP, and state-level administrative units including the SCERT, SIEMAT, and the local network of DIETs. The focus will be to achieve the outcomes with an inherent focus on strengthening the people and processes within the public education system.

**The scope of work for the entire project will be as follows**:

- Strengthen the technical and operational capacity of school complex leaders to provide evidence
- and needs-based training to teachers, utilizing teacher training facilities as sites for on-site support.
- Build the capacity at SCERT and DIETs to improve planning, implementation, and monitoring of the reform by introducing a teacher needs assessment system to formally encourage professional learning and growth.
- Strengthen the technical and operational capacity of SCERT and DIETs to provide evidence
- and needs-based support to teachers through developing training courses for teachers on the state Learning Management System (LMS).
- Strengthen the technical and operational capacity of SCERT and DIETs through the development of online learning materials for teachers and students on the state Learning Management System (LMS).
- Coordinate with various stakeholders to ensure timeline development of the technology tools as noted above including the REACH tool.

The duration of the project will be **60 months** from 2021 to 2026.

**Job Description and Responsibilities**

The Implementation Coordinators will work with the Program Managers to ensure project goals are achieved. Additionally, they will collaborate with government stakeholders and members across teams as and when required and manage a team of project associates as assigned.

**The key responsibilities are as follows (but not limited to)**
- Overseeing implementation of teacher training courses and sessions in the respective districts.
- Support the managers and be accountable for the outcomes of the projects across the different streams of deliverables as prescribed in the Government Project scope.
- Work with a mindset of co-creation to enable the capac