Curriculum Associate

**Curriculum Associate, Avanti Fellows**

**Position Summary**:
The Curriculum Associate is responsible for the end-to-end design, development and delivery of a high quality experience for students, adhering to Avanti’s unique Peer Collaboration pedagogy that builds upon Prof. Mazur’s groundbreaking work on Peer Instruction.

**Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to**:

- **Curriculum Research**
- Familiarize with exam patterns, types of questions, trends of all target exams like JEE/NEET/CUET/KCET and other State-level exams
- Analyze question repositories and learning resources for target exams
- Use above to create blueprints which highlight important topics, question types and explanation methods
- **Curriculum Development**
- Prepare chapter-level teaching guides that can be used by teachers to plan classes
- Train teachers on using teaching guides to create Teaching Lesson Plans
- Pilot teaching guides in controlled settings as a part of the design process
- **Curriculum Delivery**
- Periodic class observations to observe implementation of created curriculum resources to identify the gaps
- Implement required changes in curriculum development accordingly
- **Review newly created curriculum** resources and provide feedback to respective teams

**Requirements**:
❖ **Education**: Bachelor's or Masters degree
❖ **Experience**: Minimum of 2 years experience in teaching or related academic roles
❖ Excellent command of English
❖ Product design experience is preferred
❖ **Behavioral Competencies:

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❖ Accuracy and attention to detail
❖ Ability to think analytically and solve problems
❖ Adaptability and flexibility
❖ Ability to work within a team and individually
❖ Excellent communication skills
❖ Expert understanding of science pedagogy
❖ Ability to produce high-quality work to tight deadlines

**Salary Details**:
**Salary Details**:Commensurate with experience
**Location**:New Delhi

**About Avanti Fellows**
Avanti runs the largest system-wide interventions for Math and Science learning in government schools in India. Avanti uses the power of blended-learning, technology, and peer-instruction to create programs that are able to deliver consistent outcomes in low-resource settings. Our work spans nine Indian states impacting over 8 lakh students through large system-wide interventions in Haryana and the Jawahar
Navodaya Vidyalaya Schools.

**Avanti’s JNV Program**:This program supports students at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Schools
(JNVs) to prepare for high-stakes college entrance exams. Avanti sets up after-school programs in collaboration with school teachers that focus on additional test-prep for college entrance exams.
Students going through the Avanti JNV program are twice as likely to be able to secure a position in professional colleges. In 2020, 60% of Avanti’s students qualified the national engineering exam (JEE
Main), compared to a national average of 34%.

**Avanti’s Sankalp Program**:Over the past 2 years, Avanti has been running a large system change project in Haryana. The project covers 219 intervention schools, where teachers are being provided with technology and content to teach Mathematics and Science in Grade 9-12. In addition, Avanti monitors progress through a team of program managers and through the assistance of government officials. This project is being evaluated by JPAL and is currently funded by the Michael and Susan Dell
Foundation, USAID, Morgridge Family Foundation and Douglas B. Marshall Family Foundation.

**Avanti’s Sandbox Project**:This project consists of a carefully selected set of 40 schools spread across Delhi and Haryana which will be the base for our research and innovation initiatives. The objectives are to
- i) inform product and program development, ii) rapidly test hypotheses and iterate program components, and iii) derive learnings to enable scaling of tested programs. These schools will be a pilot ground for both curricular and other programs focused on socio-emotional learning and study their effect on engagement and learning gains.

**Avanti’s Ghar Pe School Program**: During COVID-19, Avanti has been coordinating a multi-state at-home learning intervention for low-income students called GharPeSchool. Avanti has also developed a new web-based platform that allows educators to add multiple-choice questions in the middle of any
YouTube video to create a single learning item called a Plio.

**Organizational Culture**: Avanti Fellows has a team of just over 60+ professionals led by Akshay
Saxena and Vandana Goyal. The leadership team has a 50:50 gender split with professionals from diverse educational and professional backgrounds. In addition, the organization offers a plethora of personal and professional development opportunities, including participation in multiple events in the education space and connecting with experts in the industry. Avanti Fellows pioneered self-directed
“peer-learning” in p