Project Associate Gurugram

Full-Time (Haryana ) 2 years Experience

**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 aspire to be a catalyst in forming 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 capacity of field officers (i.e. middle management cadres). This includes enabling Academic & Administrative Officers (Extension Officers, BEOs, DIETs, SCERTs) to effectively lead quality improvement programs and run their departments. As well as, equipping Teachers Mentors (URCs, CRG, BRG, CRCs) to improve teacher training, support, coaching & mentoring, ultimately effecting classroom practices in improving the foundational learning and well-being of children. In the last 5 years, we built the capacity and impacted 2100+ system leaders, and through the programs we influenced 40,200+ teachers reached out to 8.2 million students. We have co-created and implemented 8 different programs and have multi-year MoUs with 9 govt. bodies including Zilla Parishads (self-governing district & city bodies), DIETs, SCERTs, Department of School Education across 4 states in India.

**About the project : DIKSHA coordination and capacity building for SCERT, Haryana**:
Along with MSCERT, LFE has worked with several government officers, teachers across Maharashtra for setting up processes to get content on the portal and also drive its usage through a number of outreach initiatives. In the last one year, Maharashtra became the leading state in the nation for usage of DIKSHA portal accounting for 46% of the total content plays recorded on the portal.

**Job Description and Responsibilities**:
We see the Project Associate role at LFE to be highly aspirational where the scope to learn and create impact at a systemic level is immense. The Project Associate will work with the Project Manager/Senior Manager to play a critical leadership role in ensuring planning for and execution of the responsibilities listed below. They include but are not limited to:
**Training and capacity building (50%)**:

- Work on planning/designing the overall project strategy in conjunction with the Project Manager and SCERT officials.
- Execute the project strategy with government stakeholders that align with their needs.
- Facilitating effective and engaging training sessions with government stakeholders, content partners.
- Build capacity of and provide proximate to the appointed government teams on a regular basis.

**Stakeholder Management (40%)**:

- Plan and execute monthly update/review meetings with stakeholders and provide progress towards goals of the project.
- Create project documents and reports in coordination with SCERT, Haryana that can be shared with the Ministry of Education in a timely manner.
- Establish and finalise partnerships with content providers and orient them on the process of onboarding their content on DIKSHA. Norming SCERT officials about the same.
- Work with district officials of Haryana on a need basis.

**Personal and Professional Development (10%)**:

- Research and lead sessions contribute towards the team’s personal and professional growth by introducing varied perspectives on education, equity, culture, monitoring and evaluation, policy reform, etc. based on one’s interest and expertise.
- Participate effectively and drive learning in the team professional development days (once a

month) and team outstation stepbacks (twice a year).

**Requirements: Education & Experience**:

- Bachelor's degree in humanities/engineering/development. Masters degree in education/social development is preferrable.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in planning and executing education projects.
- Experience of designing and facilitating training, workshops, seminars is desirable.
- Experience of working on EdTech solutions, platforms at scale is highly desirable.
- Experience of working with government stakehold