Data

**Intern Data Entry, JNV Team, Avanti Fellows** **Position Summary**: The Intern Data Entry will lead end-to-end operations for one Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya school. Her/his role includes teaching, inspiring, training and motivating students towards achieving their learning goals. **Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to**: - Ensure that data flows smoothly from source to destination so that it can be processed - Utilize strong database skills to work with large, complex data sets to extract insights - Filter and cleanse unstructured (or ambiguous) data into usable data sets that can be analyzed to extract insights. - Identify new internal and external data sources to support analytics initiatives and work with appropriate partners to absorb the data into new or existing data infrastructure - Build tools for automating repetitive tasks so that bandwidth can be freed for analytics - Collaborate with program managers and data team to help them come up with actionable, high-impact insights across program lines and functions - Work closely with top management to prioritize information and analytic needs **Requirements**: - Bachelors or Masters (Pursuing or Graduated) in a quantitative field (such as Engineering, Statistics, Math, Economics, or Computer Science with Modeling/Data Science). - Ability to program in any high-level language is required. Familiarity with R and statistical packages are preferred. - Proven problem solving and debugging skills. - Familiar with database technologies and tools (SQL/R/SAS/JMP etc.), data warehousing, transformation, and processing. - Experience with text analytics, data mining and social media analytics. - Statistical knowledge in standard techniques: Logistic Regression, Classification models, Cluster Analysis, Neural Networks, Random Forests, Ensembles, etc - An experience of engaging with and building career trajectories for students from low income families in rural India. - An opportunity to be mentored by the Avanti team, hailing from premier educational (e.g. IITs, NITs, Top 100 Engineering Colleges, Miranda House, Harvard, Stanford, etc.) and professional backgrounds (Teach For India, Gandhi Fellowship, BCG, EY, etc.) - Multifaceted stakeholder and interpersonal skills, including communication with government school principals, teachers, parents, and Avanti team members - Project management skills, while managing several verticals simultaneously **Salary**:2 to 3.6 LPA **Details**:Commensurate with experience **Location**:Remote **Experience**:0 to 2 years **Reporting manager**:Venu Reddy - We, at Avanti, are committed to providing adequate travel and safety provisions for all our employees, if they need to travel or relocate (particularly in such challenging times)._ **About Avanti Fellows**: Avanti runs one of India’s largest system-wide interventions for Math and Science learning in government schools. 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. **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 160 intervention schools, where teachers were 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. **Avanti’s Ghar Pe School Program**:Last year, in the wake of COVID-19, Avanti coordinated a multi-state at-home learning intervention for government school students called GharPeSchool. In this program, Avanti prepared daily Math and Science lessons that were shared with teachers through the state’s education dept’s channel. This year, Avanti will continue this project in Haryana with an additional component of live classes and also expand this work to support secondary schools in the state of Delhi. **Our Values**: **Agility **We are flexible. We keep it simple. When circumstances change, we respond quickly and effectively. **Accountability **We think and make decisions by asking ourselves, "What would I do if this was my organization?". We take full ownership of our actions and our results. **Ambition **We have the courage to set audacious goals for students' life outcomes. **Impact for the Child **Achieving meaningful life outcomes fo