Lead Faculty Library Department

Job Description

Lead Faculty – Library Department, Muktangan Education Trust

Position Overview:

We are seeking a committed and dynamic Library Faculty member to join Muktangan. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute towards strengthening Library practices through empowering school libraries, Outreach & Advocacy, Teacher Education, Curriculum Development & Community Engagement.

The ideal candidate should be a blend of educator, organizer, and a reading advocate—someone who is not only passionate about books but also believes in the power of books to transform lives and also committed to social impact through education in an innovative way.

About Us

Muktangan is an innovative, inclusive, child- friendly educational project demonstrating how ordinary women and men, empowered with the right beliefs and skills, can drive extraordinary outcomes for children from their own aspiring communities. Over our 20 year-long journey, we have evolved into a Hub and Spokes model of Integrated Teacher and School Education with our teacher education centre as the Hub and 7 Muktangan run-municipal schools in Mumbai as spokes where we offer free, high-quality and inclusive English medium education from preschool to Grade 10 over 4000 children from underserved communities and developed over 1000 community members (majorly women) as teachers. We have partnered with UNICEF, BMC (Municipal), Maharashtra State Government and many NGOs to adapt the Muktangan model. Our Program is acknowledged by academic institutions and educationists locally such as Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), and internationally such as University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in the U.S.A and BathSpa, Oxford & Cambridge Universities in the UK. Through our outreach initiatives and partnerships with the local and state government, NGOs, academic institutions both local and international, we have reached out to more than 75,000 children and more than 5,000 teachers and teacher educators across India. To know more kindly visit:

Key Responsibilities:

A. Outreach and Advocacy:

Involves reaching out to potential implementing partners and building their capacity to build libraries or library corners, build capacity of their teachers/librarians to do activities relating to stories in an active constructive way – monitoring their progress and handholding them in their learning process.

In this role the Library faculty would be required to:

Do detailed need assessments

Collaboratively design Library sessions and related TLMs.

Facilitate Library training modules in physical or virtual formats

Conduct library observations and provide documented feedback on the M&E metrics

Collaborate and do ONLINE ECHO Library sessions Pan INDIA

B.

Teacher Education:

Involves continuous capacity building of "community teachers and Teacher Mentors" developed in the Muktangan constructivist methodology. Updating existing modules based on the various additions during the year. Training fresh trainees and also being the mentor to one or more trainees.

C. Organizational:

Involves continuously researching emerging trends in the Library space and attempting to enhance the network with institutions that are aligned with the Muktangan vision to promote an engaged & inclusive classroom experience, keeping in mind the NEP.

Required Competencies:

Passionate about reading and children, researching & designing library sessions that can engage teachers & children through stories and active constructivist pedagogy

Working knowledge of Marathi/Hindi or both will be given preference

Familiar with the Koha software for libraries

Outstanding communications and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders

Proven ability to develop Library content (including use of technology)

Proven ability to collaborate with internal and external teams as well as lead projects

Must be flexible working with a professional, demanding work schedule and environment

Open to travel to the assigned project location.

Educational Qualification & Years of Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Library Science, Education, Social Work, Child Development, or a related field.

Prior experience in schools, community libraries, education NGOs, or teaching roles is a plus.

Minimum 4 years of work experience

Remuneration:

Salary shall be at par with industry standards.

Interested candidates may send their CV along with a covering letter

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹45, ₹50,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person