Role: Project Manager, NIPUN-UP Quality Implementation Project
Team: Classroom Instruction and Practice (CIP)
Required work experience: 2-4 years of education program implementation experience
Location: District Headquarters in UP with extensive travel to interior school locations
About Central Square Foundation (CSF) and the Classroom Instruction and Practices (CIP) team
Founded in 2012, Central Square Foundation is a non-profit philanthropic foundation that ensures quality school education for all children in India. CSF's mission is to ensure high-quality foundational learning for all children in India. To achieve this, we partner with individuals and social impact organisations to bring innovative solutions in education to build the capacity of the government to drive systemic impact. To learn more about us and our work, visit www.centralsquarefoundation.org. CSF focuses on education system reform using structured pedagogy and continuous academic support as crucial levers for improving student learning outcomes at scale. The Classroom Instruction Practices (CIP) team enables CSF’s district and state units to enhance program implementation by improving the adoption of structured pedagogy resources, teacher professional development, and assessment-informed instruction.
About the NIPUN Uttar Pradesh (UP) Quality Implementation Project
The FLN NIPUN UP Quality Implementation Project aims to drive high-fidelity implementation of the NIPUN Bharat Mission focused on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy at the school level. The project seeks to significantly improve student learning outcomes and classroom practices in 100+ schools. CSF district-level implementation team will support teachers through classroom observations, actionable feedback, continuous upskilling in instructional practices, and data for assessment-informed instruction. The program will be rigorously evaluated through a randomised control trial (RCT) conducted by researchers at MIT JPAL led by Prof. Karthik Muralidharan and Prof. Abhijeet Singh.
Position Summary
The Project Manager (PM) will execute the project's implementation at the school level and be responsible for the focused implementation of the NIPUN program in the intervention schools to deliver significant gains in Student Learning Outcomes and Classroom Practices in the intervention 20+ school portfolio. They will be responsible for:
● Building and maintaining relationships with HMs and ARPS to create buy-in for the program and resolve bottlenecks in implementation.
● Deliver high-impact school-level interventions at the teacher, including classroom observations, actionable feedback, instructional skill building, and assessment-informed instruction through daily-weekly school visits.
● Using data on student learning and classroom observations to continuously improve program quality, identify breakdowns and create action plans for improvement in their allocated school portfolio.
● Work with the Project Lead to create daily-weekly school visit plans, review & reflect on their own performance and identify priorities for the future.
Desired experience and skills:
The ideal candidate will bring 2-4 years of field-level school improvement experience in non-profit or educational product organisations, with a track record of improving student outcomes and teacher capacity. They should also be comfortable in tier 3-4 locations and have extensive travel experience to interior field locations.
● Hands-on academic expertise in foundational literacy and numeracy, teacher training, classroom observations, instructional coaching and student assessments in the government or low-income school contexts.
● Bachelors/Master’s degree in education, child development or related fields is preferred.
● Knowledge, maturity and confidence to influence teachers by building trusting relationships, providing pragmatic academic solutions, influencing practice shifts through the use of classroom data
● Ability to drive actionable insights from data through analysis of classroom observations and student assessment data to identify breakdowns and create pragmatic solutions
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills both in English and Hindi and the ability to communicate complex academic concepts in a simple, practical manner; familiar with data and reporting tools and processes
● Ability to work independently, deal with ambiguity and in a planned manner
Compensation
Remuneration will be competitive with Indian philanthropy pay scales and will depend upon the candidate’s experience levels.
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