Position: PL Program Implementation

Organization: Central Square Foundation 

Location: Delhi

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Key responsibilities:

This is a multi-faceted role to take end-to-end ownership of implementation quality of programs working

closely with our technical partners and other CSF teams.

● Teacher training and mentoring design

○ Design teacher professional development framework and protocols aligned to the structured pedagogy approach

○ Review teacher training modules designed by academic partners and give feedback based on field observations

○ Co-create a protocol for teacher mentors with program partners leveraging insights from the observations

○ Design quality scorecards/checklists for partners to review their own teacher training modules

● Create/review products based on principles of structured pedagogy

○ Develop and review knowledge products/tools including structured pedagogical resources, assessments and

professional development content, in collaboration with CSF technical partners

● Implementation Quality assurance

○ Co-create dashboards to track the implementation progress of the FLN program by program partners in different

states

○ Conduct field visits to see how the FLN instructional material (Teacher guides, Student workbooks, and TLM) is

being used in the classroom

○ Ensure feedback from the ground is incorporated into the design in either the same or future versions

● Field action research

○ Observe cascades of teacher training (from Master trainers to teachers) and generate insights on cascade loss and

how to minimize it

○ Shadow teacher mentors during training sessions and coaching and generate insights on the most effective inputs

● Knowledge generation and advocacy

○ Draft research reports, white papers, OpEds with learning and insights from large scale implementation of

structured pedagogy based FLN programs

○ Provide need-based support to internal CSF teams on creating reports, conducting training, and designing tools for

FLN instruction Eg. a digital teacher training module on FLN designed for CBSE.

● Travel

○ 20-30% of the work time of this role will be field travel to tier 2,3 towns in our focus states

Skills and Qualifications:

The ideal candidate should have a strong on-ground implementation experience of large-scale

education programs backed by a solid background in evidence-based pedagogy, curriculum development, assessment,

teacher preparation and instructional coaching.

● Strong academic background from a reputed institute with a post-graduation or a fellowship in education

● At least 6+ years of hands-on education on-ground program implementation experience in a demanding education

enterprise or non-profit workplace, designing and implementing large-scale programs, designing training modules and

coaching/mentoring protocols, supporting teacher-coaches, solving implementation breakdowns (especially in

low-capacity settings)

● Ability to model effective teaching and coaching practices drawn from own classroom teaching experience and research

evidence such as structured pedagogy, balanced literacy, concrete representational abstract (CRA) in mathematics,

competency-based assessment etc.

● Excellent people management and project delivery skills, including the ability to lead a small specialist team, create

project plans and dashboards, drive execution, manage multiple projects at a time, influence internal and external

stakeholders