Position: Programme Manager – Training

Organization: Peepul

Location: Bhopal

Role Description

The role of the Programme Manager

Training is critical to the success of the continued partnership with the Government of Madhya Pradesh towards achieving quality education for all, and to Peepul’s strategic objective of supporting quality improvement in the public school system in India.

As part of our support to the CM Rise Schools and other state priorities, the Programme Manager-Training will be primarily responsible for end-to-end ownership of content creation, curation and delivery of capacity-building interventions for the key stakeholders towards setting up and running these schools effectively. This person will work closely with the School Education Department, MP, SCERT and other state and district education authorities to design high quality and rigorous continuous professional development interventions.

This is therefore an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to play a key role in an exemplar school project with enormous potential impact. The Programme Manager – Training must be an exceptional educator and facilitator with the skills and mindsets to conceptualize and execute capacity building interventions at scale. \

The Programme Manager - Training will be someone who exemplifies flexibility, tenacity and enthusiasm to be able to create and enable highly engaging, rigorous and practical training modules for teachers, school leaders and academic officials in the state that inspire schools across the state and country to actively learn and inform change in their actions.

Key responsibilities To lead the design and delivery of the high-quality training content that will be at the heart of the CM Rise Schools Program

• Design and evolve the scope and sequence of the training curriculum for teachers, school leaders and education officials across the CM Rise Schools.

• Lead the instructional design of blended training content end-to-end including creating engaging digital learning resources that are need-based, relevant and rigorous.

• Build systems and process to set standards of content design and for capturing impact of trainings.

• Identify and map high-quality training content across multiple platforms and work towards curating and building a repository of professional development resources.

• Work with multiple knowledge partners across the state towards a productive collaboration

• Work with the internal M&E team to identify key outcomes and collaborate with different internal and external stakeholders to collect data to track progress towards these outcomes.

• Collaborate with the central Peepul codification team and other programmes to leverage existing resources, and relay back learnings from the programmes in Madhya Pradesh, to build strong repository of knowledge To advise and support the state on roadmap of Professional Development for key stakeholders

• Support the state government in setting up excellent as well as sustainable processes for continuous professional development of teachers, school principals and officers in the education department

• Present data backed research insights to the state government to support strengthening of the training domains of CM Rise Schools

• Conduct regular needs assessments to identify needs and challenges of the government schoolteachers and principals

• Liaison with state government institutions (e.g., SCERT, College of Teacher Education) to ensure a seamless communication flow between CM Rise Schools and the state education department around the training (and impact)

• Ensure buy-in of the training design and work with the field officials on effective implementation by leveraging the institutions to drive capacity building across the state.

• Support multiple state initiatives (for professional development) by providing key insights from the CM Rise Schools to shape and align interventions towards holistic professional development for key stakeholders. To support the execution and implementation of the programme at scale

• Support Program Director/Program Lead in implementing the programme effectively at scale

• Build training and facilitation capacity within the team

• Collectively work with team members in the state towards high quality execution of the program on ground sharing key insights

• Codifying best practices from the program and disseminating them internally and externally towards building knowledge of the organization and allowing replication across the ecosystem

• Manage a team of project managers and project coordinators towards successful and smooth work execution

Person Specification Experience:

• At least 7 years of total work experience

• Experience of classroom teaching preferably in elementary school system with strong experience of teacher training or school leadership capacity building.

• Experience of having designed and conducted trainings for stakeholders in public education system, preferably in Hindi

• Experience of having led content creation for professional development initiatives

• Experience of leading teams and supporting them through coaching and mentoring

• Strong working knowledge of Hindi and English (oral and written)

Behaviours and attributes:

• A strong desire to influence government education system, working with the existing government structures

• A deep understanding of the context and challenges of the government schoolteachers

• Strong facilitation skills with an ability to engage audience of various sizes and contexts.

• Ability to present complex content/sessions into simple, actionable points making it accessible to individuals with varying skill levels.

• Attention to detail, including proof reading and editing skills for materials shared internally and externally

• Ability to build strong and sustainable relationships across various government education functionaries

• Ability to iterate on sessions quickly, based on feedback, following a process of continuous improvement

• Bias to action, with an ability to step back and see the larger picture • Intellectually curious, open to learning

• Flexible and adaptable style, responding positively to changing demands • Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills

• Ability to build strong and sustainable relationships across all layers of government hierarchy

• Enthusiasm for taking on a start-up role, in what will be a fast-paced, growing, changing network

• Performance orientation - sets and achieves high standards for self and others