Position: Project Managers

Organization: Educational Initiatives

Location: Kohima

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Key roles and responsibilities include:

• Take ownership of the project and manage it end-to-end, lead a high-quality team and effectively break down workstreams and ensure high outcome-orientation.
• Conduct diagnosis, design solutions, and facilitate implementation through first principles problem solving
• Prepare strategic roadmaps and implementation plans with goals and milestones
•  Identify operational bottlenecks and weaknesses, and devise resolution pathways
• Set-up project management processes and guidelines
• Develop and manage strong working relationships with key bureaucrats at the state level including Principal Secretary, State Project Director, etc.
•  Manage day to day operations and liaise with the state to ensure the required buy-in, inputs, permissions and resources are made available.
•  Actively build internal capabilities and support team members by sharing learnings, providing feedback, and ensuring their training and development.

Educational Qualifications and Experience Required:

•  Ideal candidate should have a strong on-ground implementation experience of large-scale education programs backed by a solid background in examination reform, 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 5+ 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 teachercoaches, solving implementation breakdowns (especially in low-capacity settings)
• 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
•  Candidates with experience of working in the north-east region of India will be given preference.

Key Skills and Attitude

For the roles, ideal candidates are those who

• Are passionate about education reform and want their actions to have an impact on-ground.
•  Are driven to learn and solve some of the most pressing problems in our educationsystem
• Are comfortable working a small-organization setting, where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued
•  Are driven to excel in their work, showcasing a high level of innovation and perseverance
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and ‘can-do’ attitude
• Value a T-shaped approach to work, with both breadth collaboration and innovation across disciplines and depth in specific areas of expertise. Compensation Remuneration will be competitive with Ind