Associate, Content and Teacher Professional Development will support the TLM and TPD teams with the creation and delivery of innovative, scientifically accurate, contextually relevant, high quality materials for effective teaching and learning. These include but are not limited to instructional/ learning videos, lesson plans and worksheets. You may also be asked to support content development for other Madhi verticals, as per requirements.

What we do

Madhi works with the Department of School Education (and with Samagra Shiksha and the State Council for Educational Research and Training, Tamil Nadu) to implement large-scale reforms in curriculum, teacher training and governance to improve foundational learning outcomes among students in government schools in the state. The organisation is 4 years old and is all set to scale its impact from the pilot project 'The Foundational Learning Improvement Programme' (FLIP), which was implemented in 2000 schools. Encouraged by the potential of FLIP, the state has integrated it entirely with its efforts to implement the 'Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Mission' (FLN Mission), outlined in the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020, across 40,000 primary schools in the state.

Apart from FLIP, Madhi is also piloting two new ideas: a mobile-based application (Edukit) to improve the quality of teaching and teacher support; and the creation of a Centre for Research and Innovation in Foundation Learning (CRIFL) with a vision to strengthen programme impact as well as contribute to the larger ecosystem by disseminating knowledge and learnings from the field.

Your Team

The FLIP team has 3 sub-verticals: Teaching Learning Materials (TLM), Training and Tracking. The TLM team is responsible for the design and delivery of instructional materials for students and teachers. The team is diverse and dynamic comprising curriculum developers, pedagogues, instructional designers, teacher trainers, graphic designers and videographers. The passion that dries the team is that well-designed learning materials can equip teachers to transform classroom practice to improve learning outcomes at scale.

About the role

Associate, Content and Teacher Professional Development will support the TLM and TPD teams with the creation and delivery of innovative, scientifically accurate, contextually relevant, high quality materials for effective teaching and learning. These include but are not limited to instructional/ learning videos, lesson plans and worksheets. You may also be asked to support content development for other Madhi verticals, as per requirements.

In this role you will support the respective teams to: Create Content

• Ready-to-use scripted lesson plans with a strong understanding of subject (English or Math) and the context
• Scaffolded and rigorous workbooks for children to use in classroom
• Assessments
• High-quality teacher training content for teachers in Tamil Nadu
• Storyboards/scripts for creating videos for teacher professional development

Facilitate Teacher Professional Development

• Co-facilitate the teacher training conducted in the state headquarters with the SCERT team

As a self starter, you will:

• Own the creation cycle of the content from ideation till post-production
• Communicate design needs of the content with the freelancer support team
• Contribute to the vertical’s larger activities, such as: vision setting, content ideation, templatization and guideline process setting
• Ensure that the content created meets the quality standards set by Madhi and the state through periodic and thorough reviews
• Ensure that the content is created on-time every time
• Co-plan and co-facilitate any trainings to onboard stakeholders to use the content created

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Set a high bar of excellence for yourself and your team
• Have an uncompromising attitude with respect to attention to detail
• Believe that empowering teachers is the key to significantly improving learning outcomes
• Are genuinely excited about Madhi's mission and what we have set out to achieve
• Understand that change takes time but momentum towards change must be built urgently
• Enjoy planning for lessons
• Get excited by the idea of teaching teachers and believe in high-quality and standardised training for teachers
• Love working with new software and explore ways to make the content interesting
• Are ready to work with diverse stakeholders
• Are aware of the uncertainties of working with the government but are excited about it anyway

Bonus points for:

• Having a Bachelors/Masters in Education
• Prior work experience in the development sector or within systems change
• Developing a keen interest in pedagogy; reading or researching extensively on it
• Having additional certification(s) in relevant areas of expertise
• Having prior experience of creating lesson plans/worksheets/storyboards for classrooms
• Having prior experience as a teacher for at least 2 years

Other mandatory prerequisites include:

• A bachelor’s degree
• At least 2-4 years of relevant work experience in teaching or content development
• Excellent knowledge of G-Suite and MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Being able to read, write and speak Tamil

This role will report to:

• Manager, Content Development

Location:

• Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Remuneration:

• Rs. 3.5-6.6 lakhs per annum

Please note:

• You will be expected to bring your own laptop, with latest software installed (MS Office 2016)

Link to Application Form:

• https://forms.gle/aXpCXURFiSX223Du8