Project Manager Academics

About Central Square Foundation:

Founded in 2012, Central Square Foundation (CSF) is a non-profit philanthropic foundation working on the vision of ensuring quality school education for all children in India. We are driven by our mission to transform the school education system with a focus on improving children's learning outcomes, especially in low-income communities.

Learn more about CSF on our website.

About the team:

Strategic Support States (SSS) team at Central Square Foundation assists the states in designing and implementing the respective state missions to ensure FLN learning outcomes for children. Spread across five states, the Project Management Units (PMUs) of the team work closely with the state bodies in co-ideating goals of the missions, identifying critical workstreams, setting indicators of success across the workstreams, and reviewing mission progress. Apart from these core activities, the SSS team also conducts action research projects and pilots context-specific programs to accelerate student learning.

Position Summary

CSF is recruiting for the position of Project Manager/Senior Project Manager based in Mohali to support the state FLN team in developing and rolling out a holistic foundational learning programme This role will cater specifically to academic workstreams such as Teaching Learning Materials, Teacher (and Academic Cadre) Capacity Building, Mentoring and Coaching, Assessments and Classroom Observations and will require day-to-day interaction and working with government officials in the state government.

Key Responsibilities

Develop work products, documents, and outputs related to academic workstreams in consultation with the internal CSF teams (such as Classroom Instruction Practice and Assessments team) and academic partners

Teaching-Learning Materials and Instructional Design: Support the state in designing quality curricular and instructional materials for the state such as academic calendar, learning outcome framework, teacher guides, lesson plans, student worksheets

Assessments: Support the state in developing an assessment framework for early grades, including system assessment and school-based assessment (formative and summative assessments)

Continuous Teacher Professional Development: Provide support to the state for conducting training needs assessment, situational analysis, design of high-quality teacher training modules, trainer capacity building, training monitoring, and feedback

Mentoring: Design and integrate an on-site support program for teachers informed by evidence collected through the classroom observation process

Support the PMU for continuous program monitoring and course correction during the implementation of academic workstreams

Knowledge management and documentation of the implementation of work

Required Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities

Bachelor’s degree from a reputed university is required; a Master’s degree preferred in education, development studies, and social sciences

1.5 to 4 years (for Project Manager) and 4 to 6 years (for Senior Project Manager) of post-qualification work experience, preferably in the education sector with teaching experience.

Preference for candidates displaying work experience in academic areas of education such as classroom teaching, curriculum, instructional design, etc., preferably in the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy domain.

Keen interest in the Development/Education sector

Fluent in English with excellent reading, writing and typing skills, preference for candidates knowing Punjabi reading, writing and typing skills.

Strong growth and learning mindset

Excellent writing and oral communication skills

Additional Details

Start Date: As soon as possible

Compensation: Remuneration will be competitive with Indian philanthropy pay scales and will depend upon the candidate’s experience levels.

How to Apply

 Complete and upload this pre-work (File Name: Firstname_LastName_Pre-work_Academics). Here - https://forms.gle/12hfDBAF7UuiiohFA

Pre Work Link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c3WAk2hOoy77bFdryeoYKZ4gTNs7tw7z/view