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Manager, Fundraising & Communications

What we do

Madhi works closely with the Tamil Nadu School Education Department to conceptualise and implement large scale quality improvement programmes in Tamil Nadu’s government schools. Over the course of the next 5 years Madhi will strengthen its existing programmes in the state (as well as undertake new programmes) with the singular aim of ensuring transformative improvement in the quality of school education in Tamil Nadu. Madhi’s programmes in Tamil Nadu are consolidated under a single umbrella called Project: TN Soars, comprising 3 critical projects: 1. Ennum Ezhuthum (The Tamil Nadu state Foundational Learning Mission), 2. TechForEdSystems and 3. Tamil Nadu STEAM Model Schools.
Ennum Ezhuthum: We are currently also working as the ‘Chief Management Partner’ for Tamil Nadu’s official Foundational Learning Mission, The ‘Ennum Ezhuthum Mission’ – a Rs. 500 Cr Mission of national and regional importance aimed at universalising foundational learning for all children in Tamil Nadu’s 37,000 government schools.
Project MALA: Project MALA aims to create high-tech, low-tech and no-tech tools which can support child-educators (parents, teachers, volunteers) to build the neuro-linguistic exposure that children require to acquire language proficiency through oracy. Children in rural areas or from low income households have minimal exposure to the English language- particularly oracy. They find the existing english language learning tools inadequate to build fluency in spoken English and also have difficulty in reading to learn from English sources. Project MALA aims to leverage technology and contextually built learning resources to solve this problem.
Tamil Nadu STEAM Model Schools: To ensure holistic growth of children from underserved communities and to empower them with the skills to work toward their dreams, the Department of School Education has embarked on an ambitious project of setting up ‘Tamil Nadu Model Schools’ that will serve children from the most marginalized backgrounds and equip them with skills and knowledge such that their disadvantages get mitigated and no longer impede their success in academics, work and life. Madhi has joined the Department to assist in the setting up of these 38 Model Schools, each exemplifying the principles of equity and inclusion in letter and spirit, enabling every student, irrespective of their background, to receive equal opportunities to aspire and achieve their goals.

The job vacancy detailed here pertains to this Model Schools project. To know more about the work we do, check out our information brochure at bit.ly/MadhiFdn_LearnMore2

Your team (Scale and Innovations)

The Organizational Development (OD) team comprises Human Capital Management (HCM), Operations, Communications and Partnerships. The OD team consists of heroes who work hard in the shadows and believe that the show must go on, come rain or sunshine. The HCM team is in charge of managing human capital and talent at Madhi and strives to find passionate and committed individuals to join the team. The operations team ensures seamless functioning of the organization and oversees finance and administration-related activities.

About the role

The Manager, Fundraising and Communication will be responsible to identify, nurture and expand Madhi’s ties with both state and donor partners. In addition to supporting the execution of a strong government relations strategy, they will also play an instrumental role in ensuring that the organisation’s funding target is met on time. They will also engage in purposeful and meaningful partnerships with other organisations in the sector. It is a role that provides an exciting opportunity to build purposeful collaboration across a wide range of stakeholders

The challenges you will help solve in this role:

Over the past 5 years, we have grown from a team of 5 to a team of 25 currently and are likely to grow exponentially, expanding our work with the State’s initiatives and grow to a team of 150 soon. This will require us to build a robust pipeline of donors for raising funds for enabling this growth. As the Associate Director, you will need to lead from the front to identify new donor bases and create innovative and exciting communication and proposals, and help Madhi fundraise
You will be expected to help balance the requirements of donors, internal requirements and steering Project Finance to walk the tightrope
Fundraising, as anyone who has raised funds would have you know, is about leveraging close and extended networks. While Madhi has built a strong network of supporters over the years, you will also be expected to draw from your own network and help direct support towards Madhi
Madhi’s projects are designed to suit the context of Tamil Nadu and the stakeholders we interact with. However, our digital presence and brand as a thought leader in the education sector is something that must expand far beyond our geographical bounds. You will be expected to discover and leverage all channels of communication that could showcase Madhi’s work to a larger audience
We are sticklers for high quality in writing, for sensitive and contextual tones of communication, and for designing visual collateral that speak volumes of our work. Through this role you will be expected to uphold these standards and contribute to the design of our brand image and communication guidelines

The job description:

Below is an indicative set of responsibilities you will be required to lead as part of your role. We believe that a job description is best created collaboratively where the individual joining the team and the senior leadership team together define the role in greater detail so it reflects your aspirations and ambitions as much as it does the organisation’s needs. A detailed description will be jointly created once the selection process has been completed and you have accepted our offer of employment.

In this role some of your responsibilities will include:

Support the CEO and your team, with vision setting for the vertical
Set and execute the vision for Madhi’s internal and external communication strategies to increase Madhi’s brand visibility across various media: social, print, radio etc
Assist the CEO in consistently meeting Madhi’s defined fundraising targets
Carry out extensive research about potential partners that can work with Madhi synergistically
Build and maintain a strong network of donors & partners (funding, government, other organizations with whom synergies may exist) and strategically manage each relationship
Create periodic reports and presentations to present to donor groups
Create compelling grant applications to secure institutional grants
Refine thought leadership submissions by team members to build and maintain an active and meaningful blog site
Review and approve all collaterals to be shared with external stakeholders and ensure they conform to Madhi’s communication guidelines
Design audio-visual collaterals of varying lengths, catering to different audiences, to narrate Madhi’s story with conviction and humility
Maintain and update the Madhi website on an ongoing basis

You will thrive in this role if you:

Possess exceptional leadership skills and have managed a highly skilled team before
Have demonstrated the ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide array of people from diverse backgrounds (junior/senior, for-profit/non-profit etc.)
Have led social media campaigns for social sector organizations
Have developed marketing and public outreach collaterals (videos, posters) end to end for social sector organizations
Have a keen eye for detail and can produce technical proposals and official documents (like MoUs) of exceptional quality even with a short turnaround time
Possess strong written and verbal communication in English with excellent knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Possess strong and proven influencing and negotiating skills targeted at a diverse range of audience
Have outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
Have proven planning skills and take pride in seeing projects through to completion
Are prolific on social media and understand what strategies work to drive traction online
Can proofread and edit formal as well as informal documents for internal and external dissemination
Can tap into your network and liaise with public relations officials, journalists etc.
Have an entrepreneurial mindset and enjoy solving problems
Have excellent presence on social media and have driven online campaigns for social sector organizations
Have minimum 2 years of experience with managing external stakeholders especially in the development sector
Have an interest and aptitude for design and the creation of visual collaterals
Have excellent editing and proofreading skills with an exceptional command over English to craft compelling narratives.
Have designed communication collaterals for firms before and knows what gains people attention
Are extremely detail-oriented and meticulous with formal written communication
Enjoy working with a diverse and highly skilled team
Truly believe in the power of collaboration over competition

Prerequisites include:

At least 4-6 years of work experience with minimum 2 years in the development sector
Experience of having worked with any grant making institutions or CSRs before (or) in corporate consulting in areas such as strategy, marketing etc
Knowledge of any of the content design softwares (Adobe suite)
A postgraduate degree in social sciences or mass communication
Directly managed at least a team of 1-2 members

This role will report to:

CEO/ Associate Director, Partnerships

Location:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Remuneration:

Rs 8 – 10 Lakhs p.a

Please note:

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

Link to Application Form:

For more information, please write to: apply@madhifoundation.org

Posted by HCM Team
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Lead, Data Science

What we do

Madhi works closely with the Tamil Nadu School Education Department to conceptualise and implement large scale quality improvement programmes in Tamil Nadu’s government schools. Over the course of the next 5 years Madhi will strengthen its existing programmes in the state (as well as undertake new programmes) with the singular aim of ensuring transformative improvement in the quality of school education in Tamil Nadu. Madhi’s programmes in Tamil Nadu are consolidated under a single umbrella called Project: TN Soars, comprising 3 critical projects: 1. Ennum Ezhuthum (The Tamil Nadu state Foundational Learning Mission), 2. TechForEdSystems and 3. Tamil Nadu STEAM Model Schools.

Ennum Ezhuthum: We are currently also working as the ‘Chief Management Partner’ for Tamil Nadu’s official Foundational Learning Mission, The ‘Ennum Ezhuthum Mission’ – a Rs. 500 Cr Mission of national and regional importance aimed at universalising foundational learning for all children in Tamil Nadu’s 37,000 government schools.

TechforEdSystems: Madhi is working towards revolutionizing the state’s education governance systems through TechforEdSystems – an end-to-end monitoring solution including sophisticated applications and processes developed by Madhi, which enables the system to effectively integrate technology and data into its governance and decision making systems.

Tamil Nadu STEAM Model Schools: To ensure holistic growth of children from underserved communities and to empower them with the skills to work toward their dreams, the Department of School Education has embarked on an ambitious project of setting up ‘Tamil Nadu Model Schools’ that will serve children from the most marginalized backgrounds and equip them with skills and knowledge such that their disadvantages get mitigated and no longer impede their success in academics, work and life. Madhi has joined the Department to assist in the setting up of these 38 Model Schools, each exemplifying the principles of equity and inclusion in letter and spirit, enabling every student, irrespective of their background, to receive equal opportunities to aspire and achieve their goals.

To know more about the work we do, check out our information brochure at bit.ly/MadhiFdn_LearnMore2

Your Team (Data For Governance)

The Data for Governance team believes in the power of technology and data in transforming the education landscape. The team is versatile and dynamic and is a multifaceted group comprising data analysts, app developers, field specialists, data scientists etc. They all work together seamlessly to make magic happen day after day, doing whatever it takes to take us closer to the vision of reimagining school systems to eliminate the foundational learning crisis in India. The primary role of the DFG team is to support the information management systems and processes at Samagra Shiksha, Tamil Nadu. This can be done through efficient structuring of the information management system and a suite of mobile applications (TNVN) and dashboards designed to collect and process meaningful data from the field.

Tamil Nadu Vagupparai Nokkin (TNVN)

TNVN (translates to: “look inside a classroom”) is the name of Tamil Nadu’s classroom observation and teacher support mobile application. It is meant for use by officials visiting classrooms. The name draws its inspiration from a quote by Thiruvalluvar, an ancient and much loved Tamil poet. The main objective of the observation application is to enable officials to conduct classroom observations in a meaningful manner and capture real-time information or data on a simple, digitally enabled platform. The insights gathered may subsequently be used to guide policy decisions towards improving the quality of education in government schools.

For example, the data from TNVN may be used towards strengthening pedagogic processes in classrooms, designing targeted training programmes, refining student assessment frameworks or restructuring governance mechanisms. TNVN has therefore been envisioned as a tool that will assist officials to streamline and transform existing processes based on real-time and accurate data from classrooms.

The DFG team will help build this application and the allied functional operations for Samagra Shiksha, Tamil Nadu.

About the role

This is an exciting role, with a direct ability to influence systemic- state reform, participate in stakeholder management within the Department of School Education and work directly on organisational strategy and improving field outcomes for the last-mile child!

The Lead will support the DFG, IT/ EMIS and MEL sub-verticals at Madhi and within the State; to strengthen the information management system within the Department of School Education. Based on the vision roadmap of the TNVN suite of applications, this role will also support Samagra Shiksha to build a system that is designed to support stakeholders to make data-driven decisions. This role will strive to continuously innovate for all the activities pertaining to the DFG vertical and support various team members to execute their roles well.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Operate with a great sense of ownership and urgency and own all decisions taken by the Data for Governance team
Be able to analyse large data sets and create comprehensive reports utilising visualised data
Liaise with the State Education Department’s Data Management Cell for their data analysis and associated visual reporting requirements
Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders within the State Department
Thought partner with the State, as required, to create skeletal data maps/ data architecture systems towards optimising the processing of large scale data sets, obtained from classroom observations in each school in TN
Collaborate with senior managers from other verticals at Madhi to optimise insight gathering from field-data
Support with Madhi’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) efforts to improve Madhi’s programme efficacy and efficiency
Regularly review data collection processes, including regular field visits and data quality assessments, and adjust processes as needed (ie: conceptualising and conducting internal process evaluations, as required)
Support respective team members to organise qualitative data collection activities (ie- FGDs, discussion forums etc)
Support vertical heads to create and maintain internal project-wise data dashboards to support programmatic learning and iteration
Support relevant external and internal stakeholders with a large-scale RCT style impact evaluation of our flagship projects
Manage a team of Data Analysts and Specialists

You will thrive in this role if you:

Demonstrate the highest degree of integrity throughout all activities and are obsessed with data integrity
Possess demonstrable leadership skills and a resilient entrepreneurial mindset
Have proven negotiation skills with various stakeholders
Have a functional understanding of data frameworks and legacy data systems management
Have a functional understanding of MySQL databases (limitations and strengths)
Possess a strong understanding of survey design, sampling strategies, applied methods of statistical analysis, process evaluation cycles, impact evaluation cycles, RCTs; all given real life data collection constraints
Can conceptualise and build data/ tech systems or improve, where necessary, the process of collection of large scale field data; are comfortable dealing with qualitative and quantitative field data
Can analyse, report and present the collected data sets – all with a view of strengthening data monitoring and governance systems within the state
Have experience working with a high performance, collaborative, constructive team and can ask tough questions to push the team’s thinking in order to raise the bar of excellence and quality of outcomes
Can strike a balance between empathy and accountability and can adapt to a not-for-profit startup that values both
Believe in the power of data-driven governance and can strengthen internal and external database systems to enable policy makers to derive actionable insights from the data collected

Mandatory prerequisites include:

At least 6-8 years of relevant work experience with a minimum of 3 years in a managerial position. Experience in the education/development sector would be an added advantage
Functional knowledge of SPSS, R, SQL (or other data manipulation software), POWER BI, TABLEAU ( or other data visualisation software)
A postgraduate degree in a relevant field of study from a reputed institution with specialisation in Mathematics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Information Technology/Management or Statistics
Excellent written communication and report writing skills in English along with proficiency in oral communication in Tamil
Evidence of excellent leadership and project management skills
Excellent knowledge of MS Office, G Suite, Digital Survey Tools and Data Visualisation Tools

Bonus points if you:

Have worked with large MySQL databases
Have worked as part of an app / software development team
Have experience in handling data models, reporting packages
Can conduct analysis of large scale datasets, where data cleaning is a requirement
Can conceptualise/ architect database design
Can operationalise lean data collection

This role will report to:

Lead, Ennum Ezhuthum Mission

Location:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Please note:

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

Link to Application Form:

For more information, please write to: apply@madhifoundation.org

Posted by HCM Team