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 (Training & Impact)

The Training & Impact team mainly has two broad functions: capacity building and impact measurement. The Training team is responsible for the delivery of instructional materials, tools and strategies for teachers and administrators to improve their knowledge, skills and mindset. The impact team is responsible for creating tools, systems and processes for measuring effectiveness of training and classroom practices. The training and impact team is diverse and dynamic comprising pedagogy experts, instructional designers, teacher trainers and field officers. The team believes that high-quality contextual training along with academic support driven by evidence from observations, can equip teachers to transform classroom practices and help improve learning outcomes at scale.

About the role

The Senior Manager will be expected to anchor the training delivery model and classroom observation processes for FLIP. You will ensure that the training delivered is high-quality, error-free and cascades effectively. This will include liaising with government stakeholders and pedagogy advisors to improve existing training processes and creating new ones. Additionally, you will also be expected to set up internal systems and processes to create data collection tools and ensure that the team collects high-quality data from the field. You will also be the consulting SME for all trainings conducted by Madhi.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Program Strategy

Set the vision for the Training & Impact sub-vertical and thought partner with the Lead, FLIP and Associate Director, Projects to translate the vision into action
Accountable for creating a staffing plan and projection for successfully implementing the programme
Set and achieve goals for the sub-vertical and support team members to ensure that all objectives are met successfully
Contribute to the overall vision setting process of the programme and the organisation to transform the status of foundational learning

Training and Capacity Building

Create the overall training strategy & roadmap and drive effective implementation of the same
Consistently propose improvements to the training models through research and implement these as part of contextualised approach to capacity building
Co-create the teacher and administrator professional development framework to train and on-board teachers, HMs and BRTEs to the programme
Co-lead the planning of training workshops with the state department and coordinate with stakeholders to obtain necessary approvals from the state
Lead the planning and delivery of training across the intervention-districts
Review session plans created by the team and ensure that all plans are of high quality
Observe training to gain qualitative insights to improve the training processes
Create periodic training observation reports that capture the effectiveness of the training and recommend improvements to the existing processes

Impact Measurment

Implement the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning requirements across projects
Create the overall training strategy & roadmap and thereby drive effective implementation
Anchor the baseline and end-line student assessment exercise across intervention and control districts
Create a classroom observation framework for the programme, co-lead the engagement with the state to review the framework and to obtain the necessary approvals
Plan and execute classroom observations with the team and continuously strive to innovate and problem-solve to improve the quality of public education
Shadow classroom observations conducted by team members and support them with their learning and development needs
Support the tracking team to conduct review meetings at the state level and evaluate the effectiveness of these review meetings
Create periodic reports that capture stories, cases and insights from the field that will help the projects team to strengthen the programme

Stakeholder Management

Meticulously track the progress of vertical goals, process adherence and project progress
Manage a highly skilled & motivated team and constantly strive to help them grow and realise their potential
Ensure all team management structures are followed diligently and implement personalised support structures for team members
Support the creation and implementation of the L&D framework for the Training & Impact team
Co-lead government partnerships for the training vertical with Lead, FLIP to ensure Madhi’s continued partnership with the state
Represent Madhi in external meetings and articulate Madhi’s vision in a compelling manner

You will thrive in this role if you:

Have a master’s degree in Education
Possess excellent leadership and coaching skills
Have exceptional planning skills and sets a high bar of excellence for yourself and your team
Have demonstrable skills with respect to attention to detail
Have prior experience working with government stakeholders

Mandatory prerequisites include:

At least 6 years of relevant work experience in teaching, teacher training and programme delivery
At least 3 years of managerial experience with a team span of minimum 4 members
A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of specialisation
Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Ability to speak, read and understand Tamil

This role will report to:

Senior Manager, Project Management, Ennum Ezhuthum Mission

Location:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Remuneration:

10 – 12 lakhs per annum

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: [email protected]

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_LearnMore

Your team (Projects)

The Projects team comprises Curriculum and Classroom Instruction (CCI), Training and Programme Delivery (T&PD), Data for Governance (DFG), Information Technology (IT), District Project Management Unit (DPMU) and Project Management and Strategy (PM&S). The project team consists of heroes who work with various stakeholders across the state. The team exhibits energy and determination to get the job done, come rain or sunshine. Every decision is made keeping in mind that foundational learning for children comes first. They work together seamlessly to make magic happen day after day, doing whatever it takes to get us closer to our vision.

About the role

The Director, IT will anchor the IT sub vertical. The focus of this role is to support the generation of periodic reports based on the information collected from various technological statistics such as the Ennum Ezhuthum Tracker, Tamil Nadu Vagupparai Nokin tracker, and dashboards developed for the review meetings conducted at the state and district level.

The challenges you will help solve in this role:

Constantly propose new ideas and implement consistent architecture engineering and move it to practice
We, as an organization, work with our stakeholders on a regular basis and it is important to retain and enhance our relationship with them. You will add a little zing to our technical team by effectively communicating and implementing comprehensive architectural models to all stakeholders
Be able to constructively work on large scale projects that use multiple inconsistent architecture engineering methods. There may be times when the architecture engineering methods’ documentation is incomplete. You will be decode and arrive at a functional solution
Without relying too much on the architectural tools, you will bring about a strong connection between the architecture and the design it drives

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:

Build and maintain a scalable, flexible, extensible data architecture and platform that drives e-governance across the departments.
Create and execute a data strategy for data driven e-governance and articulate to all stakeholders.
Design, build and maintain scalable and extensible data processing components (Batch and Real-time) for Data Ingestion, Data Transformation, Data Curation, Data Cataloging, and Data Security, and Data Integrity.
Build and maintain appropriate systems and storage for efficient Data lifecycle management – databases, data marts, data lakes, data warehouses and archives.
Lead architecture and design of integrated e-governance systems across departments.
Ensure that the review meeting statistics tracker is updated and represented
Quantitatively manage the various projects being developed within the department’s in house IT team with different IT metrics
Understanding in Server management and maintenance both in Cloud & Physical
Broad Spectrum of Experience in Enterprises/Web/Mobile application
Hands on experience in Project documentation and Software architecture
Build strong relationships at the state level and ensure efficient coordination for any activity that may come our way
Lead & manage a team of Database Engineers, Data Analysts and software developers
Interact with departments and other stakeholders to support design & use of applications and data mining tools for effective real time reporting and analytics.
Work closely with different stakeholders within the department (Principal Secretary to Government for Education Department, Commissioner of School Education, State Project Director of Samagra Shiksha and other Directors & Joint Directors) , other Government departments / PSU ( like MHRD, TNeGA, etc.,), external vendors, start-ups and academic partners as needed and to maintain a good working relationship with them.
Drive the adoption of standards and best practices and promote reuse
Prepare and present the reports of data from different projects, periodically to the department.
To work with the department for envisioning the various activities of EMIS (education department’s in house technical wing)

You will thrive in this role if you:

Enjoy analytical problem solving using technology
Passionate about working in the IT field, yet work towards the educational development of children
Proficient in the necessary computer languages that will allow you to solve any challenge that may rise
Will be able to manage the risks and changes>
Good in people management
Always puts customer satisfaction as priority
Good experience in IT Resource management and Optimization

Prerequisites include:

Have at least 4 years of work experience with at least 2 years in the social sector

Proficient in development and/or DBA experience in Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) such as DB2, Oracle, SQL, Server, MySQL and/or Postgres, MPP databases (Teradata etc.)
Experienced in optimal design and analyzing complex distributed production deployments in Hybrid cloud environments and use of serverless managed services.
Strong understanding of modern data ingestion/curation/wrangling tools/technologies such as Informatica suite, Talend suite etc., BI tools such as Tableau/Qlikview
Experienced in/deep understanding of design and implementation of enterprise data models and metadata structures. Understanding of different data modeling techniques such as Relational modeling, Dimensional modeling, Data Vault, etc.
Experienced in/deep knowledge of the design and development of ETL code to load and transform the source data from various formats into a SQL database.
Experienced in/deep knowledge of architecting and developing Data Warehousing / BI / Reporting solutions using platforms and technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Databricks etc
Around 20 years of experience in the IT field with technical and analytical roles.
Ability and experience in handling a highly efficient team
Experience of working with the public systems will be an advantage
Experience in the education/development sector would be an added advantage
Should be able to understand the requirements of the department and to utilize the benefit of the technologies for the various initiatives of the department
A degree in a relevant field of study such as B.E/ B.Tech/ MCA/ MSc./ ME/ MTech from a reputed institution
Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint and all Google Suite applications
At least spoken knowledge of Tamil language

This role will report to:

Associate Director, TN Soars

Location:

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Remuneration:

Rs 20 – 27 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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]