Specialist, Content Development and Capacity Building

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 (Content Development and Capacity Building)

The Specialist, Content Development and Capacity Building will support the Senior Manager and guide associates in the curriculum and instructional design processes for all projects. This involves co-creating guidelines for all content pieces, including but not limited to worksheets, lesson plans, instructional videos and assessments. These curricular materials for grades 1 to 3 for literacy (English and Tamil) and Math will be benchmarked globally and customised to the local user.

About the role

The challenges you will help solve in this role:

The Content Development and Capacity Building team at Madhi largely comes from teaching backgrounds with exposure to modern and progressive education systems. As a Specialist, you will support the Senior Manager to help channel this modern knowledge into the curricular materials for under-resourced schools.
As part of our projects, Madhi often collaborates with other organisations and institutions, including government systems to co-develop curricular materials. As a Specialist, your work will involve steering conversations and navigating emerging priorities to ensure that the final curricular and content decisions are grounded in research or based on established best-practices.

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:

Co-designing the overall curriculum development and capacity building strategies and driving effective implementation of the same
Co-creating frameworks and guidelines for curriculum development as well as capacity building which will anchor the processes adopted
Creating curricular materials, primarily paper-based and digital content for children and teachers of grades 1 – 3, that align with the finalised frameworks and guidelines.
Creating capacity building materials to develop and evaluate the knowledge, skills and mindsets of key stakeholders crucial to project implementation, and facilitating training spaces as per the needs of the project/organisation.
Ensuring all curricular and capacity building materials meet national and international quality standards through periodic reviews and propose improvements informed by research.
Supporting Associates and Senior Associates sharpen their technical skills through structured feedback mechanisms and on-going professional development.

You will thrive in this role if you:

Have a keen interest in pedagogy and strive to research extensively.
Have a penchant for learning and can break down complex processes for stakeholders to consume easily.
Can read and write in Tamil.
Possess a growth mindset and are comfortable seeking solutions for problems that you may not immediately have an understanding of.
Have impeccable planning and task tracking skills..

Prerequisites include:

An undergraduate degree in Education.
Teaching experience in low-income schools for at least two years.
At least 4 years of relevant work experience in teaching, learning content development and teacher training with a minimum of 1 year in a managerial position.
Experience of having directly managed a team of at least 2 entry-level team members
Excellent knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint and all Google Suite applications

This role will report to:

Senior Manager, Curriculum Design and Learning

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:

https://forms.gle/N1MPyRNr69ri5TMR6

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

HCM Team