Program Lead 1

Role: Program Lead-Odisha

Experience:7-10 Years

Location: Bhubaneshwar (with travel expected across Odisha)

Role Overview:

1. Team management - Leading a team of district coordinators, program managers and Senior program managers to manage day to day operations related to roll out and maintenance of Rocket Learning products for parents and Anganwadis
2. Govt. advocacy - Coordination and driving the ECE agenda with district level heads of ICDS (DPOs), state department of WCD and other related departments in Mumbai/Pune including liaising with IAS officers across the state and district levels
3. Internal coordination with cross-functional teams - Collaborating with internal team on upskilling, data, product, technology and content to drive improvement in ops product metrics as well as other strategic projects

Key Job Requirements:

• 7-10 years of exposure to government systems of early grades education, and ability to liaison with them on a regular basis
• Leading a team of professionals who will impact millions of young learners in the state of Odisha
• Opportunity to hone and improve your data analytic skills by translating data from the field into actionable insight
• Opportunity to innovate using cutting edge technology and social media to build communities of low-income parents
• Exposure to elite researchers and experimental studies with researchers at JPAL and other institutes
• Opportunity to manage a team of field resources and also coordinate closely with multiple functions within Rocket Learning

Required Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong relationship building skills and team management skills
• Ability to work with and coordinate between government officials
• Experience of working in education or other areas of social impact
• Ability to interpret data and high comfort with data, analysis and Microsoft suite

• Odia is a must

• Ability to scale processes and initiatives

• Comfort with technology

What separates the best from the rest

• Experience of working with Odisha state departments or other state government departments
• Comfort with working on multiple different initiatives at once
• Ability to take learnings from your specific context to general learnings that can be used in
• Different regions and contexts in the organization