Project Associate - FLN

Planning and Execution (60%)

• Work on planning/designing the overall project strategy in conjunction with the Project Manager
• Work with government stakeholders to design interventions for teachers and teacher mentors rooted in LFE s project design.
• Facilitate effective training sessions with teachers, conduct sessions with students and visit training sites, classrooms, and other offices across the districts to oversee implementation and use the observation data to tweak subsequent plans
• Coordinate with other teams and operations counterparts to ensure smooth implementation
• Execute the project strategy in coordination with government stakeholders at Blocks, Zilla Parishad and DIET.

Stakeholder Management (20%)

• Work with government stakeholders like Kendra Pramukhs, Extension Officers, Block Education Officers, District Education Officer of Zilla Parishad, Lecturers and Principal of DIET to on-ground officers team of CRGs and Block Resource Persons to build long-lasting relationships that aid project operations and expansion plans
• Manage a team of teachers, teacher mentors to execute the project and also bring about their professional development
• Plan and execute quarterly update meetings with stakeholders and provide progress towards goals of the project to all stakeholders

Documentation (10%)

• Analyse data from field
• Creation of reports for stakeholders, funders and internal documentation
• Creating process documents, best practices documents and documentation required for communicating with Govt. Stakeholders.

Monitoring & Evaluation (10%)

• Circulate tools to measure the effectiveness of ongoing projects
• Support team to analyze the data to provide ongoing insights to internal and external teams
• Support in data analysis and compiling project impact reports from impact data
• Support manager/M&E team to implement tools linked to created content based on requirements

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in planning and executing projects
• Experience of working in Maharashtra with government stakeholders would be preferable
• Experience of designing and facilitating training is

  must

• A degree or experience in the education sector

Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities

• Excellent written and oral communication skills - and functional knowledge (oral and written) of

  Marathi

  would be highly preferred
• Strong facilitation skills to conduct engaging meetings and training sessions with government stakeholders
• Strong ability to create outstanding presentations, work with Microsoft Excel, Google Suite, and varied data sets
• Belief in the potential of the public sector and that government systems can and will change towards overcoming systemic inequities and ensuring improved outcomes for all citizens
• A basic understanding of social equity, development discourse and education policy in India
• Being able to take initiative and work in an autonomous, semi-structured environment
• Adaptability to changing responsibilities and resourcefulness to respond to them
• High openness to learning
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with multiple stakeholders & partners across public and private spaces
• Patience and resilience to stick it out in the face of setbacks and uncertainties