Project Associate/Project Manager - Strategic Support States

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About the Organization

Founded in 2012, Central Square Foundation (CSF) is a non-profit philanthropic foundation working on the vision of ensuring quality school education for all children in India. We are driven by our mission to transform the school education system with a focus on improving children's learning outcomes, especially in low-income communities.

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Project Managers shall work closely with the District administrations of Medchal district in creating and implementing detailed District Action Plan (DAP), collaborate with District Education Officers, District FLN Nodal Officers & District Resource Persons to enhance the processes and strengthen existing inputs of the FLN Mission, such as the use of Teaching Learning Materials, effective Teacher Professional Development & mentoring, dissemination of communication campaigns, and the effective monitoring systems as part of measuring outputs/outcomes.
• Conduct small-scale pilot interventions (which are not part of the existing inputs) in the district to solve complex problems or problems specific to the district.
• Align district-level strategies and interventions with the overarching goals and directives of the state FLN mission. Collaborate closely with the state team to ensure coherence and integration of efforts, sharing insights and progress updates regularly.
• Ensure state level governance structures (like review meetings) cascade effectively and functions well at the district level

Other key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Providing efficiencies to implementation

• Deeper and grassroot-level diagnostic of WHAT and WHY of the gaps and problem-solving
• Ground level feedback to the state
• Design and/or execute district/mandal level strategies/solutions
• Build local capacities for adoption and usage
• Conduct awareness campaigns/events on FLN across the schools/clusters/mandals/district

Data monitoring and Progress check

• Conduct field trials to get ground feedback on monitoring system, and work closely with State to fix the gaps
• Ensure consistent data collection, develop and maintain the Management Information System (MIS), analyze data to generate insights, and drive actionable outcomes.
• Improve data quality & reliability including independent data collection on KPIs, conduct pilot studies aimed at improving the same

Pilot Projects to test innovative models

• Implement pilot projects and test models for community/parental engagement
• Implement pilot projects and test solutions on key challenges such as MGML
• Work with District Admin. in the implementation of tech based Continuous Professional Development
• Design and rollout to modules for capacity building of stakeholders (teachers/ mentors/ parents)
• Design and implement interventions that promote holistic development in children.

Documentation & Reporting

• Prepare timely and accurate reports, documenting the program progress, achievements, challenges, and financial utilization
• Document the quantitative and qualitative impact/outcomes of each and every intervention at the district level

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelors degree; a Masters degree
• preferred (in education, development studies, public policy, and social sciences)
• 0-4 years of work experience preferably in the education sector demonstrating remarkable project delivery and stakeholder management
• Demonstrated skills in data and measurement (quantitative and qualitative), including design of tools and strategies for data collection, data visualisation, drawing analysis and insights, and reporting and presentation
• Prior experience working with state and district-level governance and institutional structures is highly desirable
• Ability to undertake field travel (schools, clusters, mandals) for at least 15 days in a month
• Keen interest in the Development/Education sector
• Fluent in both Telugu and English with excellent written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge and experience in project management, including large-scale program implementation with multiple delivery tracks and monitoring
• Strong skills in stakeholder management, problem-solving, and analytical thinking
• Proven ability to thrive in ambiguous and evolving environments

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