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Simple Education Foundation | JD 2024
Project Consultant, Teacher Coach
At Simple Education Foundation (SEF) we work with the government to build state-wide strengthening programs for teachers and principals to increase the standard of teaching in government schools across India. Our mission is to strengthen 1 million educators by 2028.
We are a highly driven team with over 50 years of cumulative experience in teaching in classrooms and working with government school systems. Our team is young, dynamic, bold and audacious enough to make this mission come true in our lifetime. To help us accelerate our impact, we are looking to onboard more members on our paper plane!
Why is this role important for our mission?
Uttarakhand's diverse geography, with 10 out of 13 districts situated in hilly terrain, presents unique opportunities and challenges in implementing educational initiatives, including Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programs. ASER 2022 highlights that 28% of primary schools are single-staffed due to factors such as urban migration. Additionally, our diagnostic study in the Narendra-Nagar block of Tehri Garhwal district has identified areas for growth in student learning levels and linguistic diversity. The current TPD model primarily focuses on large-scale training for monograde contexts, which does not fully address the state’s unique multi-grade and translinguistic needs.
This role is crucial as we work to align Teacher coaching programs with Uttarakhand's diverse educational landscape, aiming to enhance student learning outcomes statewide. Our approach is grounded in systemic reform, progressing block by block. We currently collaborate with five schools through our partner schools program to understand, pilot, and refine solutions tailored to Uttarakhand's hilly regions. The insights gained are now being scaled to the block level through targeted interventions, making this role vital to the success of our mission.
What priorities will you be shaping?
Coaching Support: Establish block-level instructional coaching systems to improve teaching practices.
Relevant Learning Resources: Provide schools with practical, easy-to-implement pedagogical tools and content.
Communities of Practice: Foster collaborative teacher networks to facilitate shared learning and growth.
Data-Driven Approach: Collect and use meaningful data to inform decisions and actions at the block level.
Co-building: Collaborate closely with BEO, BRC, DIET Faculty, and teachers to co-design and implement effective interventions.
What key goals will you focus on, aligned with our priorities?
Support Schools: Provide classroom demonstrations, co-teaching, and resource-sharing across 25-30 schools in 9 clusters within the block.
Facilitate Core-Group Workshops: Organize workshops for the core group to collaborate, address challenges, and highlight successes, all aligned with the block's vision.
Data Analysis & Reporting: Regularly collect and analyze data to assess intervention effectiveness, and create detailed reports to keep stakeholders informed of progress, updates, and challenges.
Design: Design required session plans, tools and resources for the ongoing program interventions.
What competencies will enable you to solve this problem?
Collaboration & Facilitation
Create inclusion, safety and collaboration through their facilitation in both reflective and informational spaces.
Engage meaningfully with stakeholders in design, facilitation and reflection and adapt strategies to balance stakeholder needs and goals of intervention to ensure a win-win partnership and collective ownership.
Data Analysis & Design
Collect, analyse, present data and generate insights and reflections/trends towards interventions for self and stakeholder using Excel, ppts, docs etc.
Design plans, tooks and integrate feedback to support educator professional development.
Project Management
Manage their own schedule and prioritise tasks based on goals independently without support to meet the desired outcomes of the program.
Mentoring & Coaching
Understand the core needs of stakeholders and identify the key levers.
Listens with empathy and asks questions that build greater possibilities in coaching conversations.
Gives clear, direct and evidence-based feedback.
Mindset Required
Collaboration & trust in the system and stakeholders
Belief in the teachers and their abilities.
The resilience to work under ambiguity and be adaptive and innovative with limited resources
Patience, compassion and alertness to navigate all kinds of unprecedented challenges and failures
Strong alignment to working in rural hilly geography
Knowledge
Have intermediate proficiency in Gsuite to collect, analyse and present data to drive decisions, insights and reflections for the program, self and others
Have knowledge about pedagogy and teacher capacity building
Effective student learning practice for primary grades
Advanced-level knowledge of designing and facilitating instructional plans & adult learning spaces
Have advanced proficiency in spoken and written Hindi language
Experience
3-5 years of experience working in a program role, ideally in the education sector. Candidates with a minimum of 2-4 years of experience working with/coaching teachers are highly preferred.
Preference will be given to those who have experience teaching in primary grades and have experience working in a rural setting.
Proficiency in Hindi and English language, both spoken and written, is preferred
Salary and benefits
Compensation will be between Rs 50,000 to 60,000 based on the experience of the candidate and will include the following perks:
Monthly reimbursements for phone and internet bills
Inclusive and diverse teams
Great Place To Work Certified
Dedicate sum to avail health insurance and pro-bono therapist on board
Paid Period and Well-being leaves
Location: Gular Dogi, Narendra Nagar block, Tehri Garhwal. With frequent travel across Narendra Nagar Block
Tenure: 4 months
Note: Preference will be given to those from minority communities, including women, trans and non-binary people from religious and caste minority communities.
