Project Manager

Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

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Project Manager - Udaipur

ob Title: Project Manager, Assessments

Organization: Central Square Foundation

Team: Schools Governance

Location: Udaipur, Rajasthan

About Central Square Foundation:

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 childrens learning outcomes, especially in low-income communities.

About the team:

The Schools Governance team at Central Square Foundation envisions a transformed school education delivery system which is principally accountable and transparent about its learning outcomes. It targets measuring and publicizing the achievement of learning outcomes in public and private schools, and the establishment of a State Schools Standards Authority for schools based on the achievement of these outcomes.

In the current educational landscape, despite extensive efforts to increase access to education, learning outcomes have remained alarmingly stagnant. Major government initiatives have primarily focused on expanding access and providing inputs, but not on better educational outcomes. This absence of outcomes oriented governance is aggravated by a regulatory system where the government both runs its schools and regulates them. Further, there is no way to reliably measure the learning quality of schools, making it difficult to hold them accountable for results.

CSF Schools Governance team acknowledges the pressing need for a systemic reform in education, which can be solved with a two-fold approach. The states need to: -

Position Summary

CSF is looking for a Project Manager, Assessments, based out of Udaipur, Rajasthan to build the states SCERTs capacity in developing high-quality competency-based census assessments (CCA). The work will revolve around strengthening their processes for creating questions, blueprints and sample papers for primary and upper primary grade levels, and the development of the states curriculum framework. The fulfillment of the responsibilities will require effective coordination with other bodies of states education department (the Directorate, the Board, etc.). It is a full-time role and the Project Manager would report to the Project Lead of the state CSF team.

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