Project Manager - Strategic Support States

Medak, Telangana, India

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Project Manager - Strategic Support States

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.

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About the team:

Strategic Support States: Strategic Support States (SSS) team at Central Square Foundation assists the States in designing and implementing the respective state missions to ensure FLN learning outcomes for children. Spread across five states, the Project Management Units (PMUs) of the team work closely with the state bodies in co-ideating goals for states FLN mission, identifying critical workstreams, setting indicators of success across the workstreams, and reviewing mission progress. Apart from these core activities, the SSS team also conducts action research projects and pilots, context-specific programs to accelerate student learning.

CSFs work in Telangana:

CSF has been actively working with the Department of School Education (SCERT, Samagra Shiksha), Telangana, on its FLN mission ensuring that all children in Grades 1-5 receive quality education and achieve the desired FLN outcomes. To bring fidelity in the implementation of the mission, CSF has taken proactive steps to provide strategic support to select districts/regions. These interventions serve as demonstrative models to showcase how targeted strategies and coordinated efforts can bring about significant improvements in FLN outcomes within the given timeline.

CSFs interventions go beyond mere support; they involve strategic planning, capacity building, and continuous monitoring of the implementation process. By closely working with district administrators, grassroots NGOs, and local elected bodies, CSF aims to address implementation challenges, identify gaps, and prioritize areas that can drive significant improvements in FLN outcomes. These interventions serve as catalysts for change and provide valuable insights into effective implementation strategies that can be scaled up across the state.

Roles and Responsibilities of the Project Manager:

Other key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Providing efficiencies to implementation

Improving enabling conditions

Data monitoring and Progress check

Pilot Projects to test innovative models

Documentation & Reporting

The Project Managers will execute projects to stabilize outputs across FLN workstreams with the goal to improve process KPIs and learning outcomes

Required Qualifications, Skills and Abilities

Compensation

Remuneration will be competitive with Indian philanthropy pay scales and will depend upon the candidates experience levels.