KLAY Schools - Early Years Program Development Manager/Curriculum Manager (12-15 yrs)

Early Years Program Development Manager (Curriculum Manager)

Designation - Early Years Program Development Manager (Curriculum Manager)

Reporting to Academic Head

Qualifications - Degree in Early Childhood Education (NTT, Montessori, ECE, CIDTT trained) compulsory

Experience Minimum - 12 to 15 years of preschool industry curriculum design experience with minimum 2 years of preschool teaching experience is desirable

Work Timings: 9 AM - 6 PM

General Description:

- We are seeking for a Curriculum Manager who has a solid understanding of early childhood education, curriculum design, and instructional design (ADDIE), classroom arrangements, lesson plan development, implementation monitoring and teacher training.

- This hands-on role will work on a team of curriculum designers and is expected to manage and execute several tasks and assignments that supports learning product development (activity based, child appropriate), product management, and quality assurance activities.

- This role will also extend its expertise in the core curriculum delivery at the schools and will ensure that the curriculum framework for the products developed is aligned with the core-learning framework followed across all KLAY pre -schools and other products. She/he should bring in the subject matter expertise in building the early years learning curriculum across various formats - play based, virtual, instructor led

Main Responsibilities:

- Instructional Design/ Learning Product Development

- Assist in formulating the learning design framework - digital/non-digital

- Establish system-wide curricular objectives for early childhood education; develops plans for implementation and evaluation; initiates, designs and implements programs to meet system-wide goals; works with Regional curriculum Heads to ensure programs are implemented at each school/project level

- Using sound child centric learning and design principles create interactive and engaging instructional materials and activities working either independently or through the team of IDs/CDs

- Obtain or build the necessary virtual/non virtual learning content to support effective course design and delivery of the activity based learning products/curriculum for projects assigned

Project Management:

- Maintains full project management ownership when assigned a new product development assignment, including updating existing courses or creating brand new courses.

- Sets, communicates and manages stakeholder expectations at the onset of the project and throughout the project lifecycle.

- Provides guidance and advice related to learning product development processes and best practices.

- Ensures project task activities are completed and/or project plans are adjusted to manage changes that affect the project delivery dates.

- Clearly and effectively communicate project metrics, timelines, and other details pertaining project completion to all stakeholders - Ops, marketing and design including the curriculum team

Training & Development and quality:

- Provide academic support to all the regional curriculum heads in terms of curriculum/product implementation assessment monitoring, and learning resource management - wrt products/programs assigned

- Boot the sales, marketing and operations team on the product details

- Develop and provide presentations to individuals, small and large groups; such as; parent orientations, conduct open houses, etc.

- Convenes periodic meetings with RCMs to understand the ground level delivery of projects/curriculum and incorporate feedback if any

- Attends department and general staff meetings as required.

- Assists with the overall evaluation of early childhood education programs in the system and develops strategies for improvement of the same

Individual Responsibilities:

- Conducts research, collaborates with educators, subject experts and other professionals to develop quality curricula and learning resources.

- Manages team and other stakeholders - open communication and transparency

- Be flexible in scheduling to meet the needs of the overall program

- Demonstrate honesty, integrity and commitment to confidentiality

- Show initiative in problem solving and be open to new ideas

- Be approachable and welcoming

Additional Skills:

- Hands on experience in creating experiential, activity based and blended learning curriculum for early years

- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written English language skills

- Has a working knowledge of early years education pedagogies and approaches

- Advanced level experience with recent versions of Microsoft Suite is mandatory. Knowledge of video creating and editing tools, adobe illustrator, captivate etc is desirable but not mandatory

- Has excellent writing skills and able to create content that meets the educational standards.

- Is creative with good analytical and conceptual thinking skills.

- Ability to lead a team and manage team dynamics working across regions (virtual/non virtual)

- Ready to travel to regions on need basis

NOTE - Only Female candidates are required