Deputy Academic Head

Job Description
Job Title: Deputy Academic Head
Number of vacancies 1 Location: Noida, Sector 3
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Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Need assessment:
• Develop and conduct baseline assessment and through thorough analysis, identify the gaps/areas of action.
• Conduct stakeholder meetings/FDGs and compile comprehensive requirements for the
leadership perusals.

2. Project Management:
• Start-to-end project planning and delivery on timelines.
• Planning deliverables and delegating responsibilities
• Monitoring project progress and brainstorming ways to remove roadblocks
• Evaluating the impact of interventions
• Regular follow-up meeting
• Smooth coordination and communication with other teams
• Team management

Conflict resolution

3. Training and Development:

• 
  Align academic rollout with training manager/department.
  Review and modify existing training programs and develop new programs that target tangible results
  Facilitate TNI
• Capacity building of team members according to diverse profiles and roles across the organisation.
• Support in building a team of trainers through TOT programs.
  Continually evaluate training solutions for quality, business impact, and scalability
  Prepares and implements training budget.
  Device ways to monitor and evaluate the impact of training.
  Remain up-to-date with latest educational policies and modules.

4. Content development:
• Development of ICT content for students and teachers based on curriculum and pedagogies
for effective learning outcomes.
• Understanding of ICT features/ areas for intervention (LMS, templates, app)
• Interacting with the tech and product teams to suggest product features, and try different
teaching strategies requesting specific data points as feedback, and making sure the product
aligns with our vision for education.
• Work on creating guidelines and set processes for zero-error content creation, and
setting QA/review processes.

5. Curriculum development:
• Device curriculum for nurturing lifelong learning opportunities for students and teachers. To
make this possible deploy technology at best.
• Based on curriculum continuously work towards enhancing the quality of delivery (activity
development, Lesson plans, TLM, suggested infra, etc.)

6. Assessment and survey development:
• Develop diverse surveys and other assessment tools for strengthening the teaching learning
process.
• Conduct training for the field team to effectively monitor assessments at schools which will
help in TNI for teachers and students.
• Documentation and reporting based on the data collected through assessments.

7. Innovations and continuous improvement:
• Based on learning/demand from the field look for solutions that takes program to the next
level.
• Think out of the box and propose areas of improvement for content, delivery, training, and
supervision.
• Contribute and take ownership of developing new programs.
• Pilot the approved solution or prototypes, for scaling.
• Remain up-to-date with the latest developments in the education sector that can be
replicated.
• Keeping the team motivated.

8. Documentation and Reporting:

• Maintain meeting records for all key tasks.
• Documentation of pilots, field study observation and training reports.
• Maintain archive old manuals and reports, any documentation related to achieving academic
development

• Document case studies and best practices from the field for enriching other areas of
  program.
  

Educational Qualification and Skills
• Must possess a masters degree in education, psychology, or social sector
• Is well-versed in educational policies and theories.
• Proficient in communication - Hindi and English.
• Knowledge of advanced computer skills - MS Suite
• Ability to manage multiple projects and large teams.
• Worked on projects related to bridging the digital divide, the use of technology for process
improvement, and quality improvement.
• Candidate should have experience of working in the field (direct implementation) and at the
management level in the education sector and must have worked with government schools in
rural areas.

Experience: 12-15 years of experience in the education sector or managing CSR education projects.

Requirement: Should be okay to travel in rural parts of Uttar Pradesh.

Reporting to Academic Head

Salary Competent to market standards and dependent on your last drawn.

Selection Process
• Interview with HR
• Interview with core vertical heads
• Final interview with Project Director