Assistant Manager (Government Partnerships)

Lend A Hand India; Ahmedabad District; Vor Ort; INR 1.500.000 - 2.400.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Lend A Hand India is seeking a program lead to shape vocational education rollout across states. You will design training material, lead a small team of writers and instructional designers, and ensure quality across diverse classrooms.

You will collaborate with state education departments, SCERTs, DIETs, and universities to adapt resources, while travelling to stay close to schools and mentors. Role emphasizes scalable, practical learning.

Jobbeschreibung

Job Summary

Position Overview: Vocational education is now part of school learning from Grade 6. NEP 2020 and NCF-SE 2023 set the direction, and CBSE has started Kaushal Bodh for Grades 6-8 and Kaushal Vikas for Grades 9-10.

Done well, children learn by building, growing, cooking and repairing. They understand how things work, respect all kinds of work, and see more choices for their future. Done badly, it becomes one more period on the timetable.

Two things decide which one happens: how well teachers are prepared, and whether their material works in a real classroom. This role builds both as one system, and helps states use it at scale.

Purpose of the role: You will find the needs that keep coming up across states, build solutions many states can use, and help each state adapt them without losing what makes them work. You will always look for ways to reach more teachers with less manual effort, using technology where it helps and keeping people where they matter most. You will set the standard for how LAHI prepares teachers and builds learning material, and lead a small team that designs training and material.

Responsibilities

• Prepare teachers and trainers. Decide what teachers, trainers, mentors and master trainers should be able to do, and build the path to get there. People move up by showing they can do the work, not by attending. Build a training cascade: a small group of strong trainers prepares the next level, who then prepare teachers. Support teachers after training through mentors, peer groups and short refreshers.
• Build material that works in many states. Keep the teaching approach, core skills, safety and assessment the same everywhere. Let language, local trades and examples change. Decide what to reuse, improve, build or stop using, including the material LAHI has built over twenty years, and make sure it works in schools with few resources. Keep one shared library, with one correct version of each resource and one person responsible for it.
• Release complete packages, and keep improving them. Each package has the student material, the teacher training to use it, and a way to check what students learned. Each must show what students will learn, what practical work helps, and what proves they learned it. You own their quality: try packages in real classrooms, learn from teachers and student work, and make the next version better.
• Use technology to do more with less manual work. For example: online modules for the knowledge part of training, AI-assisted drafts and translations checked by people, and simple phone tools for teacher support and observation.
• Work with state teams and state institutions. Our state teams bring real needs and deadlines from government. Work closely with them, and notice when several states need the same thing. Strengthen SCERTs, DIETs and district trainers so they can run day-to-day teacher training themselves, to the same standard.
• Lead the team. Guide the team and specialists, and manage budgets and timelines. When states need different things at once, decide what comes first and explain why.

What success looks like

• Teachers use the material well in classrooms, and trainers can observe their work and help them improve.
• Students can show what they learned through practical work, not just that they did the activity.
• Material is reused across states without losing quality.
• States run more of the day-to-day training themselves.

Who you will work with

Your closest partners are LAHI state teams. You will lead a small team, including a senior associate for teacher training, writers, instructional designers and designers, supported by subject and language specialists. Training reaches teachers through master trainers and state and district trainers. Outside LAHI, you will work with SCERTs, DIETs, state departments, boards, universities and local practitioners.

What will be demanding

Several states may need different things urgently at once, and you will be asked to release work before it is tested. You will need to tell apart what one state needs now from what every state will need, keep quality while offering a practical way forward, and travel often to stay close to schools.

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