Associate Director| Program implementation in Govt| schools | 321 Education Foundation

At 321, we look for people who strive for excellence by being user-focused & continuously improving, are highly productive, are adaptable given our constantly evolving environment, and like to have fun!

Do check if you’re aligned with our mission & culture principles. If yes, then check out the job description below.

Our mission: We seek to magnify the spirit of every educator and every school so they can magnify the spirit of every child.
• Magnify the prestige of teaching
• Magnify the learner in every educator
• Magnify the tools for the modern educator
• Magnify the focus on schools as systems

Since our inception, we have impacted 300,000 students & 25,000 teachers across 2,000 schools.

We are at a pivotal stage of our growth – to improve foundational literacy & numeracy (FLN) skills for over half a million Indian children by 2027 & set them on a path to avail advancement opportunities.
• Our culture principles are so core to us that they make up our name – 321
• We are on a journey to understand and magnify self, others and life.
• On this journey, we will be guided by 2 phrases: Excellence is a habit and Grace under pressure.
• Through this journey, whenever we look at a problem, we will ask ourselves: “What will I do about it?”

Role: Associate Director, Program implementation in Govt. schools

Joining date: Immediate

Location: Ahmedabad

Salary range: Rs. 15,00,000/- to 20,00,000/- for the year, based on relevant experience & skill set

What you will do
• You’ll lead & ensure PARaM’s successful implementation in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation schools, Gujarat districts’ schools and CSR-adopted government schools in Hyderabad
• You’ll build & maintain relationships with government stakeholders
• You’ll roll up your sleeves and jump into implementing PARaM’s services as & when required
• You’ll manage & coach 3-4 managers in the Program implementation team
• You’ll understand the different stakeholders’ challenges & collaboratively solve them with the Program development team
• You’ll evaluate the effectiveness of the program, iterate solutions quickly and conduct pilots
• You’ll thought partner with the CEO on major programmatic and organizational decisions

What you need to have
• 12-15 years of experience achieving results in the points mentioned above
• Ability to balance being outcomes-driven and process-oriented
• Courage to think up innovative solutions and test them, not just do as done; & the ability to question the status quo
• Knowledge of excellent teaching and learning principles & practices, historical and future-looking
• Experience in training & coaching teachers and teacher trainers, and managing 3-4 managers across projects & geographies
• High proficiency in data processes & experience in project management
• Aspiration & ambition to develop the vertical and take the impact to the next level of growth, in a small, high-performing organization

What you will get
• Experiences, challenges, and learnings toward your professional and personal growth & well-being
• To build, develop and enhance your knowledge & skills constantly
• To be a part of the leadership team that designs and executes growth & scale-up strategies for the organization & its programs
• To work with a stellar team of individuals who push each other, while having each other’s backs; who try to live 321’s culture, not just speak or write about it
• To experience flexible, thoughtful and productive work systems that enable professional+personal life alignment
• To grow in your role by potentially leading implementation across the organization (2 additional verticals of after-school centers & Low-cost private schools)

If all this resonates with you & you have what is needed, apply by emailing your resume to nandita.shetty@321-foundation.org.

Subsequent rounds include 2-3 assignments, 3-4 video interviews & 2 reference calls

Note: Since we are a lean team, we will be able to reply only to applications that are being taken forward.