Job Description:

About CCS

is an independent public policy think tank based in New Delhi working on outreach, research, and advocacy on critical public policy issues that affect India. For the last couple of years, CCS has built a strong portfolio of research and advocacy in education, livelihoods, and governance. CCS offers challenging opportunities in a unique, high-energy, and vibrant work environment. The salary will be commensurate with experience.

About the project

Launched in July 2020, Project Bolo English is a unique initiative of the Centre for Civil Society. Through this project, we aim to equip children from low income families with much aspired Spoken English skills. Leveraging the role of Teachers, Schools and Parents as influencers, this project aims to provide children a free, year-long access to renowned Mobile Applications with customized Spoken English content.

One of the core elements of this project is its structured engagement with teachers & parents to provide them high quality language-learning resources, regular updates on students’ progress together aimed at improving students’ English language skills. We use the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) scale to evaluate the improvement in children’s spoken English skills.

Project Bolo English is supported by three renowned philanthropic entities, The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF), Procter and Gamble Shiksha Initiative, and The Rising Tide Foundation (Switzerland). Dr. Gurcharan Das (Author and Former MD Procter and Gamble Global), is the mentor of this project.

We have successfully completed the first two years of this project with 110,000 students, 750 schools and 3500 teachers from schools in 11 states across India. We are looking to scale the project to 2 lakh students and 1000 schools in the year 2022-23.

Teacher Trainers will manage the ongoing execution of the Project Bolo English effectively and strengthen the relationships with the stakeholders (school leadership, teachers, and parents).

Location: New Delhi for North India and Hyderabad for South India.

Role: Full Time

Reporting to: Regional Leads, Project Bolo English

Qualifications & Experience

• Graduate/Postgraduate with 1-3 years of relevant full-time work experience preferably in project implementation

• Experience of working on EdTech and /or Low-Cost Private Schools is highly desirable

• Experience of managing relationships with multiple stakeholders preferred

Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills (Telugu language skills-must for, South India and Hindi language skills- must for, North India

• Conversation and Presentation skills

• Fluent use of MS Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word) and Google Suite (Docs and sheets)

• Comfort with handling Data and using it for effective implementation of the project

Key Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with School Association Leaders, Principals and Teacher Coordinators in assigned schools. Maintain regular contact with them to meet the school empanelment, activation and engagement targets

• Focus on empaneling schools, telecalling for lead generation and conversion

• Lead empanelment efforts through calling school principals, owners and organizing Project Orientation Webinars to register targeted number of schools and students in the project

• Maintain ongoing database of schools reached and registered in the program

• Communication for orientation webinars with schools, teachers and parents

• Provide telephonic support to teachers, schools, and parents related to the project, Application use and rewards and incentives etc. Coordinate with school to ensure regular use of Mobile Applications by students

• Organize online and offline event with active participation of the three key stakeholders to drive student engagement

• Track student progress and initiate actions to achieve the project targets

• Report program execution outputs and outcomes to school periodically

• Support Monitoring & Evaluation in data collection and analysis for measuring Impact

• Focus on a data-driven approach to address ongoing execution-related challenges to understand problems and address

Centre for Civil Society