JOB TYPE | FULL TIME
LOCATION |LUCKNOW, KANPUR
FUNCTION |
SYSTEM ADOPTION
START DATE | IMMEDIATELY
Tl;dr
- Nurture relationships with industry partners, local employers, like-minded peer organizations, government officials and colleges in alignment to project goals
- Proactively sense new developments and trends for Industry and give heads up to the organization's project lead.
- Support capacity building initiatives, data management and handholding structure post completion of Faculty Development program
About Medha:
Medhabetter prepares youth for life after school. Our combination of 21st-Century skills training, career counseling, and alumni support propel young people on career paths of their choice. Since 2011, we have improved workplace engagement, income growth, and female work participation for 85,000 students across more than 400 educational institutions. And we are currently partnering with multiple state governments to bring our programming and approach to millions more.
We are supported by leading corporations and global foundations such as Accenture, JP Morgan, and The Mulago Foundation. We have received numerous awards and recognitions for our work, including the Echoing Green, Rainer Arnhold, and Ashoka Fellowships, the Dasra Girl Power Award, and were recently named a finalist for the Elevate Prize.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. Medha is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices.
For more information, please visit: 1) Website2) 2021 Impact Report3) Program Materials4) Strategy Growth Plan Deck
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY - MANAGER, SYSTEM ADOPTION
For the last ten years, Medha has delivered a unique experiential learning program to young people.
Based on the Four Cs of 21st-century skills – communications, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking – the program aims to prepare young people to start and excel in the diverse career paths of their choice.
Constantly upgraded and enhanced, the program has evolved significantly over the last decade, along with changing student and market demands. As we look to the future of learning and work, we are doubling down on the program's transformative impact on young people's lives.
Medha has a vision of an India with equal career opportunities for youth, irrespective of gender, class, or caste. We believe the most effective way to get 150 million young people into rewarding careers is by collaborating with the government education system. From day one, we chose to exclusively work at existing vocational, technical, and higher education institutions and integrate our programming and approach into the system.
If you think you can help Medha, make this difference by creating and developing strategies to deepen our relationship with the government department while working closely with the system adoption team at Medha and building large-scale initiatives. We would want to explore synergies.
You will work with a team of professionals equally driven by Medha's mission and vision.
What you will do:
This position requires you to excel in several different domains. Some of the main areas of work include:
Improving Enrollments in polytechnics
- Implement campaigns focused on increasing enrolments along with the department.
- Support the colleges to liaison with schools in their district to conduct promotional events as per the guidelines issued by the department.
- Support the district level committees in effective implementation and reporting of guidelines issued by the department.
Infrastructure benchmarking
- Identify schemes and opportunities for upgrading infrastructure facilities of your assigned colleges.
- Support the college to liaison with industry partners for improvement of infrastructure
- Support college to manage and report the data effectively.
Instruction, Teaching & Learning
- Support college in implementation and reporting of M&E frameworks issued by the department.
- Facilitate capacity building sessions based on curriculum/module co-created with department.
- Establish regular cadence of meetings and classroom observation in allotted colleges with all data on track.
Project Planning and Implementation
- Assist the Program Lead in designing the project plan by providing inputs from the field on all the areas of intervention.
- Implement activities designed under each area of intervention in coordination with the stakeholders at cluster level.
- Raise red flags if any at the earliest with the Program Lead.
Build & nurture government relationships
- Work closely with Joint Directors, College Principals, TCPOs, and faculties across allotted districts to align with the project goals and assist them with paperwork, presentations, and documentation for effective project implementation.
- Maintain alignment between project goals and college plan of action.
Create opportunities for new interventions and create buy-in
- Proactively engage with college officials and industry partners to identify the upcoming challenges, new schemes, government orders, and any changes that will impact the project positively or negatively in the future.
- Work closely with the project team to have a solid plan to mitigate the risk or devise a new intervention.
- Be open to new ideas and suggestions for designing new projects/programs aligned with Medha's vision for the college
- Support in signing MoUs for College with multiple industries and placement partners.
Effectively coordinate with Internal project teams and senior leadership
- Seamless communication with the Project manager is essential
- Any red flags need to be raised immediately with the senior leadership.
What your day might look like:
While no two days are the same, some may look like this:
- You engage in team huddle meetings with team members to discuss enrolment campaign.
- You brainstorm with internal & external stakeholders on state ranking framework
- You finish working on an update PPT deck to present to the Director Technical Education for monthly steering committee meeting.
- You have a call with training and placement officers and Medha’s ToT head to understand their capacity building needs and availability.
- You hold an internal meeting with the project lead and senior leadership to brainstorm solutions to a challenge that has cropped up around getting data from the department in a timely manner.
- Your meet the college Principals, TCPOs and Joint Director to seek their permission to rollout specific project components.
- You assist the college in conducting trainings and placement drives.
Things we are looking for:
Someone who identifies with our mission and vision and has the knack for establishing partnerships, onboarding employers, government relationship management, and passion for impact writing. The ideal candidate has the following capabilities:
- Ambitious, energetic, innovative, and hard-working professional committed to better prepare youth for life after school. Must have a sense of urgency and development.
- Graduate degree in education / social sciences / public policy / social work, or relevant fields.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant professional experience within the education sector, especially in implementing education programmes in partnership with government at the state or district level. Working Experience of UP will be preferred.
- Innovative, solution-oriented, and hard-working professional
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Hindi.
- Empathize with diverse stakeholder needs and bridge different styles of working.
- Good understanding of adult learning principles, cultural differences in learning, change management and systems thinking. Experience of behaviour change and/or design thinking will be preferred.
- Strong data management, writing, presentation, and social media management skills.
- Analytical, articulate and well versed in education policy and practice to communicate effectively and succinctly the impact of the programme to a wider audience.
- Conversant with emerging technologies in the education and development sector
- Excellent time management skills with demonstrated ability to prioritize. Needs to be comfortable in dealing with ambiguity.
- Excellent interpersonal and team skills and should be ready to deliver at par.
- Must be willing to travel extensively within UP, both in rural and urban areas.
We believe in diversity of thought and experiences and are open to candidates with varied backgrounds. If you believe the skills you have built from the experiences you have had in the past can be applied to this work, please communicate how and why in your application.
Why should you work for Medha?
- A passionate team that is committed to a shared mission.
- Grassroots ethosconnected to its student community (no ivory towers here).
- Audacious goals and vision to impact millions of young people and India’s growth story.
- An informal and fun work environment that doesn’t compromise on performance.
- Space to explore and find your own solutions and path (no micromanaging).
Our hiring process:
Our goal is to be as transparent and respectful of your time during the recruiting process. We use a technology platform to ensure the hiring process is comprehensive, efficient, and well documented.
