Ei
Job Title: Lead Educational Specialist (Contractual), Impact Evaluation
Team and Division: Assessments, Ei Shiksha
Reporting To: Associate Manager / Project Manager
Location: Bengaluru
Duration: 6-8 months
About the Assessments Team
Founded in 2001, Educational Initiatives Private Limited (EI), is South Asia’s leading assessment research and educational technology organization, motivated by the vision of creating “a world where children everywhere are learning with understanding”. Our goal is to reach a multitude of children across different strata of society, irrespective of the kind of education they are receiving today or the curriculum they are following. With our focus on educational research, assessments, pedagogy-based personalized adaptive learning (PAL), and a Science of Learning (SoL) repository of data and techniques to help children learn better, we continue to strive to leverage the twin levers of cutting-edge educational research and a technology-based solutions approach to revolutionize how children in the K-12 education space learn.
The Assessments team is responsible for creating and delivering high-quality assessments, capacity building and technical enhancement programs as part of Ei Shiksha, a vertical of Ei that exclusively works with low-income or government schools. It takes Ei's expertise in assessments, educational research, and technology-based personalized adaptive learning and builds solutions/programmes/products contextualised for the B-o-P settings. This is done in collaboration with state governments, international grant makers, corporate foundations, and NGOs.
Over the past two decades, EI has undertaken over 80+ projects with 50+ government and civil society partners (16+ languages, 40+ detailed studies published) across geographies, and socio-linguistic backgrounds in India and abroad, for more than 10 million students across different grades. EI has offices in Bangalore and Ahmedabad in India, with 350+ staff members specializing in different aspects of assessments, technology, training, and project management.
The top executives at EI serve/have served as advisors on boards of several educational committees for the State and Central Government of India.
We have worked on several large-scale systems change projects in India with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Gujarat Secondary Education Board (GSEB), SCERT Haryana, Bihar Education Project Council, SSA Tamil Nadu, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh government agencies and the countries of Maldives and Bhutan. Our work has been funded by UNICEF, the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department for International Development (DfID) - UK, The Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education (PSIPSE), MacArthur Foundation, Michael & Susan Dell
Foundation (MSDF), Hewlett Foundation, McKinsey, Harvard University, and the University of Newcastle.
The People
Our success at EI is propelled by our exceptional staff. With 300+ professionals, we blend deep pedagogical and assessment expertise with hands-on experience in schools, government systems, leading educational organizations, and academic institutions. Our team features HBS, IIM, and IIT alumni, PhD and Masters holders spanning Science, Social Sciences, and Humanities, as well as experienced educators, curriculum developers, and teacher trainers.
Specialized internal teams focus on test development, data science, educational research, psychometrics, personalized learning, and IT advancement.
For the roles, ideal candidates are those who
- Are passionate about education reform and want their actions to have an impact on-ground.
- Are driven to learn and solve some of the most pressing problems in our education system.
- Graduated (in any stream/discipline) from top-tier colleges in India or abroad.
- Have worked in similar roles.
- Are comfortable working in a small-organization setting where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued.
- Are driven to excel in their work, showcasing a high level of innovation and perseverance.
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit and a ‘can-do’ attitude.
- Value a T-shaped work approach, valuing collaboration and innovation across disciplines while also cultivating deep expertise in specific areas.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Own and manage modules within an Impact Evaluation project
a. Support in the conduction of a qualitative and quantitative impact evaluation round, with high outcome-orientation
b. Understand the project requirements and coordinate with internal teams (Content Development, Pedagogical Research, Assessments, etc.) and partner organizations (assessment vendors, experts, etc.) to deliver the required project outputs.
c. Create qualitative data collection tools, analysis frameworks, reports, and other collaterals
d. Prepare strategic roadmaps and implementation plans with goals and milestones to Identify operational bottlenecks and weaknesses, and devise resolution pathways
e. Manage day to day operations and liaise with the clients to ensure the required buy-in, inputs, permissions and resources are made available.
f. Maintain thorough documentation of processes followed, collaterals created and reflections from projects
Qualifications and Experience
1. Graduate/postgraduate in Social Sciences/ Education/ Development or a related field, with a proven track record of implementing rigorous qualitative research studies, and some understanding of implementing a large-scale quantitative study
2. 2-4 years of experience, preferably some of it in the education or development sector.
3. Practical experience conducting fieldwork, data collection, and interacting with target populations.
4. Proficiency in qualitative data cleaning and analysis.
5. Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and coordinating projects with diverse stakeholders.
Required Skills
1. Fluent in spoken and written Hindi.
2. Willingness to travel to various locations in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
3. Strong grasp of education, instruction, and qualitative assessments.
4. Effective verbal and written communication skills.
5. Attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to communicate technical details with individuals from diverse backgrounds effectively.
6. Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills as well as a problem-solving attitude.
7. Familiarity with Excel to analyse medium to complex-level data.
Compensation
Remuneration will be between 40-50 K/ month, depending upon the candidate’s skills and experience levels.
