Job Title: Project Manager - Nagaland
Organisation: Central Square Foundation
Team: School Governance
Location: Kohima, Nagaland

About Central Square Foundation:
Founded in 2012, Central Square Foundation (CSF) is a non-profit philanthropic foundation working to ensure quality school education for all children in India. We are driven by our mission to transform the school education system, focusing on improving children's learning outcomes, especially in low-income communities.
(Learn more about CSF on our website)

About the Team:
The School Governance team at Central Square Foundation envisions a transformed school education delivery system that is principally accountable and transparent about its learning outcomes. It targets measuring and publicising the achievement of quality outcomes in public and private schools and establishing a State Schools Standards Authority to enable this reform.
The Problem
Despite extensive efforts to increase access to education, learning outcomes have remained alarmingly stagnant in the current educational landscape.



Major government initiatives have focused on expanding access and providing input to schools, but their impact on improving educational outcomes has been tenuous, at best. An absence of outcomes-oriented and evidence-based governance is aggravated by a regulatory system where the government runs its own schools and regulates all schools, posing a conflict of interest due to the operator being the regulator. Further, there is no way to reliably measure the learning attainment of schools, making it difficult to hold them accountable for results.
The Solution
CSF’s Schools Governance team acknowledges the pressing need for a systemic reform in education, which can be solved with a two-fold approach. The states need to: -
Establish a robust and reliable learning outcome indicator at the school level by assessing student competencies through a competency-based census assessment (CCA). This will involve public disclosure of

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