Your team (Academics)

The Academics team consists of practitioners from teaching, teacher
training, content and

curriculum development backgrounds. The Academics (Content development and Capacity building
professionals) team is in charge
of ensuring that all curricular and capacity-building materials that Madhi
develops and collaborates on, align with our key pillars Accessibility,
Contextualization, Inclusivity and Learning Outcome-focused. This team also
owns the academic and training inputs across all programs and hence delivers
high-quality error-free content and training customised to individual project
needs.

About the role:

The Associate, Academics will co-create curricular materials, including
but not limited to worksheets, lesson plans, instructional videos, and
assessments. These curricular materials for grades 1 to 3 for literacy (English
and Tamil) and Maths will be benchmarked globally and customized to the local
user. They will also be involved in developing session plans for
capacity-building workshops and facilitating the same to a variety of audiences




including teachers, parents, and other internal and external stakeholders.

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The challenges you will help solve in this role

· The Academics team at Madhi largely comes from teaching backgrounds with
exposure to modern and progressive education systems. As the Senior Associate,
you will channel this up-to-date knowledge into the curricular materials for
under-resourced schools.

· Addressing the unique challenges that the public education space faces.

· Planning and implementing novel projects applying various permutations
and combinations that ultimately address the foundational learning challenges

· Contribute purposefully to the growing body of knowledge on what works
and what doesn’t work to improve last-mile educational outcomes for children,
through the public sector delivery; in particular- by contextualising findings
to the Indian context.

The Job Description

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📌 Associate - Academics (Content Development & Capacity Building) (Chennai)
🏢 Madhi Foundation
📍 Chennai