ABOUT JOB

WAIG builds and deploys AI-based tools for foundational literacy and numeracy
assessment and instruction support across multiple countries in Sub-Saharan
Africa. This spans AI-based oral reading fluency assessment (ASR-driven) and
AI-based numeracy assessment and diagnostic tools (OCR-driven), deployed in
partnership with governments and implementation partners.

This role owns the pedagogical and assessment integrity of the full FLN
portfolio, and its program delivery, ensuring AI tools are grounded in sound
learning sciences and assessment design, correctly adapted to each language and
curriculum context, and deployed in a way that produces credible, usable data
for teachers, governments, and funders.

This is a bridging role. The person must be able to sit between curriculum and
assessment specialists, data scientists, and government education officials, and
translate between all three.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. PEDAGOGICAL DESIGN, ASSESSMENT DESIGN, AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
- Own the instructional and assessment design logic across both literacy and
numeracy tools:



item construction, scoring rubrics, benchmarks, grade-level
calibration, and alignment to national curriculum frameworks.
- Apply learning sciences principles (how children acquire literacy and numeracy
skills, common error patterns, developmental progression) to shape product and
tool design decisions, not just validate them after the fact.
- Validate that AI-scored outputs are pedagogically and psychometrically sound,
not just technically accurate.
- Work with literacy, numeracy, and assessment specialists and local content
partners to adapt assessment content across multiple languages and contexts.
- Ensure numeracy tool design reflects sound classroom pedagogy and progression
logic, not just answer-correctness scoring.

2. PROGRAM DELIVERY
- Manage end-to-end field data collection cycles across both literacy and
numeracy instruments: enumerator training, school-level rollout, quality checks,
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📌 Pedagogy and Program Manager – FLN (New Delhi)
🏢 Wadhwani AI Global
📍 New Delhi