Content Associate, Early Childhood Education

• The position of a Content Associate for Early Years offers a wide spectrum of opportunity in the education sector. The Content Associate for the team functions along following outlines:
  
• Development of quality learning content for foundation literacy and numeracy.
• Building and reinforcement of teachers capacities, via training workshops on pedagogy and maximized learning techniques in Indian classrooms
• Tracking field progress through field visits, testing content feasibility and following reports
• Roles & Responsibilities
  The primary roles and responsibilities of a Content Associate will include:
  
• Creating Teaching-Learning materials: The Associate will create quality teaching-learning materials for relevant grades with the requirements of any project/region.
• Teacher-training material: The associate will design modern and dynamic training approaches for the teachers. He/she will also train teachers in various locations on the specific manuals and modules created.
• Digital Content: The Associate will create online content such as audio, video, text messages etc for children as well as mothers/teachers/facilitators.
• Capacity Building: The associate will build Prathams field staffs capacity by handling project-specific training/workshops in various locations. By interacting with mothers/ teachers on an on-going basis, he/she will understand the requirements of teachers and students, as-well-as design and implement changes wherever required.
• Field visits: The Associate will periodically make visits to project locations in order to personally gauge classroom issues, assist teachers, interact with community members parents, village head, angawadi sevikas etc and write reports on crucial field categories.
• Report writing: The associate will compile and write reports on behalf of the Central Content Team for ECE Reliance.
• Designing and lay outing: The associate will provide valuable inputs to the DTP and graphic designers to produce quality teaching-learning materials.

Required Qualification, Skills and Abilities

Required:

• Graduate or Postgraduate degree (preference will be given to degree in Early Childhood Education)
• Strong command over oral and written Marathi, Hindi and English languages
• Discerning eye for editing and modifying contents
• Ability to communicate fluently in Marathi, Hindi and English
• Ability to work effectively in teams
• 2- 5 years of work experience
• Strong literary connections
• Strong interest in the goals of Pratham
• Comfortable with extensive field work and travel
• Ability to organize and manage multiple tasks efficiently
• Skilled in software applications such as Powerpoint, MS office

Preferred:

• Familiarity with rural and semi-urban regions of India
• Willing to travel frequently
• Work experience in development projects
• Qualification of teaching- learning methodology in early years
• Preference will be given to person with basic skills in Photoshop and Coreldraw