Project Manager - Strategic Support States

Central Square Foundation (CSF) is a non-profit philanthropic foundation working on ensuring quality school education for all children in India. The Strategic Support States (SSS) team at CSF assists the States in designing and implementing the respective state missions to ensure FLN learning outcomes for children. Project Managers shall work closely with the District administrations of Medak district in creating and implementing detailed District Action Plan (DAP), collaborate with District Education Officers, District FLN Nodal Officers & District Resource Persons to enhance the processes and strengthen existing inputs of the FLN Mission, such as the use of Teaching Learning Materials, effective Teacher Professional Development & mentoring, dissemination of communication campaigns, and the effective monitoring systems as part of measuring outputs/outcomes. Conduct small-scale pilot interventions (which are not part of the existing inputs) in the district to solve complex problems or problems specific to the district. Align district-level strategies and interventions with the overarching goals and directives of the state FLN mission. Collaborate closely with the state team to ensure coherence and integration of efforts, sharing insights and progress updates regularly. Other key responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Providing efficiencies to implementation Deeper and grassroot-level diagnostic of "WHAT and WHY of the gaps" and problem-solving Ground level feedback to the state Design and/or execute district/mandal level strategies/solutions Build local capacities for adoption and usage Conduct awareness campaigns/events on FLN across the schools/clusters/mandals/district Improving enabling conditions Ensure state level governance structures (like review meetings) cascade effectively and functions well at the district level Creating deeper stakeholder buy-ins and salience for prioritizing FLN & become champions Data monitoring and Progress check Conduct field trials to get ground feedback on monitoring system, and work closely with State to fix the gaps Ensure consistent data collection, develop and maintain the Management Information System (MIS), analyze data to generate insights, and drive actionable outcomes. Improve data quality & reliability including independent data collection on KPIs, conduct pilot studies aimed at improving the same Pilot Projects to test innovative models Implement pilot projects and test models for community/parental engagement Implement pilot projects and test solutions on key challenges such as MGML Work with District Admin. in the implementation of tech based Continuous Professional Development Design and rollout to modules for capacity building of stakeholders (teachers/ mentors/ parents) Design and implement interventions that promote holistic development in children. Documentation & Reporting Prepare timely and accurate reports, documenting the program progress, achievements, challenges, and financial utilization Document the quantitative and qualitative impact/outcomes of each and every intervention at the district level The Project Managers will execute projects to stabilize outputs across FLN workstreams with the goal to improve process KPIs and learning outcomes.

Bachelor's degree; a Master's degree preferred (in education, development studies, public policy, and social sciences). Minimum 2 years of work experience preferably in the education sector demonstrating remarkable project delivery and stakeholder management.