Educational Initiatives Looking For Lead Educational Specialist, Impact Evaluation at Tripura, Full Time

About the Assessments Team

The Assessments team is in charge of creating and delivering high-quality assessments, capacity building and technical enhancement programs as part of Ei Shiksha, a vertical of Ei that exclusively works with low-income or government schools. It takes Ei’s expertise in assessments, educational research, and technology-based personalized adaptive learning and builds solutions/programmes/products contextualised for the B-o-P settings. This is done in collaboration with state governments, international grantmakers, corporate foundations, and NGOs.

For the roles, ideal candidates are those who

• Are passionate about education reform and want their actions to have an impact on-ground.
• Are driven to learn and solve some of the most pressing problems in our education system.
• Graduated (in any stream/discipline) from top-tier colleges in India or abroad.
• Have worked in similar roles.
• Are comfortable working in a small-organization setting where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued.
• Are driven to excel in their work, showcasing a high level of innovation and perseverance.
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and a ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Value a T-shaped work approach, valuing collaboration and innovation across disciplines while also cultivating deep expertise in specific areas.

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Own and manage modules within Impact Evaluation projects

• Take full ownership of individual project modules, meticulously break down workstreams and ensure high outcome orientation.
• Understand the project requirements and coordinate with internal teams as well as external partners (State, Assessment Vendors, Experts and NGOs) to deliver the required project outputs.
• Work with the team to design processes and procedures to achieve the required outputs including but not limited to program design, analysis requirements, and stakeholder dependencies.
• Support the team in developing strategic roadmaps, implementation plans as well as risk mitigation plans.
• Support in the development of high-quality tools as would be required for the projects such as research design, data collection tools, analysis frameworks, reports and other collaterals.
• Set up and maintain project management processes and guidelines.
• Develop and manage strong working relationships with clients to ensure the required buy-in, inputs, permissions and resources are made available.
• Maintain thorough documentation of the project including but not limited to processes, collaterals and reflections.
• Conduct/support various project-related activities like evaluator training/post-analysis workshops.
• Support/perform data analysis to unearth insights as required by the project.

2. Organizational Development

• Expand the scope of projects by high-quality dissemination through articles, blogs, and research paper summaries.
• Support in activities to build and strengthen internal expertise around pedagogy and impact evaluation.

Qualification and Experience

• Graduate/postgraduate in any field, with a proven track record of designing and implementing rigorous research methodologies for impact evaluation.
• An academic background in research methodologies, statistics, and data analysis.
• 2-4 years of experience, preferably some of it in the education or development sector.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting impact evaluations, ideally in education.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing rigorous research methodologies for impact evaluation.
• Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, using tools like statistical software and data management systems.
• Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and coordinating projects with diverse stakeholders.
• Practical experience conducting fieldwork, data collection, and interacting with target populations.
• Prior publications, conference presentations, or contributions to the field of impact evaluation are advantageous.

Required Skills

• Strong grasp of education, instruction, assessments, and India’s educational scenario.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to learn fast, and grasp Educational Initiatives’ model and business.
• Attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to communicate technical details with individuals from diverse backgrounds effectively.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills as well as a problem-solving attitude.
• Familiarity with Excel to analyse medium to complex-level data.
• Willingness to travel to various remote locations.