Technical Advisor-Education Job in Delhi at Wadhwani AI

Wadhwani AI is hiring for the role of Technical Advisor-Education!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Enable the team to build a nuanced understanding of the complex landscape of public education in India through training and workshops
• Compare and contrast different (National, State and International) competency frameworks for Foundational Literacy and Numeracy and create a version which Wadhwani’s education tools can be anchored to.
• Build an internal repository of knowledge about how Foundational Literacy and Numeracy is acquired. Conduct internal training for the team on the same. 
• Provide strategic academic inputs for the existing Oral Reading Fluency tool to make it more effective not just for improving Fluency but also for improving Comprehension
• Provide academic inputs to help adapt the Oral Reading Fluency tool for different Indian languages like Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu, Malayalam and others. Potentially collaborate with the State Resource Groups for the same. 
• Provide strategic academic inputs for potential tools being developed for Numeracy to ensure they are useful and impactful on the field.
  

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree from a reputed university is required; a master's degree is preferred.
• Prior experience developing curricular materials, large-scale assessments, and teacher training materials, for public schools in FLN is required.
• Prior experience delivering training either to teachers, mentors, or administrative officials is required. 
• Prior experience implementing FLN programs on the field would be highly preferred. 
• Classroom teaching experience in the primary grades, whether in public or private schools will be highly preferred.