JD - Academic Consultant
JD - Academic Consultant
JD - Academic Consultant
About the Organization: Established in 2007, Educate Girls’ is a non-profit that focuses on mobilizing
communities for girls’ education in India’s rural and educationally backward areas.
Strongly aligned with the ‘Right to Education Act’ or the ‘Samagra Siksha’, Educate Girls is committed
to the Government’s vision to improve access to primary education for children, especially young girls.
Educate Girls (EG) currently operates successfully in over 20,000+ villages in Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh with a strength of 2200+ employees & 13000+ volunteers (Team Balika).
By leveraging the Government’s existing investment in schools and by engaging with a huge base of
community volunteers, Educate Girls helps to identify, enroll and retain out-of-school girls and to
improve foundational skills in literacy and numeracy for all children (both girls and boys). This helps
deliver measurable results to a large number of children and avoids parallel delivery of services.
We are currently setting up Project management unit in collaboration with dept. of secondary
education, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh. A Special Project team unit will be responsible to support the
dept. of education in developing and implementing strategies for quality education, open
schooling and technical support.
Position Overview:
The Academic Consultant is expected to build the Activity based learning methods, tools & develop
remedial content for secondary education that help EG maximise its impact. This role will be
instrumental in improving the teaching techniques and to develop learning methods for
implementation in Govt. schools.
Position Key Responsibilities:
● Build Activity based Learning Methods, develop Remedial content for secondary
education
● Design New methods referring NCERT suggestions and curriculum. Recommend
changes if require to improve the efficacy of the curriculum
● Encourages Different Learning Style, focus is given on the outcomes of courses and the
students are free to learn in their styles
● Improves Teaching Quality and enhances student participation in learning
● Collect feedback and work on the effectiveness of the classroom sessions and the workshops
being conducted
● Encourage blended approach of learning i.e. combining digital learning tools with
traditional classroom learning
Desired Incumbent Profile:
"Educate Girls is committed to achieving 50/50 gender balance in its staff. Female candidates are strongly
encouraged to apply for this position."