Senior Specialist - Curriculum, EMC (Remote)

About Udhyam:

Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam) is on a mission towards Making Bharat Entrepreneurial. We believe that entrepreneurship is a powerful way to channelize an individual’s potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows an individual to work on their strengths while creating value for the world.

Our programs:

• Udhyam Vyapaar focuses on nano businesses in India, and solving large problems faced by them, at scale; having already enabled up to a 27% income uplift for 5000+ entrepreneurs.
  
  
  

The goal for Udhyam is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem, where every individual feels empowered to define their own path.

• Udhyam Shiksha works on developing entrepreneurial mindsets among the youth and enabling them to achieve their potential, having impacted :24,00,000 learners across 12 Indian states.
  
  
  

About Entrepreneurship Projects (Schools):

At Udhyam we believe in the “learning by doing” approach. What better way to build entrepreneurial mindsets than trying entrepreneurship hands-on?

We are scaling up an exciting model to enable students to try their hands at entrepreneurship - the students get seed money to develop a business idea into reality. Over the course of this program, the students work in teams, get input for coming up with ideas and receive the requisite support to develop an idea into a viable business. The businesses also get assessed and the teams can advance to unlock mentorship and more resources.

To deepen our impact, we are designing a number of online and offline features for the program to improve content delivery, deepen implementation quality and widen mentorship. We are looking for a Senior Specialist for Curriculum who will be a part of the core team of the program and will work closely with Udhyam’s internal teams and government stakeholders to create scalable high-quality learning experiences for students.

One of the core beliefs at Udhyam is that learning must be experiential which makes this role ambitious and unique in terms of attempting to shift the current ways of learning in our schools. The candidate must be familiar with and open to further developing expertise in experiential learning pedagogy and identifying ways to integrate it into the government system. This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who is passionate about student-centered ways of learning and making this change happen at scale in India.

Roles and Responsibility:

Research and Design

• Articulate learning objectives, curriculum principles and develop curricular frameworks.
• Use data emerging from various sources to conceptualize and iterate on designs.
• Design pilots/prototypes to gather user feedback and improvise the content.
• Create simple yet engaging learning experiences for learners and facilitators.
• Think of user experience & try creative research-based design
  
  
  

Learning and Development:

• Develop workshop designs and training materials for facilitators.
• Facilitate capacity building of teachers/facilitators & internal team members.
• Create a teacher support plan in collaboration with Operations team post training.
  
  
  

Implementation/Program Management:

• Collaborate closely with the operations team to plan the implementation.
• Work in synergy with the SCERT teams to create buy-ins for the curriculum.
• Co-own the program implementation goals for the state teams
  
  
  

Skills, Experience and Mindsets:

• Ability to identify and research relevant documents, studies, and data from various disciplines (experiential and reflective learning, learning needs of adolescents, entrepreneurship education, mindset change).
• Ability to observe and assess the needs of different learners and learning environments.
• Knowledge of different learning theories and methods to design interactive and experiential learning modules.
• Highly collaborative in working with Ops teams, other curriculum team members and government functionaries.
• Proactive and commitment to creativity and continuous improvement.
  
  
  

Other Requirements

• At least 5-8 years work experience as a curriculum or instructional designer
• Experience in designing for 21st century skills or entrepreneurship.
• Working in a classroom setting for at least 2 years would be an added plus.
• Knowledge of Hindi (speak and read)/local language.
  
  
  

Location: Can be based anywhere in North India with readiness to travel to the location as per need (6 to 8 days in a month)