Program Manager – Recherche Tech LLP

[Media Services, Education, Libraries]
Kolkata, India
October 22, 2020
Full Time
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Job Description

Program Manager

Location: Dalhousie, Kolkata, West Bengal

 About Recherche Tech and My sCool Server (MSS) Project 

Derived from French, Recherché literally means ‘carefully sought out’. It is an adjective, meaning rare, exotic or obscure.

 

Recherche Tech LLP exists with the sole purpose of unearthing the exotic and obscure technologies with the help of deep research. We innovate with them to create products and solutions for adoption of ICT in education for the benefit of the masses.

 

Recherche Tech aspires to be the leader in innovative, affordable and inclusive application of open source IT in the educational segment.

 

The My sCool Server is a device, primarily for computer labs, that makes all computers in the wired network usable and useful instantly. It not only provides an instant plug ‘n play infrastructure comprising a custom-built education operating system, with all necessary software to teach computing and several other subjects but also provides a platform capable of hosting and serving massive K-to-12 educational content, offline. It empowers the instructors with a teaching and monitoring tool as well as a world class learning management system for customised lesson planning and evaluation.

 

Recherche Tech, with its My sCool Server offering aims to usher in a socio-economic revolution by simplifying IT adoption to make computer literacy and digital inclusion affordable and achievable across all strata of society. 

 

Recherche works closely with an educational institute right from the advocacy of a computer lab all the way to ensuring its effectiveness in daily lessons. The My sCool Server project’s flexibility facilitates instructor led, self-paced or blended learning with equal finesse.

 

The organisation is in its 4th year of operation and is recognised under the Startup India initiative of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Govt. of India for its innovation.

 

In the academic year 2020-21, the MSS Project aspires to serve over 1,000,000 students across the country. We are rapidly expanding our reach and are looking for passionate, talented professionals to join our team along the way.

 

Visit our website to learn more about MSS: http://www.myscoolserver.com

 Position Summary

Your role is to vouch for top learning outcomes for all the schools’ students under your purview and to coordinate with all requisite internal teams as well as related school staff to achieve the same.

 Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Operation & Program Support

    • Deployment – Coordinate with local partner organizations to ensure effective deployment of MSS in schools.

    • Training – Train teachers and relevant school authorities to help them conduct an effective blended learning session in MSS computer labs and classrooms.

    • Workshop, Observation & Debriefs – Visit and observe MSS teachers and students in action during lab sessions, collate data-points, analyze them and give feedback for improvement. Conduct need based workshops, if required. Track and record the observation for future use.

    • Team Coordination – Plan and execute effective avenues to share best practices, learning through collaboration; document them and disseminate it to other managers and associates.

    • Expansion – Actively engage with the school network and partner organizations to expand our impact into new schools across our geographical reach.

    • Administrative – Coordinate role related inventory, logistics, accounts, office support on a need basis with operations staff.

    • Additional Responsibility – Support operations team in conducting workshops, managing logistics on a need basis. Candidate must be comfortable with extensive travel within the cities we’re working in. (post Covid-19) 

  • Technology

    • Technology Support – Coordinate with the technology team on improvising the product, as and when necessary. To make sure that each deployed product is upgraded to its latest version relevant for the schools under one’s purview.

  • Pedagogy

    • Content – Work with the content team on various aspects – curation, testing etc., as and when necessary.        

  


Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or equivalent degree required.

  • Minimum of two years of work experience, ideally in the education sector.

  • Comprehensive understanding of the goals of National Education Policy, 2020.

  • Comfortable working with online or offline office-suites such as Google docs, Openoffice, Libreoffice.

  • Be active in his/her communication.

  • Background in technology preferred.

  • Demonstrate the ability to learn and capture quickly.

  • Have strong interpersonal & presentation skills.

  • Have a strong work ethic, a high level of integrity and accountability.


Benefits

  • You will get to learn in depth about the MSS solution portfolio and how it can be used in the futuristic learning and teaching process.

  • You will receive amazing guidance and mentorship in honing communication, interpersonal skills and skills related to Information Technology.

  • An opportunity to work in new and growing space of EdTech.

  • Remuneration will be competitive with Indian Education Technology sector pay scales and will depend upon the candidate’s experience levels and the value he/she will be able to add to the project.

  • Travel costs will be reimbursed.