Job Description

Content and Curriculum Consultant

Position: Full time Consultant

Location: New Delhi

Duration: 1 year( extendable basis project requirement and performance)

Reports to: Associate Director, Content and Curriculum

About Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop - India is the Indian non-profit affiliate of Sesame Workshop, the internationally renowned non-profit media and educational organization behind Sesame Street, the pioneering television show that has been reaching and teaching children since 1969. We reach kids in their earliest years to provide them access to life-changing early education, critical health lessons, and helpful tools for tough situations via a combination of television, radio, digital media, mobile technologies, and community outreach across 11 states in India. Since 2006, Sesame Workshop - India Trust, working closely with Sesame Workshop affiliates has reached children through mass media including Galli Galli Sim Sim, the local version of Sesame Street, and now reaches children with engaging and educational content featuring the beloved Muppets of Sesame Street. For more information, log on to sesameworkshopindia.org.

Key Responsibilities include:

Content Development:

In close coordination with the Associate Director, Content and Curriculum undertake the following key responsibilities

Ensure that the content and curriculum, materials developed for projects are aligned to the organizational content strategy and vision. Specifically:

• Design content and educational frameworks that are aligned to national policies and fulfill the ECCE mandate. Ensure that the educational and content frameworks are reviewed by experts and have gone through highest standards of review

• Recommend content, curriculum as based on identified domains

• Develop educational materials that will support whole child development – and considers all relevant stakeholders (caregivers, educators, community and the child)

• Develop child learning material (print or mobile or digital) in consultation /

• Ensure that the educational content recommended for the projects are of correct dosage, frequency to achieve desired impact

• Provide inputs & support during development of international frameworks and content

• Oversight over internal and external consultants engaged for development of highquality content to meet Sesame Workshop India’s objects.

• Ensure regular and timely visits to the program areas to understand content response and feedback

Knowledge Management :

• Ensure knowledge and asset deployment and management for all available educational content Training, Program Evaluation.

Research :

• Assist in designing appropriate formative and summative studies to evaluate content and interventions

• Contribute to and oversee formative research in collaboration with the team to produce content that is contextual and culturally relevant

• Support training AWWs/Master trainers on content/curricula as per project requirements

• Support in conducting training workshops to build the capacity of on-ground personnel and others to ensure impactful content delivery at the programmatic level.

• Support in identifying external trainers, develop SOW, as required

Other responsibilities shall be assigned from time to time in the context of Sesame Workshop India’s charitable objects

Key Qualification :

• Master’s Degree (preferred) in ECCE, Education, Child Development.

• 2 – 3 years of experience in early childhood education

• Experience in curriculum development, policy advocacy is an added advantage.

• managerial experience in ECCE programs is desirable.

• Knowledge of national and international ECCE policies

• Ability to design age-appropriate curricula and teaching materials.

• Research and analytical skills for policy and program development.

• Knowledge of assessment and evaluation methods for young children.

Renumeration: Up to 40,000 per month (Negotiable)

All interested candidates please mail your resume to careers_india@sesame.org. Immediate joiner preferred .

About Company

We are educators. Creators. Researchers. Moms. Dads. Caregivers. Friends. We are an extended community who are passionate about one thing: helping children. We’re present in 11 states, providing over 25 million children with access to life-changing early education, critical health lessons, and helpful tools for tough situations. And joy. Lots of joy.
We reach children in their earliest years, when we know we can have the biggest impact. Before age five, a child’s brain grows faster than at any other time, laying the foundation for all the learning, behavior, and physical and mental health that follows. And Sesame is there, helping these young children grow to reach their full potential.

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