Job ID: 287721

Teach Manager, Child Development Team (Dual Role)

U&I Trust

Location: India

Apply by: 31 Mar 2026

Relevant Sectors

Administration, HR, Management, Accounting/Finance

Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research

Social, Gender, Education, Youth, Child

Overview
We are looking for a Program Design & Effectiveness Associate to drive evidence-based program improvement and scalable growth. This role involves designing pilots, reading implementation signals and deriving patterns, translating findings into decisions, and coaching on-ground teams to apply changes with fidelity across programs and learning centers.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Management:
• Lead and manage the full lifecycle of projects from initiation to closure.
• Develop detailed project plans, including scope, goals, deliverables, required resources, and timelines.
• Monitor and report on project progress, addressing any issues that arise.

Research and Development: Program Design & Field Experimentation:
• Define pilot program or project hypotheses, success metrics, and a practical comparison approach, such as baseline vs comparison group or time-based comparisons.
• Develop pilot design covering scope, site selection, timelines, roles, risk controls, and SOPs.
• Design and develop content and student learning materials for the program.
• Drive the pilot operations through readiness checks, observation plans, training plans, and consistent troubleshooting.
• Lead mid-pilot sensemaking and post-pilot synthesis.
• Make clear improvement recommendations with documented learnings.

Evidence-based decision support:
• Develop clear evaluation questions that connect directly to decisions the organisation needs to make.
• Design and map indicators, data collection tools, and analysis approaches.
• Produce reports with insights and recommended actions for program improvements.

Program Health and Implementation:
• Build and maintain program health dashboards, heatmaps, or signal trackers.
• Detect patterns such as stagnation, decline and outliers.
• Diagnose root causes using mixed methods, including interviews, FGDs, surveys, observations, process audits, and data validation.
• Produce learning briefs and trend diagnostics with recommended actions.
• Build training modules, aids, manager toolkits and facilitate training cohorts to support teams in maintaining program fidelity while adapting smartly to local contexts.

Foresight and Strategic Experimentation:
• Run periodic/yearly forecasting cycles by scanning risks and opportunities across education, technology, policies and the volunteer ecosystem.
• Translate collected insights into a structured pipeline of experiments, initiatives, or partnerships.
• Collect and analyse required data from the said insights to evaluate the impact of the initiatives on student development.
• Maintain reports and recommend roadmaps for continued improvement of the organization.

Required Skills:
• Experience in project management and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver results on time and within defined budgets and resource constraints.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to design and evaluate pilots, conduct needs assessments, interpret program data, and translate findings into actionable improvements.
• Experience in program or intervention design, including developing implementation plans, SOPs, learning materials, or scalable playbooks.
• Ability to use data for decision-making, including trend analysis, pre/post comparisons, and identifying patterns in program performance.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions and engage field teams, leadership, and external stakeholders.
• Proactive, structured, and result-oriented, with comfort working in evolving environments and driving continuous improvement.

Job Email ID:

hr(at)uandi.org.in