Specialist - Maadhyam State Operations

Location: 

Dehradun, Uttarakhand. 

About Udhyam: 

Udhyam Learning Foundation 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 Shiksha works on developing entrepreneurial mindsets among the youth and enabling them to achieve their potential, having impacted ~47,00,000 learners across 12 Indian states. 

• Udhyam Vyapaar focuses on nano businesses in India, and solving large problems faced by them, at scale; having already enabled 10000+ entrepreneurs. 

Program Overview: 

Maadhyam is Udhyam’s novel initiative that aims to bridge the gap between government school students in Grades 9 to 12 and opportunities beyond the classroom. The program envisions building awareness among students from Tier 2 & 3 cities of India about different types of opportunities and how they can support in building a student’s future. On the supply side, the program undertakes the groundwork of vetting and onboarding partner organisations, and curating and listing relevant opportunities on a student accessible platform, actively matching students with those best suited to their interests and needs for building a credible and desired future.  

It is currently live across 3 states (Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand), embedded within state government school systems. In its first 3 months, it reached over 4,500 students and generated 14 offers. Our core work is to improve access to opportunities for students with limited or insufficient guidance, knowledge and confidence in accessing them. 

You will be our frontline force who engages with students, their parents, teachers & principals as well as the state govt stakeholders. The entire project’s success depends on your ability to effectively engage with these parties and build a high level of trust in and enthusiasm for Maadhyam’s work.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Program Implementation 

• Monitor and support program implementation across multiple districts in Uttarakhand, ensuring timely and effective execution.

• Conduct regular school visits within districts to observe and support Maadhyam program activities. 

• Engage with students to run our student-led programs, monitor and maintain the health of these student-led programs

• Engage with teachers and principals to conduct webinars and in-school physical activities/engagements

• Stay in constant touch with Principals and teachers of select schools to ensure a high level of partnership with them, and high engagement of both the teachers and students with our programs

• Engage with parents for need assessment, getting permissions, providing support as their children seek to participate in opportunities across the country

• Coordinate the development of creative and sustainable project ideas, focusing on innovation and impact.

• Expect up to 4 days of field work every week.

2. State-Operations-Central Liasoning 

• Manage and strengthen relationships with district-level stakeholders such as Samagra Shiksha, State education department officials, and school heads.

• Build a collaborative relation with the Uttarakhand State operations team, and also spend 10-20% of your time in supporting the state team in their goals. 

• Liaison between the state operations team, central teams and the external stakeholders. 

3. Program Monitoring and Documentation

• Conduct in-depth surveys with students, teachers and parents to measure pre-program and post-program movements. 

• Document program progress via reports, case stories, and other impact documentation.

• Communicate project outcomes to all relevant stakeholders, ensuring transparency in the process.

4. Strong Ground Representation 

• Formulate and strengthen an effective relationship with Teachers, Principals, and District officials in your respective districts. 

• Execute innovative and sustainable ways to merge Maadhyam projects in the state program functioning in your districts. 

• Identify and capture stories of impact across multiple stakeholders. 

Measurable OKRs:

1. Setup, run and expand student-led programs (Maadhyam Cells) in all pilot schools across the state - conduct target number of engagements and opportunities

2. Ensure participation and engagement by 80% of your target schools in all in-school initiatives

3. Need Assessment across targeted number of stakeholders

4. Expansion of Out of School Community Networks to monthly, quarterly and annual targets

5. Lead conducting of target number of online and physical events periodically to drive acquisition and engagement of students, parents & teachers within our program

6. Drive adoption of all technology tools/platforms to be used for program expansion, delivery & monitoring

OKRs will continue to evolve over time.

Skills, Experience, and Mindsets:

• Based in or willing to relocate to Dehradun, Uttarakhand. 

• 4+ years of experience working collaboratively with govt stakeholders, preferably in the education sector.

• Hands-on with operations, willing to experiment with different strategies, interact regularly with students and various stakeholders across the state, and make things happen with low budgets.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for team collaboration and interactions.

• Excellent communication in Hindi and English.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across internal and external teams.

• A sense of responsibility and commitment to personal and team success.

• Ownership, Grit, Bias for Action and Trying New Things. 

Duration :

1 Year, extendable