Navgurukul Hiring for Learning Lead Job at Remote Full Time

About NavGurukul:

NavGurukul is a not-for-profit founded in 2016 and is on a mission to create access to aspirational careers for students from marginalized communities. We are committed to working on profound transformation for our students so they can hold the same jobs and live the life of similar possibilities as people from the top of the pyramid assume. We imagine an equitable higher education alternative where students learn the right skills, mindsets, and the ability to learn on their own to thrive in the world.

What we do:

NavGurukul’s flagship, Residential program works with learners from underserved communities to help them become programmers and gives them a guaranteed job once they finish the program. Currently, we are training 1000+ students in our fully funded seven residential centers across various states in India. Six of our seven campuses have only girl students. The focus on gender is a conscious choice, as inclusion is one of the core principles guiding our choices and focus areas.

The residential program is open for students who have finished just 10th grade and are 17 years of age. We are expanding our offering to digital careers other than programming, such as design and management.

So far, we have placed around 500+ students with software jobs in the tech industry with various IT giants and product startups. Our campuses are self-governed spaces that the students manage through elected student bodies. The learning on NavGurukul campuses is guided by self-paced pedagogy with a strong focus on peer learning.

Besides the Residential program, we have two more programs: Meraki and Code India Fellowship. Through Meraki, we work with students (and teachers) from government schools and ITIs through an online offering to help students learn basic English, touch typing, and programming. Code India Fellowship works with young freshers from India’s top colleges to transform learning outcomes in government high schools and ITIs and ensure the employability of students graduating from these programs.

About the role:

As the Learning Lead of our residential centers, you will ensure that students achieve their learning outcomes across all campuses. As mentioned above, NavGurukul campuses are not run on traditional classroom-led pedagogy. Your role will involve the following:

• Understanding and contributing to our campuses’ curriculum design and pedagogy (andragogy?). Create scalable processes and structures for the dissemination and monitoring of learning
• Collaborate with the subject matter experts such as the School of Programming, Design, and Management leads to convert the curriculum into trackable learning outcomes. For learning to happen, domain expertise and pedagogy have to come together, and your role would be to represent the voice of pedagogy in the team
• Identifying the right tools and processes needed to support every student on campus
• Tracking and monitoring the progress of every student in the program
• Hiring, training, and leading a team of learning managers on every campus who will assist you in the process
• Working closely with different stakeholders and cross-functional teams, plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and the timeline for new initiatives, and
• Everything else that is necessary to enhance students’ learning outcomes

Apply if you have:

• Experience delivering learning outcomes in classrooms, ideally for young adults
• Understanding of Andragogy (adult Pedagogy) and experience monitoring learning processes, especially self-guided and peer-based learning
• Ability to question all assumptions about how learning happens and work with first principles to set up processes from scratch
• Leadership, time management, team management, facilitation, and organizational skills
• Alignment with NavGurukul’s vision
• Deep empathy toward learners
• Ability to shift focus from teaching to learning
• Problem-solving, mediation, crisis intervention, and negotiation skills
• The capability of interacting effectively and building good relationships with relevant stakeholders
• a Master’s degree in education and/or has completed a fellowship in the field of education like TFI
• At least six years of relevant experience in learning and program management roles

Location:

This role would be remote, and you can work from anywhere, but ideally, you stay close to one of the NavGurukul campuses to be able to visit enough to understand the ground realities well. At the beginning of your engagement with NavGurukul, we would prefer you to work from one of our campuses for at least three months to have an immersive experience and build a thorough understanding of how things work on our campuses. You may also be required to travel to various campuses and stay there for a few weeks a few times a year, but we can discuss what may work best for you.

Compensation & Culture:

NavGurukul salaries are at par with most not-for-profits in the country. For this role, the salary bracket is 8.5 – 10 lakhs per annum. We are also open to hiring for more senior roles in the same function. We will be happy to explore if you bring more experience and maturity to work and are committed to NavGurukul vision.

At NavGurukul, we only do work that we genuinely believe to be impactful and derive a lot of personal meaning and joy from it. We are also committed to creating an environment of work that is healthy, transparent, and joyful and enables growth and change, both personally and professionally. We have an open, ongoing, non-hierarchical dialogue to ensure the same, and you will be welcome to contribute to it when you are a part of the NavGurukul team.

We are an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals, irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹850,000.00 – ₹1,000,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Flexible shift

Work Location: Remote