About Pratham
Pratham was founded in 1995, to provide pre-school education to children in Mumbai slums. Over the last 29 years, Pratham has grown to be India’s largest NGO working to provide quality education to underprivileged youth and children in over 21 states and union territories across the country, with a range of interventions
Pratham is a widely recognized organization, having received notable awards such as the WISE Prize for Innovation, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Henry R Kravis Prize in Leadership, and the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year for Public Service. For more details, refer to www.pratham.org.
About Pratham-Shah PraDigi Innovation Center
PraDigi Center has produced over 10,000+ videos and 900+ learning resources in the last few years. These resources can be viewed at www.prathamopenschool.org. These resources have been deployed and monitored in many rural and urban communities. With each passing year, this repository of content – videos, games, and applications has grown to cater to the interests and engagement of children.
Translating videos into 14 regional languages and English helped us become relevant and accessible to learners in all states. In this effort to make engaging content reach learners across India, Pratham has been actively collaborating with youth-driven start-ups, content creators, and interest groups.
Position Overview
The Senior Content Developer, Science position in the Digital Content team offers young, motivated, and energetic individuals an opportunity to be an integral part of Pratham’s Digital work across the country. This person will play an important role in developing, curating, and reviewing content, designing assessments, piloting them to improve and finalise, and designing and organising various online/offline exposure workshops/visits for children. Her/his main responsibilities are as follows:
- Creation: (In Hindi):
- Design the content packages: From ideation, defining scope to its finalization.
- Create various digital resources such as videos, reading material, posters, games etc. The resources should be crisp and easy to understand for children, youth and women as per the program requirements.
- Set up a feedback mechanism to review the resources, incorporate the concerned team’s feedback, and ensure timely delivery.
- Appropriate documentation of the resources.
- Exploration and Curation:
- Explore and understand the existing internal and external content pieces/packages, and curate materials as per the requirements.
- Develop Assessments and Generate Question Banks:
- Prepare assessments, generate and review question banks, and upload them on the required platforms.
- Review:
- Review the materials curated and created by others and provide appropriate feedback to improve the quality and accuracy.
- Training:
- Design and conduct online and offline training sessions.
- Coordinating with different stakeholders:
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders for timely development and delivery
- Pilots and Monitoring:
- Pilot the created materials, collect feedback, and implement as per the need
- Monitor the ongoing pilots and field interventions, document observations and prepare the action plan accordingly.
Desired Qualifications
- Completed undergraduate or post-graduation degree (preference for people from the science stream)
- 3-5 years of experience in similar roles in the private sector, NGOs or foundations.
- Efficiency in either Hindi or Marathi language. Basic proficiency in professional English is required.
- Willingness to travel as and when required.
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work well in teams
- Self-motivation and proactiveness
- Ability to organize and manage multiple tasks efficiently
- Basic proficiency in Microsoft PPT, Word, Excel, Canva, Zoom, AI tools, etc.
Number of Positions: 1
Work Location; Pune, Mumbai (MH, India)
Application process
- To apply for this position, please fill the Google form available at https://forms.gle/8KGY3rq4rG9nsBCe7
- Shortlisted candidates will be invited for the initial round of interview.
- Further shortlisted candidates will be required to submit an assignment and attend a final round of interview.
- Current Resume: Resume should contain:
- Contact Information for Applicant
- Academic Background, universities attended/degrees acquired
- Academic Record (Marks or GPA)
- Past work experience, highlighting relevant skills
- Experiences in content development, and/or education (if applicable)
- Languages Spoken
- Statement of Purpose (300 Words)
Salary: Negotiable as per the skills and experience
Note: Pratham is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce and consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability. We encourage individuals from underrepresented groups, especially persons with disabilities to apply.
