Job Description

Director, Instructional Design (Learning Enrichment) About the Role You will lead the strategic work on the strengthening of NewGlobe\xe2\x80\x99s home-based learning programme across all NewGlobe schools. This will include the creation of home-based learning resources like homework books and a mobile quizzing platform, as well as investing in a strategy to integrate these opportunities into the broader NewGlobe academic programme. Homework books are printed for every student and every term of the school year. This is an important investment to support at-home learning, but also one that we believe could be strengthened through better design work. What assignments should we be providing for students at home? How should these printed materials be integrated into school-based work? How can we supplement these assignments with other existing resources like NewGlobe\xe2\x80\x99s @Home mobile quizzing platform? And how can we integrate these assignments more meaningfully in the school-based learning experience of students? To answer these questions and others, you will focus on four key areas: First, you will create the strategic vision for how home-based learning will be created, assigned, and used at the school level. This will include considerations like the subjects to target, the types of assignments that will be provided, and the ways that this work can be integrated more broadly into the academic offering for each NewGlobe programme. Second, you will provide guidance to a large team - based in Delhi - who will be responsible for creating hundreds of homework books and other home-based learning resources that will be used across all NewGlobe programmes. This support will include training, ongoing coaching, the provision of model assignments, and quality assurance to ensure alignment with the strategic vision for homework. Third, you will collaborate closely with Academic Directors and other academic leaders across NewGlobe to ensure that the actual homework is actually improving learning outcomes and supporting home-based learning. This might include formulating requests for qualitative feedback on homework quality and perceptions of the assignments, or rigorous evaluation of the learning generated by the assignments themselves. Finally, you will think outside the box! How can we continue to improve, both within the context of homework books and mobile quizzes but also more broadly across our home-based learning programme? Who You Are You are a skilled, thoughtful educator with years of teaching (and potentially leadership or instructional design) experience. You understand that great teaching is key to delivering learning gains. But you also have a track record of designing high-quality home-based learning programmes that can be used to supplement school-based instruction Finally, you are also a system-level thinker; you\xe2\x80\x99re constantly obsessing over the types of design principles that can work at scale, and also over the most effective ways to translate these scalable ideas into concrete practices and processes that other individuals and teams can adopt. By joining the Instructional Design department, you join a group of people working to make a difference in the world. In the countries in which we operate, the number of pupils attending school is soaring, but the quality of most schools, according to international experts, is low. Members of the Instructional Design Department invest time in producing quality learning materials to improve thousands of children\xe2\x80\x99s daily academic experience. What You Will Do

• Lead the strategy and design of high-quality primary and secondary home-based learning opportunities. This includes the assignments themselves, but also the aesthetic design of the resources.
• Specifically invest in existing tools like homework books and mobile quizzes, and also explore future opportunities
• Support the Instructional Design team responsible for home-based learning to create high-quality products aligned to the broader strategy, and also to ensure consistency and quality across all products.
• Design and implement quality assurance metrics to support broader departmental objectives
• Respond to incoming qualitative and quantitative data on home-based learning initiatives and their integration into the school day
• Problem-solve to create solutions with limited guidance.
• Communicate effectively across departments and to multiple levels of the organization.
• Pitch in where needed on projects supporting other Academics departments.
• Work in a demanding and sometimes high-stress environment, without letting the day-to-day demands prevent you from a relentless focus on driving student achievement.

What You Should Have

• A bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in education or related field; a master\xe2\x80\x99s degree is preferred
• A minimum of 3-4 years of classroom teaching experience
• Experience coaching a mid-sized team
• Background in instructional design and/or book composition is not essential, but is a plus
• Background in designing home-based learning opportunities - especially \xe2\x80\x98low-tech\xe2\x80\x99 assignments that would work for families with limited internet and computer access
• Execution focus\xe2\x80\x94you like to get things done, correctly and efficiently; you are detail-oriented, organized, and deadline-driven
• Process focus\xe2\x80\x94you are an analytical thinker who asks good questions about how things get done and easily grasps the necessary steps to make something happen
• Clear communication - both verbal and written; experience coaching teachers within a department or school is a plus.
• Experience working with Excel, Word, and Google Drive
• Willingness to jump in and help wherever necessary, no matter how big or small the task
• Comfort working in a demanding, quickly changing, and sometimes high-stress environment

About the team Academics Group The objective of the Academics group is to drive student achievement. To do so, we must know what is happening minute-by-minute for the typical child. The student\xe2\x80\x99s daily experience, and thus the path to achievement, emerges from their relationship with the teachers and the content that is delivered in the classroom. Our team is collaboratively organized around these levers. We develop rigorous content pitched at the right level for students to be delivered by a teacher who is prepared to succeed in the classroom. Our Instructional Design department builds the content; our Leadership & Development department trains teachers and school leaders using scientifically-proven techniques; our Learning Innovation department looks at cutting-edge research to generate breakthrough learning gains. Instructional Design The Instructional Design department produces the learning materials that are used in our schools across our communities. This department has team members based in multiple support offices, organized into teams that each work on a portfolio of projects. Driving student achievement through the development of rigorous content is the number one priority. One core tenet of the approach is less lecture (traditional among many schools in our markets) and more student practice. The Instructional Design department structures all lessons, textbooks, and other materials to ensure this. You\xe2\x80\x99re also

• A detailed doer \xe2\x80\x93 You have a track record of getting things done. You\xe2\x80\x99re organized and responsive. You take ownership of every idea you touch and execute it to a fine level of detail, setting targets, engaging others, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. You can multi-task dozens of such projects at once and never lose sight of the details. Likely, you have some experience in a start-up or other rapid-growth company.
• A networking mastermind \xe2\x80\x93 You excel at meeting new people and turning them into advocates. You communicate in a clear, conscientious, and effective way in both written and oral speech. You can influence strangers in the course of a single conversation. Allies and colleagues will go to bat for your ideas. You have an existing network from prior experience in the country, preferably in the regulatory, education, or business sectors.
• A creative problem-solver \xe2\x80\x93 Growing any business from scratch comes with massive and constant challenges. On top of that, NewGlobe works in often fragile, sometimes volatile low-resource communities and with complex government systems. You need to be flexible and ready to get everything done effectively, quickly, and affordably with the materials at hand.
• A relentless advocate \xe2\x80\x93The children we serve and teachers we empower never leave your mind. You know them, get them, have shared a meal with them (or would be happy to in the future). You would never shrink back from shaking a parent\xe2\x80\x99s hand or picking up a crying child, no matter what the person was wearing or looked like. Every decision you make considers their benefit, experience, and value.
• A malleable learner \xe2\x80\x93You believe you can always do better. You welcome constructive criticism and provide it freely to others. You know you only get better tomorrow when others point out where you\xe2\x80\x99ve missed things or failed today.
• A curious investigator \xe2\x80\x93 You ask why a lot. You don\xe2\x80\x99t just take what you see and accept it. You wonder why it is that way, and are aware that the world we see is created by human choices and actions \xe2\x80\x93 and it could be different. You wonder, and see the world as wonderful even when you want to change a part of it that is unjust.