Officer, Numeracy

World Change Starts with Educated Children®

IMPORTANT:
All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the country where the position is located. Room to Read is not able to provide sponsorship.

The Officer, Numeracy position will be based at New Delhi, India Country Office and report directly to the Director, Literacy. This position will involve frequent travel to field offices, as well as regular interaction with education officials, partners, school administrators, teachers, and students.

• Develop a thorough understanding of Room to Read’s Literacy program design and Numeracy domain needs aligned with the organization’s FLN (Foundational Literacy and Numeracy) strategy.

• Provide technical support to the state in System Strengthening and knowledge transfer.

• Update oneself regarding new programs/interventions of the like-minded organizations in states and changing trends and any new national/state level policies etc, as announced by the government.

• Support in the preparation of Numeracy based conceptual notes, learning frameworks, operation guidance notes, and related toolkits in alignment with project requirements

• Support the development of FLN numeracy-focused Teaching Learning Material’s review/revision for various literacy projects, which are aligned with the state and/or the projects.

• Explore and ideate the creation of new content for Numeracy, including edtech resources for RtR programs.

• Analyzing Govt’s TLM (Teacher Learning material), tools, processes or procedures of states FLN program to identify gaps.

• Contribute to the co-creation of foundational Numeracy resources with State Education department and other government departments.

• Design professional development frameworks/modules for educators and/or academic leadership teams across states (SRGs, DIETs (District Institute of education and Training), BRC/CRC (Block Resource person/Cluster Resource person) resource groups).

• Facilitate the translation of all training content, manuals, and handbooks into local languages, as when needed.

• Develop/refine the Facilitator Guides of professional development for internal staff.

• Develop nationwide workshop designs, facilitation modules, and academic resource toolkits for capacity building of state, district, and block academic teams.

• Lead the creation of nationally aligned numeracy assessment frameworks, classroom observation tools, academic monitoring formats, and quality benchmarks.

• Formulate strategies for strengthening academic capacity-building systems for CACs and other sub-state academic cadres across all partner states.

• Facilitate high-level FLN academic sessions during national training events, partner forums, or capacity-building workshops for academic leadership teams.

• Review emerging implementation/SLO trends on monthly basis, across projects, to ensure implementation is on track, also design course-correction strategies based on identified implementation or SLO gaps, if needed.

• Develop or refine national annual and quarterly academic plans for numeracy-focused demonstration and scale-up projects.

• Conduct structured periodic reviews with state focal points to ensure alignment with national goals and academic design standards.

• Document key academic processes, innovations, learnings, and progress for national knowledge management repositories.

• Provide need-based technical planning and design support to states and regional technical teams for academic program strengthening.

• Prepare national-level academic reports—monthly, quarterly, and annual—consolidating insights and progress from multiple states.

• Maintain oversight of academic activity progress across states to ensure adherence to the national FLN framework and approved annual academic plan.

• Facilitate national review meetings, cross-state learning discussions, and thematic planning workshops with state academic representatives.

• Support in developing detail implementation plans for program interventions, and support state in negotiation of such plans with the respective state governments.

• Support in designing and roll‑outing intervention/s across…