EI - INDIA

 URL: www.ei-india.com

Founded in 2001, Educational Initiatives Private Limited (EI), is South Asia’s leading assessment research and educational technology organization, working with the vision to create “a world where children everywhere are learning with understanding”. Our goal is to reach a multitude of children across different strata of society, irrespective of the kind of education they are receiving today or the curriculum they are following. With our focus in educational research, assessments, pedagogy-based personalized adaptive learning (PAL), and a Science of Learning (SoL) repository of data and techniques to help children learn better, we continue to strive to leverage the twin levers of cutting-edge educational research and a technology-based solutions approach to revolutionize how children in the K-12 education space learn.

Location: Ahmedabad/Bangalore/Anywhere in India (during Covid times)

Required: The final year 2022 batch - all UG / PG departments

For the roles, ideal candidates are ones;

• who have graduated (in any stream/discipline) from top tier colleges in India and abroad have worked in similar roles or have strong interest in the roles

• who are passionate about the education reform and realize that their actions can translate into real-life impact on the ground

• who are driven to learn and solve some of the most pressing problems to fix the education system Operating style suited to working in a small-organization setting, where teamwork and resourcefulness are highly valued

• driven to excel in every aspect of work with high level of innovation and strong perseverance Entrepreneurial spirit and ‘can-do’ attitude

• T-Shaped Approach: have both breadth in how to collaborate and innovate across disciplines and depth in specific areas of expertise

The Role

The role of an Educational Specialist can be broadly divided into three components, namely creation, review and research. Key responsibilities will involve -

1. Creating engaging content for our various assessment and learning solutions

2. Reviewing content, focusing on -

• Quality of the question (concept tested, grade appropriateness, phrasing)

• Technical correctness

• Strength of the distractors

• Syntactical/semantic errors

3. Researching on pedagogical content methodologies -

• Through the reading of academic journals

• Analysing data on questions

• By interacting with external subject experts

• By interacting with students and understanding how they think

Required Skills:

• 0-3 years of experience in content creation/teaching role

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Ability to create and source engaging assessments for students

• Ability to critically analyze questions, tests, and projects for practical use in the context of the classroom

• Basic technological awareness (Windows functions, MS Office, email features)

• Sticking to tight schedules and effective workload management

Preferred Skills:

• Graduation or Post-graduation with strong academic records

• Ability to interact in a productive manner with teachers and students, if needed; this should be geared towards gleaning information that will help us improve our understanding of how students learn and also towards improving our offerings

• Should enjoy working in a team and across teams

• Should enjoy healthy debates and arguments which are critical for insight development

PPT and Online test: November 18, 2021

To apply: www.sxccal.edu - Placement Cell - Apply for Campus Drive - Dashboard/Notice Board

Last date: November 14, 2021