Academic Administrator - Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project (Job)
Description:
Overview
The Academic Administrator serves two primary purposes. Their first role is to support volunteers who come to Shanti Bhavan with various teaching backgrounds. Their second aim is to ensure that Shanti Bhavan children experience consistent, high-quality teaching that fits with the school’s cultural values.
This is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in a close-knit community with the common goal of poverty alleviation through world-class education. Your experience as an Academic Administrator will allow you to grow your cross-cultural competency and equip you for future success in international spaces anywhere in the world. Past Academic Administrators have gone on to work in organizations like the World Bank and UNESCO or moved up to leadership roles as Vice Principals and Deans after completing their tenures.
Responsibilities
- Manage the academic responsibilities of a team of up to 10 volunteers from diverse backgrounds.
- Conduct regular volunteer teacher observations. Engage in post-observation debrief conversations, providing feedback, both positive and constructive.
- Create a volunteer teaching schedule that reflects volunteers’ areas of expertise and meets the school’s needs at any given time.
- Develop and maintain curricular materials across grade levels. Ensure volunteers regularly contribute to and update resources for the classes they teach.
- Oversee the tutoring program. This includes collaborating with full-time Indian staff and volunteers to identify children needing additional support, set up and maintain individual tutoring logs, and provide volunteers with resources to utilize in tutoring sessions.
- Maintain academic assessment data across grade levels.
- Cultivate strong working relationships with Shanti Bhavan faculty and senior administration based on high trust and respect to ensure high-quality education for all students.
- Teach one academic class per semester.