Pedagogy and Program Manager, FLN

Role Purpose

This role owns the pedagogical and assessment integrity of a full FLN product portfolio, alongside its program execution in low-resource environments across Sub-Saharan Africa. This is a hands-on pedagogical role designed to bridge curriculum/assessment design, data science, and government education operations. The primary mandate is grounding AI-driven assessment tools (ASR/OCR) in rigorous learning sciences and pedagogy while ensuring field data collection is tailored to child capacity.

Key Responsibilities

1. Pedagogical Design, Assessment Design, and Quality Assurance (50%–60% — Non-Negotiable)

• Hands-On Pedagogical Architecture: Own the instructional and assessment design logic across both literacy and numeracy tools: item construction, scoring rubrics, benchmarks, grade-level calibration, and alignment to national curriculum frameworks. • Applied Learning Sciences & Phonetics/Error Analysis: Apply core learning sciences and pedagogical principles (how children acquire literacy and numeracy skills, common error patterns, developmental progression) directly to shape product design decisions—such as calibrating word difficulty repositories based on phonics/pronunciation rules and building diagnostic error typologies for math tools (e.g., carry-forward failures in addition). • Psychometric & Pedagogical QA: Validate that AI-scored outputs are pedagogically and psychometrically sound, not just technically accurate, ensuring outputs reflect real classroom progression rather than simple answer-correctness scoring. • Contextual & Multi-Language Adaptation: Work with literacy, numeracy, and assessment specialists and local content partners to adapt assessment content across multiple languages and national curriculum contexts. • Classroom Progression Logic: Ensure numeracy tool design reflects sound classroom pedagogy and progression logic, not just answer-correctness scoring.

2. Program Execution & Child-Centric Data Delivery (20%–30%)

• Child Capacity & Field Protocols: Design and manage end-to-end field data collection cycles across both literacy and numeracy instruments: enumerator training, school-level rollout, quality checks, and troubleshooting. Tailor assessment instruments to child capacity (e.g., structuring appropriate reading durations and paragraph lengths to prevent cognitive fatigue). • Operating Calendar Management: Own and manage the operating calendar across multiple countries and multi-partner environments, sequencing rollouts against local school terms and government academic calendars. • Implementation Tracking: Build and maintain an implementation tracker covering timelines, sample sizes, data quality flags, and blockers, disaggregated by literacy and numeracy workstreams.