About Pratham:
Pratham was founded in 1995, to provide pre-school education to children in the slums of Mumbai. Over the last 25 years, Pratham has grown to be one of India’s largest NGOs working to provide quality education to underprivileged youth and children in over 21 states and union territories across the country, with a range of interventions. Pratham is a widely recognized organization, having received notable awards such as the WISE Prize for Innovation, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Henry R Kravis Prize in Leadership and the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year for Public Service. For more details, refer to www.pratham.org
About Pratham Digital:
Pratham Digital has produced over 10000 videos and 500 learning games in the last few years. These resources can be viewed on www.prathamopenschool.org
These resources have been deployed and monitored in many rural and urban communities. With each passing year, this repository of content – videos, games, stories, and applications has grown to cater to the interests and engagement of children.
Translating videos into 14 regional languages helped us become relevant and accessible to learners in all states. Moving forward we are planning to create a mass dissemination mechanism where youth and children will get exposure to improve their creativity, collaboration, curiosity and critical thinking. In this effort to make engaging content reach learners across India, Pratham has been actively collaborating with youth-driven start-ups, content creators and interest groups.
About Learning for Life:
Pratham’s curriculum is divided into 3 major domains – Learning for School, Learning for Life and Learning for Work. Started in 2018 with a simple motive to go beyond school curriculum and encourage the innate creativity and curiosity among children in rural India, Learning for Life is a fast growing curriculum domain. It focuses on building 21st century skills, promoting physical and mental wellbeing and creating environmental consciousness among children and youth for a sustainable future. It is based on a 4Ex framework – Expose, Explore, Experiment and Exchange. This involves creating age appropriate digital content, running awareness campaigns in the community, organizing workshops, conducting various courses and activities with children and youth.
Environment Vertical
Aligned with Sustainable Development Goals, the main objective of the environment vertical is to create environmental awareness and foster behavioral change among children and youth by promoting curiosity, critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, creativity and social skills. Currently, the vertical focuses on broad themes such as waste management, biodiversity and agroforestry.
Content Developer (Environment) Job Description:
The Content Developer position in the Digital Content team offers young, motivated and energetic individuals an opportunity to be an integral part of Pratham’s Digital work across the country. This person will play an important role in developing and curating content, designing engaging activities and organizing various online/offline exposure workshops/visits for children.
Their main responsibilities are as follows –
Designing & Creation:
- Designing age appropriate content packages on environment education
- Writing scripts & prompts for videos, posters, social media challenges etc.
- Ideating, planning, creating and coordinating content production
- Designing activities, challenges, competitions on various environmental themes
Coordination & Communication:
- Coordinating with different teams to create and/or curate engaging content
- Identifying possible collaborators like organizations, subject experts etc.
- Communicating with external partners to create content packages and activities.
Assessment:
- Design digital/ non digital assessments
- Create, review, upload question bank on appropriate digital platforms
Pilots & Training:
- Designing and conducting environment workshops, training
- Conducting and monitoring pilots and/or roll out of programs
Desired Qualifications, Skills and Abilities
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Mass Media or related field.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in
- English and Hindi both (Any other Indian language would be advantageous)
- Creative writing skills, especially for videos and other digital content
- An aptitude for research
- Proficient in use of MS Word, Excel, PPT, Google Suite
- Willingness to travel and stay in remote locations as per project requirement
- Ability to learn on the job, readiness to take up challenges and resolve issues on the go
Preferred (but not mandatory):
- Past experience in digital content creation
- Past experience of working with children in education sector
- Although past experience is advantageous, freshers are encouraged to apply as well.
Number of Positions: 1
This is a full-time position on a yearly contract basis.
Location: Pune or Mumbai
Remuneration:
40,000 – 60,000 per month depending on candidate’s experience and skill sets
Application Process:
Send the following to life.digitalcontent@pratham.org and mention ‘Application | content developer (Environment)’ in the subject line.
1. Current Resume: Resume should contain:
Contact Information of the Applicant
Academic Background, universities attended/degrees acquired
Past work experience, highlighting relevant skills
Languages Spoken
2. Statement Of Purpose (500 words) highlighting your background, your interest in the role and why you are a good fit. *Please avoid using AI tools to write. We will be able to detect it.
3. References (at least 1 and no more than 3) who can speak of your experience and the overall fit for the role and organization
4. Portfolio of previous work (optional)
Last Date of Application: 5th May 2024 (Early applicants will get preference)