AddressAbout ISDM
ISDM is an institution founded to create, strengthen and establish Development Management, a domain that transcends the exclusive silos of ‘development perspectives’ and ‘management principles’. ISDM recognizes the need to 'professionalize’ the Leading and Managing of Social Purpose Organizations (SPOs). The institution sees the development space as requiring the application of management disciplines that are unique and tailored to the scale of the sector. Management that doesn’t merely retrofit Business Management to development projects, but one that is born specifically from the coming together of the two crucial domains.
By 2025, ISDM aims to become the go-to management institute for top professionals wanting to transform the development sector for a greater impact on people’s lives. In order to achieve this aim, ISDM has identified three broad focus areas -
- Continuously building the one-year-long Post-Graduate Program in Development Management (PGP-DM);
- Creating a strong research function that will lay the foundations for Development Management and leadership as a unique domain and discipline;
- Launching Strategic Capacity Building Programs aimed at influencing and upskilling middle to senior leaders in the social sector through special workshops, short-term courses, and customized convenings.
ISDM has audacious ambitions to build a world-class institution, become a global fountainhead of development management knowledge, and define the domain of development management for the Social Sectors. The belief is that Management for the Social Sectors (or Development Management) will significantly scale up the positive impacts on the lives of people in sustained ways. ISDM is entering a new phase of growth with a revamped program and renewed focus on establishing itself firmly as a preeminent institution in its domain. This requires strategic and energetic institutional leadership.
About Strategic Capacity Building (SCB)
Strategic Capacity Building (SCB) at ISDM began with a view that while the 1-year PGP is impacting fresh graduates and young professionals, Body of Knowledge is focused on curating and building knowledge, there is a great need to work with the mid and senior management and leadership in the sector today, to be able to evangelize the change we want to see and build the society we envision.
SCB engages with key stakeholders such as CSRs, Foundations, NGOs, Intermediaries, Collaboratives, Government, Development Professionals, Volunteers, Social Entrepreneurs through:
- Open programs for key stakeholders to catalyze social sector leadership such as Executive Development Programs for mid-senior professionals, Nation Building Programs targeting groups such as CXOs, Women Leaders, etc.
- Custom Learning & Organization Development solutions which aligns with strategic goals of the organizations
- Digital solutions to drive collective & collaborative learning
- Advisory services for Impact Assessment to evaluate the effectiveness and significance of changes made on people and planet through programs and projects.
Job Description
The ideal candidate will support the creation and writing of various types of learning content and tools, frameworks, infographics, manuals, etc. They will utilize proven pedagogical methods and current tools to create interactive and engaging content for participants. The candidate should have strong communication skills which will enable them to explain complicated concepts in a simple manner.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with designing, delivering, analyzing and creating Need Assessment Reports for Learning Programs (Custom programs for clients and bespoke open programs)
- Support the design of curriculum & pedagogy for the programs through design documents for blended programs, online programs and facilitator-led programs
- Support the content development by working with internal and external experts as per curriculum design
- Project manage delivery of the content projects as per customer needs
- Work with partners for online content production and manage the quality assurance
- Ensure documentation and adherence to the content development process for SCB
- Support content repositories for content /learning objects documentation and reuse
- Work with the programs team to deliver program content as per customer expectations
- Support interface with the curriculum committee and get approvals on the content milestones
- Ensure curriculum content aligns with universal design principles and standards
- Work with technology/LMS for uploading content for delivery
Educational Qualifications and Experience Required
- Master's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or a related field
- 4-8 years of experience in instructional design content development with an understanding of training and design strategy for adult learning, preferable knowledge of the social sector
- The ability to design and develop new-age learning modalities such as gamified learning microlearning, and mobile learning would be an added advantage
- Ability to write effective copy, instructional text, audio and video scripts in English
- In-depth knowledge of learning theories and instructional design models
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- Ability to collaborate and work in teams (within and outside team, and organization)
- Expert in communicating ideas/ storytelling- representing program objective to internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to do research to support content creation
- Project & time management - plan & execute content projects in a timely manner
- Strong process orientation to document and manage the content process
- Adaptability to learn new tools , topics context and be open to change
- Customer focus- aligned to learning objective to needs of the target learner
Remuneration for this role will be commensurate with qualifications & experience. To learn more about us and apply, check out isdm.org.in/careers.
ISDM is an equal-opportunity organization with a particular emphasis on affirmative action. The culture of the organization is one of professionalism while also one that greatly values relationships.
