Aditi Desai Email & Phone Number

- Assignments include writing grant proposals, landscape studies, knowledge mobilization, amongst others. Please get in touch at aditi611@gmail.com.

• Managed a multi-country research project, “Multi-Modal Approach to Teacher Professional Development in Low-Resource Settings,” funded by the International Development Research Centre, Canada.
• Key responsibilities included:o Lead program management in collaboration with university and civil society partners across Maldives and Afghanistan. o Lead communications for the project including developing social.
• Part of the core research team for a biennial report, “State of Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education 2023,” to be released in September 2023.
• Key responsibilities included:o Development of the research proposal, Institutional Review Board approval, and primary and secondary research.o Lead secondary data analysis of the UDISE+ database covering 1.5 million.
• Drafted a policy brief on governance and regulation of teachers and teacher education in India.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Designed and managed GPE’s programs, Knowledge and Innovation Exchange, aka KIX and Education Out Loud, aka EOL, with a joint budget of $135m and activities in 68 countries.
• Key responsibilities included: o Lead consultations with country partners, civil society organizations, philanthropic foundations, and GPE Board members to design operational frameworks and strategies for KIX and EOL..
• Managed a $25 million grant to a consortium of UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank aimed at ensuring continuity of learning in 68 GPE partner countries in the context of COVID-19.
• Analyzed GPE’s COVID-19 accelerated funding portfolio of 66 grants totaling $467 million to assess whether grant interventions were aligned with the evidence on effective emergency response and recovery interventions.
• Led a learning framework to capture lessons from the piloting of GPE’s new operating model to suggest refinements and adaptations for the wider roll-out in GPE partner countries.
• Convened and coordinated a community of practice on Knowledge Systems Strengthening with over 50 members from donors and implementing organizations to support learning on the generation and use of evidence in education.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Same as above.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Supported design and launch of a grant making initiative, “Education Champions Network” for advocacy for girls’ secondary education in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Syrian refugee host countries. This included.
• Worked with grantees to refine budgets, program design, deliverables and benchmarks, and reviewed and analyzed monitoring reports and impact data.
• Supported capacity building for grantees by enabling access to experts, funders, and other resources.
• Developed and supported implementation of portfolio and grantee level Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning frameworks (development of Theory of Change, indicators, reporting guidelines and templates).
• Developed strategies for and supported expansion of the Fund’s grantmaking portfolio in India and in the education technology sector.

• Led research on conflict-sensitive education and preventing violent extremism amongst youth through education (including development of technical briefs and synthetic analyses, and managing production of audio-visual.
• Supported communications and outreach for the Education Policy Working Group (including development of thematic, web-based resource catalogues, creating communications strategies, and managing working group.

Medford, MA

• Assisted media relations team in monitoring social media and posting new items to the Fletcher News & Media pages and home page, using tools like SiteCore Content Management System and Hootsuite.
• Other responsibilities include research and maintain database of key media contacts, using media database Cision and FileMakerPro.

Amman, Jordan

• Primary research assistant for the Head of the Research and Development Unit of the Education Department at UNRWA.
• Led the organizational learning function, including dissemination of research about student dropout rates and classroom practices for use across UNRWA’s education offices in the region; drafted and edited donor reports
• Part of the core team that developed and rolled-out of an UNRWA-wide Education Management Information System (EMIS).

Medford, MA

• Worked on two impact evaluation projects focusing on better working conditions for women in factories across Jordan, Myanmar, India, Haiti and Indonesia.
• Some tasks include data processing using STATA, translation and creating surveys using Open Data Kit (ODK).

Mumbai Area, India

• Implemented blended learning solutions using low-cost technology and open-source content from Khan Academy in 50 classrooms in public and low-cost private schools.
• Performed cost-benefit analysis for multiple technology options, trained over 60 teachers, created curriculum frameworks and tests for Math, and designed monitoring mechanisms for learning outcomes.
• Established relationships with school leaders, teachers, and other partners to enable MoUs between project funders and school management.

Pune Area, India

• Taught English, Math and Science to a class of 42 third graders and 30 sixth graders from low-income communities in a public and private school respectively.
• Conceptualized and implemented an after-school financial literacy project to encourage saving and budgeting amongst students, impacting a low-income community of over 500 people.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Designed and implemented an ERP risk framework for a leading chemical and industrial products company with presence in five continents.
• Worked on General Computer Controls, Business Cycle Controls testing engagements and Segregation of Duties analysis in the Oracle practice and security implementation engagements in the SAP practice in the area of.

• Conducted user research in the domain of small and medium businesses.
• Developed use cases, created storyboards and assisted in prototyping the user interface for the next version of Office Mobile.

Master Of Arts In Law And Diplomacy

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

Continued Education Program (Cep) Course On Human-Computer Interaction

High School, Science