Location: New Delhi, India
Experience: 10+ years of relevant experience
Engagement Type: Consultant | 6-month contract, extendable based on program needs
About Us
Wadhwani AI Global (WAIG) is a next-generation AI transformation partner for governments and multilaterals across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. We combine cutting-edge AI products with deep advisory capabilities to unlock large-scale opportunities in health, education, and agriculture.
Role OverviewWe are looking for a Pedagogy Expert – Foundational Learning to strengthen the learning design behind WAIG’s foundational education tools, including Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) and other AI-enabled literacy and assessment solutions.
The consultant will bring deep expertise in foundational learning solutions, reading fluency, language acquisition, and assessment design, with the ability to adapt these concepts for public education contexts across Africa.
This role is ideal for someone who understands how children learn English as an additional or second language, and can translate that understanding into practical product guidance, content frameworks, assessment logic, and classroom-ready learning tools.
Key Responsibilities1. Strengthen English Learning PedagogyDefine pedagogical principles for early-grade English learning tools
Build learning progressions for reading, listening, speaking, and comprehension
Ensure tools reflect how children acquire English in multilingual contexts
Ground solution design in evidence-based literacy and language learning practices
Develop frameworks for oral reading fluency, decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension
Define indicators for accuracy, pace, expression, pronunciation, and meaning-making
Support design of grade-level texts, prompts, rubrics, and benchmarks
Ensure assessment tasks are developmentally appropriate and instructionally useful
Work with product, AI, and data teams to improve learning journeys
Translate pedagogy into product requirements, feedback loops, and user flows
Review content, assessment logic, and AI-generated learning feedback
Ensure tools support learning improvement, not just measurement
Adapt English learning approaches for multilingual public education settings
Account for varied teacher capacity, classroom size, and infrastructure constraints
Support contextualization across countries, languages, and learner levels
Ensure tools are practical for low-resource and government school environments
Contribute to assessment design, scoring logic, and validation approaches
Help define meaningful learning, usage, and fluency metrics
Support pilots, classroom research, and review of learner evidence
Translate field insights into product and pedagogy improvements
Develop guidance for teachers and facilitators using the tools
Support teacher-facing materials, training content, and classroom integration models
Ensure outputs are simple, actionable, and useful for educators
Help document learnings, examples, and implementation insights
You will own the pedagogical quality and learning integrity of WAIG’s foundational learning tools. This includes ensuring that ORF and related AI-enabled solutions are grounded in strong pedagogy, adapted for multilingual public education systems, and capable of supporting measurable improvements in children’s foundational literacy outcomes.
Success in this role means helping build tools that are educationally sound, contextually relevant, classroom-ready, and useful for students, teachers, and education systems across Africa.
What We Are Looking For10+ years of experience in foundational learning, literacy, pedagogy, curriculum, language acquisition, or reading fluency
Experience designing early grade reading assessments, oral reading fluency, english learning tools, or language learning frameworks
Understanding of how children learn English as a second or additional language
Familiarity with public education systems in low-resource or multilingual contexts
Ability to translate pedagogy into product features, assessment logic, and classroom workflows
Experience with EdTech, digital learning tools, or AI-enabled education solutions is a strong plus
Strong writing, communication, and ability to work with cross-functional teams
Comfort working with product, AI, data science, program, and field implementation teams
Willingness to travel for classroom research, pilots, and stakeholder engagement
Skills Required
- 10+ years experience in foundational learning, literacy, pedagogy, curriculum, language acquisition, or reading fluency
- Experience designing early grade reading assessments, oral reading fluency, English learning tools, or language learning frameworks
- Understanding of how children learn English as a second or additional language
- Familiarity with public education systems in low-resource or multilingual contexts
- Ability to translate pedagogy into product features, assessment logic, and classroom workflows
- Experience with EdTech, digital learning tools, or AI-enabled education solutions
- Strong writing, communication, and ability to work with cross-functional teams
- Willingness to travel for classroom research, pilots, and stakeholder engagement
What We Do
Wadhwani AI is an independent nonprofit institute that develops and deploys responsible artificial-intelligence solutions for underserved communities. Its work applies AI to complex social challenges across agriculture, healthcare, education, and public services, partnering with governments, NGOs, academic institutions, and private-sector organizations to create scalable, equitable, human-centered impact. Its tools support farmers, health systems, and grassroots communities across India at scale.
