ROUNDGLASS
CITY LAB PROGRAM LEAD INTERIM
1 MARCH 2020 – 1 MARCH 2021 (Extendable)
FULL TIME
ABOUT ROUNDGLASS
RoundGlass is a 400+ person company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and major cities in India. As a social business, dedicated to breaking new ground on the path to personal wellbeing through technology, experiences and content, the RoundGlass vision aims to facilitate positive change in personal health, learning, and conservation. We want RoundGlass to become synonymous with personal health, wellness and wellbeing around the world.
RoundGlass hires only the best, and we expect a lot from our team. We take the idea of wellbeing seriously and take good care of our team members in return. RoundGlass offers a wellbeing plan that includes a Wellbeing Center onsite with free massages, personal training, yoga, aerobics, meditation, nutritional coaching.
Our employees work together and play together, creating an atmosphere that is collaborative and supportive, flexible and empowering.
CITY LAB PROGRAM LEAD
We are looking for a City Lab Program Lead who is willing to commit for a full year (extendable) being based in the Punjab region.
We are looking for a professional who is intellectually smart, displays empathy and collaboration, and with a can-do mentality to make all our stakeholders feel they are part of something bigger.
We are looking for a unique person who can create his or her own role based on what needs to be done.
BACKGROUND
The City Lab Team will work closely with other RoundGlass Teams in creating and implementing a City Lab Program, which will be the central mechanism through which we aim to transform a whole neighbourhood, city or region into a thriving learning ecosystem in which learning for holistic wellbeing is the norm.
Schools are key places of learning and will need to be part of the City Lab Program, but people are learning everywhere and need to benefit from holistic learning experiences both inside and beyond schools. This means we need to transform the whole experience of growing up for every young person and engage many different actors in the change process. We will need to inspire and inform 1st Line Actors to create learning experiences that equip and incline young people to live for holistic wellbeing – and equally inspire and inform 2nd Line Stakeholders to create the conditions in which 1st Line Actors can create learning experiences that equip and incline young people to live for holistic wellbeing.
We believe that this kind of ecosystemic transformation will be best achieved by focusing change efforts on a specific place (neighbourhood, city or region) so that a critical mass of change leaders is engaged through a process of:
- Aligning: convening and aligning to the shared purpose of transforming that place
- Collaborating: Sharing and leveraging opportunities, resources and processes that will affect change in that specific place
- Acting systemically: Working in teams of teams that execute a range of synergistic sub-projects that, together, accelerate and amplify change across the specific place – transforming systemic mechanisms (policies, incentives, etc.) as well as mindsets (and thereby behaviours and practices) – and thereby transforming the whole place into a learning ecosystem in which learning for holistic wellbeing is the primary purpose, the central focus of attention and the norm.
This is a holistic approach to change involving a whole place empowering whole human beings to live for the whole world. Our first City Lab Program will be focused on transforming a specific place in Punjab, India, and will be a direct outcome from our inaugural Learning Summit in Jaisalmer.
Key Responsibilities
- Mapping the education system in Punjab
An early step is to identify the best specific neighbourhood, city or region in Punjab in which to focus the Change Program. The chosen place will be defined by a range of criteria such as:
- The density of change leaders who are already working for systemic change
- The extent to which the policy environment is conducive to change
- The general, cultural appetite for change
- Selecting and weaving the City Lab Team
The success of the Change Program will be determined by the quality of the City Lab Team. The City Lab Team Lead will search and select 5-10 members of the City Lab Team, based on several criteria, including, but not limited to:
- Aligned to our vision and mission
- Representative of the roles in the wider ecosystem that the Change Team is trying to transform (diversity of members)
- Systemic thinkers and strategic doers
- Collaborative
- Etc.
Once selected, the City Lab Team Lead will weave team members into a fully aligned, highly trusting and action-oriented City Lab Team. This process of weaving the City Lab Team will centre on the process of co-creating the Change Program so that the process of co-creation is a learning and bonding experience for the whole team.
- Co-creating the Change Program with the City Lab Team
The City Lab Team will work closely with the Implementation Team and the Learning Framework Team to create the Change Program that will be implemented in Punjab. The process of co-creating the Change Program will involve weaving the City Lab Team itself.
- Recruiting 1st Line Actors and 2nd Line Stakeholders to participate in the Change Program
We envisage around 30 1st Line Actors and 2nd Line Stakeholders from Punjab participating in the Change Program. Participants will be recruited through a rigorous application process, and via referrals.
- Executing of the Change Program
The City Lab Team will lead the implementation of the Change Program (with the support of the Implementation Team). The Change Program is yet to be defined but will involve participants working together to:
- Align to a shared purpose
- Understand and trust each other
- Understand the existing system in terms of opportunities and barriers to change
- Understand the international context (leveraging the Learning Framework)
- Design synergistic projects that, together, will accelerate and amplify systemic transformations
- Secure the requisite resources to execute synergistic projects successfully
- Build the requisite human capacities to execute synergistic projects successfully
- Manage the execution of synergistic projects
- Monitoring and evaluating the impact of the Change Program
The City Lab Team will monitor, measure and evaluate the success of individual projects within the Change Program as well as the overall Change Program itself.
- Sharing impact and insights of the Change Program
The City Lab Team will communicate the Change Program process, results and insights in ways that:
- Draws participation and resources into the Change Program and thereby accelerates and amplifies systemic change in Punjab
- Supports the City Lab Team in learning and building its capacity to effect systemic change
- Allows the City Lab to refine the Program and increase impact
- Helps the Learning Framework Team to improve the usability and usefulness of the Learning Framework
- Enables the Implementation Team to create a Change Program Model that could be implemented in any place
KEY SKILLS AND ATTITUDES:
- Understanding of education systems: It is important to have a sound grasp of the nature of education systems and of system change.
- Program & Project Design & Management: The Punjab City Lab Project is a highly complex and collaborative initiative that aims to transform a whole system. The City Lab Program Lead must be skilled in co-designing and managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs and be a sophisticated systems thinker.
- Team Building and Facilitating: Skilled in building trusted relationships, clarity of direction, roles and responsibilities. Effective in removing barriers to success and in maintaining direction and momentum.
- Communication: Communicating in a clear and efficient way to create buy-in across diverse communities, to keep projects moving, and to manage stakeholder expectations. Effectiveness in communicating at the highest levels and with a very wide diversity of stakeholders will be essential. Both written and oral communication skills are essential.
- Creativity and Flexibility: Finding Able to switch between operational and strategic tasks with ease.
- Personal Initiative: Finds solutions to problems proactively and gets things done. Not afraid to take on extra tasks to go the extra mile.
- Learning: Understands the value of learning. Willing to constantly learn, to seek new information and solutions, and to encourage others to learn.
REQUIREMENTS
• Must be based in Northern India, preferably in Punjab
• Fluent English speaker
In case, anyone is interested in the attached role.
Warm regards,
Ross Hall <c-ross.hall@round.glass>
Vishal Talreja | Cofounder | Dream a Dream
Ashoka Fellow | Eisenhower Fellow
vishal@dreamadream.org, +91 9845524118
