Nidhi Mehra

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WORK EXPERIENCE

I come with a rich experience of both teaching and content creation. I started teaching in 1989, while pursuing my post-graduation and taught till 2007. During this I worked as HOD, Mathematics for 15 years at Birla Vidya Niketan, Delhi . At the end of 2007 I moved into corporate for curriculum development and content creation. Here I worked for Indian boards and also got opportunity to train teachers for Cambridge International Board for Mathematics and Sciences.

Head Curriculum and Design Chandra Creatives & Learning Solutions May’19 onwards

●Editorial Team Leadership

oGuide HR in selection of culture fit candidates, training and team mentoring

oAssign projects to editors with clear timelines-concept-content planning

oIdentify processes gaps, bottlenecks and remedial action to improve efficiency and productivity

oPlan and execute training & development by identifying team members strengths and weaknesses

●Finance Management

oPrepare financial feasibility of project, guide business planning team basis product features

oMonitor and manage product development costs to ensure minimum product development expense

oDetermine fees, ensure timely payment processing of vendors and freelancers

●Project development and management

oReview product sample to ensure that it meets the vision of the product

oCurriculum Designing

oEnsure content flow-pedagogical development-features-template clarity for best in class product creation

oValidating the subject/content in digital component creation/ print material

oAssisting the tech team in creation of digital components such as video, audio etc.

Publishing Head New Saraswati House May’18 to Apr ‘19

●Project Planning, Initiation and execution

oProduct management – New/revision of titles basis portfolio gap & competition offering analysis

oCosting/resource planning basis product conceptualization, development, and author selection

●Author Commissioning & Guidance

oSelecting best fit author keeping marketing and sales views in consideration

oGuide authors to develop product as per product blueprint

oOversee author engagement paper work & contract management

oProduct development scheduling, features and USP’s

●Editorial Team Leadership

oGuide HR in selection of culture fit candidates, training and team mentoring

oAssign projects to editors with clear timelines-concept-content planning

oIdentify processes gaps, bottlenecks and remedial action to improve efficiency and productivity

oPlan and execute training & development by identifying team members strengths and weaknesses

●Finance Management

oPrepare financial feasibility of project, guide business planning team basis product features

oMonitor and manage product development costs to ensure minimum product development expense

oDetermine fees, ensure timely payment processing of vendors and freelancers

●Project development and management

oReview product sample to ensure that it meets the vision of the product

oCurriculum Designing

oEnsure content flow-pedagogical development-features-template clarity for best in class product creation

oValidating the subject/content in digital component creation/ print material

oAssisted the tech team in creation of digital components such as video, audio etc.

●Product Training

oConducted teacher workshop pan India creative and effective teaching styles and sensitizing towards different learning styles

oConducted pan India product demo and sales training

Sr. Publishing Manager Cambridge University Press India Ltd Apr’15 – May’18

●Management of Mathematics & Science division

●Project Planning and initiation

●Author Commissioning

●Editorial Team Leadership

●Finance Management

●Project development and management

●Sales Team support

●Product Training

Senior Managing Editor - Mathematics Macmillan India Ltd Jan’12 to Mar’15

●Project Planning and initiation

●Author Commissioning

●Editorial Team Leadership

●Finance Management

●Project development and management

●Sales Team support

●Product Training

General Manager Second School Sep’10 – Jan’12

●Curriculum Mapping

●Leading SME-ID team

●Guide HR to select Subject Matter Experts/ Specialists/Tutors, training and team mentoring

●Validating the subject in digital content creation/ print material

●Work Done – Complete creation of content for classes 4-12 for CBSE and ICSE board

●Videos/content creation for YouTube channel

Curriculum Manager Hurix Systems Jan’10 – Aug’10

●Curriculum Mapping

●Leading the SME team

●Work with HR to test and select Subject Matter Experts/ Specialists

●Train and mentor Subject Matter Experts

●Validating the subject in digital content creation by creating nugget analysis and reviewing its concept map, story board and final nugget

Mathematics Curriculum Designer HMSC Learning Pvt. Ltd. Nov’08 – Dec’09

●Plan the complete curriculum for K-12 including detailed lesson plans and Question Banks.

●Detailed product review of digital content for school solutions and proposed learning centers.

●Prepared lesson plans and complete planner for Learning Centers

●Developing content for K-12 for digital offerings-content outline/design document/story board

●Reviewing the design document developed by vendors and managing project progress

●Developing state of the art MATH LAB solutions for schools

Mathematics Manager Greycells18 Media Pvt. Ltd. Sep’07 –Nov’08

●Syllabus development and content creation for classes IX to XII.

●Complete curriculum planning for senior classes with detailed lesson plans and question banks

●Vendor Management - Allot lesson plans, discuss the constraints and requirements, ensure development & return of product material

●Overview and execute necessary changes in course plan and story boards

●Scrutinize lesson plan content to ensure product development as planned

●Contribute essential data to make lesson plan visual friendly

●Plan visual graphics as per requirement in the episode

●Check the scripts to lock it from content perspective

●Review CD of prepared episodes

●Preparing digital question banks for web for classes X and XII

●Review and answer web queries

●Interact with anchors as per requirement to ensure smooth running of the show

●Author story boards

Academic Supervisor Amity International School, Pushp Vihar Sep’06 –Sep’07

●Organizing and coordinating the entire school academic and co-curricular activities

●Supervising teacher work through periodic scrutiny of notebooks and class observations.

●Ensuring record maintenance like attendance registers, marks registers, log book & teachers diary

●Regular interaction with parents to understand their challenges and sharing their ward’s progress

●Organizing excursions and community visits.

PG, HOD Birla Vidya Niketan, Pushp Vihar Jul’91 – Aug’06

●Organized In-house seminars, exhibitions and Mathematics teachers work coordination

●Mathematics curriculum preparation for all classes

●Work review - class room teaching, examination paper setting, weak –bright student management

●Deputy Superintendent for CBSE exam and other exams like AIEEE, DPMT and IIT

●Head Examiner for CBSE for class X and XII

●In-house workshops and seminars conducted NCERT & SCERT for teacher development

●Organized work in the Mathematics laboratory and coordinated with E-learning

●Admission and counselling In-charge for class XI

●Prizes In-charge - Annual Day, Sports Day and Debate Competitions.

●Back stage management In-charge - annual cultural show

●Tour In-charge - Organized Educational Tours

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Teacher at SBDAV and MAPS from July ‘89 to May’91

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EDUCATION

MBA (HRD), IGNOU, New Delhi, 2002

M.Ed., Annamalai University, 1992 57%

B.Ed., Annamalai University, 1991 64%

M.Sc. (Mathematics), Miranda House, Delhi University, 1990 76%

B.Sc.-Hons. (Mathematics), Miranda House, Delhi University, 1988 60%

XII and X from Montfort School, Ashok Vihar, Delhi with 68% and 72 % resp.

AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS

First Prize, Excellence in Book Production by The Federation of Indian Publishers

Received accolades for brilliant Mathematics results in X and XII board exams in all schools.

PUBLICATIONS

‘Top Score 0 to 8 classes’, Macmillan India Ltd.

‘Weekend Mathematics – 6 to 10 classes’, Macmillan India Ltd.

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