Background

Leadership For Skilled Education Foundation (branded as Leadership for Equity, LFE) is a non-profit organisation based in Pune, Maharashtra, working to strengthen India’s public education system so that every child learns and thrives. We envision public education systems that refuse to let children down.

LFE partners with state and district governments across multiple states—including Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Haryana—to improve teaching practices and build sustained academic support structures within the public system. Our work is anchored in the belief that public education systems are the gatekeepers of social equity, and strengthening them is essential to ensuring that every child has access to strong foundational and future-ready learning.

Approach

LFE’s systems-change approach focuses on improving classroom practice and enabling government ownership through three core levers:

Co-creating high-quality curricular resources and building teacher capacity
Developing academic leadership to coach and mentor teachers
Providing data-driven advisory support and policy implementation guidance

Our model empowers teachers as instructional leaders and embeds long-term support through government-run mentor cadres, continuous classroom observation cycles, and in-system academic structures. Technology plays a critical role, including an in-house Classroom Observation App for real-time monitoring and a WhatsApp-based teacher support chatbot for contextual resource delivery.

The approach is iterative and context-responsive, grounded in classroom realities and tailored to state and district needs. Implementation varies across geographies—whether working directly with teachers or through government-appointed mentors—ensuring relevance and feasibility within existing structures. A continuous feedback loop of training, observation, and coaching moves beyond one-time interventions toward sustained practice change. All programs are co-designed and co-implemented with government partners to ensure scale, sustainability, and systemic ownership, ultimately leading to improved student learning outcomes in foundational and future literacy.

About the Haryana State Project

The Leadership For Equity team works in partnership with SCERT Haryana to strengthen teaching-learning systems through state-wide academic reform initiatives. The partnership spans classroom observation and mentoring systems, teacher professional development, digital learning platforms including DIKSHA, Future Literacy initiatives, and other system-strengthening programmes. LFE works closely with SCERT and district education teams to design, implement, monitor, and continuously improve these initiatives through capacity building, field implementation, data-driven decision-making, and institutional strengthening

The major scope of the work includes:

Working with SCERT Haryana to design, implement, and strengthen state-wide academic reform initiatives focused on improving teaching-learning processes and institutional capacity.
Supporting the implementation and continuous improvement of classroom observation and mentoring systems by strengthening implementation processes, monitoring mechanisms, and quality assurance across state, district, and block levels.
Co-planning and co-implementing teacher and officer capacity-building programmes through blended learning, face-to-face workshops, and other professional development initiatives at scale.
Supporting Future Literacy and other innovative education initiatives that build future-ready competencies among teachers and students through curriculum, pedagogy, and capacity-building efforts.
Collaborating with SCERT, DIETs, district and block education teams to institutionalize sustainable systems, strengthen programme ownership, and improve implementation quality across state-wide initiatives.

Job Description and Responsibilities

We see the Project Associate role at LFE to be highly aspirational where the scope to learn and create impact at a systemic level is immense. The Project Associate will work with the Senior Associate/Project Manager to play a critical leadership role in ensuring the planning for and execution of the responsibilities listed below. They include but are not limited to:

Project implementation (40%)

Support the planning and execution of state-level programmes across classroom observation, teacher professional development, Future Literacy, and other academic reform initiatives.
Conduct regular field visits to districts and blocks to monitor programme implementation and provide implementation support.
Undertake classroom observation quality assurance processes, process adherence checks, and documentation of implementation learnings.
Support planning and facilitation of state, district, and block-level trainings, workshops, consultations, and review meetings.
Coordinate with internal teams to ensure timely development of M&E tools, communication material, dashboards, and programme resources.
Support documentation of best practices, implementation learnings, and programme reports.

Stakeholder Management (30%)

Build and maintain strong working relationships with SCERT Haryana, DIETs, district officials, block officials, and other government stakeholders.
Plan and execute monthly update/review meetings with stakeholders and provide progress toward the goals of the project.
Support preparation of presentations, reports, review notes, government communications, and other project documentation.
Ensure timely follow-up on action points and facilitate coordination across multiple stakeholders.

Partnerships & Liaisoning (10%)

Work on planning/designing the overall partnership strategy in conjunction with the Senior associate, project manager, and the team.
Showcasing of current LFE’s work to state and district officials and to understand their requirements in alignment with LFE’s work.
Reaching out to different districts and DIETs in the state for a probable partnership on their ongoing work or for introducing LFE’s working model.
Supporting in exploring partnerships or work opportunities with the government institutions within the state.

Peer Support & Collaboration (10%)

Provide support to the team in existing projects and work areas.
Seek support and feedback from other team members.

Personal and Professional Development (10%)

Participate effectively and drive learning in the team professional development days (once a month) and team outstation stepbacks.

Requirements:

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Education, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Public Policy, Humanities, Engineering, or a related field. A Master's degree is preferred.
Minimum 2 years of experience in education programmes, government partnerships, or large-scale implementation projects.
Experience working with government education departments, teacher professional development, classroom observation systems or capacity-building programmes will be preferred.
Willingness to undertake regular field travel across Haryana.

Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities

Excellent written and oral communication skills - and functional knowledge (oral and written) of Hindi and English.
Strong facilitation skills to conduct engaging meetings and training sessions with government stakeholders.
Fluency and ability to create outstanding presentations, and work with Microsoft Excel, Google Suite, and varied data sets.
Belief in the potential of the public sector and that government systems can and will change. towards overcoming systemic inequities and ensuring improved outcomes for all citizens
Being able to take initiative and work in an autonomous, semi-structured environment.
Adaptability to changing responsibilities and resourcefulness to respond to them.
High openness to learning.
Ability to build and sustain relationships with multiple stakeholders & partners across public and private spaces.
Patience and resilience to stick it out in the face of setbacks and uncertainties.

Location and Compensation

Location: Gurugram, Haryana with frequent travel to districts across Haryana

Compensation: TheApart from being a part of a young and dynamic learning team, the individual will receive a healthy compensation at par with the non-profit sector benchmark for this position, commensurate with the individual’s prior experience and qualifications. The current compensation band offered, based on fit and experience is 4 to 6 lakh INR per annum CTC.

Leadership For Equity is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind. We do not discriminate on the basis of caste, race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other non-merit factor.

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