Leadership For Skilled Education Foundation

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:
  1. Co-creating high-quality curricular resources and building teacher capacity
  2. Developing academic leadership to coach and mentor teachers
  3. 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 Content and Curriculum Vertical

The Content and Curriculum vertical of LFE focuses on two key areas: developing high-quality educational resources and building stakeholder capacity to use them effectively. This includes creating curriculum frameworks, needs analysis tools, instructional materials, digital content, blended learning courses, training design, and assessment frameworks tailored to program goals. Additionally, the vertical ensures that field teams are trained to implement these resources with the stakeholders.

Job Description and Responsibilities

The TEACH Project is built on the TEACH Observation Tool, which measures the quality of teacher–student interactions by focusing on techniques and behaviors known to nurture children’s cognitive and socioemotional skills. The TEACH tool holistically captures what happens inside the classroom, going beyond content delivery to examine how teaching and learning actually occur.
This project aims to provide teachers with relevant, easy-to-adapt instructional strategies that are contextualized and anchored in the local setting, enabling them to strengthen everyday classroom practices effectively.

Content Creation (70%) 

  • Research and create interactive and engaging content on topics related to FLN education, classroom instruction, social-emotional learning, and classroom culture for government officers and teachers.
  • Design various materials, including blended learning courses, presentations, voice-over narration scripts, storyboards, lesson plans, handbooks, and other learning resources, for teachers.
  • Develop assignments and assessment tools, such as tests and quizzes, to check for knowledge mastery of the content.
  • Contextualize scripts/course materials/handbooks, etc., to ensure relevance and relatability for the target audience.
  • Translate in-house content into Marathi, ensuring relevance to the context of the teachers.
  • Peer-review content for accuracy and alignment with content evaluation rubrics. 

Stakeholder Management  (30%)

  • Conduct orientation sessions for operations teams to ensure effective handover of created resources.
  • Provide timely support to operations teams by reviewing content, contributing to context-specific development, and responding to emerging needs.
  • Review translated content by vendors for accuracy, contextual appropriateness, and preservation of meaning.
  • Review of content resources designed by the vendor for quality assurance.

Requirements

  • Prior experience in developing foundational literacy and/or numeracy content. 
  • Prior experience in creating/using teacher classroom observation tools.
  • At least 1-2 years of experience working on audio-visual content creation, online courses, and lesson plans with a knowledge of instructional design theories and principles. 
  • A degree in education, M.S.Ed., or B.Ed. is necessary. A master's in education is preferred. 
  • Experience working in Maharashtra would be preferable.

Important: Given the nature of the project, please apply only if you qualify based on the above requirements

Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities

  • Excellent knowledge (oral and written) of Marathi & English is mandatory.
  • Being able to take initiative and work in an autonomous, semi-structured environment.
  • 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. 
  • A basic understanding of social equity, development discourse, and education policy in India.
  • Adaptability to changing responsibilities and resourcefulness to respond to them.
  • High openness to learning and collaboration.
  • Strong ability to create outstanding presentations, work with Microsoft Excel & Google Suite.
  • Patience and resilience to stick it out in the face of setbacks and uncertainties.
  • Content development skills to develop video scripts, Lesson plans, storyboards, and training sessions.
  • Expertise in tools like Articulate 360 and Canva for designing interactive learning materials.
  • Interest in exploring AI tools for educational content development.
  • Ability to build and sustain relationships with multiple stakeholders & partners.


Location and Compensation

Location: Pune, Maharashtra. Field visits and travel as per requirement.
Compensation: Apart 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 - 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 based on caste, race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other non-merit factor.


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