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.

Job Description and Responsibilities

Project Coordinator, District Transformation Programme, will be responsible for the smooth operations of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy projects in blocks of the Palghar district based on the allocated geography. The current focus of the role will be to implement LFE’s training interventions with teachers and BRPs/KPs to bring a shift in the classroom practices and help Zilla Parishad students to achieve the foundational literacy and numeracy skills.
The Project Coordinator will work with an Associate/Senior Associate at LFE to ensure project goals are achieved.

The following are the key domains of responsibilities for the Project Coordinator:

Planning and Execution (50%)

  • Implement project plans that can run successfully with measurable outcomes
  • Facilitate effective training sessions with teachers, conduct sessions with students and visit training sites, classrooms, and other offices across the districts to oversee implementation and use the observation data to tweak subsequent plans
  • Coordinate with other teams and operations counterparts to ensure smooth implementation
  • Participate in planning/designing the program training inputs in conjunction with the Reporting Manager.
  • Regular meetings with the education department officers/ teacher-mentors to support their development as per the project plan.

Stakeholder Management (30%)

  • Foster strong relationships with government stakeholders and partners in the block and district.
  • Collaborate with teachers and officers for effective project implementation and their professional growth.
  • Act as a liaison with governance bodies like Zilla Parishad, DIET, coordinating training dates, observations, and monitoring activities.
  • Engage actively in monthly and quarterly update meetings and collaborate on progress reports

Documentation (10%)

  • Document all collected data in the data management system
  • Ensure proper documentation of the program (print, video, and audio) and be responsible for periodic reporting of activities to reporting managers as well as government partners.

Monitoring & Evaluation (10%)

  • Circulate tools to measure the effectiveness of ongoing projects
  • Support team to analyse the data to provide ongoing insights to internal and external teams
  • Support in data analysis and compiling project impact reports from impact data
  • Support manager/M&E team to implement tools linked to the created content based on requirements

Requirements

Education & Experience

  • Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in executing projects
  • Experience working in Maharashtra with government teachers and students would be preferable.
  • Experience in facilitating training with teachers would be highly preferred
  • Graduation in any discipline.
  • Knowledge, experience and certifications in the education domain are preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, and functional knowledge of the regional language would be preferred
  • 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
  • Willingness to frequent travel across the district would be highly appreciated

Location and Compensation

Location: Wada block, Palghar District, Maharashtra
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 3.6 to 4.2 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, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other non-merit factor.


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