Senior Manager – Content and Training

Job

Title: Senior Manager – Content and

Training

Location: Pune

Travel: As per the project need

Position

Overview

Vocational education is now

part of school learning from Grade 6. NEP 2020 and NCF-SE 2023 set the

direction, and CBSE has started Kaushal Bodh for Grades 6–8 and Kaushal Vikas

for Grades 9–10.

Done well, children learn by

building, growing, cooking and repairing. They understand how things work,

respect all kinds of work, and see more choices for their future. Done badly,

it becomes one more period on the timetable.

Two things decide which one

happens: how well teachers are prepared, and whether their material works in a

real classroom. This role builds both as one system, and helps states use it at

scale.

Purpose

of the role:

You

will find the needs that keep coming up across states, build solutions many

states can use, and help each state adapt them without losing what makes them

work. You will always look for ways to reach more teachers with less manual

effort, using technology where it helps and keeping people where they matter

most.

You

will set the standard for how LAHI prepares teachers and builds learning

material, and lead a small team that designs training and material.

What

you will do:

• Prepare teachers
• and trainers. Decide what teachers, trainers, mentors and master trainers
• should be able to do, and build the path to get there. People move up by
• showing they can do the work, not by attending. Build a training cascade:
• a small group of strong trainers prepares the next level, who then prepare
• teachers. Support teachers after training through mentors, peer groups and
• short refreshers.
• Build material
• that works in many states. Keep the teaching approach, core skills, safety
• and assessment the same everywhere. Let language, local trades and
• examples change. Decide what to reuse, improve, build or stop using,
• including the material LAHI has built over twenty years, and make sure it
• works in schools with few resources. Keep one shared library, with one
• correct version of each resource and one person responsible for it.
• Release complete
• packages, and keep improving them. Each package has the student material,
• the teacher training to use it, and a way to check what students learned.
• Each must show what students will learn, what practical work helps, and
• what proves they learned it. You own their quality: try packages in real
• classrooms, learn from teachers and student work, and make the next
• version better.
• Use technology
• to do more with less manual work. For example: online modules for the
• knowledge part of training, AI-assisted drafts and translations checked by
• people, and simple phone tools for teacher support and observation.
• Work with state
• teams and state institutions. Our state teams bring real needs and
• deadlines from government. Work closely with them, and notice when several
• states need the same thing. Strengthen SCERTs, DIETs and district trainers
• so they can run day-to-day teacher training themselves, to the same
• standard.
• Lead the team.
• Guide the team and specialists, and manage budgets and timelines. When
• states need different things at once, decide what comes first and explain
• why.

What success looks like:

• Teachers use the material well in
• classrooms, and trainers can observe their work and help them improve.
• Students can show what they learned
• through practical work, not just that they did the activity.
• Material is reused across states without
• losing quality.
• States run more of the day-to-day
• training themselves.

Who

you will work with:

Your

closest partners are LAHI’s state teams. You will lead a small team, including

a senior associate for teacher training, writers, instructional designers and

designers, supported by subject and language specialists. Training reaches

teachers through master trainers and state and district trainers. Outside LAHI,

you will work with SCERTs, DIETs, state departments, boards, universities and

local practitioners.

What

will be demanding:

Several

states may need different things urgently at once, and you will be asked to

release work before it is tested. You will need to tell apart what one state

needs now from what every state will need, keep quality while offering a

practical way forward, and travel often to stay close to schools.

About

Lend A Hand India :

For twenty years, Lend A

Hand India has worked to make vocational education a real part of school

learning. Our work reaches more than 20 states, 20,000 schools, 25,000 trainers

and over 20 lakh students. India’s Economic Survey 2023–24 named our model as

an example of how vocational education can work in schools. In many states, our

teams work inside the state government as project management units.

Until now, we mostly ran

programmes ourselves. Now we are becoming a resource organisation, helping governments

run this work well on their own.

Our Mission

Equip School Students to Maximise Their

Potential Through Skill Education

Our Approach

• Direct
• implementation in schools
• Partnership
• with central-state governments to define, and scale policy
• Building
• of Centres of Excellence that act as lighthouses for innovation
• Resource
• organisation for the skilling ecosystem

Our Knowledge in Action

Through

the design & execution of innovative models from training centres,

innovation hubs to mobile outreach initiatives, LAHI’s innovative knowledge

resource drives both grassroots learning and systemic transformation across

India. With 250+ LAHI staff embedded in state education systems across 20+

states, we provide technical and project management support, enabling

governments to translate policy into action.

Our Reach

LAHI’s

current scale of work includes -

• 20+ States and
• UTs
• 15000+ Schools
• 15 Lakh+
• Students
• 250+ Team
• Members

Requirements

Who we are looking for

• Most

important: you have designed and run teacher training at scale, including

training of trainers and master trainers, and you can watch a session and give

feedback people can use the next day.

About 12–15 years

in teacher development, teacher education, curriculum or learning material,

including leading a team.

You know

enough about curriculum and instructional design to set standards and judge

whether material teaches well.

You have worked

with government education systems and worked to government timelines.

You can find the

common need behind many requests.

You have managed

external content partners and held their work to a clear quality standard.

You can see where

digital and AI tools can save effort at scale, and where people must stay

involved. You do not need to be a technical expert.

Useful: vocational

or skill education, more than one Indian language, university partnerships.

How we will choose

We will discuss

one lesson from a middle-school vocational subject with you: what practical

work helps, how a t

Teacher who is not

a trade expert could run it, what shows learning, how to prepare trainers

across a state, and which parts technology could handle. There is no model

answer. We want to see how you think.

Why join us

You will shape how

lakhs of teachers are prepared, at the moment vocational education enters every

school in India. You will work with governments, not around them, and see your

work used in many states. And you will build something designed to last.