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.
Job Description and Responsibilities
The Project Coordinator, Future Literacy Initiatives (FLI) is the ground-level driving force behind our CS and AI education in government schools. In this role, you will hold complete ownership of a cluster of public schools, driving the academic cycle from orientation to year-end showcases. You will be directly responsible for delivering weekly hands-on coding and computational thinking lessons to students in Grades 5 to 8, ensuring that computer labs transform from static rooms into active hubs of innovation.
Role Snapshot: Your Academic Year
- Academic Cycle: July to June (Full Academic Year commitment)
- School Portfolio: Dedicated ownership of 4 to 5 Government Schools
- Target Cohort: Grades 5/ 6, 7, and 8
- Weekly Cadence: Conducting structured, curriculum-aligned CS lab classes for every assigned grade, every week.
1. Program Implementation & Lab Operations (50%)
- Weekly Curriculum Delivery: Facilitate high-energy, project-based CS lab classes for Grades 5/6, 7, and 8 across your 4–5 assigned schools, strictly following the FLI digital literacy and coding curriculum.
- Timetable Integration & Time Management: Collaborate closely with School Headmasters and class teachers to secure and maintain a fixed, dedicated slot for CS Labs within the official weekly school timetable.
- Student Log & Performance Tracking: Maintain meticulous weekly logs of student attendance, track individual student learning performance, and document the step-by-step progress of curriculum delivery.
- Teacher Handholding: Run co-facilitation sessions with school ICT teachers, empowering them to manage the lab environment and assist during live coding classes.
- Lab Readiness: Conduct routine pre-class checks on hardware functionality, power backups, and software setups to ensure zero loss of instructional time.
2. Stakeholder Management & Coordination (30%)
- School-Level Advocacy: Build strong, daily working relationships with school staff to protect the designated CS lab hours from being reassigned to other activities.
- Administrative Alignment: Assist your reporting manager in sharing monthly progress metrics, student logs, and curriculum completion rates with local block education officials (BEOs/CRCs).
3. Data Management & Media Documentation (10%)
- Robust Data Maintenance: Keep the organizational data management systems updated with clean, verifiable data regarding student performance metrics and lab utilization.
- Showcasing Innovation: Document student work, capturing high-quality photos, project videos, and growth stories as students move from tech consumers to creators.
4. Organizational Support (10%)
- Cross-Learning: Actively participate in monthly LFE reflection spaces to share ground challenges, operational hacks, and student learning trends with the core design team.
Requirements
Education & Experience
- Graduation in any discipline. A degree or certification in Computer Science, IT, BCA, B.Sc. (Tech), or STEM Education is highly preferred.
- 1–2 years of experience in direct student-facing instruction, public speaking, or museum/science center facilitation.
- Prior experience handling large, diverse groups of children (Grades 5-10) and making tech education interactive and fun.
Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities
- Fluency in spoken and written Marathi is mandatory for daily communication with government teachers, students, and local authorities. Good functional English is required for internal documentation.
- Solid foundational comfort with computers, Google Suite/MS Excel, and a strong openness to learning digital platforms like Scratch, CodeAI, or basic AI literacy tools.
- Exceptional energy and patience to manage and inspire a classroom full of children inside a bustling computer lab.
- The resourcefulness to handle unexpected power cuts, hardware hitches, or sudden changes in school schedules with a problem-solving mindset.
Location and Compensation
Location : Kalwan, 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.
