Project Coordinator - Future Literacy Initiatives
Vijayawada, IndiaFull-timeEntry · 1-2 years
About this role
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 district intervention, driving the academic cycle from orientation to year-end showcases. You will be directly responsible for delivering teacher training on coding, computational thinking, and AI, and the implementation of the student Hackathon.The current focus of the role will be to implement LFE’s training interventions with teachers and students in the 21st century skills domain. The project hinges on providing access and exposure of Computer Science competencies to teachers, students from tribal communities of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
Program Implementation and Operations (50%)
- Implement project plans that can run successfully with measurable outcomes
- Facilitate effective training sessions with teachers, 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.
- Government teachers/ 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 (20%)
- 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.
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 Telugu 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 : Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
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.