Manager – Content & Knowledge

Lend A Hand India; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Lend A Hand India (LAHI) seeks a Manager - Content & Knowledge to architect and oversee a multilingual, curriculum-linked knowledge system for school vocational education. You will translate curriculum, field insights, and technical experience into reusable resources and knowledge assets.

Lead a team of writers, instructional designers, and translators, ensure high editorial standards, and collaborate with NCERT/SCERTs and state bodies to scale content across states.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in educational content, curriculum or knowledge management.
• Strong curriculum interpretation and editorial skills.
• Experience leading educational content-development teams and specialists.
• Experience with multilingual content, localisation or state-level adaptation.
• Ability to work with government and academic institutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop LAHI's overall content and knowledge architecture.
• Identify resource needs from curriculum, teacher needs and field problems.
• Decide when to reuse, curate, adapt, contextualise, create or retire resources.
• Work with NCERT, SCERTs, state departments and boards on curriculum-linked resources.
• Build a common-core plus state-specific approach to content.
• Lead multilingual translation and contextualisation across states and languages.
• Ensure adaptations retain learning outcomes, pedagogy and assessment intent.
• Manage writers, instructional designers, technical experts, illustrators and translators.
• Establish standards for content briefs, technical and pedagogical review.
• Maintain resource registers, version control, ownership and repositories.
• Capture field learning into reusable frameworks, tools, guides and knowledge assets.
• Use teacher and field feedback to continuously improve resources.

Skills

Content strategy

Curriculum interpretation

Editorial leadership

Multilingual content

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Title: Manager - Content & Knowledge

Location: Pune

Travel: As per the project need

Position Overview:

To build and manage LAHI's curriculum-linked, multilingual and reusable knowledge and resource system for school vocational education.

The role is broader than content production. It will help LAHI convert curriculum, technical expertise and implementation experience into resources and knowledge that can be adapted and used across states

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop LAHI's overall content and knowledge architecture.
• Identify resource needs from curriculum, teacher needs, implementation experience and recurring field problems.
• Decide when to reuse, curate, adapt, contextualise, create or retire resources.
• Work with NCERT, SCERTs, state departments, boards and other academic institutions on curriculum-linked resources.
• Build a common-core + state-specific approach to content.
• Lead multilingual translation and contextualisation across different states and Indian languages.
• Ensure adaptations retain learning outcomes, pedagogy and assessment intent.
• Manage writers, instructional designers, technical experts, illustrators, translators and production partners.
• Establish standards for content briefs, technical review, pedagogical review and release.
• Maintain resource registers, version control, ownership, permissions, review cycles and repositories.
• Capture learning from LAHI's field work and convert it into reusable frameworks, tools, guides, cases and knowledge assets.
• Use teacher and field feedback to continuously improve resources.
• The source role similarly covers reuse/adaptation decisions, reusable versus state-specific content, versioning, repositories, rights and conversion of field learning into improved resources.
• Around 8-12 years of experience in educational content, curriculum, instructional design or knowledge management.
• Strong curriculum interpretation and editorial skills.
• Experience managing educational content-development teams and specialists.
• Experience with multilingual content, localisation or state-level adaptation.
• Ability to work with government and academic institutions.
• Understanding of versioning, ownership, copyright and resource maintenance.
• Experience in vocational, practical or experiential education would be an advantage.
• Willingness to visit schools and training programmes to understand how resources are actually used.
• Content & Knowledge Management
• Educational Content Quality Assurance & Editorial Skills
• Resource Architecture, Version Control & Repository Management
• Stakeholder & Academic Institution Management
• Research, Analytical Thinking & Knowledge Translation

Personal Attributes:

• Strategic & Systems Thinking
• Detail-Oriented & Quality Conscious
• Creative & Resourceful
• Collaborative & Team-Oriented
• Adaptable & Open to Feedback
• Strong Ownership & Accountability
• Curious, Continuous Learner & Problem Solver

About Lend A Hand India :

Lend A Hand India (LAHI) is a leading national Think Tank/NGO with over 20 years of experience in strengthening India's skill and vocational education ecosystem. LAHI works closely with 20+ State and UT governments through long-term partnerships, providing technical advisory and Project Management Unit (PMU) support to drive systemic reforms.

Our Mission

Equip School Students to Maximise Their Potential Through Skill Education

Our Approach

• 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.