Manager — Skilling

ACSEL Technology Forum (ACSEL); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,080,000 - 1,320,000; Full time

Job summary

ACSEL is seeking a programme designer and ecosystem convener to build AI skilling initiatives from the ground up. You will identify gaps, design curricula, source faculty, and drive participation across startups, civil servants, youth, and professionals.

Targeting 1,000+ trained by March 2027, this role leverages ACSEL’s IIT network to anchor modular curriculum tracks. This role requires coordinating with academia, government, corporates, and accelerators to ensure quality and reach across

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technology education, AI/data skilling, corporate learning, or startup ecosystem programmes.
• Demonstrated experience designing or delivering technology training programmes, workshops, or bootcamps — not just coordinating them.
• Good working knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, data workflows, and the AI tools landscape.
• Experience managing multiple programmes simultaneously with strong attention to structure, timelines, and outcomes.
• Ability to engage and coordinate with diverse stakeholders — IIT faculty, government officials, corporate L&D teams, and startup founders.
• Prior experience running large-scale skilling initiatives with measurable impact (number trained, certifications issued).
• Exposure to government capacity building or civil service training programmes.
• Familiarity with curriculum frameworks, learning outcome design, and assessment structures.
• Experience working with accelerators, innovation hubs, or Centers of Excellence.
• Builder mindset: creating programmes from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Design a modular AI curriculum across three tracks — Awareness, Practitioner, and Advanced — in collaboration with IIT faculty and industry practitioners.
• Develop course frameworks covering applied AI, data readiness, prompt engineering, model development, AI tools, and real-world deployment.
• Identify skill gaps in existing AI training offerings and build learning pathways for industry roles or AI-driven entrepreneurship.
• Ensure hands-on learning, practical use cases, and real-world problem solving over theory.
• Plan, structure, and execute workshops, bootcamps, and training programmes to train 1,000+ individuals by Mar 2027.
• Lead the youth data training track — delivering sessions to train 1,000+ youth in data collation and annotation.
• Deliver AI awareness programmes to 100+ civil servants, building government capacity to deploy AI.
• Develop and execute Train the Trainer to certify 30-40 educators.
• Design modules for government departments to make data AI-ready for public service delivery.
• Design and deliver AI skilling for Avinya Accelerator startups — data strategy, tooling, modeling, deployment.

Skills

Curriculum design

Stakeholder coordination

Project management

Outreach & enrollment

Hands-on pedagogy

Ecosystem facilitation

Civil service engagement

Youth & startup training

Tools

Learning management systems

Job description

This role is for someone who wants to build India’s AI talent pipeline — not coordinate a few workshops. ACSEL’s 2026-27 Capacity Building plan is backed by partnerships with all 23 IITs, a 1,000-person training target, and three distinct audiences: youth, civil servants, and startup founders.

You will design the curriculum, source the faculty, run the programmes, and see the impact directly. In a small and agile team, there is no bureaucracy between you and the work — just a clear mandate and the ecosystem to make it happen.

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Location

Experience

7+ Years

Compensation

12 LPA

Role Overview

ACSEL is looking for a programme designer and ecosystem convener who can build AI skilling initiatives from the ground up. This is not a delivery-only role — the ideal candidate will identify gaps, design curricula, source expert faculty, and drive participation across startups, civil servants, youth, and corporate professionals. The 1,000-person target by March 2027 is real, and this role owns it.

The role draws directly on ACSEL’s partnership with all 23 IITs to anchor a modular curriculum (Awareness, Practitioner, and Advanced tracks), and extends to large-scale data annotation training, government AI readiness, and a Train the Trainer programme with a multiplier effect.

Key Responsibilities

• Design a modular AI curriculum across three tracks — Awareness, Practitioner, and Advanced — in collaboration with IIT faculty and industry practitioners.
• Develop course frameworks covering applied AI, data readiness, prompt engineering, model development, AI tools, and real-world deployment.
• Identify skill gaps in existing AI training offerings and build learning pathways that prepare individuals for industry roles or AI-driven entrepreneurship.
• Ensure all programmes emphasise hands-on learning, practical use cases, and real-world problem solving over theoretical instruction.
• Plan, structure, and execute workshops, bootcamps, and training programmes with clear learning outcomes, targeting 1,000+ individuals trained in AI by March 2027.
• Lead the youth data training track — designing and delivering sessions to train 1,000+ youth in data collation and annotation.
• Deliver AI awareness programmes to 100+ civil servants, building government capacity to understand and deploy AI applications.
• Develop and execute a Train the Trainer programme to certify 30-40 educators, creating a multiplier effect across institutions.
• Design specialised modules for government departments on making their data AI-ready and leveraging AI for public service delivery.
• Design and deliver targeted AI skilling for Avinya Accelerator cohort startups — covering data strategy, AI tooling, model selection, and deployment best practices.
• Work closely with the Partnerships and Accelerator teams to align skilling content with the real challenges Avinya startups face.
• Curate domain-specific tracks (Healthcare, Agritech, Fintech, Climate) that map to the sectors represented in the Avinya cohort.
• Identify and onboard industry experts, IIT researchers, and practitioners to deliver sessions across all programme tracks.
• Leverage ACSEL’s IIT network — all 23 IITs — to source faculty, co-design curriculum modules, and validate programme quality.
• Coordinate with ecosystem partners, corporates, and government bodies for programme co-delivery, sponsorship, and participant sourcing.
• Drive outreach and enrolment for all skilling programmes, engaging target audiences across startups, corporates, colleges, and government.
• Manage the full programme lifecycle from design and scheduling to delivery, feedback, and iteration.
• Track participation, completion rates, and outcomes; report progress toward ACSEL’s 1,000-person training goal on a quarterly basis.
• Build a structured pipeline of upcoming programmes, faculty, and partnerships to ensure continuity across FY 2026-27.

Experience & Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technology education, AI/data skilling, corporate learning, or startup ecosystem programmes.
• Demonstrated experience designing or delivering technology training programmes, workshops, or bootcamps — not just coordinating them.
• Good working knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, data workflows, and the AI tools landscape.
• Experience managing multiple programmes simultaneously with strong attention to structure, timelines, and outcomes.
• Ability to engage and coordinate with a diverse set of stakeholders — IIT faculty, government officials, corporate L&D teams, and startup founders.
• Prior experience running large-scale skilling initiatives with measurable impact (number of people trained, certifications issued, etc.).
• Exposure to government capacity building or civil service training programmes.
• Familiarity with curriculum frameworks, learning outcome design, and assessment structures.
• Experience working with or within accelerators, innovation hubs, or Centers of Excellence.
• Builder mindset: energised by creating programmes from scratch rather than maintaining existing ones.
• Ecosystem convener: comfortable working across academia, government, startups, and industry without being limited to one.
• Impact-oriented: motivated by the number of people skilled and careers changed, not just events delivered.
• Curious and continuously learning about emerging AI tools, pedagogy trends, and workforce transformation.

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