Senior Manager – Content and Training

Lend-A-Hand India; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Lend A Hand India leads the integration of vocational education into school learning, focusing on teacher training and learning material at scale in India. The role develops standardized content and training materials used across multiple states, ensuring alignment with government curricula and policies.

You will build scalable training pipelines, guide a small team of trainers and instructional designers, and partner with state education departments to implement effective learning programs that

Qualifications

• Designed and ran teacher training at scale.
• Led a team of trainers and content developers.
• Experience with government education systems.
• Ability to translate policy into training material.

Responsibilities

• Lead content and training design across programs.
• Develop training cascades to scale impact across states.
• Coordinate with SCERTs, DIETs, and district authorities.
• Manage budgets and timelines for training materials and delivery.

Skills

Teacher training at scale

Curriculum design

Program management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

12–15 years in teacher development, curriculum or learning material design

Job description

• Date Opened 09/29/2026
• State/Province Maharashtra
• Country India

Job Description

JobTitle: Senior Manager – Content andTraining
Location: Pune
Travel: As per the project need

Position Overview:

Vocational education is nowpart of school learning from Grade 6. NEP 2020 and NCF-SE 2023 set thedirection, and CBSE has started Kaushal Bodh for Grades 6–8 and Kaushal Vikasfor Grades 9–10.

Done well, children learn bybuilding, 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 onehappens: how well teachers are prepared, and whether their material works in areal classroom. This role builds both as one system, and helps states use it atscale.

Purposeof the role:

Youwill find the needs that keep coming up across states, build solutions manystates can use, and help each state adapt them without losing what makes themwork. You will always look for ways to reach more teachers with less manualeffort, using technology where it helps and keeping people where they mattermost.

Youwill set the standard for how LAHI prepares teachers and builds learningmaterial, and lead a small team that designs training and material.

Whatyou will do:

• Prepare teachersand trainers. Decide what teachers, trainers, mentors and master trainersshould be able to do, and build the path to get there. People move up byshowing they can do the work, not by attending. Build a training cascade:a small group of strong trainers prepares the next level, who then prepareteachers. Support teachers after training through mentors, peer groups andshort refreshers.
  
• Build materialthat works in many states. Keep the teaching approach, core skills, safetyand assessment the same everywhere. Let language, local trades andexamples change. Decide what to reuse, improve, build or stop using,including the material LAHI has built over twenty years, and make sure itworks in schools with few resources. Keep one shared library, with onecorrect version of each resource and one person responsible for it.
  
• Release completepackages, 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, andwhat proves they learned it. You own their quality: try packages in realclassrooms, learn from teachers and student work, and make the nextversion better.
  
• Use technologyto do more with less manual work. For example: online modules for theknowledge part of training, AI-assisted drafts and translations checked bypeople, and simple phone tools for teacher support and observation.
  
• Work with stateteams and state institutions. Our state teams bring real needs anddeadlines from government. Work closely with them, and notice when severalstates need the same thing. Strengthen SCERTs, DIETs and district trainersso they can run day-to-day teacher training themselves, to the samestandard.
  
• Lead the team.Guide the team and specialists, and manage budgets and timelines. Whenstates need different things at once, decide what comes first and explainwhy.
  

What success looks like:

• Teachers use the material well inclassrooms, and trainers can observe their work and help them improve.
  
• Students can show what they learnedthrough practical work, not just that they did the activity.
  
• Material is reused across states withoutlosing quality.
  
• States run more of the day-to-daytraining themselves.
  

Whoyou will work with:

Yourclosest partners are LAHI’s state teams. You will lead a small team, includinga senior associate for teacher training, writers, instructional designers anddesigners, supported by subject and language specialists. Training reachesteachers through master trainers and state and district trainers. Outside LAHI,you will work with SCERTs, DIETs, state departments, boards, universities andlocal practitioners.

Whatwill be demanding:

Severalstates may need different things urgently at once, and you will be asked torelease work before it is tested. You will need to tell apart what one stateneeds now from what every state will need, keep quality while offering apractical way forward, and travel often to stay close to schools.

AboutLend A Hand India :

For twenty years, Lend AHand India has worked to make vocational education a real part of schoollearning. Our work reaches more than 20 states, 20,000 schools, 25,000 trainersand over 20 lakh students. India’s Economic Survey 2023–24 named our model asan example of how vocational education can work in schools. In many states, ourteams work inside the state government as project management units.

Until now, we mostly ranprogrammes ourselves. Now we are becoming a resource organisation, helping governmentsrun this work well on their own.

Our Mission

Equip School Students to Maximise TheirPotential Through Skill Education

Our Approach

• Partnershipwith central-state governments to define, and scale policy
  
• Buildingof Centres of Excellence that act as lighthouses for innovation
  
• Resourceorganisation for the skilling ecosystem
  

Our Knowledge in Action

Throughthe design & execution of innovative models from training centres,innovation hubs to mobile outreach initiatives, LAHI’s innovative knowledgeresource drives both grassroots learning and systemic transformation acrossIndia. With 250+ LAHI staff embedded in state education systems across 20+states, we provide technical and project management support, enablinggovernments to translate policy into action.

Our Reach

LAHI’scurrent scale of work includes -

• 20+ States andUTs
  
• 15000+ Schools
  
• 15 Lakh+Students
  
• 250+ TeamMembers
  

Requirements

Who we are looking for

• Mostimportant: you have designed and run teacher training at scale, includingtraining of trainers and master trainers, and you can watch a session and givefeedback people can use the next day.
  
• About 12–15 yearsin teacher development, teacher education, curriculum or learning material,including leading a team.
  
• You knowenough about curriculum and instructional design to set standards and judgewhether material teaches well.
  
• You have workedwith government education systems and worked to government timelines.
  
• You can find thecommon need behind many requests.
  
• You have managedexternal content partners and held their work to a clear quality standard.
  
• You can see wheredigital and AI tools can save effort at scale, and where people must stayinvolved. You do not need to be a technical expert.
  

Useful: vocationalor skill education, more than one Indian language, university partnerships.

How we will choose

We will discussone lesson from a middle-school vocational subject with you: what practicalwork helps, how a t

Teacher who is nota trade expert could run it, what shows learning, how to prepare trainersacross a state, and which parts technology could handle. There is no modelanswer. We want to see how you think.

You will shape howlakhs of teachers are prepared, at the moment vocational education enters everyschool in India. You will work with governments, not around them, and see yourwork used in many states. And you will build something designed to last.