Senior Project Manager/Project Lead – Foundational Learning

Central Square Foundation; Delhi; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Central Square Foundation in Delhi is seeking a Senior Project Manager/Project Lead for the Foundational Learning team. The role focuses on data reporting, strategic project leadership, and research support to drive foundational literacy and numeracy across states.

The position requires 5–8 years of experience, strong data analysis skills, and ability to collaborate with diverse state teams. The role emphasizes multi-state project ownership and evidence-based decision making.

Qualifications

• Strong data analysis skills with ability to synthesize large data sets.
• Ability to use technology, AI, or other statistical tools.
• Proven track record of owning projects or programs.
• Ability to convene and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Comfort working in ambiguity with minimal supervision.
• Solid background in statistics and research methods.
• Experience with quantitative or qualitative research methods.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive data reporting to senior leadership on KPIs across states.
• Lead strategic projects affecting multiple states and platforms.
• Support action and longitudinal research across academic and governance workstreams.
• Provide need-based support to state work, including stakeholder handling and travel.

Skills

Data analysis

Tech & AI tools

Project ownership

Stakeholder collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Research methods

Multi-tasking

Flexibility

Resourcefulness

Job description

About the job Senior Project Manager/Project Lead - Foundational Learning

Organization: Central Square Foundation

Team: Foundational Learning

Location: Delhi

Years of Experience: 5 to 8 years

About Central Square Foundation

Founded in 2012, Central Square Foundation (CSF) is a non-profit philanthropic organization working with the vision of ensuring quality school education for all children in India. We believe that effective foundational learning is essential for better learning outcomes for all children in school. Development of foundational literacy and numeracy skills by Class 3 can help children progress to higher levels of learning and is an essential building block in a child's life. We are driven by our mission to enable the school education system to adopt solutions that are scalable, sustainable, and effective so that all children get equal access to opportunities needed for leading a better life. Read more about our work here: www.centralsquarefoundation.org

About Foundational Learning At CSF

The Foundational Learning (FL) team drives CSF's mission to ensure that all children in India achieve foundational literacy and numeracy by Grade 3.

We Collaborate With State And District Governments To

• Support the design and implementation of comprehensive Foundational Learning Missions aligned with NIPUN Bharat.
• Strengthen teacher capacity, academic design, and monitoring systems to improve classroom practice.
• Build district and state delivery capacity through Project Management Units (PMUs).
• Leverage data and technology for evidence-based decision-making and targeted interventions.
• Drive EdTech adoption and innovation for in-class and at-home learning.

Our teams work across multiple states, supporting governments to translate strategy into execution and ensuring that every reform results in tangible learning gains for children.

Key Responsibilities

Executive Data Reporting & Analysis

• Provide executive data reporting to senior leadership (Director, AD) on KPIs across all states.
• Analyse data received from state teams, make sense of it, and create useful insights for the Director as well as actionable points for state teams.
• Support the process of data collection and reporting.

Strategic Project Leadership

Lead strategic projects that cut across and can find application in many states, such as Middle Management Capacity Building (modules, delivery platform, and execution), Teacher Motivation (through behavioural science), and Assessments.

Research Support

• Support action research, longitudinal research, and other quantitative and qualitative studies as needed across academic and governance workstreams.
• Examples include: Teaching Learning Practices study (longitudinal); MGML lesson plans (action research); School report cards (action research); Time on Task study.

Need-Based State Support

Provide need-based support to any state work, which may include part ownership and delivery of work products, handling stakeholders, or travel for workshops, stakeholder/team meetings, etc.

Required Qualifications, Skills, And Abilities

• Strong data analysis skills, including the ability to synthesize and make sense of large amounts of data and report it in a structured, meaningful way.
• Ability to use technology, AI, or other statistical tools.
• Strong track record of ownership of projects/programs, not just tasks.
• Ability to convene and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Ability to work in ambiguity and with minimal supervision.
• Good background in statistics and business/social research.
• Experience with different research methods and demonstrated ability in either quantitative or qualitative methods.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Flexibility in managing core work alongside additional requests.
• Resourcefulness.

Additional Details

Start Date: As soon as possible

Central Square Foundation is an Equal Opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.