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 is seeking a data‑driven professional to join the Foundational Learning team in Delhi. You will provide executive data reporting to senior leadership, synthesize state data, and present actionable insights to improve literacy and numeracy outcomes for children.

You will lead cross‑state strategic projects, support action research, and offer need‑based state support with stakeholder coordination and occasional travel for workshops.

Qualifications

• Strong data analysis skills and ability to report insights clearly.
• Experience with AI or statistical tools.
• Proven ownership of projects/programs and ability to drive outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive data reporting to senior leadership on KPIs across states.
• Lead cross-state strategic projects and support delivery platforms.
• Support action research and quantitative/qualitative studies as needed.
• Provide need-based state support with stakeholder coordination and travel for workshops.

Skills

Data analysis

AI & statistical tools

Project ownership

Stakeholder collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Statistics background

Research methods

Multi-tasking

Flexibility

Resourcefulness

Job description

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 withNIPUN 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 andensuring 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 MiddleManagement 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 workproducts, 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 individualsregardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.