One of India's biggest challenges is providing quality education to its 240 million children. The scale and complexity of education in India demands that the brightest talent engage in finding solutions.

At Central Square Foundation, we seek to achieve transformational standards of educational excellence for children in disadvantaged communities in India. We support exceptional social entrepreneurs with powerful ideas, provide a platform for the sharing of innovation, and find policy solutions to enable sustained change.

CSF's team members combine a deep commitment to education with operational excellence. We are a young organisation with a dynamic entrepreneurial environment dedicated to achieving landmark reform in the Indian education system.

Position Summary

One of the key areas of CSF's work is supporting Governments with design, roll-out and management of critical education initiatives. In this regard, CSF has been working closely with the Central Government and key States on their reform priorities.

Programme Manager, Government Advisory role involves working with senior policymakers, administrators and key partners engaged in systemically important work in Centre and State Government. It is for people who strongly believe in the role of the government to effectively scale innovations and create large-scale change.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Providing project management support to government officials for implementing key strategic initiatives

Synthesise learning from large scale reform initiatives across multiple states

Coordinate the preparation of policy briefs, fact sheets, background papers/ presentations and other targeted materials for meetings and conferences

Support different issue teams at CSF in government engagements

Required Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

Bachelor's or equivalent degree required. Strong preference for people with advanced degree in public policy/ administration/ management and strong work experience

Strong project management skills

Keenness to work with government

Strong analytical, presentation and problem solving skills

Compensation:

Remuneration will be competitive with Indian philanthropy pay scales and will depend upon the candidate's experience levels.

Apply

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter (including 2-3 paragraphs on how the current position at Central Square Foundation aligns to their long term professional aspirations) and resume via email with subject line - Application for PM, Government Advisory

Salary offered: 7 - 9 LPA

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