Senior Project Lead - Education - State Govt Projects

Key responsibilities include:

Add value to design and structuring in (governance) in the states - 70%

- In consultation with the State Team Leaders, provide inputs and support to develop, refine and contextualize org's POV on critical work streams such as planning and budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, data, communication and technology.

- Critically review work-products, documents and outputs of state teams in consultation with the State Team Leaders and Director.

- Work closely with issue/expert teams at the organisation on Governance, Technology, Monitoring and Evaluation, Strategic Communication to contextualize the same for states; support state teams in taking the thinking into states and iterate basis feedback and need Knowledge management and documentation of implementation of work in states for cross-learning and sharing among state teams.

- Support Project Director in reviews and follow-up with state teams

Provide additional capacity to State Teams for implementation - 20%

- Provide on-ground support for capacity building activities in state including workshops, learning modules/capsules for different stakeholders as per need

- Support state and central team for continuous programme monitoring and course-correction during implementation

Reporting and liasoning with donor(s), partners and internal - 10%

- Lead donor(s) engagement on the project - support in reporting, coordination and compliance for existing donors; supporting in new donor engagement (as per need)

- Facilitate identification and alignment with all other technical partners, vendors and consultants that the project may need and support in effective onboarding

- Support Project Director in internal reporting leadership and board

Required Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

Master's or equivalent degree in business management, development studies, social sciences or technology from a reputed institution.

9+ years of of highly relevant work experience in education/govt consulting/ development sector / program management.

Ability to synthesize technical insights from different points of view into actionable plans and drive alignment of multiple team members on the plans.

Strong technical skills in monitoring, research, data analysis and/or planning.

Strong project management/delivery skills, including ability to create/review project plans, drive execution, manage multiple projects at a time and maturity to influence multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Attention to detail and being able to review and improve the quality of documents/products significantly

Good facilitation skills with people across experience levels and ability to manage by influence

Strong written and oral communication skills