The Organisation is a Mumbai-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to empowering marginalized communities through education, skill development, and holistic growth.
Position Overview
We are seeking a passionate, visionary, and dynamic Education Head to oversee the educational programs. This position will drive academic excellence, innovation, and impact across all centres — ensuring that children receive high-quality support in academics, non-academic support that elevates their learning outcomes and life opportunities.
This role is 70% strategic and 30% operational.
Key Responsibilities Strategic Leadership (70%)
Drive overall academic vision, program design, and quality enhancement for all educational projects
Lead innovations in curriculum, pedagogy, digital tools, and experiential learning
Strengthen program monitoring systems to track student learning progress, retention, and impact
Build partnerships for resource mobilization, training, exposure visits, and community outreach
Provide leadership development and capacity-building support to Centre Coordinators and Teachers
Ensure alignment with NEP goals and foundational literacy & numeracy benchmarks
Create safe, inclusive learning environments and promote child protection practices
Be the Primary POC for any need based or donor initiated expansion (need analysis, budgeting, hiring support, identification of premises, etc)
Operational Management (30%)
Supervise day-to-day academic operations across all centres (and any future centres, as educational programs scales up)
Conduct regular centre visits for observation, coaching, and quality assurance
Manage teacher deployment, schedules, training needs, and leave planning
Ensure timely documentation — attendance, assessments, MIS updates, reporting, Utilization Reports for Donors / CSR Partners.
Support enrolment drive, parent engagement, and community relationships
Will own all IMPACT parameters (eg : average attendance, educational upgrade YOY, cost effectiveness, control drop out rates, etc)
Qualifications & Skills
Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Education, or related field
Minimum 7–10 years of experience in the education sector (preferably with underserved communities)
Strong leadership, planning, and communication skills
Ability to inspire teams and drive performance improvements
Demonstrated innovation in teaching-learning practices
Fluency in Marathi, Hindi & English preferred
Proficiency in digital tools (MS Office, EdTech platforms)
Personal Attributes
Child-centric mindset with deep empathy for marginalized communities
Creative problem-solver with a growth mindset
Confident decision-maker with strong accountability
Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-centre environment
Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty and has the ability to work in a matrixed environment (solid line reporting to DGM and dotted line to Advisory Board)
Demonstrates result orientation and has the enthusiasm to drive change
Why Join Us?
Opportunity to shape the future of 1500+ current children from urban slums and tribal areas
Be a key member in strengthening a high-impact educational initiative
A purpose-driven culture that values innovation, compassion, and continuous learning
Be part of a growing organisation and contribute to impact as well as earn the opportunity to grow into HEAD of Education Vertical (completely demonstrated by performance delivery)
