Senior Manager - Content and Training

Lend A Hand India
Lend A Hand India

Posted on Oct 5, 2026

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Manager – Content and Training
Location: Pune
Travel: As per the project need

Position Overview:

Vocational education is now part of school learning from Grade 6. NEP 2020 and NCF-SE 2023 set the direction, and CBSE has started Kaushal Bodh for Grades 6–8 and Kaushal Vikas for Grades 9–10.

Done well, children learn by building, growing, cooking and repairing. They understand how things work, respect all kinds of work, and see more choices for their future. Done badly, it becomes one more period on the timetable.

Two things decide which one happens: how well teachers are prepared, and whether their material works in a real classroom. This role builds both as one system, and helps states use it at scale.

Purpose of the role:

You will find the needs that keep coming up across states, build solutions many states can use, and help each state adapt them without losing what makes them work. You will always look for ways to reach more teachers with less manual effort, using technology where it helps and keeping people where they matter most.

You will set the standard for how LAHI prepares teachers and builds learning material, and lead a small team that designs training and material.

What you will do:

  • Prepare teachers and trainers. Decide what teachers, trainers, mentors and master trainers should be able to do, and build the path to get there. People move up by showing they can do the work, not by attending. Build a training cascade: a small group of strong trainers prepares the next level, who then prepare teachers. Support teachers after training through mentors, peer groups and short refreshers.
  • Build material that works in many states. Keep the teaching approach, core skills, safety and assessment the same everywhere. Let language, local trades and examples change. Decide what to reuse, improve, build or stop using, including the material LAHI has built over twenty years, and make sure it works in schools with few resources. Keep one shared library, with one correct version of each resource and one person responsible for it.
  • Release complete packages, and keep improving them. Each package has the student material, the teacher training to use it, and a way to check what students learned. Each must show what students will learn, what practical work helps, and what proves they learned it. You own their quality: try packages in real classrooms, learn from teachers and student work, and make the next version better.
  • Use technology to do more with less manual work. For example: online modules for the knowledge part of training, AI-assisted drafts and translations checked by people, and simple phone tools for teacher support and observation.
  • Work with state teams and state institutions. Our state teams bring real needs and deadlines from government. Work closely with them, and notice when several states need the same thing. Strengthen SCERTs, DIETs and district trainers so they can run day-to-day teacher training themselves, to the same standard.
  • Lead the team. Guide the team and specialists, and manage budgets and timelines. When states need different things at once, decide what comes first and explain why.

What success looks like:

  • Teachers use the material well in classrooms, and trainers can observe their work and help them improve.
  • Students can show what they learned through practical work, not just that they did the activity.
  • Material is reused across states without losing quality.
  • States run more of the day-to-day training themselves.
Who you will work with:
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Your closest partners are LAHI’s state teams. You will lead a small team, including a senior associate for teacher training, writers, instructional designers and designers, supported by subject and language specialists. Training reaches teachers through master trainers and state and district trainers. Outside LAHI, you will work with SCERTs, DIETs, state departments, boards, universities and local practitioners.

What will be demanding:

Several states may need different things urgently at once, and you will be asked to release work before it is tested. You will need to tell apart what one state needs now from what every state will need, keep quality while offering a practical way forward, and travel often to stay close to schools.

About Lend A Hand India :

For twenty years, Lend A Hand India has worked to make vocational education a real part of school learning. Our work reaches more than 20 states, 20,000 schools, 25,000 trainers and over 20 lakh students. India’s Economic Survey 2023–24 named our model as an example of how vocational education can work in schools. In many states, our teams work inside the state government as project management units.

Until now, we mostly ran programmes ourselves. Now we are becoming a resource organisation, helping governments run this work well on their own.

Our Mission

Equip School Students to Maximise Their Potential Through Skill Education

Our Approach

  • Direct implementation in schools
  • Partnership with central-state governments to define, and scale policy
  • Building of Centres of Excellence that act as lighthouses for innovation
  • Resource organisation for the skilling ecosystem

Our Knowledge in Action

Through the design & execution of innovative models from training centres, innovation hubs to mobile outreach initiatives, LAHI’s innovative knowledge resource drives both grassroots learning and systemic transformation across India. With 250+ LAHI staff embedded in state education systems across 20+ states, we provide technical and project management support, enabling governments to translate policy into action.

Our Reach

LAHI’s current scale of work includes -

  • 20+ States and UTs
  • 15000+ Schools
  • 15 Lakh+ Students
  • 250+ Team Members

Requirements

Who we are looking for

  • Most important: you have designed and run teacher training at scale, including training of trainers and master trainers, and you can watch a session and give feedback people can use the next day.
  • About 12–15 years in teacher development, teacher education, curriculum or learning material, including leading a team.
  • You know enough about curriculum and instructional design to set standards and judge whether material teaches well.
  • You have worked with government education systems and worked to government timelines.
  • You can find the common need behind many requests.
  • You have managed external content partners and held their work to a clear quality standard.
  • You can see where digital and AI tools can save effort at scale, and where people must stay involved. You do not need to be a technical expert.

Useful: vocational or skill education, more than one Indian language, university partnerships.

How we will choose

We will discuss one lesson from a middle-school vocational subject with you: what practical work helps, how a t

Teacher who is not a trade expert could run it, what shows learning, how to prepare trainers across a state, and which parts technology could handle. There is no model answer. We want to see how you think.

Why join us

You will shape how lakhs of teachers are prepared, at the moment vocational education enters every school in India. You will work with governments, not around them, and see your work used in many states. And you will build something designed to last.


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