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Delhi, India
Job Description: Senior Subject Expert (Hindi) – CAE
Nature of employment: Full-time
Reporting to: Chief Academic Officer
Location: New Delhi / Bhopal
About Peepul
Peepul is an education-focused non-profit organization committed to transforming India's education system and enabling every child to reach their full potential. We work closely with national, state, and local governments to strengthen government schools and education systems at scale. Currently, we partner with governments in Delhi and Madhya Pradesh, impacting over 6.6 million students, 273,000+ teachers, and 2,400+ school leaders across 90,000+ government schools.
At Peepul, we collaborate with school systems to build the capacity of leaders, teachers, and institutions. We advocate policy improvements, support mentoring and monitoring mechanisms, and enhance student-teacher engagement in classrooms. Through our work, we have directly supported 5.94 million students, 254,000 teachers, and 1,644 school leaders across 88,711 schools in Madhya Pradesh, and 658,000 students, 19,000 teachers, and 821 school leaders across 1,500 schools in Delhi.
Our work has been recognized internationally, including receiving the Commonwealth Education Awards for Innovation and being featured in reports by respected organizations such as the United Nations and the Ministry of Education, Government of India. We are supported by leading Indian CSR partners and prominent international foundations that share our vision of ensuring excellent education for the most disadvantaged children.
Driven by our core values of impact, excellence, and leadership, we are a restless, resilient, and reflective organization. Our team of 200+ employees is passionate about creating lasting change and is rewarded competitively for their dedication. Join us in our mission to create a world where every child has equal access to high-quality education.
Learn more about our transformative work at http://peepulindia.org.
Programme Overview
The Centre for Academic Excellence (CAE) is Peepul’s anchor for exceptional teaching and learning. As we scale across states and programmes, the CAE ensures that our academic vision, content, and delivery remain consistently high-quality and deeply aligned with what makes Peepul distinctive.
Functioning as home of Peepul’s academic thinking and innovation, the CAE drives clarity, coherence, and continuous improvement across the organisation. Led by the Chief Academic Officer, the CAE brings together three core pillars:
1. A unified academic vision and strategy that guides all programmes
2. High-quality, consistent content design and delivery across geographies
3. Learning, research, and ongoing improvement powered by data and insights.
CAE is closely connected to programmes so that solutions are rooted in ground reality, access to external subject experts, and evidence of inputs from MEL. At its heart, the CAE exists to help every Peepul team member work with greater clarity, confidence, and cohesion - safeguarding academic rigour as we grow.
About the role
The Senior Subject Expert - Hindi will bring deep expertise in Hindi language learning and literacy development from Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) through Grade 8. The role is intended for a highly experienced education professional who combines strong academic and subject expertise with practical experience of teaching, teacher development, government systems, and large-scale education reform.
The Senior Subject Expert will serve as a thought partner to the Chief Academic Officer and programme teams, working collaboratively with subject teams across Peepul's programmes to strengthen academic quality, shape programme design, and ensure that our work reflects the best available evidence on teaching and learning.
The role requires an individual who can move seamlessly between academic depth and implementation realities - engaging with teachers, academic resource persons, school leaders, government officials, researchers, and sector partners to improve learning outcomes at scale.
Key Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
1. Academic Leadership and Thought Partnership
· Provide strategic leadership on Hindi language learning and literacy development from FLN through Grade 8.
· Shape Peepul's academic thinking on curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, multilingual education, and teacher development.
· Serve as an internal thought partner to the CAE and programme teams on key academic decisions.
· Contribute to the development and refinement of Peepul's academic vision, frameworks, and quality standards.
· Stay abreast of emerging research, policy developments, and innovations in language education and literacy.
2. Programme Design and Academic Quality
· Design, review and strengthen programme models, instructional approaches, teacher support systems, and learning resources. Collaborate closely with subject teams across programmes to co-design, review, and continuously strengthen academic content, instructional resources, and programme approaches.
· Provide expert review and quality assurance for training content, assessments, lesson resources, observation tools, and other academic materials.
· Ensure that programme designs reflect coherent learning progressions and age-appropriate pedagogy across grades.
· Support the integration of evidence, field insights, and implementation of learnings into programme improvement.
· Advise on the development of effective assessment approaches and the interpretation of learning data.
3. Teacher Professional Development
· Design and strengthen professional learning experiences for teachers, mentors, teacher educators, and school leaders.
· Support the development of coaching and mentoring approaches that improve classroom practice.
· Build the academic capacity of internal teams through coaching, mentoring, and structured feedback.
· Facilitate high-quality workshops, consultations, and academic discussions with diverse stakeholders.
4. Government Engagement and System Strengthening
· Engage with state and national government stakeholders on academic priorities and programme implementation.
· Support academic discussions with SCERTs, DIETs, state missions, and education departments.
· Contribute to the design of system-strengthening strategies that can be implemented sustainably within government structures.
· Translate academic evidence and field learnings into practical recommendations for policymakers and government partners.
· Support Peepul's efforts to influence policy and practice through evidence-based engagement.
5. Research, Learning, and External Engagement
· Contribute to research, documentation, and knowledge-building efforts within the organisation.
· Represent Peepul in academic forums, conferences, consultations, and sector working groups.
· Build relationships with universities, research institutions, government agencies, and education organisations.
· Identify opportunities for collaboration and learning with external partners to strengthen Peepul's work.
Qualifications and Role Requirements:
At Peepul, we seek talented professionals passionate about driving educational transformation and making a positive impact. We are looking for individuals who possess the following qualifications and meet the role requirements:
· Educational Background: Master's degree or higher in Education, Hindi, Language Education, Linguistics, Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education or a related field.
· Work Experience: We value both professional and personal experience. Candidates with over 15 Years of professional experience in education, the candidates should have worked extensively across classroom teaching, teacher professional development, curriculum and content design, assessment and learning improvement, and academic leadership. Their background includes significant engagement with government school systems and education departments such as SCERTs and DIETs, alongside deep expertise in Hindi language learning literacy development and learning progression from FLN through Grade 8. They should bring strong understanding of classroom realities within government schools and have contributed to the social impact, nonprofit, and public education sectors. They should have excellent facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and relationship-management skills.
