Education Specialist, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

About the role:

The Education Specialist will provide academic and implementation leadership for large-scale school transformation programs in Odisha strengthening the quality and scale of learning experiences across government secondary and upper-primary schools (Grades 610).

Working closely with the State Lead and program team this role translates strategic learning frameworks into practical scalable approaches across curriculum and content design educator capacity building classroom implementation and continuous improvement. The Specialist will strengthen computational thinking coding and future-ready learning experiences support student innovation and help build learning systems that are responsive to ground-level realities and can be adopted sustainably at scale.

Key Responsibilities

1. Learning Strategy Academic Leadership & Program Quality

• Provide academic leadership to strengthen the quality relevance and scalability of learning experiences across the program.
• Work with program and field teams to identify implementation challenges academic needs and responsive support strategies at district and state levels.
• Use field insights educator feedback and program data to continuously refine curriculum capacity building and implementation approaches.
• Align learning priorities with state educational strategies academic calendars and organizational learning frameworks.

2. Curriculum Content & Learning Resources

• Lead the development adaptation and review of curriculum learning resources and facilitation materials for Grades 610.
• Strengthen learning outcomes learner-centered pedagogy practice opportunities and assessment approaches through lesson plans facilitator guides project-based models and digital/blended resources.
• Lead academic quality assuranceincluding content review vetting localization and field testingand maintain a centralized repository of quality learning resources for scale.

3. Capacity Building & Continuous Learning Support

• Design sustained professional learning journeys for teachers Master Trainers academic resource persons government officials and internal program teams in collaboration with state and central teams.
• Develop training designs and facilitator resources; lead key training sessions and mentor practitioner leaders in classroom practice facilitation and peer support.
• Build year-round learning support mechanisms including webinars digital resources video modules online communities and peer-learning structures.

4. Field Learning Monitoring & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain a direct connection with classroom realities through regular engagement with educators field teams and government schools.
• Collaborate with MEL (Monitoring Evaluation and Learning) and program teams to analyze dashboards monitoring tools and qualitative feedback to identify trends and improve program quality.
• Strengthen feedback loops program reviews documentation and knowledge-management systems to ensure field learning informs district and state-level decision-making.

5. Student Innovation & Applied Learning

• Lead learning design and academic support for student Ideathons Hackathons coding challenges and other applied-learning initiatives.
• Design problem-solving and project-based learning journeys that build computational thinking creativity and collaboration among students.
• Enable teachers and education practitioners to mentor student teams and progressively take ownership of school-level innovation activities.

6. Institutional Engagement Team Enablement & Knowledge Sharing

• Provide academic and implementation inputs for government academic and institutional engagements representing the organization in relevant education forums.
• Lead curriculum alignment content review and co-creation processes with institutional partners embedding program ownership within existing state education structures.
• Mentor state district and field teams to strengthen facilitation quality quality-assurance processes and reflective practices.
• Collaborate with the central Learning & Development team to contribute to organization-wide thematic priorities shared resources and peer learning.

Required Experiences & Skills:
812 years of relevant experience in education preferably in large-scale education
programmes and/or government school systems.
Strong experience in curriculum and content development learning design teacher
professional development and capacity building.

Demonstrated ability to translate academic and learning strategies into practical
approaches that can be implemented at scale.
Strong understanding of computational thinking coding education STEM education
and/or technology-enabled learning; familiarity with Scratch is preferred.
Familiarity with career exploration frameworks and strong understanding of
experiential project-based and learner-centred pedagogies.
Experience designing and facilitating professional learning programmes for teachers
trainers academic resource persons or government stakeholders.
Strong facilitation communication stakeholder management analytical and
relationship-building skills; ability to work collaboratively while providing clear
academic leadership.
Familiarity with NEP 2020 school education systems and curriculum frameworks;
strong comfort with digital tools and platforms for learning and collaboration.
English required; Odia preferred.
Willingness to travel extensively.

Hiring process:
Step 1:Assignment
Step 2: R1 Interview with state lead
Step 3: Final Interview with the leadership team

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Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. This job is first posted on October 1 2026 on Ground Zero

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