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Program Design Lead, Varanasi

Ground Zero


Job Location:

Varanasi - India

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 7 August 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 4 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role:Program Design Lead Education Varanasi
Experience: 2-5Years
Salary: 6-7 LPA

Overview of the Role:
You will manage the end-to-end design & monitoring of our Peer-Teaching Program towards Student Agency in the Varanasi and Sambhal districts working with SCERT DIET Block and Cluster level Education department actors & teachers to ensure successful program outcomes for all the students. You will be a part of the team which lays the foundation for the scale of Involve. This will include the following:

Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Design
  • Use primary and secondary research to identify the needs of the stakeholders
  • Partner with Program Managers government liaison teams and monitoring & evaluation teams to ensure strong designimplementation alignment.
  • Develop a strategic plan for supporting the field team aligned to the scope of the project towards achieving student outcomes
  • Ensure program designs are feasible for adoption by government machinery at district and state levels.
  • Designing and Identification of different assets (Courses Case studies Tools Projects Session plans Handbooks etc.) through various sources
  • Visiting schools & being part of block review meetings to understand the quality of the program and implementation
2. Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Work with M&E team to customize existing tech/systems to analyse the progress of the program (tools to monitor outcomes of various stakeholders) aligned to the program needs
  • Frequent discussions with the team on the importance and quality of data collection
  • Build feedback loops from district and school-level implementation into ongoing program refinement
  • Managing data from the program and discussing with the team to make decisions
Requirements & Qualifications:
  • Education: An undergraduate degree in any stream is a must; a masters degree is a plus
  • Experience: Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in designing education programs. Experience with leading projects independently would be preferred
  • Skills: Should be a good planner and a go-getter; able to work collaboratively in teams; strong communication (oral and written) skills in English and Hindi; Research skills; M&E and data analysis; session design (for student and adult learning)
  • Strong work Ethics: Punctuality Sense of environment self-driven;
  • Interests: Passionate about education
  • Language : Written and verbal Fluency in Hindi and English is a must
Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis. This job is first posted on August 06 2026 on Ground Zero

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