Team Lead –Technical Assistance Unit (TAU)
- Company
Educate Girls
- Location
Delhi, Odisha, Telangana
- Employment Type
Full-Time
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Functional Category
Policy & Advocacy
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Experience
10 - 11 years
- Date Posted
16-Nov-2025
About Educate Girls
Established in 2007, Educate Girls' is a non-profit that focusses on mobilising communities for girls' education in India's rural and educationally backward areas. Strongly aligned with the 'Right to Education Act' or the 'Samagra Siksha', Educate Girls is committed to the Government's vision to improve access to primary education for children, especially young girls. Educate Girls currently operates successfully in over 21,000 villages in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. By leveraging the Government's existing investment in schools and by engaging with a huge base of community volunteers, Educate Girls helps to identify, enrol and retain out-of-school girls and to improve foundational skills in literacy and numeracy for all children (both girls and boys). This helps deliver measurable results to a large number of beneficiaries and avoids duplication or parallel delivery of services.
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Overview of the Role
The Team Lead – Central TAU will be responsible for leading high-level policy activation, technical collaboration, and coordination with the Ministry of Education, NIOS, NSDC, NITI Aayog, and other central stakeholders to strengthen India’s Open Schooling ecosystem. The goal is to shape and support scalable solutions that address the high burden of NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) youth—particularly young women—through flexible, second-chance education pathways aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
Job Description
Policy understanding and Central Coordination
• Serve as the nodal point of contact between Educate Girls TAU and national bodies like MoE, NIOS, NSDC, NITI Aayog, and PSSCIVE
• Facilitate consultations to activate NEP 2020 provisions on Open and Distance Learning (ODL) for disadvantaged youth and girls
• Draft and present position papers, briefing notes, and policy memos to central agencies
• Support development of national frameworks for State Open School strengthening and NEET reintegration
Technical Oversight and TAU Operations
• Provide technical leadership to the Central TAU team in developing implementation roadmaps, templates, M&E frameworks, and best practice documentation
• Coordinate with state TAU teams to gather learnings, synthesize evidence, and scale replicable models
• Guide cross-cutting workstreams on curriculum, technology integration, and campaign strategy in collaboration with domain experts
Stakeholder Engagement and Convergence
• Facilitate convergence between central ministries (MoE, MSDE, MoRD, WCD) to mainstream second-chance education
• Coordinate national partnerships with public institutions (NIOS, SCERTs), CSOs, EdTech providers, and CSR actors
• Organize high-level advisory meetings, inter-ministerial roundtables, and strategic working groups
• Liaise with NITI Aayog’s Women and Youth verticals to integrate NEET solutions into broader development agendas
Strategy, Documentation & Reporting
• Lead strategic planning and reporting to donors, ministry stakeholders, and Educate Girls leadership
• Oversee creation of knowledge products such as toolkits, case studies, landscape reports, and national dashboards
• Monitor progress against KPIs (enrollment impact, state activation, policy shifts, etc.)
Required & Preferred Qualifications
Skill
• Proven track record of working with central ministries or multilateral institutions on education or youth policy
• Strong understanding of Open Schooling, NEET issues, and skills convergence
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and leadership skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment
Education
Master’s degree in Public Policy, Education, Social Work, or related field
Experience
Minimum 10 years of experience in government partnerships, education reform, or system strengthening