Lead- Teaching and Learning (ECCE), Mumbai

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Role: Lead Teaching and Learning (ECCE), Mumbai

Experience: 10-15 years | Salary: 20-30 LPA

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About the role:

The Foundation 's Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) program aims to improve the quality of ECCE for 3-6-year-old children, especially in Anganwadi centers. ECCE is one of the new strategic initiatives of the Foundation, and as part of the newly established ECCE team, all team members will play a key role in establishing, strengthening, and expanding the program across multiple states.

The Lead Teaching and Learning will be responsible for product design and working closely with state teams and other program leads.

Responsibilities

Curriculum and Content Development:

• Lead the design, development, and contextualization of the ECCE curriculum and content for children aged 3-6 years
• Ensure the curriculum aligns with best practices in early childhood education while adapting it to local contexts and cultural settings.
• Review and refine teaching materials, resources, and activities to ensure their relevance and effectiveness.

Teacher Training Development:

• Lead the creation and development of online/blended/in-person comprehensive teacher training programs aimed at enhancing early childhood education delivery.
• Develop and deliver high-quality training programs for teachers, focusing on early childhood development, teaching methodologies, and classroom
• management.
• Design and implement a robust online/blended teacher certification course to ensure the professional growth and qualification of early childhood
• educators.

Program Monitoring and Strategic Partnership Support

• Support monitoring and evaluation teams or partners to build tools for monitoring, support, and evaluations.
• Work closely with programs and strategy teams to build and nurture partnerships with key stakeholders, including education institutions, NGOs,
• government agencies and other relevant partners.

Collaboration with Communications and Research Teams

• Work closely with programs and strategy teams to build and nurture partnerships with key stakeholders, including education institutions, NGOs,
• government agencies and other relevant partners.

Capacity Building for Field Teams

• Collaborate with the communications team to generate content ideas for program outreach and dissemination.
• Support the research team in identifying key research areas, formulating research questions, and contributing to the development of research

Success Matrix:

• Development of an online course for WCD/ICDS system on ECE
• Development and delivery of a Supervisor capacity building program
• Development and delivery of teacher training programs for AWW
• Support to teams to build knowledge on ECE
• Development and/or contextualization of ECE curriculum for state

Education Qualifications Must have : A postgraduate degree or equivalent in education, early childhood education, curriculum development, or a related field.

Competencies

• Proficiency in English; knowledge of Hindi may be an advantage
• Excellent documentation, analysis, and presentation skills. Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required.
• Working knowledge of project management frameworks and tools, Gantt charts, etc.
• Demonstrates high levels of empathy, understanding challenges of stakeholders, listening actively, and working in a participatory manner.
• Demonstrates creativity in her/his work, responding flexibly to a changing field situation
• Proficiency in English; knowledge of Hindi may be an advantage
• Excellent documentation, analysis, and presentation skills. Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required.
• Working knowledge of project management frameworks and tools, Gantt charts, etc.

This is a low priority role and the whole hiring process may take 1-2 months

Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis. This job is re-posted on March 1, 2026 on Ground Zero

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