Learning Design Specialist – Capacity Building, Vocational Education

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Develop an engaging, learner-focused Vocational Education model that aligns with NEP/NCF-SE and incorporates Udhyam’s Entrepreneurial Mindset approach.

• Integrate pertinent national and international insights into a practical learning model for government schools.

• Design and contextualize curriculum, student workbooks, teacher manuals, and Teaching-Learning Materials for Grades 9–10.

• Ensure that learning is hands-on, relevant, and meaningful, providing opportunities for exploration, choice, problem-solving, and real-world application.

• Create competency-based assessments that evaluate practical skills, problem-solving abilities, application, reflection, and learner progress.

• Develop practical tasks, project assessments, observation tools, competency rubrics, portfolios, viva/reflection tools, and written assessment items.

• Design and conduct Training of Trainers, teacher-development modules, and practical resources that exemplify experiential, participatory pedagogy.

• Enhance Master Trainer capabilities as facilitators, coaches, and quality anchors.

• Collaborate with schools, teachers, and students to pilot the learning approach, gather feedback, and refine the curriculum and its implementation.

• Establish mechanisms to collect evidence of implementation, teacher feedback, student work, and learning observations.

• Guide and support a small team of curriculum, content, and training professionals.

• Set the strategic direction, enhance team capabilities, review outputs, and promote a collaborative culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with Udhyam teams, government stakeholders, and partners to develop model schools, enhance academic quality, and prepare the program for scaling.

• Assist with AI-enabled mentoring and teacher-support content that aligns with the program's pedagogy.

⛳️ Requirements

• 4–6 years of relevant experience in curriculum design, learning design, teacher development, vocational education, experiential learning, or related educational programs.

• Strong capability to translate educational concepts and frameworks into simple, engaging, and practical learning experiences for students and teachers.

• Experience in developing curriculum, textbooks/workbooks, teacher resources, or assessments.

• Background in teacher training or adult facilitation; adept at designing and leading engaging training programs.

• Comfortable working directly with schools, educators, and learners, using field insights to enhance the learning model.

• Strong conceptual thinking skills with the ability to personally write, create, prototype, and refine learning materials.

• Inquisitive, creative, and open to experimentation; capable of working in a dynamic program where not everything is predetermined.

• Comfortable collaborating with government teams, educators, subject matter experts, and internal program teams.

• Experience in vocational education, project-based learning, entrepreneurship education, or government-school systems is advantageous.

• Location is flexible; residing in Delhi/Gurgaon/Bhopal or having the ability to travel frequently to Madhya Pradesh is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fixed-term full-time position for 1 year, with the possibility of extension based on program needs and performance.

• Remote working arrangement.

• Opportunity to contribute to vocational education and entrepreneurial mindset initiatives.

• Collaboration with government stakeholders, educators, subject matter experts, and program teams.

• Opportunity to design and facilitate teacher development and Master Trainer programs.

• Opportunity to assist with AI-enabled mentoring and teacher-support content.