Community Projects

Pune (Mundhwa, Budhwarpeth, and beyond)

We're running a practical skills program inside shelter homes in Pune. We started at Mundhwa Government Observation Home and Budhwarpeth, and we're expanding.

The idea is simple: young people in these homes rarely get access to structured learning that's actually usefulEnglish communication, digital literacy, emotional regulation, basic life skills. Not because they can't learn it, but because nobody's bringing it to where they are.

We need someone to own and grow this project.

That means figuring out how to make it work well at the two sites we're already in, and then scaling it to more places. You'll hire and train facilitators, build relationships with shelter home administrators and government officials, design how we track progress, create partnerships with local businesses and institutes for career exposure, and basically make sure the whole thing actually functions and improves.

It's part program design, part operations, part people management, part relationship building. You'll need to be comfortable building systems while also being hands-on when things need fixing.

The students are smart and capablethey just need structure, tools, and genuine engagement. Your job is to create the conditions for that to happen consistently, across multiple locations.

Run the program: Make sure the curriculum is being delivered well, assessments are meaningful, technology access is working, and students are actually progressing. Adjust things when they're not working.

Build and lead the team: Recruit facilitators who are good at this work. Train them properly. Support them when it's difficult. Create a team culture that's professional and warm, not patronizing.

Manage relationships: Work with shelter home staff and administratorsthey know these students and this context better than we do. Learn from them. Build real partnerships with businesses and training institutes. Navigate government systems when needed.

Track and improve: Design good assessment frameworks, analyze what's working and what isn't, report on impact honestly, keep making this better.

You've probably done work in education, youth programs, or community development before. You know how to lead teams and build partnerships. You're comfortable with ambiguity and building things from scratch.

More specifically, you might be someone who:

• Respects young people as full humans with agency and intelligence, not as passive recipients of help
• Can build trust with people across very different contextsstudents, government officials, NGO partners, business owners
• Can hold both quality and scale at the same time, experimenting with pedagogy and reaching out for support while taking important risks
• Speaks Hindi, and English fluently, preferably also Marathi

Ownership: This is your project to build. You'll have real autonomy and responsibility.

Meaningful work: Not in a fuzzy wayin the sense that you'll be creating actual access to real skills for people who otherwise wouldn't get it.

Room to grow: Both the project and you. This is early-stage, which means you'll learn a lot and have space to shape how things develop.

This project is about access, skills, and dignity. It's practical work that requires both strategic thinking and hands-on execution. If you're good at making things work and you care about education equity, this might be the right role for you.

Please do apply from below application form! <3