Senior Program Manager, School Quality Enhancement Program(Education), Gujarat

Role: Senior Program Manager, School Quality Enhancement Program(Education), Gujrat
Experience: upto 10 years
Salary: upto 15 LPA
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About the School Quality Enhancement Program

The School Quality Enhancement Program (SQEP) is focused on elevating the educational standards within Government Schools. Our mission is to not only improve academic quality but also to foster a nurturing environment that empowers students for success. Join us in this transformative journey to revolutionize education and create lasting change in our communities.

About the Role

The Senior Program Manager will co-own the SQEP portfolio with the Program Lead, holding outcomes for every school as a direct responsibility. This role exists to ensure that every school's OKRs are on track, every PM and SPM is supported and held accountable, and every teacher training cycle lands. Over time, this role is expected to take the lead on ground-level training design and L2-to-L3 strategic thinking, working as a true thought partner to the Program Lead rather than an executor of her instructions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Portfolio Ownership and Outcome Delivery

• Hold end-to-end accountability, jointly with the Program Lead, for learning outcomes, OKR delivery, and L2/L3 rubric progression across every SQEP school.
• Track school-wise and portfolio-wise performance against OKRs on a regular cadence; identify risk early and drive course-correction before it reaches the Program Lead.

2. Team Leadership

• Directly manage and mentor PMs and SPMs across Uttarakhand, Delhi, and Gujarat, holding a consistent bar for execution quality regardless of geography.
• Build the bench for a growing portfolio: identify, hire, and develop ground-level talent (SPMs, associates) as new schools and states join the program.
• Run the Team Operating Rhythm—reviews, cadences, and cross-school syncs—largely independently, escalating only genuine exceptions to the Program Lead.

3. Training and Instructional Capability Building

• Personally design and, where needed, deliver training for NGO partner teachers and government school teachers and leaders.
• Build a repeatable model for teacher training and follow-through—calendars, observation protocols, and follow-through tracking—that can be localised to each school's context.
• Conduct and co-conduct classroom observations and instructional coaching, with particular focus on schools nearing the L2-to-L3 transition.

4. Data, Assessment and OKR Rigor

• Own portfolio-wide assessment cycles—baseline, midline, and endline—including PARAKH-format papers, learning outcome tracking, and RAG dashboards, ensuring quality and comparability across schools.
• Maintain OKR scoring discipline—ratio-based, milestone-based, and floor-threshold logic—so that every school's reported progress reflects results, not activity.

5. Government, Funder and Partner Coordination

• Serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact for government and partner coordination in each geography, escalating only strategic or relationship-sensitive matters to the Program Lead.
• Represent SQEP in state and district-level meetings as required, and prepare the Program Lead for funder and government reviews with portfolio-wide readiness.

Skills and Qualifications

• Master's degree in education, public policy, or management, or a Bachelor's degree with exceptional relevant experience.
• 6–10 years of program management experience, including at least 3–4 years directly managing teams and owning school- or system-level outcomes; experience in government schools strongly preferred.
• Experience of having built and managed high-functioning team(s) to achieve outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in project planning and execution starting from vision and goal setting, product/program design, monitoring and evaluation, and resource allocation and optimization.
• Ability to create a 5-year vision for a project/program, and design the strategy necessary to achieve the outcomes.
• Demonstrates an incredibly strong work ethic, willingness to learn, and critical reflection.
• Candidates should possess basic AI literacy and comfort using AI tools.

Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis. This job is first posted on Nov 13, 2026 on Ground Zero

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