Join our dynamic team as a Project Manager within the DigiGov initiative, focusing on the crucial Language PMU. This role is central to aligning with NEP 2020 by assessing the impact and strategic direction of national language institutions. You will map the language ecosystem, refine institutional mandates and governance, enhance outreach and digital presence, and develop a performance-based funding model.

This position offers a unique opportunity to directly manage relationships with the Ministry and various institutions. You will lead a diverse team, oversee institutional reviews, and ensure the overall success of the PMU. Prior experience managing central Ministry of Education engagements, particularly in national institution transformation, higher education policy, financing, and technical education, is highly valued.

Spearhead PMU planning, team coordination, and timely project delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring comprehensive management and quality standards. Conduct thorough institutional diagnoses, reviewing mandates, governance, performance, and NEP 2020 alignment to recommend structural improvements.

Facilitate merger, integration, and specialization analyses, developing future institutional roles and implementation roadmaps. Oversee the collection and validation of institution and scheme data to build a comprehensive national language landscape, identifying curriculum needs and job market linkages.

Guide funding specialists in grant reviews and alternative financing mechanisms, defining outcome KPIs and developing institutional scorecards. Coordinate flagship initiative mapping, success stories, and digital transformation efforts, including AI and language technologies. Manage consultations with Ministry officials, State departments, and institutional leaders to synthesize inputs into strategy documents and implementation plans.

Identify integration opportunities between language institutions, national missions, and other government initiatives. Support capacity building for institutional leadership and faculty to implement recommended reforms and pedagogical advancements.

A postgraduate degree, such as an MBA or equivalent, in Management, Public Policy, Education, or a related field is required. A Ph.D. in Management or a relevant discipline is preferred, along with project management certifications (e.g., Google Project Management Specialization, PMP, PRINCE2) and certifications in AI ethics or responsible AI.

Essential skills include robust project and stakeholder management, strong team leadership, research and data interpretation capabilities, effective policy writing, communication, presentation skills, and proficiency in the MS Office Suite. Preferred skills encompass institutional diagnostics and restructuring, higher education financing, multi-stakeholder consultation facilitation, quality assurance, and expertise in AI and digital transformation within education.