An impactful opportunity to lead initiatives within the Language Division PMU, supporting the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. This role is pivotal in assessing impact, shaping strategic directions for language institutions, and mapping the national language ecosystem. You will foster strong relationships with the Ministry and institutions, guide a diverse team, and ensure successful PMU delivery.

Bring your expertise in transforming national institutions, higher education policy, financing, and technical education systems to drive significant change. This position offers the chance to influence the future of language education and skilling in India.

Spearhead PMU planning, team coordination, and timely execution across multiple workstreams. Establish high quality standards and robust review mechanisms, diligently tracking milestones, risks, and dependencies. Conduct regular progress reviews to ensure project objectives are met.

Lead comprehensive institutional diagnoses and mandate assessments for language institutions. Analyze functions, governance structures, performance, and alignment with NEP 2020, proposing structural reforms to enhance institutional effectiveness and rankings.

Collaborate with restructuring specialists on merger, integration, and role-rationalization analyses. Develop future institutional roles and detailed implementation roadmaps, providing end-to-end support from diagnosis to execution.

Oversee the collection, validation, and analysis of institution and scheme data, including field visits. Evaluate courses, faculty capacity, and market demand to build a comprehensive national language landscape, identifying areas for course development or retirement, examination gaps, and aligning language programs with job market needs.

Guide funding specialists in reviewing grants and expenditures, exploring alternative financing mechanisms at all levels. Define outcome KPIs, establish benchmarks, and develop institutional scorecards and a performance-linked funding framework.

Coordinate flagship initiatives, success stories, communications, digital visibility, and outreach. Lead the digital transformation workstream, integrating AI and language technologies, and oversee the development of minister-facing and administrative dashboards.

A postgraduate degree, such as an MBA or equivalent, in Management, Public Policy, Education, or a related discipline is required. A Ph.D. in Management or a relevant field is preferred.

Essential skills include strong project and stakeholder management capabilities, effective team leadership, proficient research and data interpretation, policy writing, excellent communication and presentation abilities, and a solid command of the MS Office Suite.

Additional preferred skills encompass institutional diagnostics and restructuring, higher education financing, facilitation of multi-stakeholder consultations, quality assurance expertise, and knowledge of AI and digital transformation in education.

Candidates should possess a minimum of 10 years of professional experience, with at least 7 years dedicated to management consulting, higher or technical education advisory, institutional transformation, or public sector program management for central and state governments.

Demonstrated experience as a Project Manager or Lead on central Ministry of Education or higher education projects focused on national institution transformation, restructuring for ranking and function, multi-state financing studies, or integrating skilling with higher education is crucial.

Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across concurrent projects and manage senior government and university stakeholders is expected. Experience with World Bank or ADB-funded education and skilling programs, course rationalization, quality reform in technical education, and authoring strategy documents on AI in higher education is highly advantageous.