About Pratham
Pratham Education Foundation (Pratham) is one of the largest education NGOs in India with a record of innovative, rigorously evaluated programs that have inspired similar programs across three continents. With a history spanning 30 years, Pratham’s work today extends from programs for early and elementary years to girls and women, and youth skilling. Through programs covering 25 states and Union Territories, in an average year, Pratham usually reaches over 6 million children and youth. This is achieved through a combination of efforts: directly working with children and youth in communities, as well as through collaborations with state and district-level governments.
Pratham has received notable awards such as the Lui Che Woo Prize, WISE Prize for Innovation, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Henry R Kravis Prize in Leadership and the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year for Public Service. Pratham also received the 2021 Yidan Prize for Education Development and the Yashraj Bharati Samman in 2025.
For more details, refer to www.pratham.org
About the Early Years Program
Pratham’s research and experience show that the foundational stage, spanning the continuum from pre-primary through Grades 1 and 2, is critical not just for early learning, but for a smooth transition into formal schooling. It is in this transition, particularly in Grades 1 and 2, that language and literacy development becomes most critical, laying the base for all future learning. Children who lack consistent, age-appropriate support across this continuum often struggle to keep pace in later grades, a gap that widens over time and is hard to reverse. This is compounded by limited access to age-appropriate materials, inconsistent preparedness in foundational teaching learning pedagogy, and the absence of a systematic, evidence-based approach to early language instruction.
We aim to strengthen our content, training, and measurement systems to ensure our foundational learning programs are grounded in sound literacy development principles and responsive to how young children actually learn language, through oral language, phonemic awareness, vocabulary building, and guided reading appropriate to the pre-primary through Grade 1-2 continuum. Pratham’s Early Years unit will focus on developing high-quality, age-appropriate content and training resources that help children build strong reading and language skills at the right stage. We will also work to embed these approaches consistently across Pratham’s program areas and through our government partnerships.
The Content and Training Associate role is a technical, capacity-building position working closely with program, state, and central teams to develop and strengthen Grade 1-2 language and literacy content and training practices across Pratham’s foundational learning initiatives.
Content and Training Associate — Grade 1 & 2 Team
Responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:
The Content and Training Associate role offers a wide range of opportunities in the education sector and is an integral part of Pratham’s work across India. The Central Grade 1 & 2 Team’s work is built around the following pillars:
- Learning material development: Create quality, learner-centric material in Hindi and other languages for young learners, aligned with the requirements of specific projects and regions.
- Teacher-training material: Design modern, dynamic training approaches for teachers, and train teachers across locations on the specific manuals and modules developed.
- Capacity building: Strengthen the capacity of Pratham’s field staff by leading project-specific trainings and workshops across locations. Through ongoing interaction with different stakeholders, understand the needs of the team and students, and design and implement changes as required.
- Field visits: Make periodic visits to project locations to assess classroom and community issues firsthand, support teachers, parents and report on key field findings.
- Program support: Collaborate with state and program teams to strengthen planning, coordination, and implementation of assigned initiatives.
- Travel: Travel extensively across program locations — within and outside the home state, or trainings, capacity building, field visits, pilots, assessments, and reflection processes as required.
- Content and pedagogy: Work collaboratively across teams to strengthen content, curriculum, and pedagogical approaches.
- Facilitation: Facilitate ongoing learning and capacity-building for field teams through trainings, reflection spaces, and follow-up support.
- Data and course correction: Support data collection and analysis to inform and improve the design and execution of capacity-building plans.
- Internal coordination: Facilitate seamless communication and collaboration across teams within Pratham.
- Feedback and design: Provide inputs, feedback, and suggestions at the program and organizational level, and design follow-up activities.
- Government and partner relations: Support engagement with government stakeholders and partners, in coordination with program and state teams.
- Documentation: Document processes and outcomes for the project.
- Advocacy: Engage in discussions to help influence mindsets and approaches, and support capacity-building toward this goal.
- Perform additional tasks as required.
Desired Qualifications and Experience:
- Graduate degree (Social Work/ Early Childhood Care and Education/ Child Development and related fields)
- Strong command over oral and written Hindi and English language
- Discerning eye for editing and modifying content
- Ability to communicate fluently in Hindi and English
- Ability to work effectively with different teams
- 0-2 years of work experience
- Strong interest in the goals of Pratham
- Comfortable with extensive field work and travel
- Ability to organise and manage multiple tasks efficiently
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with rural, semi-urban and urban regions of India
- Willing to travel frequently
- Work experience in development projects
- Qualification of teaching- learning methodology in early grades
- Preference will be given to person with Master’s in Social Work/ Early Childhood Care and Education/ Language and literacy etc.
Location:
The position will be based in Delhi with frequent travel to program location.
Application Procedure:
- To apply, fill out the Google form link: https://forms.gle/hfrmDoaigKWkTU5p7 and upload the following documents:
- i) Current Résumé should contain
- Contact Information for Applicant
- Academic Background
- Universities Attended; Degrees Acquired
- Academic Record (Marks or GPA, if applicable)
- Past work experience, highlighting relevant skills
- Relevant Coursework: List Courses in Development, Management and Education
- Experiences in development, teaching and/or education (if applicable)
- Languages Spoken
- ii) Statement of Purpose (500 Words)
- Based on the résumé and Statement of Purpose, suitable candidates will be shortlisted for a brief telephonic interview and will be required to submit a written assignment.
- Further shortlisted candidates will be invited for a final round of interview.
