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Peepul, Impact & Strategy Manager

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About the portfolio organization

Peepul is an education-focused non-profit organisations committed to transforming India's education system and enabling every child to reach their full potential. We work closely with national, state, and local governments to transform government schools and government systems. Currently, we work with governments in Delhi and Madhya Pradesh to meaningfully have an impact across ~325,000 teachers and 9.75 million+ students across 100,000+ schools. At Peepul, we collaborate with school systems to build the capacity of leaders, teachers, and institutions. We advocate for policy improvements, support mentoring and monitoring, and enhance student-teacher engagement in classrooms. Our work has been recognized internationally, including receiving the Commonwealth Education Awards for Innovation and being featured in reports by respected organisations like the UN and the National Ministry of Education, India, and we are well-funded by both Indian CSR and prominent international Foundations working toward a common purpose of excellent education for the most disadvantaged sections of society.   

Driven by our core values of impact, excellence, and leadership, we are a restless, resilient, and reflective organisations. Our team of 250+ employees is passionate about creating lasting change and is rewarded competitively for their dedication. Join us in our mission to create a world where every child has equal access to high-quality education. Learn more about our transformative work at http://peepulindia.org 

About the Fellowship role

Peepul’s Strategy and Impact arm acts as an internal engine for program quality, evidence use, organisational learning, and strategic decision-making. Rather than operating as a standalone MEL or analytics unit, the team works across programmes, states, and functions to ensure that evidence, strategy, and execution are tightly connected. The arm plays a central role in shaping how Peepul defines quality, uses data, learns from implementation, and engages strategically with governments, partners, and the wider education ecosystem.  

This fellowship role sits within that arm and is designed for a strong generalist who can work across impact, strategy, operations, and partnerships. The Impact and Strategy Manager (Fellow) will be part of Peepul’s internal Strategy and Impact arm and will work closely with senior leadership across programmes, MEL, technology, and partnerships.  

The role is integrative by design. The fellow will contribute to improving program quality and impact, strengthening operational enablement, supporting strategic partnerships, enabling effective data use, and institutionalising learning across the organisation. Rather than owning a single vertical, the fellow will work across a small number of clearly defined, high-priority projects that sit at the intersection of strategy, evidence, and execution.  

Location: In Person - Delhi, India
Employment: Full-time, one-year Fellowship
Starting Date: July 2026

Key responsibilities

Programme Quality and Impact

  • Contribute to the design, refinement, and implementation of MEL and program quality frameworks across Peepul’s programmes. Work with programme teams to ensure evidence is used to track progress, identify risks, feed into design, and strengthen delivery and instructional outcomes, rather than remaining a reporting exercise.  

Strategic Partnerships

  • Support leadership in managing and shaping strategic partnerships that align with Peepul’s priorities. This includes analytical support, coordination across teams, and ensuring operational and technological alignment with partners such as governments, donors, and ecosystem actors.

Data Analysis and Insights   

  • Support the translation of data into insights that inform leadership decisions, programme adjustments, and external communication.  
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with the CAO and other functional leaders to integrate evidence into academic content, programme design, and execution. Act as a connective tissue across teams, helping align priorities and resolve gaps between strategy and implementation.  

Institutionalisation and Knowledge Sharing 

  • Contribute to internal knowledge systems and, where relevant, support Peepul’s engagement in academic, policy, or practitioner forums.  

Strengthening program quality and impact across states  

  • Work with programme, MEL, and academic teams to strengthen how Peepul defines, tracks, and improves program quality across states. 
  • Synthesising existing evidence and practice into a clear articulation of programme quality, identifying a small set of indicators that matter most for decision-making, and strengthening how leadership and state teams review and act on this information. 
  • Pilot improved quality review and reflection processes with select teams and support their integration into regular leadership and programme rhythms

Institutionalising Learning and Shaping Peepul’s strategic narrative  

  • Help Peepul better capture, synthesise, and use learning from its work with governments. This will include identifying priority learning questions, working with internal teams to distil evidence and field experience, and translating these into practical internal resources and external-facing assets. 
  • Support leadership in using these assets in strategic partnerships, donor engagement, policy discussions, and ecosystem forums, and help establish a repeatable approach to knowledge capture and reuse.  

Shaping and initiating new state entry  

  • Support Peepul’s leadership in exploring and initiating entry into one or more new states. This project will focus on early-stage strategy, feasibility, and design rather than full implementation.  

Requirements

Experience and education:

At Peepul, we seek talented professionals passionate about driving educational transformation and making a positive impact. We are looking for individuals who possess the following qualifications 

  • Educational Background: An undergraduate degree with a strong academic record is required. A master’s degree in management, economics, public policy, social sciences, or a related field is an advantage but not mandatory.  
  • Work Experience:3 to 5+ years of relevant professional experience. Prior experience in education, government, or the social sector is useful but not required.
  • Technical Skills: Strong analytical skills, with proficiency in Excel and comfortwith tools such as Power BI, STATA, or SPSS.
  • Soft Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to synthesise evidence and communicate clearly. Strong organisation, collaboration, and execution skills.
  • Language Proficiency: Fluency in English required. Working knowledge of Hindi is a bonus. Fellows should have strong English communication skills and demonstrate cultural sensitivity, adaptability, and a willingness to work in multilingual, high-ambiguity environments. Knowledge of Indian languages is an advantage but not a requirement. 

Stipend Band – INR 12 lakhs – INR 17 lakhs per annum 

Must Haves:

  • Valid Work permit and work authorisation in India (we will not support an employment visa) 

About the LGT Impact Fellowship

As part of LGT Venture Philanthropy's and Lightrock's strategic efforts to scale positive impact, the LGT Impact Fellowship was established to provide additional know-how and capacity to portfolio organizations and companies. Each year a limited number of professionals are nominated to work full-time for one year with the organizations and companies supported by LGT Venture Philanthropy and Lightrock in Africa, India and Latin America as per the above job description.
 
LGT Impact Fellows are part of an enriching cohort of like-minded Fellows. They benefit from various program activities, including a 1-week in-person kick-off workshop, webinars, access to the network and know-how of LGT Venture Philanthropy, etc.

How to apply

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