HR Associate

Background

Leadership For Skilled Education Foundation (branded as

Leadership for Equity

, LFE) is a non-profit organisation based in Pune, Maharashtra, working to strengthen India’s public education system so that every child learns and thrives. We envision public education systems that refuse to let children down.

LFE partners with state and district governments across multiple states—including Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Haryana—to improve teaching practices and build sustained academic support structures within the public system. Our work is anchored in the belief that public education systems are the gatekeepers of social equity, and strengthening them is essential to ensuring that every child has access to strong foundational and future-ready learning.

Approach

LFE’s systems-change approach focuses on improving classroom practice and enabling government ownership through three core levers:

Co-creating high-quality curricular resources and building teacher capacity

Developing academic leadership to coach and mentor teachers

Providing data-driven advisory support and policy implementation guidance

Our model empowers teachers as instructional leaders and embeds long-term support through government-run mentor cadres, continuous classroom observation cycles, and in-system academic structures. Technology plays a critical role, including an in-house Classroom Observation App for real-time monitoring and a WhatsApp-based teacher support chatbot for contextual resource delivery.

The approach is iterative and context-responsive, grounded in classroom realities and tailored to state and district needs. Implementation varies across geographies—whether working directly with teachers or through government-appointed mentors—ensuring relevance and feasibility within existing structures. A continuous feedback loop of training, observation, and coaching moves beyond one-time interventions toward sustained practice change. All programs are co-designed and co-implemented with government partners to ensure scale, sustainability, and systemic ownership, ultimately leading to improved student learning outcomes in foundational and future literacy.

About the Role

We are looking to hire an experienced HR associate to manage and maintain our Pune office. In this role, you will be responsible for obtaining and recording HR information, managing the HR database, and assisting company employees with enrolment procedures and HR-related issues. To ensure success as an HR associate, you should have excellent communication skills, good interpersonal skills, and a good understanding of employment law. Ultimately, a top-notch HR associate is well-organized, efficient, and approachable.

Role & Responsibilities

Staff recruitment & engagement

Implementing and monitoring all HR policies, plans and initiatives aligned with the overall organisation’s strategy, values, mission and leadership vision.

Managing the employee recruitment and selection process - including but not limited to forging partnerships for sourcing talent (universities/organisations), streamlining the recruitment & selection processes, and thus supporting the project teams with enough personnel for effective functioning of the organization.

Working with the Associate Director on job satisfaction analysis and staffing, utilization of workforce, measurement and performance appraisal

Driving organisational culture in nurturing a positive working & learning environment across all teams in the organisation.

Staff Learning & Development Strategy

Oversee the implementation and monitor the success of all the L&D structures in the organisation, including the current ones and the new ones to be created as per needs.

Periodically assess the training needs of the staff members to apply and monitor training programs

Conducting research, literature reviews, and benchmarking exercises to draw from the best practices (from the social sector or otherwise) in strategic planning, monitoring, change management and organisational development.

Support program operations for any organisation-level workshops/meetings

Plan and schedule learning & development series for promoted managers/new staff members periodically, based on yearly developments

Documenting the learning impact of the L&D programs in the organisation

Staff Compliance & Org. Administration

Ensure HR support to ensure 100% compliance with accounting policies, structures, reforms and regulatory requirements from the Finance team

Oversee the internal HR Database on the drive/HRMS Software for all compliances

Oversee and manage the yearly performance appraisal system across the organisation that encourages high performance, accountability and motivation to perform

Ensure legal compliance throughout human resource management - including maintaining the necessary individual records, process documentation, etc, whilst ensuring individual privacy. Implementation of employee engagement surveys periodically.

Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources
• , business, or related field.
• More than 2 years
• of previous experience working in human resources.
• Able to work on

MS Office/Emails/ Google Suite

( Drive, Sheets, Docs, etc. ).

Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to write and speak

English, Hindi, and Marathi / Telugu

• for the position.
• Friendly and professional demeanour.
• Good organisational skills.
• Empathy and an approachable demeanour.
• Attentiveness and honesty.
• Ability to take initiative and work in an autonomous, semi-structured environment.
• Adaptability to change responsibilities and resourcefulness to respond to change.
• High openness to learning.
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with multiple stakeholders.
• Patience and resilience to stick it out in the face of setbacks and uncertainties.

Location and Compensation

Location

: Pune, MH or Vijayawada, AP

Compensation

Besides being part of a young and dynamic learning team, the individual will receive healthy compensation at par with the non-profit sector benchmark for this position, commensurate with the individual’s prior experience and qualifications. The current compensation band offered, based on fit and experience is

4 - 6 lakh INR

per annum.

Leadership For Equity is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind. We do not discriminate based on caste, race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other non-merit factor.