Lead, Human Systems Transformation | Community Empowerment Lab (CEL)

Do you envision an organization beyond rigid structures and hierarchy? as a living, breathing system where people, learning, and energy flow purposefully?

Community Empowerment Lab (CEL) is a purpose-driven evidence-to-scale lab working to transform the care of mothers and newborns across India and the Global South. We work at the intersection of rigorous science and human experience, co-creating and scaling health system and community-led solutions for maternal, newborn, and child health.

At CEL, we are sparking a movement where science and compassion come together to build a thriving world – one mother, one newborn, one community at a time.

To bring this vision alive from the inside out, we are seeking a Lead, Human Systems Transformation, someone who can help shape CEL’s inner architecture.

The Role

You will work closely with Dr. Vishwajeet Kumar, our Founder-Chair, to translate the vision of human systems transformation into lived reality. Your task is to help design how CEL learns, collaborates, and thrives, ensuring that our structure, culture, and rhythms embody the same compassion and excellence that we bring to the field.

Your work will include

- Mapping and strengthening CEL’s human and learning systems across research, implementation, and scaling programs.

- Facilitating cross-team coherence and collaboration to ensure that information, care, and creativity flow easily.

- Designing growth and reflection pathways for teams and individuals.

- Creating frameworks, rituals, and communication practices that bring CEL’s THRIVE values to life.





- Capturing and sharing insights from the transformation journey through easy documentation, combining data with storytelling.

Requirements

Who You Are

- Around 8-12 years of experience in organizational development, learning design, leadership development, or social innovation.

- Deeply curious about human systems and motivated by purpose more than position. Drawn to meaningful work in public health or social change, and eager to shape the inner life of an organization.

- A natural integrator and facilitator who brings order without rigidity, structure without bureaucracy, and comfortable bridging researchers, clinicians, designers, and field teams.

- Emotionally intelligent: you listen deeply, build trust, and create safe spaces for honest dialogue.

- Skilled at turning ideas into living processes: frameworks, rhythms, and rituals that help people thrive.

- Comfortable working at the intersection of strategy, design, and deep humanity.

You may come from diverse backgrounds, such as organizational development, behavioral science, education, design, or public health, but you share one conviction:

When people thrive together, transformation becomes inevitable.

At CEL, you’ll join a team that believes in science with soul, combining intellectual rigour with deep compassion for those we serve.

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Location

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (India). We may consider hybrid arrangements for the right candidate.

To Apply

Please share your CV with a covering letter and short note on how your ideas and experience best position you to nurture human thriving within a mission-driven organization​

📌 Lead Human Systems Transformation (Lucknow)
🏢 Community Empowerment Lab
📍 Lucknow