The Livelihood Collective (TLC) – a multi-funder collaborative transforming India's Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) from qualification factories into employment engines. TLC will prove and codify a 10-pillar transformation playbook across 8 clusters and ~120 ITIs in Maharashtra, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh, reaching ~1.1 lakh youth before scaling nationally.
About the Role
We are seeking a curious, hands-on problem-solver to join the Project Management Unit (PMU) of The Livelihood Collective (TLC). As an Associate in the central PMU, you will work closely with the Senior Associate and TLC leadership to build the intellectual and operational backbone of the program. Your two anchors are the playbook and insights: you will help develop, document and continuously refine the 10-pillar transformation playbook, and you will turn field observations, partner data and research into explicit insights that sharpen how the program is run. This is a high-learning,
high-ownership role with significant field exposure – you should expect to travel regularly to program states and ITI clusters to see delivery first-hand and bring the ground back into the playbook.
Responsibilities
Playbook development: support the drafting, structuring and continuous refinement of the 10-pillar ITI transformation playbook – codifying interventions, SOPs and learning from the field into a clear, usable living document.
Insights and analysis: synthesise data, field notes and partner inputs into crisp insights, briefs and visuals that inform decisions by TLC leadership, state teams and implementation partners.
Field immersion and travel: travel regularly to program states and ITI clusters to observe delivery, gather ground realities, run structured field visits and feed observations back into the playbook and insights work.
Research and knowledge products: contribute to research on themes such as employability, apprenticeship / OJT integration and digital skilling, and help produc
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