Position Summary
The Senior Program Manager – Education, Telangana will serve as CEGIS's primary engagement point for its education portfolio in the state. This is a senior leadership role that combines strategic government partnership, project execution, and team management.
The incumbent will serve as the primary relationship manager, while ensuring institutional continuity of government partnerships across the CEGIS team
The role requires an experienced professional who can operate credibly at the senior levels of a state government, translate complex analytical work into implementable governance solutions, and build and mentor a high-performing embedded team - while being supported by the Education Lead, State Lead and CEGIS's technical functions.

Key Responsibilities
Government Engagement & Strategic Partnership
Serve as CEGIS's primary representative with senior officials of the Telangana School Education Department Leadership.
Build and sustain trusted, high-quality relationships with government counterparts; represent CEGIS effectively in high-level reviews,



policy consultations, and decision-making forums
Drive the government engagement agenda—identify priority areas for collaboration, facilitate strategic discussions, and support agenda-setting with senior leadership
Accountable for influencing and enabling programme outcomes through robust partnerships and execution excellence

Strategy & Theory of Change
Champion CEGIS's theory of change across all education projects in Telangana; ensure that every workstream reflects CEGIS's core approach of evidence-data-backed.
Co-create and continuously refine project strategy with the state government, anchoring it in an understanding of the Telangana education system's specific context and constraints
Identify systemic bottlenecks, surface opportunities for intervention, and bring cross-state learnings to strengthen project design
Define and monitor indicators of success at the programme level; ensure projects are

📌 Senior Program Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS)
📍 Hyderabad