The Community Library Project (TCLP) is dedicated to building a publicly owned, free library system that is accessible to everyone. It currently runs three libraries in Delhi NCR, serving around 14,000 members six days a week, and has supported several organizations in Delhi and beyond to set up inclusive community libraries. As a member organization of the Free Libraries Network (FLN), TCLP works to challenge the historical exclusion from reading and the normalization of the lack of libraries in India.

TCLP functions as a learning lab, continually developing and sharing practices for running effective community libraries in diverse contexts. By demonstrating that free community libraries can thrive, TCLP aims to influence public leaders to invest in robust library systems across the country.

Role Summary

We are looking for a Leadership Development Lead with strong experience in team management, community organising, and project management. The Lead will be responsible for managing and developing a team, overseeing project implementation, and ensuring effective community engagement and organising. We are looking for someone with strong leadership, communication, mentoring, facilitation, and organisational skills, who can build an accountable, collaborative, and high-performing team.

The Head of Leadership Development is responsible for the conceptual leadership, design,

implementation, and growth of TCLP’s Leadership Development Department across two core tracks:

● Student Leadership Development (ages 13–18)

● Youth & Community Leadership Development (ages 18+)

This role carries organisation-wide responsibility for building leadership as community ownership,

not as individual advancement.



The position exists to ensure that TCLP’s libraries are run with, by,

and for the community, and that leadership development remains deeply rooted in politics that are against class exploitation, and caste oppression and foster feminist, democratic, and justice-oriented pedagogy.

The Head of Leadership Development stewards a long-term leadership pipeline—from student leaders to youth leaders, community organisers, librarians, TCLP Leadership Council members and library-movement activists—ensuring coherence across age groups, roles, and political purpose.

This role is about deepening, systematising, and sustaining leadership work that already exists within TCLP.

Purpose of the Role

● To transfer ownership of libraries to the community through structured, sustained leadership development.

● To develop leaders who think critically, act collectively, and organise communities around the

Right to Read and broader democratic rights.

● To ensure that leadership development at TCLP is pedagogically rigorous, politically grounded, and operationally integrated with librarianship and organising.

● To strengthen systems that allow leadership development to be scalable, accountable, and sustainable without dilution of values.

Diversity and Inclusion:

We are committed to diversity and inclusion in our hiring process. Preferences will be given to candidates from the following communities:

Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi communities

LGBTQIA+ community

Women

Muslim community

First-generation learners

Working class

If you are a motivated and experienced leader with a passion for social justice, we encourage you to apply for this exciting prospect.

📌 Head of Leadership Development (New Delhi)
🏢 The Community Library Project
📍 New Delhi