We are hiring: Archivist and Editor, Spiritual Teachings Archive

Hingori Sutras A scholarly, archival and editorial role at a spiritual organisation: understand a living master’s body of teaching and build an enduring, carefully curated archive of it.

Location: Delhi or Dehradun

Basis: Full-time preferred; part-time or project-based considered for the right person

Start: Immediate

Reports to: Founder / leadership team THE WORK

Large parts of this content reflect authentic, intuitive wisdom revealed to realised masters. Our aim is to preserve it the way the great spiritual texts and repositories of the world have been preserved: the words of the Buddha, of Ramana Maharshi, of every master whose teaching was recorded with enough care that it reached people centuries later unchanged.

This is written, scholarly work. It will produce a very large knowledge base, organised and curated with the rigour needed to preserve its authenticity, to make it searchable and studiable, and to let it last for hundreds of years.

Part of the teaching is already in print as the Hingori Sutras, a series of books available on Amazon and in bookstores. Reading them is the surest way to know whether this work is for you.

WHY THIS ROLE

- A generational knowledge repository. More than 3,000 recordings of a living spiritual master, growing to 5,000 and more, spanning decades. How you arrange them is how future generations will meet these teachings.
- Editorial and archival work. Provenance, structure, verified transcripts, a documented method.
- Support from those who know. People who understand the teaching deeply are available to share perspectives as you need them, and leadership will make time.
- Direct line to leadership. No layers. Your work is seen and used the week it is done.
- A long-term role, for someone who wants work that outlasts them.
- Human-led, AI-assisted.

AI does the mechanical work: transcription, translation, search, clustering, finding repeated themes and locating passages. Humans decide meaning, context, significance and what represents the teacher faithfully.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Understanding the teaching (where you start)
2. Start with the content. Spend time with the recordings to form a first view of the teaching. Then speak with around ten people who know it deeply and record how they understand its shape: its core themes only. Do more interviews as needed; leadership will make time. Produce a short written map of the core themes, agreed with leadership, that becomes the foundation for everything that follows.
3. Structure and arrangement of the archive
4. Design and maintain the archive’s intellectual structure: themes, practices, series, questions answered, stages of the path, chronology, cross-references. Decide how teachings relate to each other and document the logic in a cataloguing manual, so the structure survives any one person.
5. Editorial standards and verification
6. Own the standard for what counts as an authoritative record of a teaching. Establish provenance for every item (where, when, to whom, in what setting).

Set up a verification process for transcripts: AI draft, human check, final approval. Keep a clear line between the original record and any edited version. Flag anything ambiguous or sensitive to leadership. Nothing is summarised, trimmed or labelled in a way that changes its meaning.

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AI-assisted cataloguing and tagging
8. Run AI transcription and auto-tagging across the collection as the first pass. Review and correct the output, measure its accuracy, and keep tightening prompts and tag vocabularies until the first pass is reliably good. Nothing enters the archive untagged or unreviewed.
9. Repository management and data integrity
10. Keep the repository organised, complete, de-duplicated and current: consistent metadata and naming, versioning, originals intact, rights questions and fragile items flagged, backups verified. The technology lead builds and runs the systems; you own what is in them and whether it is correct.
11. Intake of new material
12. Coordinate with recording teams and volunteers so new teachings are captured completely and reach the archive catalogued within days, with provenance recorded. Track the intake and report status regularly.

HUMAN-LED, AI-ASSISTED

AI does the enormous mechanical work: transcription, translation, tagging, search, clustering, identifying repeated themes, locating passages, duplicate detection and consistency checks. Your job is not to do these by hand. It is to set them up, review the output with a trained eye, catch what the machine gets wrong, and keep raising the quality of the first pass.

Humans determine meaning, context, significance and what represents the teacher faithfully. We expect you to use AI tools daily and to know exactly where they cannot be trusted. On these teachings, the last word is always human.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN YEAR ONE

- A written map of the core themes of the teaching, agreed with leadership.
- The full collection catalogued under a documented structure, with provenance recorded for every item.
- Transcripts and tags reviewed to a stated accuracy standard, with a verification process that makes any published extract traceable to a checked source recording.
- Recent recordings entering the archive within days of capture, complete, catalogued and attributed.
- A cataloguing and editorial manual that someone else could pick up.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Someone who has done this before. We want a person who has built or run a lasting knowledge repository of a teacher’s, thinker’s or tradition’s work: an archive, a collected works, a critical edition, an oral history collection or a comparable scholarly corpus. In particular:

- Archivists and editors who have organised the teachings of a spiritual master or a comparable body of work, at a foundation, ashram, mission, archive, library or scholarly press. This work has been done before, at the Krishnamurti Foundations, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives, the Chinmaya Mission, Siddha Yoga’s Shakti Punja and elsewhere. If you have done it, we want to hear from you.
- Research scholars from other disciplines: PhDs who have written and published rigorous work, handled large bodies of primary material, and have a real personal interest in spirituality. Those who work with texts, archives,



testimony or oral material will find the transition easiest. Training in Indian philosophy or religious studies is good to have, not a must; rigour, humility before the material and the ability to learn the subject are.

Across both, we need:
- Minimum 5 to 7 years of relevant experience organising, cataloguing or editing a substantial collection of primary material.
- Strong education and a record of ownership: you have taken responsibility for something significant and delivered it. Show us.
- A sincere interest in spirituality, and enough grounding in it to read a teaching, understand what it is about and place it correctly. You do not need to be a scholar of this tradition, but you need to care, and you need to be able to learn.
- Comfort with AI tools as a daily working method, or the clear ability to get there fast.
- Comfort across formats: audio, video, text, PDFs and images.
- Strong command of the languages the teachings are in (Hindi and English).

CORE COMPETENCIES

- Judgment: you can tell what a teaching is about, what belongs with what, and what would distort it.
- Scholarly rigour: disciplined about provenance, accuracy, metadata consistency, versioning and documentation.
- Ownership: completion-focused, reliable, does not wait to be told.
- Listening: able to draw out how others understand the teaching and represent it faithfully.
- AI-literate: delegates the repetitive to machines, keeps the judgment.
- Care: respect and discretion in handling the material at all times.

HOW THE ROLE GROWS

- First 6 months: core themes mapped; structure v1 agreed; AI transcription and tagging pipeline running and reviewed; editorial standards written.
- 6 to 18 months: full collection catalogued and verified; intake pipeline running without you chasing it; manual complete.
- 18 months onward: lead the archive as an institution: scholarly access, editions and compilations, a small team of archivists, editors and volunteers.

WHO THIS ROLE SUITS

This is not a corporate job and does not pretend to be one. It suits someone for whom spirituality is personal, who finds meaning in arranging something priceless so that it is never lost or distorted, and who sees AI as a way to do rigorous work at scale. You will work closely with leadership, with wide latitude and high expectations.

We care more about what you have organised and delivered than about where you did it. If you can only give part of your time, say so. For the right person we will shape the role around you.

CONFIDENTIALITY The material is confidential. The successful candidate will be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before starting, and to handle all content with discretion at all times.

TO APPLY

Send a CV and a short note on:

(a) the largest body of primary material you have organised, and how you structured it,

(b) your interest in spirituality, in your own words, and

(c) how you currently use AI in your work,

to [email protected]

Process: an online screening assessment; an in-person interview; an archival assignment (we give you a set of recordings and ask you to propose a structure, record provenance, and produce verified transcripts and tags for a sample using AI, with a note on your editorial choices); and a final interview with leadership. We hire on judgment, rigour and what you can show, not on titles.

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