Programme Lead — Viveka Shakti

About the Programme

Viveka Shakti is a character, craft, and learning programme sponsored by the N C Murthy Family Foundation, spanning Classes 1–10 and PUC (Classes 11–12) across six VVS institutions in the Puttur region. It is designed and led by Hansei Consultancy.

The programme rests on three non-negotiable principles:

• Kodawari — uncompromising commitment to quality and fidelity. Where readiness is in doubt, we wait.
• The Acharya principle — teachers live and embody the nine virtues before teaching them. Students must never encounter anything inconsistent with what they are taught.
• No marks, no testing, at any level — character is "made and witnessed, not taught and tested." Workbooks are self-assessed; the student diary is permanently private.

The Role

You will be Hansei's curriculum engine for Viveka Shakti. Hansei owns the programme design; a local Implementation Agency owns all ground coordination, logistics, and school relationships. Your role sits between the two: converting Hansei's curriculum corpus into detailed, classroom-ready lesson plans from your Ahmedabad base, and carrying the curriculum into the schools during one week each month in Puttur. Between visits, you contribute to Hansei's other education programmes (JSS, VLEAD) as capacity allows.

This is an early-career role with an unusual depth of mentorship: you will be trained, coached, and shaped directly by the Programme Director, working alongside him in Ahmedabad and during the monthly Puttur weeks. It suits someone at the start of their career in education who wants to grow into a curriculum leader — and who is willing to be formed by the work.

Key Responsibilities

1. 1. Lesson plan development (core deliverable). Convert the Viveka Shakti curriculum corpus — class-wise modules, Katha stories, craft strand, and PUC Prajna-Sadhana modules — into detailed term-wise and session-wise lesson plans for each class (1–10 and PUC), adapted to CBSE and Karnataka board timetables. All lesson plans are submitted to Hansei for design approval before classroom use.
2. 2. Katha corpus development. Draft and refine the full Katha story set (~90 school stories and 18 for PUC) under the Programme Director's editorial direction — each story matched to its virtue, grade band, and craft.
3. 3. Fidelity guardianship. Ensure everything delivered in schools is consistent with programme principles — no marks, no testing, diary privacy, and consistency between what teachers model and what students are taught. Escalate deviations to Hansei rather than accommodate them.
4. 4. Acharya Training support. Assist in facilitating Acharya (whole-staff) Training alongside the Programme Director during Puttur weeks; support school-nominated teacher-trainers remotely on curriculum questions between visits.
5. 5. Readiness assessment. Serve on the joint readiness panel (Hansei + HM/Principal + Programme Lead), applying the six-dimension Acharya Readiness Rubric with honesty and care.
6. 6. Improvement loop. Observe classrooms, gather teacher and student experience, and feed structured improvement proposals back to Hansei. Improvements are proposed from the ground and decided in the design.
7. 7. The monthly Puttur week. Travel to Puttur for one week each month: observe classrooms, gather teacher feedback on lesson plans, co-facilitate training sessions, and sit on the readiness panel. All visit logistics and school scheduling are arranged by the Implementation Agency — your week is spent on curriculum, not coordination.

Who We Are Looking For

• Ahmedabad-based — only local candidates need apply.
• Up to 4 years of experience in school education — teaching, curriculum support, or academic coordination — with evidence of having written lesson plans or learning materials actually used in classrooms. This is an early-career role.
• AI tools and Canva skills are essential — used daily to draft, format, and refine lesson plans and learning materials.
• Willingness and ability to travel to Puttur for one week every month is essential.
• Someone who visibly embodies, or sincerely aspires to embody, the nine virtues of the programme in daily conduct. This is assessed in selection, not assumed — the Acharya principle applies to this role first.
• Comfortable working entirely without marks, ranks, or tests as instruments — and able to hold that line respectfully under pressure from habit and convention.
• Fluent in English (all lesson plans are written in English); Kannada and Tulu preferred — valuable during the monthly Puttur weeks. Willingness to travel one week per month is essential.
• Organised, self-directed, and able to sustain a large curriculum-writing workload with limited day-to-day supervision.
• Teachable: humility to work within a defined design framework and be intensively mentored, with the confidence to report honestly when something is not working.
• A settled, warm presence with teachers and children; strong written English for lesson plans and reports.

What You Will Gain

• Direct, sustained mentorship from the programme's designer — in curriculum design, facilitation, and programme leadership.
• End-to-end ownership of a live, Foundation-sponsored education programme across six institutions, early in your career.
• A rare formation: a role in which your own character growth is part of the job description.

Selection Process

1. 1. Application with CV and a one-page note: "A lesson I have taught that changed a student — and what it changed in me."
2. 2. Interview with Hansei (values, disposition, and curriculum-translation ability).
3. 3. Practical exercise: prepare a sample session-level lesson plan from provided programme material.
4. 4. Final conversation with the Programme Director, including discussion of the nine virtues and the candidate's own practice.