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We partner closely with state education departments to design and implement reforms at scale, strengthening leadership, governance, and classroom practice across public schools. Our work is grounded in the belief that lasting change happens when governments lead their own transformation.\nThrough long-term collaboration with institutions such as SCERTs and DIETs, Mantra4Change focuses on developing school leaders and system leaders, building collaborative school cultures, and engaging communities as partners in learning. By combining strong on-ground implementation with continuous learning, we help systems identify what works, scale it responsibly, and sustain improvement over time.\nOur mission is to enable leaders at every level of the system to drive continuous improvement, creating a virtuous cycle in which strong leadership, collective ownership, and systemic reform deliver better learning and more equitable outcomes for every child.\nRead more -www.mantra4change.org\nAbout Shikshāgraha\nAs part of the Inspire initiative, Mantra4Change builds partnerships to amplify our ideas and approaches across the educational ecosystem. One of our key initiatives under this umbrella is the Shikshāgraha movement, which aims to catalyse collective action across 100 districts in India to enhance the quality of education. By 2025, it seeks to impact 40 million children through decentralized school improvement programs. Shikshāgraha focuses on empowering school leaders, fostering collaboration between district education departments and local NGOs, leveraging India's open-source technology platform, DIKSHA, for documenting and disseminating best practices. Key objectives include improving student outcomes, enhancing school infrastructure, building systemic capacity through community-driven, need-based solutions, and ensuring sustainable and context-specific educational reforms.\nRead More - https://shikshagraha.org/\nAbout the role\nSome of the most important work in Indian public education happens quietly. A headmistress turns around attendance. A group of mothers starts asking their district the right questions. A partner in another state finds a better way to do something. Most of it never travels beyond the school or village where it began.\nAs Lead - Communications, your job is to change that. You will find these stories, understand why they matter, and tell them in ways that build the case for education leadership as a key lever for lasting change.\nYou will shape the narrative and plan campaigns, but this is not a desk role. You will write, shoot, edit and publish your own work, often from schools and field sites, and you’ll be as comfortable with a camera in a classroom as with a campaign plan.\nThe position is hired and hosted by Mantra4Change and sits with the Shikshagraha communications team.\nRoles and Responsibilities\nStorytelling and narrative\nFind stories worth telling from field teams, school leaders, community members, partner organisations and events.\nTurn programme updates and field visits into content that makes sense to someone with no background in education.\nBuild and protect a consistent Shikshagraha voice across all channels.\nProduce newsletters and internal communications updates for stakeholders and donors.\nSocial media and video\nManage Shikshagraha's day-to-day presence on Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, including the content calendar, publishing and community engagement.\nShoot and edit short-form video (interviews, field stories, events) and repurpose each shoot across formats.\nTrack how content performs and use what you learn to shape what comes next.\nMaintain an organised archive of all content, photos, videos, and press coverage\nImpact communication\nWrite case studies, impact stories, blogs and articles for digital and print channels.\nKeep programme updates on the website current.\nCampaigns and stakeholder outreach\nPlan and run campaigns with programme teams, state education departments and partner organisations.\nPrepare talking points, decks and communication material for internal and external partner stakeholders and handle their content requests.\nEvents and speaking opportunities\nIdentify platforms and speaking opportunities that showcase the movement's work.\nSupport content, branding and speaker coordination for Shikshagraha events and conclaves, and provide on-ground coverage.\nExperience & Competencies Required:\nMust have 2-3 years of experience in communications, social media, journalism, PR or content creation.\nMust have strong, clear English writing skills. If you can explain a complicated idea in two sentences, we want to see that.\nMust have working knowledge of Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube, and how each platform differs.\nGood ability to shoot usable video on a phone or camera and edit it yourself (Premiere Pro, CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, or similar), plus proficiency in Canva or an equivalent design tool.\nMust have an eye for photography and video. 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