Senior Associate, The Livelihood Collective

About the role

We are seeking a driven, structured problem-solver to join the Project Management Unit (PMU) of The Livelihood Collective (TLC) – a multi-funder collaborative transforming India's Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) from qualification factories into employment engines. TLC will prove and codify a 10-pillar transformation playbook across 8 clusters and ~120 ITIs in Maharashtra, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh, reaching ~1.1 lakh youth before scaling nationally.

What you'll do

• Liaise day-to-day with lead implementation partners (Medha, LAHI, Tata STRIVE) and state teams – coordinating plans
• Support baseline, mid-line and endline assessments and translate findings into cluster-level priorities and playbook refinements
• Support government engagement and ecosystem convenings at central, state and cluster level

What you need

• 4–5 yrs of experience
• Research
• Problem solving
• Project management
• ITI