Associate Director – Content & Curriculum

Key Objectives of the Job

• Drive innovation, quality, and contextual relevance across Arpan’s content and curriculum.
• Define and lead the vision, roadmap, and implementation of Arpan’s content & curriculum’s initiatives to scale impact.
• Guide the creation, curation, and dissemination of knowledge by synthesizing insights from Arpan’s field data, evaluations, and global developments.

Major Deliverables

Content Strategy and Development:

• Lead the creation and curation of high-quality content across formats for diverse stakeholder groups including children, parents, teachers, and professionals.
• Align content with defined learning outcomes and CSA prevention/intervention goals.
• Innovate across formats, including print, video, eLearning, gamified tools, and microlearning.
• Establish robust content creation, review, and quality assurance systems.

Pedagogical Excellence:

• Design pedagogical frameworks rooted in age-appropriate, inclusive, trauma-informed approaches.
• Champion experiential learning tailored to different stakeholder needs.

Curriculum Design and Research

• Lead the development and periodic update of Arpan’s curriculum using internal insights and global best practices.
• Integrate SEL (Social-Emotional Learning), DEI into Arpan’s learning modules.

Stakeholder Engagement and Representation:

• Represent Arpan in state, national, and international forums to advocate for CSA prevention education and showcase content leadership.
• Build strategic partnerships with academic, educational and digital stakeholders.

Team and Knowledge Management:

• Lead a cross-functional team of content, curriculum, and translation professionals.
• Build a knowledge repository and document processes for continuity and scale.
• Foster a learning-oriented, process-driven and collaborative team culture.

Job Challenge

As Arpan evolves from a practitioner organization to a national and global thought leader in

CSA prevention and intervention, this role offers a unique opportunity to innovate its

offerings (existing and new) and strengthen its position as a resource agency and think tank.

Specialized Job Competencies

• Expertise in Gender based Violence and Child Protection.
• Proficiency in curriculum development, and product design and scale.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation.
• Strong understanding of technology-enabled learning and child protection frameworks.

Educational Qualification

• Post Graduate Degree in Sociology, Social Work / Science / Education / Psychology or related fields.

8. Desired Work Experience

• Minimum 15 years of total work experience.
• Currently in a leadership role in child rights/child protection, at national/international
• NGOs, research institutions, or education boards.
• Proven success in leading content and pedagogy with measurable program impact across geographies.

Other desired attributes

• Deep understanding of Child Rights, Human Rights, Child Protection, J. J. Act
• Strong articulation and analytical skills
• Leadership skills and ability to deploy transformative changes in collaboration with
• other teams

Location Mumbai

Salary Range : Annual CTC 23 lakhs plus reimbursements

If interested, please apply using the Google Form link – https://forms.gle/7hBK83qtDHzkXGeD6

Kindly please check the Careers page - https://www.arpan.org.in/careers/

About Arpan

Arpan is a globally recognised, award-winning non-profit working towards the elimination of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in India.

Based in Mumbai, with a team of over 144 dedicated professionals, Arpan is India’s largest non-profit providing CSA Prevention and Intervention services for both children and adults. As a critical stakeholder for state and non-state actors, Arpan is a leading voice in the space of CSA Prevention and Intervention in India and uses advocacy and research to push for policy and systemic change at the local, state and national levels. Arpan is a global thought leader in the CSA space, with innovative impact models that work with a range of stakeholders, from children and parents to state bodies and teachers. Arpan’s key project focuses on Personal Safety Education in schools, teaching children and adolescents (ages 4 to 18) about personal safety so they can identify and seek help in unsafe situations. Arpan also trains and empowers teachers and parents with the knowledge, attitude and skills needed to prevent and deal with CSA. Since 2007, Arpan has impacted over 19.4 million children and adults and has received 8 National and 2 International Awards for its exemplary work.

For more details - www.arpan.org.in

About Child Protection Policy of ARPAN

Arpan’s work is child-centric where the key is to understand and value what the child wants and hence the child is an integral part of the decision-making process. This philosophy extends to all the programmes at Arpan, where children are the primary stakeholders. Arpan expects that all board members, advisors, donors, partners, employees, volunteers, interns, consultants, partner counsellors and contractors agree to fully comply with

Arpan’s Child Protection Policy. For more details, read on the below link - https://www.arpan.org.in/child-protection-policy/