TISS Lead and Programme Coordinator YP Recruitment 2026

TISS Lead and Programme Coordinator Recruitment 2026: Overview

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is hiring a Lead for Academics and Operation and a Programme Coordinator for Accounts and Projects for its School of Public Policy and Governance in Hyderabad. These contractual roles support the Young Professional Programme, run with the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, Government of Telangana. The programme connects academic learning with field work on gender, governance, rural livelihoods and public policy, with a proposed postgraduate diploma supporting that learning.

Posts and Disciplines

• Lead — Academics and Operation: This role brings together the programme's academic activities, research and day-to-day coordination. You work across faculty, resource people, participants and field teams, connecting learning activities with the programme's policy and implementation work.
• Programme Coordinator — Accounts and Projects: This role combines project finance with programme coordination. You support the financial and administrative side of the programme while helping its planned activities stay on track.

Post-wise Duties

Lead — Academics and Operation

You coordinate academic schedules and programme activities, including engagement with faculty, participants and other partners. You also work with research and programme evidence to prepare policy briefs, technical reports and presentations that can inform implementation.

Your work connects classroom learning and field engagement. The programme operates at district and sub-district levels, so coordination also involves government institutions and teams working outside the campus.

Programme Coordinator — Accounts and Projects

You track project budgets, spending and financial records, including reconciliation and reporting on the use of funds. The work links financial information with programme progress, so teams can see how expenditure compares with approved budget heads.

You also help coordinate project activities and partner communication. Keeping programme records and financial reports aligned is part of supporting activities through to completion.

Service Conditions and Caveats

• Contract period: The initial appointment is for one year. A further year depends on your performance, available funds and programme needs.
• Joining: If selected, you must join within 15 days of selection. Consider that requirement if you have a notice period with your current employer.
• Reservation: The notice describes the posts as unreserved. You can still apply if you belong to a reserved category.
• Travel costs: TISS will not pay travel or daily allowances for attending the interview.
• Recruitment discretion: TISS may leave a post unfilled or invite someone who has not applied through the advertised procedure. It can also correct, withdraw or cancel a communication if an error is found, including after an appointment order.
• Conduct: Canvassing can end your consideration for the post. TISS will not handle queries or correspondence about interview call letters or candidate selection at any stage.

• Coordinate academic schedules, faculty participation and programme activities for the Lead role.
• Analyse qualitative and quantitative evidence to support policy and implementation work.
• Prepare policy briefs, technical reports and programme presentations.
• Track budgets and expenditure against approved heads for the Coordinator role.
• Keep project accounts, vouchers, bills and supporting financial records.
• Prepare reconciliations, financial statements and fund utilisation reports.
• Coordinate stakeholders, field teams and project activities to meet deadlines.