TOF won the Silver at
Global Good Awards 2025
Become a Play Champion
At The Opentree Foundation, we celebrate creativity, curiosity, and collaboration. You’ll join a caring, fun, and inspiring environment that supports personal and professional growth, helps you build lifelong friendships, and pursue your career aspirations in the social impact sector, all while making meaningful experiences for children through play and learning.
Vision
A world where all children are empowered through Conscious Play®
Mission
To use Play as an integral tool to educate and empower children and youth to become well-rounded and contributing citizens of the world.
Ethos
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken [adults]”
- Frederick Douglass
We Call It W.I.N!
W – Warm and Collaborative: With continuous knowledge sharing among peers in an environment that fosters collaboration and cooperation, our employees actively contribute to a warm and caring organisational ambience
I – Inclusive Learning and Growth: We have various training workshops as part of organisational skilling initiatives, regular communication platforms for continuous knowledge sharing, and a performance-driven career growth system
N – New Age and Fast Paced: Our vibrant workforce brings high energy, new ideas and incredible commitment to our vision and mission. Be it innovative work practices, using technology to drive better and faster results or celebrating the power of play, our team make it all happen
Current Openings
If you are passionate about making a difference and want to work in a winning culture, we welcome you to apply to one of the several positions.
General Manager / Director – Resource Mobilisation
Sr. Manager/General Manager, Monitoring & Evaluation
Assistant Manager, Communications
Manager/Sr Manager, HR & Admin
Manager/Sr. Manager - Programmes Partnerships
Manager/Sr. Manager - Programme Operations
Manager/Senior Manager – Programme Design
The General Manager / Director – Resource Mobilisation will lead The Opentree Foundation’s effort to build a larger, more diversified and more durable resource base as we work towards reaching 1 million children by 2035. This role holds the organisation’s annual funding target across institutional philanthropy, corporate CSR, major individual giving, grants and awards, and events and campaigns. The Director will set fundraising strategy, lead the Resource Mobilisation team, make the case for systems-level funding, and build the systems that make fundraising predictable. An ideal candidate is a proven closer and disciplined account manager who is numerate, systems-minded, and equally credible in a boardroom and a government school classroom. For more details, click here. To apply, please send your CV to careers@opentree.org
The Sr. Manager/General Manager, Monitoring & Evaluation will build and own the evidence system across all of The Opentree Foundation’s work. As our flagship play programmes are consolidated and documented for the first time, this role will design the data systems and rhythms that shape programme delivery. It will also design the evidence architecture for the Foundational Play™ Programme, an integrated model for anganwadis and primary schools to be piloted from 2026 and put through rigorous external evaluation. The role covers what we measure, how we measure it, data quality, and how the organisation uses it. It also involves commissioning, briefing and holding external evaluation partners to account. An ideal candidate is a systems builder who has set up M&E from the ground up, holds a high methodological bar while staying field-realistic, and cares whether evidence changes what a programme does. They measure what matters to the child and grow teams with clear direction and accountability. For more details, click here. To apply, please send your CV to careers@opentree.org
The Assistant Manager/Manager – Communications will drive the content and design output behind how The Opentree Foundation shares its mission, impact and voice. Working closely with the Senior Manager – Communications, who leads strategy and thought leadership, this role owns the craft, the calendars, the creatives and the content pipeline. The Assistant Manager will craft compelling narratives, produce excellent design work, connect across departments, and represent the organisation externally with confidence. An ideal candidate is a self-driven creative professional with a strong execution instinct and a keen eye for aesthetics, storytelling and brand consistency, equally at home designing a bold campaign visual and writing a nuanced impact story. For more details, click here. To apply, please send your CV to careers@opentree.org
The Manager/Sr. Manager, HR & Admin will lead all HR and administrative functions at The Opentree Foundation, building systems from scratch while managing daily operations. This hands-on leadership role includes recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee engagement, grievance handling, compliance, and office administration. The role demands initiative, independence, and strong people skills to foster a positive culture. The ideal candidate is a builder and executor who combines strategic thinking with operational excellence to create efficient, people-centered systems and a thriving workplace. For more details, click here.
To apply, please send your CV to careers@opentree.org
The Manager/Sr. Manager – Programmes Partnerships will steward The Opentree Foundation’s government relationships, keeping existing partnerships active, healthy and well documented across every touchpoint. This role drives the day-to-day work that underpins successful partnerships, including follow-through, compliance, event support, and coaching teams on effective relationship management. An ideal candidate has years of experience building relationships inside government, brings patience and persistence to the work, and values trust built slowly. They bring structure to complex programmes, communicate simply, and approach every partnership with long-game thinking, working towards the day the government takes the programme and runs with it. For more details, click here. To apply, please send your CV to careers@opentree.org
The Manager/Sr. Manager – Programme Operations will run the operational engine that keeps The Opentree Foundation’s programme delivery moving in a disciplined, well-documented way. This role builds the planning, tracking and reporting systems that give leadership real-time visibility, and provides focused support to the government partnerships function. An ideal candidate can hold a complex, multi-workstream programme together, bring structure to ambiguity, and unblock issues before they escalate, equally comfortable building a tracker and running a room. They understand how government systems work, ideally from direct experience, and measure success by whether the government eventually takes a programme and carries it forward. For more details, click here. To apply, please send your CV to careers@opentree.org
The Manager/Senior Manager – Programme Design will be the design owner of The Opentree Foundation’s three flagship play programmes as we consolidate them to be simple, rigorous and ready to run at scale. This role decides what the programmes look like, how they evolve and what quality means, working with an Assistant Manager and the M&E team to review existing content, build new sessions and sharpen the programmes with every cycle. Learnings will feed into our new Foundational Play™ Programme. An ideal candidate is a fast learner and deep builder who is child-centred, evidence-informed and a strategic doer, comfortable steering the bigger picture while getting the detail right. For more details, click here. To apply, please send your CV to careers@opentree.org
Our Journey
Every great journey starts with a tiny step. Co-Founder, Shweta Chari shares the journey of the The Opentree Foundation beginning with a simple belief that it is easier to build strong children than repair broken adults. Today, TOF empowers 2,00,000+ children daily through play, and offers them safe spaces to engage in developmentally appropriate play sessions and play-based activities conducted by trained play facilitators.
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Empowering children through the power of play