Director of Learning Design

About Tergar Schools

Tergar Schools is a Buddhist-inspired K–12 education nonprofit building a new model of learning (MOL). We operate a pilot school in Kathmandu, Nepal, and are constructing a larger campus in the Yolmo Valley in the Himalayas.

Our model rests on a simple starting point: every child possesses basic goodness and its qualities of awareness, love, compassion, wisdom, and joy. It is our job as educators to help them recognize this and give them tools to sustain it. Our long-term aspiration is to help form people who are resilient, altruistic, and joyful.

We’re now building the next chapter of that work: a comprehensive, fully secular model designed to weave into any school’s existing life — not just our own campuses. Rather than build more schools ourselves, we intend to reach 100+ schools in 4+ countries within five years by helping other schools, secular or religious, adopt the model as their own.

Why This Role Exists

Our footprint is growing quickly. Two high-performing private schools will begin piloting our model of learning in 2027. A research lab opens in Nepal with a world‑class science team. The interest is real and growing.

What we don’t have yet is a full-time position for building the model itself — the products, courses, training materials, and classroom materials that will constitute MOL — and for leading the team that builds it out.

Today that thinking lives mostly with our Executive Director and the instincts of our founding team. This isn’t sustainable  need someone who can be fully dedicated to this element of our project: an outside‑the‑box thinker with real contemplative experience, genuinely excited by the challenge of building an entire family of products from scratch rather than adapting an existing portfolio.

The Opportunity

This is a builder’s role. You will not inherit a finished product, a proven training program, or a team. You will build those things — starting hands‑on, in the room, with our first two outside partner schools — and then lead the team that takes them to scale.

We have materials. However, none of them is a comprehensive, fully secular contemplative model designed to weave into everything a school already does. That is what you would be building, and there is no template for it.

I f you are energized by deciding who you need around you rather than inheriting an org chart, and comfortable being personally in the work now so that later you can hand it to people you have trained this is the position for you. .

What You’ll Own Building the model

• Design the teacher training program at the center of the MOL — the core product.
• Build out the materials that make the training usable in a real school. Today we imagine adaptable toolkits fitted by hand to each school, a playbook for staff and administrators, and family‑facing materials. That is a starting hypothesis, not a spec — the process of choosing what comes is yours to lead.
• Run the model as a product, not a document. Form real hypotheses about what teachers and schools need, test them in live classrooms, and let what you learn change what gets built.
• Propose what gets built now and what waits — and defend those calls. We hold two commitments at once: build lean, and be the best in the world  call it Minimum Viable Mastery. You are the person who makes that real week to week, not just in principle.

Nailing the first schools

• Be personally hands‑on with our new partner schools in Nepal as they begin onboarding in 2027. You will do this work in tandem with the Executive Director (ED).
• Use what you learn there to define what a stable first phase actually looks like, and build the real template other schools will follow.

Building your team

• Decide what team you need, and in what order — a Nepal Country…