Job Information

Industry

Education

State/Province

Maharashtra

City

Pune City

Zip/Postal Code

411001

Country

India

Overview:
iTeach Schools is a fast-growing community of transformational schools providing a high-quality and free education to secondary students. We operate nine Grades VIII to X schools across Pune and PCMC, and a unique College to Career program. (Breeze through our six-year journey here, or get a peek into a typical school day here!)

Our students belong to Pune’s most under-resourced households. We strive to give them a fighting chance at college, career, and citizenship, through which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty. We are known for our stellar results, world-class Professional Development, exciting leadership opportunities, and nurturing work culture. Currently, we serve 2000 students and 1350 student alumni through a strong team of nearly 170 staff members. In the academic year 2022-23, we are growing our impact and are looking for exceptional individuals to lead these efforts!

Role Summary

The Lead Teacher role has key responsibilities in four main areas – teaching, coaching & managing, project management and school network development (see this in a 3 min video here). This role is a stepping stone towards School Leadership and hence these responsibilities cumulatively imply co-leading your school with the School Leader. We’re looking for people who will be eager to design and create effective systems by combining best practices rooted in research with contextual innovation.

Responsibilities:
A. Teaching one subject to one grade (25% focus)

Set the vision of excellence for pedagogy in your school and the entire network, by teaching one grade and one subject at sheer inspiring excellence.

Develop and execute exemplary unit plans, which employ advanced pedagogical approaches.

Innovate on the design of lessons, execution strategies, and data analysis approaches toward inspiring and informing the wider ecosystem of schools.

B. Coaching & Managing a team of teachers (50% focus)

Lead a team of four to six teachers (performance management, coaching, career guidance).

Set ambitious goals with your teachers, develop their professional development plans and set them up for success in realizing their classroom visions.

Coach your team towards historic outcomes – we employ a hands-on coaching model (about 2 hours per teacher per week of coaching) – by supporting them through planning, execution, and reflection.

Co-create the overall culture and strategy as you co-lead the school with the School Leader.

Design and execute various projects for the school’s program (these could be for the holistic development of

C. Project Management (20% focus)

Students, initiatives for parent and community involvement, or for innovation in school practices).

Measure outcomes and work on continuously improving the design and implementation.

Document and share the project plans and learnings to enable other schools to replicate.

D. School Network Development (5% focus)

As the content expert in your area, spread your learnings to other teachers in the network.

Make your impact sustainable by contributing your work to the Curriculum Team.

Coordinate the assessments and pedagogy across our network of schools.

Experience & Competencies:
Required: Bachelor’s degree in any content area with strong performance.

Required: 2+ years of exceptional performance as a teacher.

Preferred: 2 years of work experience in managing a team.

Advanced proficiency in all aspects of teaching.

Talent in coaching and managing adults.

Location: Pune

Salary range: An indicative CTC of Rs. 6 lakh per annum to 7.5 lakh per annum.