Job Description

About us:
LEAD is the market leader and the first edtech UNICORN of 2022 It is the fastest growing School EdTech company in India. We partner with Affordable Private Schools across the country and empower them with the tools and resources that transform them into centers of excellence. Our enhanced performance monitoring tools, dedicated lesson plans and tech-based solutions enable educators to provide students with the best of education.
Impact at a glance:

Our mission is to provide excellent education to every child. We have seen rapid adoption growing 13X over the last two years with our School Integrated System implemented in over 3000 schools across the country.
It is still early days with the company at only 1% penetration and aiming to get to 50K schools by FY 26. LEAD is a value-driven organization with Integrity, Being the cause, a Growth Mindset, Courage with Empathy, Excellence with Velocity, Live the mission, Customer Centricity and We are Tribe as its core values. We are backed by marquee investors such as Westbridge, GSV Ventures, and Elevar Equity and are already valued at $1.1 billion in its last Series E round.
Know more about LEAD, please visit us by clicking on the logos below:

• Role: Academic Excellence Director
• Function: Excellence Team
• Department: Excellence
• Location: Pan India

Purpose of the Job:
As an AED, you will be responsible for shaping the future of lakh of students in your region. This is an incredible opportunity for you to build and lead a team of highly skilled and motivated education leaders.
The ideal candidate is a strategic leader who is excited about delivering quality learning to children at scale. He/She is an experienced educator with a history of successfully leading large teams and operations.
Principal Accountabilities:

• Lead and coach a team of Associate Academic Excellence Directors(AAED) to deliver on student and teacher performance promises made to schools.
• Design, monitor and improve processes to track academic execution of the program across schools.
• Work with central and multi-functional teams to deliver on KRAs and build long term roadmap for the zone/company

Job Requirement

Must:

• 12+ years of relevant experience with at least 5+ years of managerial experience.
• Very strong academic, strategic and critical thinking skills.
• Proven leadership and people management skills. Should have managed a team of 50+ people.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong negotiation skills.

Should:

• MBA/ Masters in Education from Tier 1 Institute

Competencies:

• Team handling

❖ Excellent relationship-building skills.
❖ Excellent data analysis skills.
❖ Possesses honesty, integrity, strong work ethic, and team skills.
❖ Strong problem solving and communication abilities is organized and efficient.
❖ Excited by and open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.
❖ Proven ability to meet deadlines in a high-paced work environment.
❖ Leadership skills to hire, coach, and manage a team.

Competencies:
❖ Team handling
❖ Training
❖ Teaching