LEAD School Hiring For LEAD School – Zonal Academic Excellence Director at Delhi, Delhi, India Full Time

Job Description – Zonal Academic Excellence Director (ZAED) North

Location : Delhi (NCR)

About LEAD

Sumeet Mehta and Smita Deorah co-founded LEAD School in Mumbai in 2012.

We partner with Private K-12 Schools across the country and visibly improve their learning outcomes, their operations, and their enrolments.

Our mission is to empower India by making an excellent education affordable and accessible to every child.

We do this through an integrated education system that brings together world-class curriculum and pedagogy, developed after years of research and analysis of successful school systems across the globe, with a multi-modal framework, delivered seamlessly through tech.

LEAD is the market leader and the fastest-growing school Ed-Tech company in India.

Our mission is to provide excellent education to every child.

LEAD has seen rapid adoption – growing 13X over the last two years – with its products impacting 9000 schools across the country.

It is still early days, with the company at less than 5% penetration and aiming to get to 60,000 schools as clients by FY28.

LEAD is a value-driven organization with Integrity, Growth Mindset, Being the Cause, Courage, Empathy, Excellence with velocity, Live the mission & Customer Centricity & We are a Tribe as its core values.

LEAD recently acquired the Pearson K12 business in India, the world’s leading learning company. With this acquisition, LEAD now has a wide product portfolio that can empower learning in a wide range of schools.

Vision

By 2028, LEAD will provide propulsive learning to 25 million students across 60,000 schools in India.

Propulsive learning builds confidence to succeed in life, on par with their peers from top-ranked schools in India.

And this confidence is built on the 5 skills of conceptual understanding, thinking skills, communication skills, collaboration skills and exposure – something that their local school cannot provide.

By building confident children, we build a confident India.

School Ed-Tech

• LEAD is the leading school ed-tech company in the country. While most consumer ed-tech has been focused on supplemental education, outside the formal school system, LEAD is transforming in-school learning.
• There are approximately 270 million school going students in the country, each spending 6+ hours everyday at school.
• The opportunity to impact core education and student learning outcomes here is much larger and deeper.
• Within this, LEAD is focused on the affordable private school segment, where quality of teachers and curriculum is severely lacking.
• LEAD is doing this at scale through an integrated tech-backed solution. We empower schools 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.
• LEAD has a proven track record of outcomes across all stakeholders – students, teachers, parents and schools.
• For students, our multi-modal way of teaching and personalized learning by understanding their areas of improvement has reduced learning gaps and improved scores significantly.
• For teachers, we simplify their lives through tech based solutions that enable better monitoring of student performance and tracking of classes while upskilling them through workshops with education experts and continuous feedback.
• For parents, we enable higher visibility into their children’s performance and content that they are exposed to through a dedicated module on the student app.
• For schools, along with the execution of our education framework, we also provide marketing, admission and administrative services to simplify their operations and improve their commercial School has raised a total of US$166 Million in funding through five rounds. Key investors include Elevar Equity, Westbridge Capital, and GSV Ventures. In Jan 2022, LEAD raised $100 M (Series E) led by Westbridge Capital and GSV Ventures.

Key Metrics

• ARR between US$60-70 M
• 9,000+ schools
• 100K teachers and 4 Mn students.

LEAD School Founders

Sumeet Mehta is Co-Founder and CEO of LEAD, India’s largest School EdTech company.

As Co-Founder and CEO of LEAD, Sumeet’s mission is to make excellent education accessible for every child, by transforming schools across India. Sumeet draws inspiration from his journey of growing up in a family of teachers in a small town in India. After running businesses in consumer products and education companies, Sumeet became a teacher and school leader. His experience of running schools with his Co-Founder helped him develop LEAD’s Integrated System and scale the company to its current size.

LEAD-powered schools provide students with international standard education and national-level exposure to develop student confidence by building 21st-century skills such as Communication, Collaboration and Critical Thinking.

LEAD Integrated System combines deeply researched curriculum, pedagogy and technology to improve student learning outcomes in over 9000 schools across India, for over 5 million students and empowers more than 100,000 teachers. Sumeet also runs LEAD’s YouTube series Parenting Aaj Kal, where he coaches parents on common modern parenting challenges.

Before founding LEAD, Sumeet was the Chief Executive Officer at Zee Learn (2007 to 2012) which grew 5X during his tenure. Prior to this, Sumeet spent eight years at Procter & Gamble Singapore, where he led Healthcare and Skincare businesses across the APAC region.

An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and PEC Chandigarh, Sumeet grew up in Pathankot, Punjab, and currently lives in Mumbai with his spouse, Smita who is also Co-Founder, LEAD and their two teenage kids. Sumeet is an avid reader and loves traveling to new countries.

Smita Deorah is Co-Founder and Co-CEO at LEAD, India’s largest School Edtech company and the first unicorn in the segment.

A chartered accountant-turned-educator, Smita has over 22 years of experience in Finance, Leadership and Education. At LEAD, Smita is responsible for education research, product development and capability building. She has been instrumental in developing the LEAD Integrated System, which is benchmarked with the best education systems globally and contextualised for schools in India.

Smita is passionate about excellence and values in academia. Her goal is to bring quality learning to underserved communities and to bridge the gap between India’s high-fee schools and its affordable private schools, so that every child can be nurtured to her true potential.

Prior to co-founding LEAD, Smita founded Sparsh, an NGO that worked for the uplift of Anganwadis in Mumbai in association with the Maharashtra government. She also implemented a ‘pre-school in a box’ solution in 16 Anganwadis to prepare students for school, and to reduce dropouts and low attendance.

Prior to this, Smita spent nine years at Procter & Gamble Singapore and India as a leader in Finance, Treasury and Strategy.

Smita is a great believer in continuous learning. After graduating from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics and becoming a Chartered Accountant, she completed Executive Programs from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Smita is the only leader from India to be conferred the 2022 Power of Women (POW!) award for her work in providing equal access to the future through quality education for all. She is also a recipient of the ‘Woman Ahead’ award at ET Startup Awards 2022. Smita has been recognised as one among the top 100 female entrepreneurs who are building and shaping India.

She lives in Mumbai with her family and loves travelling to different parts of the world.

Role

• As a ZAED, you will be responsible for shaping the future of lakhs 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.

Responsibilities

• Build a strategic academic roadmap for all school in the zone in consultation with other teams Lead and coach (the Excellence Team) a team of Academic Excellence Directors and Academic Advisors to deliver on student and teacher performance promises made to schools .
• Design, monitor and improve processes to track integrated curriculum and 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.

Skills And Qualifications

• 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

Good to have – MBA/ Masters in Education from Tier 1 Institute.

Reporting to: Chief Academic Excellence Officer

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