AVP, Academics and Training

The AVP Academics and Training is a key leadership role at PlanetSpark in which the incumbent will lead
the entire academics team for a large and fast-growing pool of teachers. The academics team will play a
pivotal role in building the fastest growing English Language learning company for kids to shape the
future of next generation of confident speakers, readers and creative writers. This is a high accountability
and high impact role, working directly with the founders.

Eligibility Criteria:
- Willing to work 6 days a week
- Willing to work in a Series A funded startup and build everything from scratch
- 7 to 14 years of Academics, Teacher Training or Content Background (Preferably in English Learning)
- Past entrepreneurial experience is highly valued

Roles and Responsibilities/ Mission Statement:

The AVP, Academics and Training will be the sole custodian for Academics, Content, Teacher Training
and Teacher Selection in the team

Teacher Training Design and Delivery:

• Design and enhance teacher training spanning pedagogy, online classroom management,
content understanding, content delivery and company policies
• Create plans for continuous and ongoing training of existing teachers
• Deliver teacher trainings and develop and lead a team of teacher trainers
• Create and implement teacher developmental plans

Teacher On-The-Job Training:

• Design and implement On-The-Job training programme for new teachers
• Track and monitor progress of teachers

Teacher Quality:
• Monitor teacher quality through class observation and student outcomes
• Design and execute interventions for teachers to improve instructional quality

Content Ownership:
• Understand the English language learning content and recommend changes
• Provide feedback to the content team based on in-class experience
• Design and develop ideas for new courses for students

Teacher Selection:
• Conduct teacher selection interviews and improve the selection process

What are the behavioral attributes that we are looking for?

- A keen desire to drive learning outcomes and teacher excellence for a fast-growing Series A funded
startup
- An apparent Founder's mindset i.e. A mindset where the person can own up learning outcomes and
teacher quality and shape it independently like a Founder

Application Process:
Interested candidates could email their profiles at maneesh@planetspark.in with their CVs and a brief
paragraph on why they are interested in this role.