EdVillage envisions a world where all children, regardless of their socio-economic status, have access to a high quality school that prepares them for higher education and a productive and fruitful life.

Our mission is to support Education Entrepreneurs (educators that have either started or plan to start schools) and School Leaders (principals of schools) from around the world that seek to start high quality, low cost or free, university preparatory schools in economically disadvantaged communities. We do this by providing access to world-class school leadership training, supporting entrepreneurs through the start-up phase of their school or network of schools, and by linking these entrepreneurs to each other and knowledge gained by others in their field.  EdVillage focuses on three aspects to improve education in multiple countries:

• Improving Innovative Schools – EdVillage identifies innovative schools and school networks around the world seeking to partner with those that share our belief that all children will learn.  We provide to these select schools and school networks specialized support in the form of targeting consulting.  This includes helping these models improve teaching and learning, assessment, school finance, fundraising, and strategic and annual planning.  Our team has over a decade of school start-up and support experience that we leverage to help strengthen our partners’ work in their country.
• Leadership Development – EdVillage has partnered with the KIPP Foundation which runs a world-class school leadership development program in the United States to create the Global Fellows Program.  The Global Fellows Program is specifically designed for educators from outside of the United States interested in leading or starting high performing schools in socio-economically disadvantaged communities in their country. The program includes several weeks of classroom instruction, one-on-one coaching, and a four month experiential learning experience where Fellows work at high performing schools under the guidance of successful school principal.
• Knowledge Sharing – EdVillage’s Knowledge Sharing work creates a central point where educators can exchange and learn best practices. The knowledge in the exchange will be drawn from individual teachers’ and school leaders’ experiences with children, from systems and processes implemented by networks of schools, and from successful nationwide approaches by governments.  It is through the development of a knowledge sharing platform that EdVillage will help improve schools and share lessons learned with the broader education community.

About the India School Leadership Program 

EdVillage believes that strong and visionary school leadership is a key success factor for quality schools. Principals or Head Teachers are the drivers of change and improvement at a school.  Outstanding school leaders are able to define their vision, create an aligned organizational culture with a focus on student achievement, hire and motivate excellent teachers, and implement proven instructional practices.

The EdVillage Global Fellows Program, a partnership with the KIPP Foundation in the United States, has been the primary way for us to provide educators world-class school leadership training.  EdVillage and KIPP recognize that bringing educators to the United States for the Global Fellows Program will become very expensive as the number of qualified educators increases.  The need to prepare a greater number of educators to lead high quality schools is so great in India that we have decided to extend our partnership in order to create the India School Leadership Program (ISLP). This program will incorporate the successful practices from other global leadership programs including creation of a competency model, a recruiting process, classroom based instruction, experiential training, coaching and mentoring, and development of a peer network.

The EdVillage ISLP will be the cornerstone of a network of global school leadership programs. It has the support of a number of influential education organizations including Teach For India, the Akanksha Foundation in India. A partnership with the KIPP Foundation’s School Leadership Program will provide the India School Leadership Program with access to one of the leading principal training models. In order to fully contextualize the program, the EdVillage ISLP will work with India-based NGOs and government agencies to create a new model of school leadership to lead India’s efforts to prepare millions of children from disadvantaged backgrounds for a quality education. A successful organization will forever change the possibilities for all children in India.

The Founding Executive Director’s Role

The Founding Executive Director (ED) of the India School Leadership Program (ISLP) will work closely with the co-founders of EdVillage to design and direct the annual ISLP, beginning with the first cohort of school leaders in May 2013. The Founding ED will be responsible for hiring and managing a team, recruiting and selecting school leader participants, designing the curriculum for the leadership program, implementing and ensuring the overall quality of the program, and participating in education reform discussions in India.

The Founding ED position starts in early 2012, preferably January or February. The Founding ED will first study excellent school leadership programs in the United States, with significant time spent learning from the KIPP School Leadership Programs team. This will require an extended stay of 4 to 6 months in the United States before returning to India. During this time, the Founding ED will work closely with the co-founders of EdVillage to finalize the plans for the ISLP and the recruitment and selection process for School Leader participants.

In September 2012, the Founding ED will return to India to continue hiring key staff, designing the ISLP plan, recruiting school leader participants, and finally implementing the program. The first ISLP will launch in May 2013.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Compensation 

Compensation will be commensurate with experience. Employee benefits will be negotiated.

How to Apply

Please send a cover letter and your CV to Ms. Suzanne Anthony, by February 15, 2012.