Bridge International Academies - Director - Business Development

Director - Development

About company:

- Bridge partners with governments, donors, and parents to ensure that every child has access to an education that develops her full potential and creates the foundation for prosperity for the country.

- We are dedicated to supporting teachers, empowering school leaders, and ensuring every child has the learning support needed to master the national syllabus and have the confidence to succeed in a competitive world.

- Each of their project or country teams are supported through expertise and programming from additional offices around the world, combining world-leading expertise in core design areas with locally resident leadership and execution.

- We leverage experts, data, and technology in order to support and scale every aspect of quality education delivery. Bridge managed and supported schools are technology enabled and data-driven to ensure accountability in the classroom for both teachers performance and children's learning.

- The Bridge model delivers significant learning outcomes at large scale by combining technology and customized learning materials. At Bridge, we believe innovation and technology can transform learning. their model - which uses technology to deliver thoroughly researched and carefully designed daily lesson guides to teachers in their academies - is proven to increase learning outcomes for children.

- We are a solutions-driven, implementation-focused organization, using design principles to work in varied and often highly constrained contexts to ensure learning outcomes and positive development for children.

- Working in regional and national scales is important to us, as empowering entire generations of children with the core knowledge, skills, and confidence is what builds the foundation for a peaceful and prosperous future for us all.

- Their mission is to provide their pupils with life-changing education and we believe that every child should have a right to a world-class education regardless of her family's income.

- Core to their approach is the conviction that every child can learn, as long as the school she attends is committed to her development and puts her needs to learn at the forefront of all decisions. We have seen teachers and children transform and excel in both government and private schools that we support and manage.

About the role:

- You will work closely with the Managing Director, Andhra Pradesh to build a comprehensive and sustainable expansion strategy for establishing private schools in the state. As

- Development Director, you will manage four verticals under your portfolio:

- Development Strategy (identifying viable real estate options for acquisition, lease, or purchase) critical thinking to take this forward

- Real Estate Management (managing the real estate process - legal review, lease/property management, upkeep)

- Physical Planning (structural certification, building evaluation, architectural drawings, building permits)

- Construction (all aspects of physical construction, alterations, and repairs)

Your responsibilities will include:

- Delivering land at very low cost, securing planning approvals in 2 weeks, constructing and kitting an 8-11 classroom school in 1 month. You will be figuring out how to drive this all across Andhra Pradesh.

- Managing managers and setting them up for success through coaching and empowerment but digs into the weeds when a manager is flailing and personally help solve the problem and set a new pathway to success.

- You'll be enabling children from low-income families to access world-class basic education, democratizing the right to succeed and alleviate poverty.

- This is one of the biggest problems of developing economies, where trillions of dollars have had little effect, and thousands of initiatives have failed to change the systematic failure to provide children living in poverty with high-quality education.

Must haves/absolute deal breakers:

- 10+ years of work experience of partnerships and business development

- You have managed projects for expansion of physical footprints

- You have exposure to the real estate market sector

Preferences/nice to haves:

- You can speak in Telugu

- You have the knowledge of governance of schools under the right to education act

- You know how to get schools registered and licensed

- You have worked in a business expansion role with a chain of K-12 schools. eg Mount Litera, GEMS Education, Ravindra Bharati, Chaitanya Bharathi.