Deputy General Manager - HR - Education Startup

Job Title: DGM - Human Resources

Key Role of the DGM-HR is to lead the entire HR operations and activities for the corporate group as well as for all the client schools. The DGM-HR is expected to initiate/build/lead/drive the following:

- talent acquisition

- recruitment

- payroll (compensation & benefits)

- employee engagement

- people strategy

- strategy for HR

Chief Responsibilities will include:

- Lead and drive corporate HR and line HR functions at a company where growth trajectory is extremely ambitious and time sensitive

- Manage the current team comprising close to 20 members (executives, senior executives and managers)

- Recruit, on an annual basis, close to 500 teachers and 400 sales executives within stipulated budgets

- Recruit for leadership positions and explore more creative and cost efficient ways of hiring persons across various positions

- Initiate a performance management system that caters to different types of business needs

- Streamline payroll that is being administered for 3500+ persons for accurate and timely processing of salaries

- Improve current attendance management systems to make them more robust and better able to cope with escalations

- Train and develop HR business partner teams in responding to needs of the Business in an efficient and timely manner

- Create a calendar of key HR activities and roll them out in a phased manner

- Build and maintain stronger compliance systems with a target of addressing a first-time, intensive HR audit

- Draft a more detailed HR policy documentation with inputs from stakeholders

- Initiate more engaging employee engagement activities which promote a defined culture of the company and include voice of the employee as part of this process

Desired Candidate Profile:

- Number of years of experience - 7-10 years

Qualifications: MBA with premier b school

- Preference will be given to candidates with strong retail / operations experience in HR

- Strong People management skills

About the Firm:

K-12 Techno Services Pvt. Ltd. is a leading education management services company that operates and manages over 50 schools: 49 in AP, 5 in Bangalore and 5 in Mumbai and 1 in Pune this year.

We provide our end-to end services through service contracts with trusts that own the schools - in that sense, we effectively manage and operate the entire school. We are pioneers in bringing professional management to K12 education in India.

Our goal is expansion through standardisation of quality - in this context, we help re-brand the school and take over its entire operations, marketing and communications. Standardisation of academic delivery is ensured through our Central Academics Team, which conducts its own research into leading education practices and designs our own curriculum, textbooks and lesson plans with micro details.

We are currently funded through the VC route - our first tranche of investment was by Seqouia Capital -SONG in 2010, followed by Sequoia again in 2011 and Navneet Publications, with whom we have strategic alliances.

We are currently operating with 2 brands - Gowtham Model Schools (GMS) in Andhra Pradesh (40+ schools providing state board syllabus) and Orchids - The International Schools (OIS) (pan-India brand of 10+ schools providing the CBSE syllabus).

See links for more information about the company and the schools:

1. http://k12technoservices.com/

2. http://www.orchidsinternationalschool.com/

3. http://www.gowthammodelschools.com/