ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW
WhiteHat Jr is a well-funded early stage Ed-Tech start-up backed by bulge-bracket VCs and an award-winning management team. The founder is highly reputed with a blue-chip pedigree and a history of successful exits. Prototype and Phase 1 has blockbuster results, targeting an immediate $1.1+ Billion market, enabling tremendous experience and wealth generation in a short time for a dynamic, out of the box thinker.
JOB PROFILE
Whitehat Jr is looking for a passionate educationist with a strong background in programming to join as Vice President - Curriculum. This role involves working with the latest technology tools like code.org, Blockly, Scratch to develop the world's finest coding curriculum for children between the age of 6 to 16. The curriculum VP will focus on developing students- computational thinking skills and activity-based learning. This role also includes writing well-structured detailed lesson plans for the above-mentioned curriculum and training teachers on implementing the same on a large scale. It provides educators an opportunity to share their expertise at a global scale with thousands of children and hundreds of educators.
Location: Mumbai-based Only. We Work - Chromium, Powai.
Job Designation: VP, Curriculum
Reporting To: Head of User Experience
JOB DESCRIPTION
- Designing the world's finest curriculum on teaching 21st-century skills to students using coding as the medium.
- Develop the Curricular Vision and Course Plan to impart coding skills to kids across different grades with clearly defined Outcomes and Assessment methodologies for the same.
- Completely own the performance for the Curriculum in terms of various parameters viz. Curriculum Consumption Rate by Students, Renewal Rates, etc and ensure a very High Net Promoter Score from a Curriculum Perspective as well as ensure Learning Outcomes defined are met.
- Identify areas for curricular or instructional change, working closely with the Teacher and Student Community
- Guide the Curriculum Team consisting of Curriculum Directors, Assistants and Instructional Designers to ensure that the Curriculum meets Top Quality standards and Curriculum Lesson Plan Delivery Targets are met.
- Working with a team of teachers on implementing the curriculum on a mass global scale and ensure that Teachers are imparting the Curriculum to the Students as intended.
- Come up with Ideas for upgrading/creating new sub-categories in collaboration with Marketing, Sales and Curriculum Research Teams
DESIRED PROFILE/SKILL SETS
- 10 to 12 years in Curriculum development with an excellent academic background, functional coding skills, and experience in teaching or developing a curriculum for top schools are preferred.
- Qualification: Engineering Graduate/ Post Graduate from premium institutes with Coding skills.
- An in-depth understanding of activity-based teaching-learning methods with a strong knowledge of pedagogies to teach 21st Century Skills.
- Deep knowledge of programming concepts like algorithms, loops, etc and prior coding experience
- Prior experience of curriculum creation and/or teaching in International School is preferred.
- Aggressive: - Take no prisoners- approach. The founder is extremely driven and aggressive, and the curriculum director should have the same all-consuming drive.
- Systems Thinking: Create strong and out of the box curriculum to build a rocket-ship.
- Multi-Dimensional, "Growth Hacker" Skill Set with a strong sense of ownership for work.
Backed by reputed VCs and an award-winning management team, this is a rare opportunity for a passionate, driven hire to see a business being built from scratch and gain life-changing experience.
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