Program Associate- Teaching role (Chemistry)

About The Company

Avanti (www.avanti.in) is an award winning social enterprise established by IIT alumni in 2010 to provide an affordable, high-quality education to disadvantaged students aspiring to study at India’s top colleges. At present, we have 200 full-time employees, and support over 2000 students in 8 states across India.

Avanti is a PanIIT Alumni initiative, winner of Stanford BASES 2010 and recipient of the Echoing Green, Ashoka and Draper Richards Kaplan Fellowships. Our investors include the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund and The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. Our academic board is chaired by Prof. Eric Mazur, Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard.

Website: http://avanti.in/

Job Location: Bangalore

Desired experience: 1 year in teaching/education sector

Salary: INR 3 LPA to 4 LPA

Batch: 2014/2015/2016

Course Specialization: B.Tech/B.Sc/M.Sc(Chemistry)

Probation/Training Period: 6 month

Tentative date of joining: Immediate

Tentative date of interview: Will be communicated post registration window is closed.

* The shortlisted candidates will be sent Admit Cards/Call Letters on their registered mail Id, which they will need to, carry on the date of Interview. No candidate will be entertained by the company without the formal intimation from Aspiring Minds.

Job Description:

The role of a Program Associate involves the following tasks, functions and responsibilities:

Classroom Teaching and Facilitation –

- Prepare for classroom sessions in advance and teach students at different Avanti centres for ~ 30 hours a week using Avanti’s unique pedagogy that requires students to view recorded videos, discuss conceptual questions with peers and work collaboratively on problem sets/assignments

- Actively monitor students’ classwork and homework to ensure they are on track to achieving their learning goals

Mentoring, Career Guidance and Academic Support

- Build strong relationships with students through one-on-one interaction sessions, helping students overcome their problems – both academic and personal – in the process

- Regularly work with students to break down their academic workload into small achievable goals; Track their progress on these goals

- Debrief with students regularly on their test scores and classroom performance (both school and Avanti), suggesting ideas on how they can improve the next time

- Enable students chalk out their future career paths by providing them information about different options available to them based on their strengths and interests  

Parent engagement-

- Send monthly updates and discuss student performance with their parents’ person/over phone; document next steps on every such conversation

- Conduct Parent Teacher Meetings (PTMs) in partner schools every 3 months and share aggregate and individual reports on student performance with parents  

Data Analysis-

- Consistently collect and upload data and feedback about classroom and test performance on Avanti’s online learning management system

- Periodically analyze student performance for his/her respective subject across all batches he/she teachers

- Use these dashboards to generate insights on reasons for poor student performance; devise solutions to address those problems

Additional Initiatives-

- Create a healthy learning culture by working on initiatives like (but not limited to) arranging expert sessions, organizing field trips/excursions, planning scientific debates in the classroom etc.

Skill Set Required:

- Passion for working in education and teaching.

- Proficiency in Class XI and XII Chemistry.

- Belief that all students can learn and achieve their goals.

- Ability to connect with, inspire and motivate students.

- Excellent communication skills.

- Excellent critical thinking skills, including the ability to link cause and effect and generate solutions to problems.

Interview Process:

- Academic Test

- Demo Round

- HR Interview