Science Foundation (9-10th) Faculty

About Avanti

Avanti is an award-winning social enterprise established by IIT alumni in 2013 to provide an affordable, high-quality math and science education to high-school students. At present, we have 200 full-time employees, and support over 2000 students in 11 states across India (www.avanti.in).

Our founders are recipients of the Echoing Green, Ashoka and Draper Richards Kaplan Fellowships, and the Forbes 30 under 30 Global Award. Our investors include the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund, The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation and the Asha Impact Fund.

Overview of the Role and Requirements

The Avanti Faculty Member is responsible for effectively running classes for students in all batches assigned to him/her. People with more than 3 years experience may also be involved in training other junior teachers to become better teachers. He/she will be accountable to student performance and learning gains of students. The role of a faculty member primarily involves

• Prepare for and teach students: Prepare a lesson plan for each class, ensure an engaging and lively classroom.
• Track student work: Keep a regular tab on the progress, attendance, work (in class and homework) and test scores of students in all batches he/she is teaching through Avanti’s LMS portal
• Classroom management: Set expectations and manage behavior of students in each classroom he/she teaches to ensure that decorum is maintained, while creating an enjoyable student-friendly atmosphere
• Student doubt solving: Be available for solving doubts of students whenever required, outside classroom hours, if needed
• Mentoring students: Interact with students one-on-one to motivate and mentor them; especially those who are assigned as your mentees by the program manager or the centre coordinator
• Interaction with parents: Be present at all PTMs (and any other necessary instances) arranged by the program/sales manager to discuss student performance with parents
• Reporting on work and student performance : Compile and analyze weekly reports on student effort and performance from the LMS for his/her subject; send them to the academic manager whenever needed
• Training teachers: Work with the academic manager and the training team to help in the development of junior teachers (applicable only for senior teachers)

In addition, the faculty members may be required to work with the admissions team, at the beginning of the academic year, to address parent/ student queries about the organization, the course design and objectives

Requirements

The ideal teacher is someone with

• Passion to work in education and be a teacher
• Proven Academic proficiency in teaching 9-10th grades students
• Must have a minimum 1 year prior full time classroom teaching experience. For people with less than 1 year of experience, we will hire them as trainee faculty.
• Excellent Communication and teaching skills
• Belief that all students can learn
• Ability to connect with, inspire and motivate students

Benefits

Avanti offers competitive compensation that is at par with the best in the industry. In addition, all our employees are covered by a health insurance scheme. We also have extremely employee friendly HR policies that include adequate paid leaves (one of the highest and most flexible in the industry), facilitation of internal location transfer after completion of a tenure in a particular location etc.