Chief of Staff Founders Office

About Rocket Learning

Rocket Learning is a high growth ed-tech non-profit with the mission of catalyzing early childhood education and community engagement in India. We work with the central government and state governments to impact over 4.5 mn children. Established by a passionate founding group (HBS, IIT, IIM, Rochester, MBB, start-up alumni), board and backed by reputed funders, we are a diverse team of passionate, energetic and optimistic folks with a shared ambition of transforming India’s education system.

The Role

We are looking for a strong candidate to come on board as a Chief of Staff in the Founder’s Office team. This person should be analytically sharp, able to support in executing strategic initiatives and mission critical priorities closely with the co-founders. The role will require working closely with Operation teams, our Behaviour Change team, and the Data analytics team, as well as include engaging with senior team leads across functions to ensure cross-functional alignment and effectiveness.

Core responsibilities

• Support the Founder across his/her respective project portfolios - from designing and launching new initiatives, strategic road mapping, solving for team process and optimisation, managing relationships with key stakeholders, investors, board members, to hiring for critical roles - your responsibilities would be an extension of problem statements that the Co-founders are solving for themselves
• Provide direct strategic support to

  state operations teams

  to strengthen execution, problem-solving, and performance improvement. Translate analysis into actionable recommendations and monitor progress against goals.
• Partner with the team that designs and rolls out large-scale parent and community communication campaigns - from short videos to WhatsApp messages and on-ground activities - using insights and data to strengthen reach, engagement, and real behaviour change in support of early childhood education.
• Through this portfolio of projects, you would then be responsible for:
• Conducting detailed analysis across various mission-critical priorities and thereby introduce new processes or systems
• Devising and documenting strategic roadmaps, learnings, insights to be used both internally and externally
• Support the ideation and execution of new initiatives by working with cross-functional teams
• Become a strong thought-partner for the Co-founder(s) you are working with by supporting them across discussions, collateral creation, brainstorming etc.

Critical factors for success

• Self-driven and ability to take ownership of given tasks
• Ability to document solutions in a clear and crisp manner
• 2+ years of past top tier experience in either management consulting, analytics/finance, strategy/ project management roles in the social impact sector
• Demonstrate analytical and logic skills with a focus problem solving frameworks
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

• Excellent GSuite/Microsoft office skills

Interests and background

● Interest and humility to understand, respect and learn from, low-income smartphone users

● Educational background: Students and professionals from any background/major are welcome to apply

● Time commitment: Minimum of 8 hrs per day, 5 days per week

● Location: Preferably Hyderabad, may be managed remotely as well (on a case to case basis)

What we offer

This role is a great opportunity to create catalytic impact, develop your core skills, learn how to build and grow a large scale start-up, obtain mentorship from strong leaders. After 2-3 years in this role, the Chief of Staff will be ready to lead their own team/organization, and could choose to remain with Rocket Learning in a team leader capacity, start their own organization or go on to a high quality masters program.

Alums of this role received founder recommendations and were selected by/ attended Harvard Business School, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, MIT Sloan, Wharton and other prestigious programs.