About Alcovia

We are building a premier community of driven teenagers aged 11-18, giving them the right exposure and exploration opportunities through:

- Peer learning
- Skilled mentorship
- Hyper-personalised guidance on the careers and projects they pick up

This empowers them to:
- Discover the right career and build conviction in it
- Increase their probability of cracking top universities by at least 50% .

We are building Alcovia to become the World's First Ambition Building Program.

About the Role

We are looking for a driven and empathetic Career & Academic Strategist to anchor our Gurugram chapter. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys autonomy, and wants to shape both the growth of students and the future of education.

You are the custodian of everything Alcovia does for the Alcovians

, across the full year. One person owns that relationship end to end: the academics, the ambition, the wellbeing, and the parents behind it. Nothing gets handed off.

You will also help build the advisory model itself. This is a 0-to-1 team, so the frameworks you design for your own Alcovians become the ones we scale

.

The ideal candidate is an experienced educator or advisor with an international education background, exceptional communication skills, and a genuine passion for student growth, mentorship and scalable developmental frameworks.

What You'll Do?

Personal Guidance

- Design year-long, personalised roadmaps aligned to each student’s academic and personal goals.
- Help students brainstorm startup ideas, secure internship projects, unlock impact projects, and support them through coveted competitions.
- Lead and monitor monthly milestones , track progress, and give actionable feedback that keeps students motivated and accountable.

- Recommend lifestyle changes based on their fitness and sleep data.
- Help students run their lives on a Google Calendar so they move with higher and better intent day to day.
- Provide holistic wellbeing support,



fostering resilience, self-care habits, and a safe, trusting environment.

Skill and Career Development

- Build critical 21st-century skills such as communication, leadership and collaboration, through one-on-one sessions.

- Track those skills across the workshops and professional conversations the Alcovia programme enables.
- Facilitate exposure to diverse career pathways by connecting students to internships, competitions, workshops and mentors.

Parent and Community Engagement

- Serve as a trusted liaison with parents , providing updates, feedback and strategic guidance.

- Lead and conduct monthly feedback reviews for the programme, and pass findings to the relevant stakeholders to improve it.

Academic Support

- Analyse past academic performance to identify strengths, gaps and areas for improvement, then build student-specific strategies to study better, recall faster and work more effectively.

- Track syllabus completion, set realistic goals, and provide strategies that keep students on track to achieve their best.
- Guide students through the IB/IGCSE curricula and support informed decision-making on academic pathways.

Personal Branding Charter

- Oversee personal brand charter fulfillment, month on month, for onboarded students.
- Guide students on content strategy so they stay engaged with building a personal brand throughout the year.

Programme Innovation and Growth

- Contribute to developing and scaling Alcovia’s advisory framework by experimenting, iterating and implementing best practices.

- Lead initiatives independently ,



taking ideas from concept to execution and driving measurable impact.

Who You Are?

- Undergraduate and/or postgraduate degree (preferred) from a Top 50 global university (e.g. Harvard, Imperial, McGill, UCL, NUS, UToronto).

- 4+ years of proven success in education consulting, K–12 settings, curriculum or learning design, or other student-facing advisory roles .

- Strong understanding of IB / IGCSE curricula and international education pathways.
- An exceptional communicator who builds trust easily with both students and parents.

- A strategic, student-first thinker with a passion for mentorship, coaching and teen development.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership, operate with autonomy, and translate ideas into scalable solutions.

- A background in psychology, education or cognitive sciences is a plus.

Why Join Alcovia?

- Compensation: CTC up to ₹20 lakhs per annum, including ESOPs for the right candidate.

- Real ownership: a role with visibility from day one, and the chance to build from 0 to 1

rather than run someone else’s playbook.

- The team: lean, mission-driven, currently building in stealth.

- A meritocracy: titles don’t matter here; the best ideas win.

- Mentorship for you: support to win at goals well beyond this organisation.

- The work itself: a meaningful, lasting impact on students’ academic journeys and futures, at a company redefining the education industry.

About the Founder Sahil has 8 years of experience in the e-commerce industry, with expertise in blitzscaling brands. Some key highlights:

- Served as Chief of Staff at Nothing .

- Scaled Tecno on Flipkart from ₹50 lakh to ₹660 crore in 11 months , handling a business scale of ₹3,000 crore annually.

- Headed sell-side for Farmiso, the groceries app on Meesho.
- Was the first employee of Nothing’s sub-brand CMF, scaling it to ₹1,000 crore in 7 months .

How to Apply? Fill in the interest form: https://forms.gle/LPgUEZGoEeUG2KCB7

📌 Career & Academic Strategist (New Delhi)
🏢 Alcovia
📍 New Delhi