Chief Executive Officer, MakerGhat
Full time. Based in Mumbai/Delhi/Bangalore. Reports to the Board.
About MakerGhat
India is raising job seekers when it needs makers. Almost half of our young people are considered unemployable, many of them with college degrees, and the country needs tens of millions of new kinds of jobs this decade, much of it work that does not exist yet. Our school system was not built for this, and we aspire to transform this reality in the next decade.
MakerGhat exists to put doing back at the heart of how children learn. Our vision is straightforward: an India where every child learns by doing. Our mission is to add a doing layer to learning for 11 to 16 year olds, the middle and high school years where a scientific temper and the habit of building, fixing and questioning take root.
We work at three levels.
(1) We run our own direct programs, which are our lab and our proof of what works.
(2) We partner with governments and other organisations to take proven models wide.
(3) And we build the shared frameworks,
standards and measures that can shift the field nationally.
We are at an inflection point. Over the next three years we intend to go deep in three flagship states, build a best in class body of work in curriculum and measurement, and grow into a ₹100 crore organisation. We are now looking for a Chief Executive Officer to lead that journey.
The role and why it matters now
This is the most important hire in MakerGhat's history. The founders have built the thesis, the early programs and the network. What the organisation needs now is a leader on the ground in India who can turn that into a focused, rigorous, well run institution that lasts beyond its founders.
You will be the top of the house. You will own delivery, the team, the quality bar and the day to day, and you will be the person who makes the strategy real. Almost everything else in our plan unlocks once this seat is filled.
What you will own
Direct programs: Build and run 25 to 30