ORCHIDS

The International School

JOB DESCRIPTION

Role: Academic Talent Council - Subject Specialist

Teacher assessment & selection - SST

Role title: Subject Specialist, Academic Talent Council (ATC) [SST]

Function: Academic Talent Council (central teacher selection)

Reports to: ATC Lead

Location/base: [Bengaluru] with travel across branches & hiring camps

Employment type: Full-time, permanent

Travel: Periodic for demo rounds, campus drives and peak-season

hiring camps

Background required: Academic / teaching (NOT recruitment)

About the role

Orchids hires around 2,500 teachers a year. The Academic Talent Council is a dedicated, central team whose only job is to assess and select teachers for academic subjects nothing else. As a Subject Specialist, you are the academic bar for every SST teacher we hire. You test, interview and observe candidates, score them objectively, and recommend who joins our classrooms. Crucially,



you stay accountable for how those teachers perform once they start; your success is measured by whether the teachers you select are still succeeding at the 90-day mark. This is not a recruitment role, and we are not looking for recruiters. We are looking for a strong educator who can reliably tell an excellent [SST] teacher from an average one, and do it

consistently, at volume, across the country.

Who this role is for

An experienced teacher, HOD, mentor or teacher-trainer who knows what excellent SST teaching

looks like and wants to shape the quality of teaching across an entire school network, not just one

classroom.

What you will do

Assess & select
- Run grade-band-specific subject knowledge tests and situational judgement assessments for English candidates.
- Conduct standardised, 45-minute academic interviews covering learning outcomes, pedagogy, classroom management, assessment and differentiated learning.
- Run demo/explanation rounds, watch candidates teach and evaluate teaching skills in action: use of examples, differentiati

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