Assistant Program Leader — Community & Culture

Location: DPS Varanasi (on-campus; relocation supported for the right candidate)

Reports to: Program Leader, Aarambh

Employment type: Full-time

Experience: 8–12 years

CTC: ₹12–18 LPA, calibrated to experience

Internal culture

• - Build the connective tissue between teachers, parents, and children — PTMs that actually work, structured touchpoints, feedback loops that surface problems early
• - Nurture the Aarambh teacher culture: onboarding rhythms, off-classroom community, the small rituals that make a programme feel like a programme instead of a set of periods
• - Bridge parent concerns to teachers and teacher voices to parents.
  What we're looking for:-
• 8–12 years in a K-12 school, education programme, or ed-org, with real ownership of parent community, admissions, or growth work — not support-side comms
• Direct exposure to IB, PYP, IGCSE, or another progressive-education framework; comfortable holding a pedagogy conversation with a curious parent
• -A track record of moving numbers — enrolment, retention, referral rates, community engagement, whichever is closest — with specifics you can point to
• Fluent Hindi and English; reads Varanasi well; can code-switch between a senior parent conversation and a teacher one-on-one
• Based in Varanasi or willing to relocate. Community is built in person; this is not remote or hybrid

Nice to have

- Background at a school that positioned itself as an elite or aspirational choice in its city

- Experience designing or running a parent council, alumni network, or founding-family programme

- Sensibility for design and communications — the brochure, the WhatsApp message, the event feel

Compensation: ₹12–18 LPA CTC, based on experience. Standard DPS Varanasi benefits.