Development Director

Job Description

Description The Role The Development Director, Andhra Pradesh will work closely with the Managing Director, Andhra Pradesh to build a comprehensive and sustainable expansion strategy for establishing private schools in the state. The Development Director will manage four verticals under this portfolio:Development Strategy (identifying viable real estate options for acquisition, lease, or purchase) Real Estate Management (managing the real estate process - legal review, lease/ property management, upkeep) Physical Planning (structural certification, building evaluation, architectural drawings, building permits) Construction (all aspects of physical construction, alterations, and repairs) This is an incredibly exciting position, and not for the faint at heart. There will be many intense hours and you will face more conflicting priorities and unexpected setbacks than you thought possible before the grand opening celebrations of the first cohort of academies are even underway. Luckily, there will be just as many rewards both personally and professionally. You will personally build a business that will drive innovation and reform in education in Andhra Pradesh for the majority of the region s population. Bridge s model is simple in its concept - hire experts to build best- in- class systems, use technology to deliver them, and data to track and improve upon them - but very laborious in its implementation. As the Development Director, you drive growth of new service delivery units, or academies. You direct and drive delivery for the teams that produce a full school ready to enroll children: real estate acquisition, urban and physical planning, and construction. You must interface and engage heavily with People Operations to ensure fully trained academy staff and with Supply Chain to ensure the materials needed for construction are ready to use, at or under the budget set. You will engage with Marketing to ensure your teams are integrated into holistic brand engagement and customer acquisition.This is a role for someone who is excited by taking on a radical challenge: delivering land at very low cost, securing planning approvals in 2 weeks, constructing and kitting an 8- 11 classroom school in 1 month. You will be excited the challenge of figuring out how to drive this all across Andhra Pradesh.This is not an armchair position. This is not a position where there is light management. This is a position for someone who can manage managers to succeed through coaching and empowerment but digs into the weeds when a manager is flailing and can personally help solve the problem and set a new pathway to success.This will be exhilarating but demanding. You ll be working on one of the biggest problems of developing economies and poverty alleviation, where trillions of dollars have had little effect, and thousands of initiatives have failed to change the systematic failure to provide children living in poverty with high- quality education. You are going to change this, enabling children from low- income families to access world- class basic education, democratizing the right to succeed.We re looking for ambition, organization, drive, intellect, problem solving, and respect for others. We are also looking for someone who has deep experience in managing managers and delivering work directly. And, critically, you know that you still have a lot to learn and you know that working at Bridge will give you that opportunity to build on your experience while learning anew. You will report to the Managing Director, Andhra Pradesh, with dotted line reporting into our shared services Development Group that supports work in all our territories,

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