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About Career Ready India Initiative
Career Ready India Initiative (CRII) is a national programme that provides schools with a free, fully-funded career guidance system — no cost to the school, no data compromise, no strings. The programme solves India's career misdirection crisis at scale, targeting 10,000 schools nationally.
The Role
This is a relationship-first role, not a sales role. You are not selling anything to schools — CRII is free. Your job is to identify, approach, pitch and onboard the bodies that sit above schools: national and state school associations, principal networks, diocesan education boards, school chains and trust managements, and community education trusts.
Key Responsibilities
Alliance Building & Outreach
● Identify and prioritise associations, trusts, principal networks and school chains from the CRII master tracker; add new ones continuously.
● Initiate contact with office bearers — presidents, general secretaries, education directors — via phone, WhatsApp, email and in-person visits.
● Secure a slot at association meetings, AGMs, and education conferences; present CRII's value proposition.
● Build and maintain relationships with national bodies (NISA, NPSC, ASISC, IPSC, AIP, IPN, TAISI) as well as district and city-level groups.
● Identify the right champion inside each association — the person whose credibility drives member schools to act.
School Onboarding & Conversion
● Convert an association endorsement into concrete school sign-ups: follow up with individual schools referred by the association.
● Guide each onboarding school through the CRII registration process; co-ordinate with the internal academic team for smooth setup.
● Maintain a pipeline tracker showing — by association — how many schools are approached, pitched, committed and live.
● Achieve monthly and quarterly onboarding targets set by the Founder.
Stakeholder Engagement & Events
● Represent CRII at education summits,
● Support the planning and hosting of CRII-branded school counsellor and principal events (in-person and virtual).
● Coordinate with the media and marketing team to get association endorsements into press coverage.
Reporting & Intelligence
● Maintain the master association tracker: contact details, meeting dates, status, next steps and blockers.
● Provide a weekly onboarding dashboard to the Founder — schools approached, pitched, committed, live.
● Feed competitive intelligence back into the team: what objections associations raise, which peer initiatives schools are already enrolled in.
Ideal Profile
Experience
● 3–5 years in school partnerships, education business development, institutional sales or alliance management.
● Prior exposure to the Indian K-12 ecosystem — school associations, EdTech, education publishing, or a role where you called on principals and school managements regularly.
● Demonstrated ability to open doors with senior education stakeholders (association presidents, trustees, diocesan offices, school chain HQs).
● Track record of converting relationships into signed agreements or measurable enrolments.
Skills & Competencies
● Exceptional spoken and written English; functional Hindi; any South Indian or regional language is a strong advantage for national coverage.
● Confident presenter — you can walk into an AGM of 50 principals and hold the room.
● Organised, self-driven and comfortable owning a pipeline without daily hand-holding.
● CRM or tracker discipline: you maintain clean notes and next-steps after every call.
● Comfort with WhatsApp, email and phone as primary sales channels for relationship-led outreach.
Mindset
● Mission-driven: you believe India's career misdirection problem is real and worth solving.
● Persistent without being pushy — you understand that association heads are volunteer leaders with packed calendars.
● Entrepreneurial: this team is lean. You will figure things out, not wait to be told.
● Credible: school leaders can smell inauthenticity instantly. You represent a free, no-agenda initiative; you need to embody that.
Nice to Have
● Experience working with or inside a school, education NGO, CBSE/ICSE association, or religious education trust.
● Existing relationships with school association office bearers in Mumbai or Maharashtra.
● Prior experience presenting at principal forums.
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