Head - School Partnerships

Univisory Global Education Private Limited; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

UniVisory Global Education is seeking a senior education professional to build and lead our School Partnerships function. This leadership role focuses on creating lasting institutional partnerships with 25–30+ Indian schools and expanding to the UAE and Singapore, heading from India in the near term.

The candidate should have deep credibility in the school ecosystem, strong relationships with school leaders, and a track record of strategic partnership success rather than transactional sales.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in education or school partnerships.
• Strong relationships with 25–30+ Indian schools.
• Direct connections with Principals, Heads of School, Directors, Trustees.
• Understanding of premium school decision-making processes.
• Experience building institutional partnerships, not transactional sales.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to engage senior school leadership.
• Willingness to travel across India.
• Entrepreneurial mindset; build a function from the ground up.
• Experience with IB, Cambridge or leading Indian curriculums is valuable.
• Existing UAE/Singapore school relationships would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Build UniVisory's School Partnerships Function from the ground up and define engagement with schools.
• Engage Principals, Heads of School, Founders, Trustees and senior management.
• Create high-value institutional partnerships delivering measurable value to schools and students.
• Represent UniVisory with school leadership at meetings and forums.
• Build a sustainable pipeline of top Indian schools and partnerships.
• Lead expansion into UAE and Singapore, starting with India as priority.

Skills

Relationship building

Executive communication

Strategic partnerships

Travel willingness

Entrepreneurial mindset

Job description

UniVisory Global Education is a premium global education and university admissions organisation working with ambitious high-school students aspiring to the world's leading universities, including the Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, Cambridge and other highly selective institutions across the US, UK and globally.

Our work goes significantly beyond conventional college counselling.

Through an integrated ecosystem spanning university admissions strategy, student profile development, academic research, test preparation, innovation, social impact and application development, we help students build the academic depth, intellectual curiosity and differentiated profiles required for highly selective global admissions.

UniVisory's ecosystem includes:

• UniVisory – end-to-end global university admissions and profile development
• Theoria Research Academy – advanced 1:1 research mentorship for high-school students
• TestXperts – technology-enabled SAT and university entrance test preparation
• Innovation, Social Impact and Experiential Learning initiatives designed to help students translate interests into meaningful real-world work

We work closely with students and families through a highly personalised model, with a strong emphasis on academic rigour, authentic profile building and long-term student outcomes.

As we enter our next phase of growth, we want to take this expertise beyond individual families and build deep, long-term partnerships with leading schools.

For this reason, we are creating a new leadership position: Head – School Partnerships.

The person joining us will have the opportunity to build this function from the ground up — beginning with leading schools across India and progressively developing our institutional presence in the UAE and Singapore.

About the Role

UniVisory is looking for a senior education professional to build and lead our School Partnerships function.

This is a newly created leadership role with a clear mandate: build meaningful, long-term relationships with leading schools and create partnerships that deliver genuine value to students, parents and school communities.

We are specifically looking for someone who already has strong, trusted relationships with leadership across 25–30+ reputed schools in India — relationships where a Principal, School Director, Founder, Trustee or senior Counsellor knows you, trusts you and will take your call.

This is not a conventional school sales or business-development role. We are looking for someone who understands schools, commands credibility within the ecosystem, and can convert relationships into high-quality institutional partnerships.

Over time, the role will also help expand UniVisory's school partnerships into UAE and Singapore.

What You Will Own

• 1. Build UniVisory's School Partnerships Function

  You will build this function from the ground up — defining how we engage schools, what creates genuine value for them, and how individual relationships evolve into sustained institutional partnerships.

  Build direct engagement with:

  • Principals and Heads of School
  • Founders, Promoters and Trustees
  • School Directors and senior management
  • College/Career Counselling Heads
  • Academic and Curriculum Leadership

  The expectation is not simply to create a large database of schools. It is to develop deep relationships with the right institutions and decision-makers.

• 3. Create High-Value Institutional Partnerships

  Work with schools to identify areas where UniVisory can meaningfully strengthen student outcomes and parent engagement through areas such as:

  • Global university admissions and readiness
  • Student profile and extracurricular development
  • Research and academic enrichment
  • SAT and university entrance preparation
  • Career and major exploration
  • Parent education and awareness
  • Workshops, masterclasses and school-specific initiatives

  The objective is to create partnerships that schools themselves consider valuable — rather than simply selling programs into schools.

• 4. Represent UniVisory with School Leadership

  Become a senior institutional face of UniVisory.

  Lead conversations, presentations and strategic meetings with school leadership and represent UniVisory at relevant school forums, conferences and education networks.

• 5. Build a Sustainable School Pipeline

  Develop a focused pipeline of high-quality schools across key Indian markets.

  Success will be measured not simply by the number of schools contacted, but by:

• 6. Expand into UAE & Singapore

  India will be the immediate priority.

  As the school partnership model develops, build relationships with leading international schools in the UAE and Singapore and identify opportunities for strategic expansion.

  Existing relationships in either market would be a strong advantage, but are not mandatory.

Who We Are Looking For

The ideal candidate will bring:

• 10+ years of experience in education, school partnerships, institutional relations, school leadership, counselling, international education or a closely related field
• Strong, demonstrable relationships with 25–30+ reputed schools in India
• Direct relationships with Principals, Heads of School, Founders, Directors, Trustees and/or senior College Counsellors
• A strong understanding of how premium schools make decisions
• Experience building institutional partnerships rather than transactional sales relationships
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to engage confidently with senior school leadership
• Strong commercial judgement without being overly sales-driven
• Willingness to travel across India
• An entrepreneurial mindset and comfort with building a new function from the ground up
• Experience with IB, Cambridge and leading Indian curriculum schools would be particularly valuable.
• Existing relationships with schools in the UAE and/or Singapore would be an added advantage.

The Relationship Test

For this role, the quality of your relationships matters more than the size of your contact database.

During the selection process, we will want to understand:

Which 25–30 leading schools do you have genuine relationships with today?

Who are your relationships with within those institutions?

Which of those school leaders would take your call and be open to a meaningful conversation?

We are looking for relationship capital built through credibility and trust, not simply a list of institutions previously contacted.

What Success Could Look Like

During the first 6–12 months, success would mean:

• Establishing UniVisory relationships with a focused group of leading schools
• Creating consistent access to senior school decision-makers
• Building a strong pipeline of institutional conversations
• Converting selected relationships into meaningful long-term partnerships
• Creating repeatable partnership models that deliver measurable value to schools, students and parents
• Establishing UniVisory as a credible thought partner within the school ecosystem
• Creating the foundation for future expansion into UAE and Singapore
• Building the roadmap for a larger School Partnerships team as the function scales

Why This Role Is Different

You are not joining an established school-sales team.

You will create the function.

You will have the opportunity to shape UniVisory's school strategy, partnership models, institutional positioning and eventually the team required to scale it.

For someone who has spent years building genuine relationships within the school ecosystem, this is an opportunity to turn that relationship capital into something much larger: a high-quality school partnership platform focused on helping ambitious students access the world's leading universities and opportunities.

Location

India — Delhi NCR preferred, but open to exceptional candidates based elsewhere

The role will involve regular travel across key school markets in India and, over time, UAE and Singapore.