Head of Educational Design & Innovation [6 / 10 / 2025]...

About Innova Schools :

Through pioneering approaches that set the bar regionally, Innova Schools is redefining what’s possible in education. Founded in 2011, Innova Schools is LatAm’s largest school network providing high-quality, affordable education to emerging middle class families at an average monthly tuition of USD 150.

Over the past decade, Innova Schools has expanded to over 80 schools, positively transforming the lives of 80,000 families across Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. By 2030, we aim to increase our impact to over 200+ schools throughout the region, shaping mobilizing leaders who transform their communities into more prosperous places.

Role Mission :

Innova Schools is looking for a visionary and action-oriented leader at the intersection of education and innovation, with the skills and passion to lead the design, development, and implementation of transformative learning and teaching initiatives across the network.

• Own Innova’s Educational Model : Serve as the “guardian of Innova’s Educational Model”, ensuring the high-quality design and continuous evolution of its key components to drive excellence in teaching and learning grounded on research evidence, Innova’s accumulated experience, and the latest advances in education.
• Lead innovation strategy in education : Set the innovation agenda and drive the design and development of initiatives to continuously evolve Innova’s Educational Model to secure a world-class experience for students, teachers, and school communities.
• Pilot new models : Turn insights into high-impact experiments and initiatives, working closely with country education teams and schools to design pilots, gather feedback, and refine.
• Bridge innovation and implementation : Actively collaborate with country teams to ensure innovations have clear, actionable implementation plans that reflect each country’s unique context, operational realities, and capabilities.
• Articulate strategic initiatives : Work across departments to ensure coherence and alignment across strategic long-term educational initiatives, such as ‘Personalized Learning’.
• Systematize and scale strategies : Develop playbooks, toolkits, and guidelines to drive consistent, strategy-aligned implementation and measurable impact of education strategies across countries.
• Define learning platforms : Establish the learning platforms to be used across the network, ensuring they serve as effective enablers of Innova’s model.
• Benchmark globally : Stay at the forefront of global trends in education, AI and technology; adapt best-in-class practices to Innova’s context; and partner with global experts to enrich Innova’s model.

This role is right for you if :

Your experience :

This position reports to the LatAm Vice President of Education and will lead and oversee a team. Ideally it is based in Lima, Peru, and requires regional travel across our school network in Peru, Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Strategy / Planning and Education

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