Job Description

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Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Ahmedabad

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Working at Teach For India

Teach For India is on a journey to reach an India free of poverty and filled with love by ending educational inequity in our country. Fifteen years into our journey we are a movement of ~5000+ Alumni working at all levels of the education system, who are reaching 1 in 10 children across the country. These Alumni have graduated from our two-year Fellowship Program where they taught in under-resourced classrooms to put ~33,500 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have ~1000 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India. Over 16,000 Teach For India students have appeared for the 10th grade board examinations till date, with an impressive 95% pass rate across cities as of November 2024.


In 2022, we embarked on

Phase 4

, our fourth strategic phase. We have a bold and ambitious ten-year journey ahead of us that aims to

grow 50,000 leaders

, who will

work collectively

, and

with love

, to

transform the lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in our regions

, through an

education that unleashes the potential of self, others and India

. In this decade, five key priorities will lead us to this vision.

Strengthen

our core Fellowship to build strong teacher leaders who provide an excellent and equitable education to our children and continue to do so beyond the Fellowship

Scale

our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development

Match

the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children

Advocate

for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity

Act

collectively with our Alumni to learn about and address key issues in our regions.

Our work will only be completed when we have built a movement of leaders that is large enough to ensure that every child in India attains an excellent education.


We pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of individuals. We're committed to learning and excellence in our roles, and to being deeply rooted in our core values.


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What Teach For India Can Offer You

The opportunity to be part of one of the most established and visionary movements in the education sector in India which is at a pivotal point in terms of expanding its scale and outreach across the nation and working with changemakers across the country. A challenging yet flexible workplace in which every individual employee's Staff journey is tracked for excellence and leadership development. A work environment in which employees' holistic well-being is a core priority, enabling people to be their best selves. Access to connections and resources from the global Teach For All network that includes partner organizations spanning 50+ countries across 6 continents. Remuneration that is competitive within the top quartile of the Indian NGO pay scales, and a benefits package that includes extensive medical insurance and maternity coverage for both parents.
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Position Summary

Reporting to:

Directly to the Director, Strategy and Impact; and collaborating with the Training and Impact team .


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Team Overview

The Strategy and Impact team is the internal consulting arm at Teach For India - a key thought-partner for the CEO, and an advisor and implementation partner for the Vertical Heads and City Directors who lead various teams and constitute the 'Leadership Team'. It is a team that strives to bring unique and unbiased perspectives into organizational performance by working on 3 areas of work:

Medium-to-long-term organisational strategy Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Internal consulting projects

The key responsibilities of the Strategy and Impact Team include supporting the CEO and the Senior Leadership team, on organisational planning and decision-making. The team serves as the primary monitoring and evaluation body for the organisation, as well as a learning partner for our Vertical Heads and City Directors. The work involves collaborating with internal teams on a project-basis- on topics ranging from designing strategy, key-lever analysis, building team capacity, designing monitoring and learning frameworks, implementing performance improvement initiatives, change management, or more. The team also works jointly with the Chief of Staff to the CEO, to conduct periodic structured reviews to enable the Teach For India Board to have a strong, on-going understanding of where we are as an organization and what needs to be done in order to sustain and improve our progress. In essence, the Strategy & Impact team helps Teach For India find the right things to do in service of our mission, and the right ways to do them. Thus, the team is, in many ways, an engine that drives the organization towards its goal of educational equity.


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Responsibilities

As a

Manager, Fellowship Impact, on the Strategy and Impact team

Project managing

the org-wide Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) processes for the Fellowship program, such as Student academic and holistic assessments at different points in the year

Analyzing and reporting

Students' learning outcomes and Fellows' inputs every cycle to enable different members of the organisation understand and reflect on our impact in the short and long term by factoring in multiple variables and contexts

Facilitating learning loops

with key stakeholders (eg: Regional teams, Training and Impact team, Selection team, Senior Leadership team) to enhance their understanding of impact, drive data-driven goals, foster reflection, and inform program improvements

Designing tools and systems

for ongoing M&E through the academic year to enable digitisation and process efficiency; and data-driven decision-making for different levels of stakeholders. This includes, and is not limited to, conceptualizing, piloting and collaborating with the Technology and other relevant teams to redesign current systems / processes or design brand new systems / processes.

As a Manager at Teach For India

Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities. Serving as an ambassador of the Teach For India brand and an advocate for our work and educational equity in our country through both internal and external communication after committing time in our classrooms to understand our work more deeply. Supporting key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, and Movement Building. #

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

Qualifications and skills:

Graduate with 2-4 years of experience Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English Strong project and stakeholder management skills, as the role demands complete ownership of cross-functional projects Strong data and analytical skills to analyze large volumes of data accurately and efficiently: + Proficiency in MS Excel/ Google Sheets (including, but not limited to pivot tables and nested functions)
+ Data/evidence gathering, analysis and interpretation, hypotheses framing and validation, and other basic research capabilities
Strong data visualization skills to present analysis and results succinctly and meaningfully: + Proficiency in creating reports and infographics (using MS PowerPoint/ Google Slides)
Ability to share design requirements with Technology teams to automate and design dashboards and data management systems

Mindsets:

Belief that every single child deserves an excellent education and that every single child has the ability to be successful, despite their background. Result-driven and outcome focused-approach Adaptable and flexible in working style, comfortable with ambiguity Composure and ability to thrive under pressure, while maintaining high-levels of accuracy and attention to detail

Other expectations:

Frequent travel within the placement city to schools and engage with different members of our community - such as, Students, Fellows, Program team, Training and Impact team (once in 1-2 weeks) Ad-hoc travel to other cities to build context or attend team stepbacks (once in 2-3 months)
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Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

Deep understanding of Teach For India's program and the theory of change Previous engagement with Teach For India as a Fellow or a Staff member Design thinking approach as one will have to redesign existing systems and processes or design them from scratch
Note:

We want to hear your unique voice and perspectives through the process, hence all applicants are expected to personally author statements of purpose/essays in the application form.

Sole use of AI or Chat-GPT based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.