Job Description

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Mumbai

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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:

Senior Manager, Regional Partnerships, Mumbai


The Manager - Network Learning & Collaboration role is pivotal in driving both large-scale projects and key proof points in small geographies over a 2-3 year time frame with an intention to change the status quo for children in the region. You will directly report to the City Director and manage Alumni Engagement, Fellow Readiness and Regional Partnerships:

You will be responsible for enabling an active, thriving, learning and growing Alumni community that fuels progress towards the collective vision for our region. This work involves fostering strong, meaningful relationships with multiple stakeholders in our region, especially to improve Alumni ownership, engagement and collaboration. Through this, you will also nurture strong Fellow Leaders who have the clarity, capacity and conviction to continue working for India's children post their Fellowship and contribute to the Alumni movement as active participants and creators.
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Responsibilities

As Manager, Network Learning & Collaboration,

you will be responsible for:

Activating the Network:

Sustain Mumbai's Alumni Chapter Committee that creates projects and spaces at the intersection of the Regional Vision and needs of the Alumni community Support the Alumni Chapter with end-to-end project management, event logistics and user experience Design and execute new initiatives that will bring the Alumni and Alumni-led organizations to mobilize people/resources, advocate for shared causes and collaborate with each other (including Teach For India) Own the design and execution of large-scale events like education conferences, regional conclaves etc. to make collective progress visible and instill a sense of regional pride Moderate, create and disseminate content and information for local Alumni email distribution lists, WhatsApp/Telegram groups and other social media channels Create and provide opportunities to amplify the voice of our Alumni through publishing white papers, research initiatives, writing op-eds/blogs, participating in radio/TV/online shows to share their views on education and/or social innovations

Building Learning Communities:

Identify and nurture key Alumni in the region who can anchor Communities of Practice (CoPs) across various prioritized pathways developed by Teach For India within education Invite Alumni to galvanize around high-leverage problem statements and inspire action within their community and networks, on key barriers faced by children within the region Create a Regional Entrepreneurs' Collective and organize recurring spaces for peer learning and support

Managing data & impact:

Maintain an updated Alumni database that tells us where our Alumni are, the roles they play and the health of their community Set up systems to track and report Alumni engagement data across projects and periodically share these with national teams Liaise with the Regional Communications Lead to plan creative campaigns, newsletters, podcasts, reports, websites etc. that spread stories of individual and collective impact within and beyond the local Alumni community

Additional responsibilities:

Contribute plans, tools, project resources and more, to support peers leading similar efforts across other cities Feed insights from the work of Alumni community building back into our Core Program Based on need, interest and capabilities: + Support other organisational priorities like Fellowship Recruitment, Selection, Matriculation, Summer Institute etc.
+ Support select city or national projects that are seasonal
Based on need, manage key

Regional Partnerships

: + Design and independently execute new initiatives that will alleviate barriers for the regional vision
+ Liaise with the Regional Communications Lead to plan creative campaigns, podcasts, reports, websites etc. that spread the regional movement

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 for educational equity in our country through both internal and external communication after committing time in our classrooms to understand our work more deeply Supporting with key organizational areas such as

Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building

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Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

2-5 years of professional experience Experience in driving operations in high pressure, goal driven environments Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups Experiences and examples of having taken initiative in the past Previous experience in teaching/education would be an added advantage (not mandatory)
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??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.