Teach For India Senior Manager Regional Partnerships

Year    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Job Description


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. Twelve years into our journey we are a movement of 3800 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 32,000 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have 970 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India.

In 2022, we embark 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.

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.

Position Summary

The Senior Manager of Regional Partnerships (SMRP) will be the custodian of the Regional Strategic Roadmap. Their role is pivotal in driving both large-scale projects as well as key examples of excellence over a 2-3 year time frame with an intention to change the status quo for children in the region. They will directly report to the City Director and manage a team of 2-3 individuals to lead this challenging and inspiring mission for the city.

The SMRP will contribute as a thought partner to the City Director and to select Vertical Heads (Govt. Relations, Alumni Impact, Careers) on strategy, annual goals, and operational plans. They will hold an integrated view of these verticals at a city level, leading progress through cross-vertical collaboration and strong team management and execution. They will also play an active role in tactical and strategic decision-making, design and planning of interventions and team culture management as a City Leadership Team member.

Responsibilities

As Senior Manager, Regional Partnerships, responsibilities include

Deepening Government Relationships:

- Support the professional development and execution of initiatives that are led by the Government Relations Managers who is a direct reportee.

- Build sustainable programmatic relationships with senior Government officials with support from the Government Relations Manager.

- Source large-scale external partnerships for Teach For India and our Alumni organizations that advance educational equity in the region.

- Advocate for alleviating key structural and/or policy barriers that impede progress towards the regional vision.

Fostering Alumni collectives:

- Support the Alumni Manager in the city with developing a strategy, contextualizing goals, quarterly milestones, action planning, execution and professional development.

- Design and curate learning & action spaces for regional Alumni to act collectively towards the regional vision.

- Nurture the growth of and collaboration between Alumni organizations in the region.

- Build strong relationships with Alumni Entrepreneurs and the Regional Alumni Chapter committee to facilitate their progress.

Sourcing career opportunities for Fellows & Alumni:

- Identify and engage with organisations that serve children from low-income. communities in the region, by providing opportunities for them to interact with and hire from our Fellows & Alumni.

- Cultivate a pipeline of key alumni in the region and match them to roles aligned to the regional vision and their personal aspirations.

- Build an ecosystem of donors and other relevant partners that accelerate our work in the region, especially where barriers to entry are high.

Building a larger movement for educational equity:

- Build the regional brand - Advancing regional priorities through Communications and Recruitment efforts.

- Establish and leverage the Regional board, in partnership with the City Director.

- Advance key policy and implementation shifts that accelerate progress for children by

- Developing a community that consistently mobilizes others.

- Forging coalitions of organizations and individuals working towards educational equity.

- Cultivating a network of well-known advocates that span business, government, politics, and entertainment.

As a People Manager at Teach For India, responsibilities include:

- Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization.

- Managing and coaching the team members to ambitious outcomes.

- Driving engagement, growth, and retention of team members.

- Engineering and overseeing a monitoring and evaluation system, coupled with strategic direction, to guide our abilities to continuously improve.

As a Senior Manager at Teach For India, responsibilities include

- Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities.

- Driving internal alignment and support for Teach For India\'s core Programs.

- Serving as an ambassador of Teach For India 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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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD3011918
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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  • Experience
    Year