Manager, Strategy and Impact

Teach For India

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. Fourteen years into our journey we are a movement of 4600+ 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 ~38,000 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have ~940 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India.

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.

1. 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
2. Scale our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development
3. Match the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children
4. Advocate for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity
5. 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 Manager, Strategy & Impact will independently design and lead complex projects to address challenges that the organization as a whole or any of our 20 vertical teams and cities are facing. The role will require leading a diverse portfolio of projects - such as developing a sustainable recruitment strategy, managing an impact evaluation of student outcomes, planning long-term data management systems for the organization, or developing a survey tool to measure organizational culture and engagement. In 2023 in particular, the Manager will support the Senior Leadership Team and the Board with the development of Teach For India’s ten-year strategic planning process. 

On any typical project, the role requires an ability to project manage, balance multiple timelines, generate and analyze data, coordinate and brainstorm with internal and external teams, draw insights and make recommendations. Qualified candidates should demonstrate strong project management, data orientation, interpersonal skills, an ability to influence others to achieve outcomes, and the ability to create structures to solve problems.

Reporting Manager: Director, Strategy & Impact.

Team Size: 4-5 people.

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 20 Vertical Heads 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 a diverse set of projects across multiple functions. 

Key responsibilities of the Strategy and Impact Team include supporting the CEO, as well as the Senior Leadership team, in developing TFI’s 10-year long-term strategy as well as organizational decision-making in the short term. The team serves as a learning partner for our 20 Vertical Heads and City Directors, which 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, ongoing 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 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.

Responsibilities

As the Manager, Strategy and Impact you will be responsible for:

• Designing and independently managing short-term multi-stakeholder projects for a variety of client teams aimed at organisational development.
• Designing surveys, collecting and analysing data, and designing data dashboards.
• Creating compelling decks and reports to document problem statements, study approaches, research, insights, and recommendations.
• Conducting research, literature reviews, and benchmarking exercises to draw from the best practices in strategic planning, monitoring, change management and organizational development.
• Designing and executing capacity building workshops for staff and Leadership Team members.
• Supporting strategic review processes by helping review/revisit cities’ and specific national priorities by participating in step-backs.
• Researching and preparing background material for organisational improvement exercises and external presentations in forums such as conferences.
• Identifying relevant education landscape trends and synthesizing them for the Senior Leadership Team to support their decision making.
• Supporting in active cultivation and maintenance of relationships with internal and external partners/stakeholders. These would include national and city donors, other external stakeholders and organisations, graduate schools and universities, and City Champions.
• Engaging in brainstorming sessions with the team to identify problems and hypothesize causes and solutions.

As a Manager at Teach For India, you will be responsible for:

• 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 key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, and Movement Building.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• Bachelor’s Degree from any stream.
• 2-3 years of work experience, with at least 2 years in management consulting or complex project management.
• Strong project management skills and ability to take complete ownership of projects.
• Strong data and analytical skills (excellent Excel skills, data/evidence gathering, analysis and interpretation, hypotheses framing and validation) and research capabilities.
• Excellent PowerPoint skills.

Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Rigour and attention to detail.
• Time management, ability to keep calm during pressure situations.
• Ability to influence multiple stakeholders.
• Result-driven and outcome focused-approach.
• Adaptable and flexible in working style, comfortable with ambiguity.

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.