Senior 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

Reporting to: Director, Strategy & Impact

Directly Managing: Associate, Strategy & Impact

Team Overview

The Strategy and Impact team brings unique and unbiased perspectives in 4 major areas of work:

1. Medium-to-long term organisational strategy
2. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
3. Impact reporting and evaluation
4. Internal consulting projects

Responsibilities

As the Senior Manager, Strategy and Impact, you will

1. Anchor key projects across the 3 areas of work outlined above - structuring analysis, liaising with stakeholders, distilling key insights and setting up for implementation.
   1. Medium-to-long term organisational strategy: Support key projects including a 2-year, longitudinal research study on student outcomes in Fellowship classrooms, route to our North Star (building 50,000 leaders) through building leaders beyond the Fellowship, identifying new sites for expansion of the Fellowship etc.
   2. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Impact reporting and evaluation: Own end-to-end impact reporting (including to the Board), vertical-level annual strategic planning, stakeholder surveys and insights, data management and analysis [this is a major area of work for the Senior Manager on the team]
   3. Internal consulting projects: Support teams on short-term projects to build internal capacity and solve specific problem statements
2. Interact with internal and external stakeholders to lead cross-vertical projects that make the organization impactful, enduring and effective.
3. Train team members on skills such as problem definition, structuring and creating solution frameworks, strong analytical skills, slide making/reporting, project management; coach team members for growth opportunities.
4. Act as a strong thought-partner to the Director, Strategy and Impact, and the Leadership Team and Senior Leadership Team at Teach For India on the team’s major areas of work
5. Revisit the team’s strategy bi-annually and sourcing projects for the team, along with the team’s Director 

As a People Manager

• Managing and coaching the Associate, Strategy and Impact, as well as interns by setting clear milestones and expectations, providing high quality feedback on deliverables, and supporting their learning and development.
• Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization by supporting team hiring, onboarding, and capacity building
• 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

• 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
• Conducting capacity-building sessions for other teams at Teach For India or partner organisations of Teach For All on skills such as problem definition, structuring and creating solution frameworks, strong analytical skills, slide making/reporting, project management
• Supporting with key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• 5+ 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 multiple projects at a time;
• Strong data and analytical skills (excellent Google Sheets/MS Excel skills, data/evidence gathering, analysis and interpretation, hypotheses framing and validation) and research capabilities;
• Ability to create dynamic reports and dashboards (on spreadsheets such as Google Sheets/ MS Excel or CRM/ data visualisation tools, such as Salesforce or Power BI)
• Excellent Google Slides/ MS PowerPoint skills and ability to create compelling narratives of impact or insights;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, confidence with presenting; 
• Strong attention to detail, problem solving, and outcome oriented ability, with the capability to motivate direct reports to develop the same.

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.