Job Opportunity for Associate DEI, Recruitment at Teach for India in Mumbai, Pune

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

Imagine a country where every child enjoys access to opportunity, the love and support to pursue their aspirations, and a safe and positive association with school. What if individuals who have been most impacted by economic inequity could grow into leaders advocating for change and working to get more children from their background the exposure and opportunity required to level the playing field? The Recruitment Associate (RA) of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) is responsible for making the Teach For India Fellowship more inclusive of people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. The role will be a critical enabler to bringing back Teach For India’s student Alumni as Fellows to lead our movement towards educational equity. 

The role will entail envisioning the pathway to becoming an inclusive program, working alongside multiple teams at Teach For India to make the requisite changes, and oversee the recruitment of 10% of the Fellowship from socio-economically disadvantaged groups (including 20+ Student Alumni of TFI classrooms).  Specifically, the RA-DEI will oversee the following: 

• Strategise and partner with organisations that have large student alumni pools across the country among other recruiting avenues, with towards recruiting 100+ high potential graduates from low income and lesser represented backgrounds to the 2023 Fellowship cohort.
• Create an inspiring and high-quality candidate experience that attracts and retains the right fit people to join our program. 
• Design and deliver programs for early immersion where you will partner with organisations to pilot creative ways to engage students early with the intended outcome of having them join the Fellowship 1-3 years down the line. 

This role gives you a chance to co-create strategies, inspire action and mobilise people towards impact and equity. You will be challenged to execute plans and projects end-to-end, solve creatively, and grow your relationship management and people skills. 

Responsibilities

Organisational clarity 

• Develop a strong understanding (through primary and secondary research) of championing inclusion priorities within an organisation.
• Co-create a compelling  vision and strategy for DEI work in TFI’s Fellowship. 
• Actively advocate for DEI with various teams and stakeholders at TFI.
• Work with the Training team to build a database of TFI Student Alumni, alongside a sustainable data management system

Partnerships to source and engage candidates

• Identify organisations and avenues from where pools of candidates can be sourced. 
• Build and manage relationships with key individuals at institutions that provide candidate sources.  
• Design and execute recruitment campaigns/engagements/presentations in Institutions (College/NGOs), youth hubs etc.
• Engage alumni, Fellows, students and other influencers to enhance the candidate journey.  

Oversee a candidate’s recruitment and selection journey 

• Meet high potential candidates and invest them in TFI’s movement and  Fellowship. 
• Design support programs that prepare  DEI-candidates with necessary prerequisite skill sets to have a successful Fellowship.
• Manage systems and processes for strong operations and monitoring & evaluation mechanisms to keep track of progress. 

Design and deliver pilot programs:

• Conceptualise program(s) for early immersion by partnering with organisations to engage students early with the intended outcome of having them join the Fellowship 1-3 years down the line. 

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• A Bachelor’s or a Master’s Degree in any field
• Goal orientation and ability to meet targets/deadlines
• Strategic planning and execution skills 
• Strong presentation and persuasion skills
• Strong communication, including the ability to deeply listen, speak & write compellingly, build relationships and invest people from DEI-diverse backgrounds in our work 
• Project Management Skills 
• Data orientation while decision making 

Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• Build and manage complex teams, and influence without authority In-depth knowledge of the Teach for India Fellowship Program
• Previously engaged in market research, branding and sales
• A Bachelor’s or a Master’s Degree in a social/ developmental field
• 1- 3 years of professional experience in the social sector 
• Preferably from DEI background/experience working with people coming from under resourced or underserved communities. Being a student Alumnus from a Teach For India classroom would be an added advantage.