Job Opportunity for Associate, Performance Management at Teach for India in Mumbai

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

Reporting to: Manager, Performance Management

As we strive to build a high performing organization, this role will execute our vision and priorities to bring our Leadership Development Journey to life. At Teach For India our performance management is both an evaluative and developmental mechanism and we believe that it is in developing your leadership that you meet ambitious goals.

As an Associate, Performance Management

• Create and execute onboarding and induction plans including identifying what Staff need to have done/achieved to be able to complete their probationary period
• Create tools and resources for team leads and hiring managers to be able to execute their role well
• Collaborate with the Technology team to run testing scenarios on the performance management system to be able to launch it successfully year on year and own any ongoing maintenance and adaptations
• Run the goal setting cycle including sharing guidelines, ensuring completion and creating tools and resources to help Staff set SMART goals
• Creating tools, resources and learning loops to facilitate best practice sharing at all stages of the performance management cycle;
• Auditing goals, mid-year and end-year performance milestone evaluations; 
• Running the mid-year and end-of-year performance management cycle (including roll out with the Manager, follow-up, ensuring completion and closure)
• Following up on support plans and seeing trends and patterns to pull best practices;
• Executing high performer recognition systems;
• Collaborating with other HR functions and teams to provide performance data and ongoing insights;
• Running a smooth exit process, capturing and keeping a close eye on attrition data and trends and continuously improving the exit process for our people. 

As an Associate 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 commiting time in our classrooms to understand our work more deeply
• Supporting with key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building 

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• 0-3 years of professional experience
• Experience of having planned and executed complex projects with multiple priorities in a college or work setting;
• Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups;
• Experiences of having taken initiative in the past; 
• Previous experience in teaching/education would be an added advantage (not mandatory)