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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: Senior Manager, Strategy & Impact

Team Size: 4-5 people

As Associate, Strategy & Impact, you will support projects critical to Teach For India both strategically and operationally. You will address challenges that the organization as a whole or any of our 22 vertical teams and cities are facing. You will work across a diverse portfolio of projects – designing the org-wide survey and analysing the data to bring out key insights for the organisation or for specific verticals, conducting primary research and benchmarking studies, using key insights from data or research to create strategic recommendations for different verticals, putting together reports and presentations, and building the capacity of other teams. You will collaborate with all verticals and cities at TFI across a range of different projects and will be instrumental in building consensus among a diverse range of stakeholders for complex projects. You will also play a key role in maintaining the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) infrastructure, processes and practices in the organisation to help Teach For India measure progress towards its goals.

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, interpersonal skills, verbal and written communication, an ability to structure and solve problems, and a deep willingness to learn and grow.

Responsibilities

As an Associate on the Strategy & Impact team

Supporting the design and execution of multiple projects end-to-end for a variety of projects aimed at organizational development – e.g. organizational planning, quarterly reporting, research projects with Teach For All and university partners
Conducting recurring cross-regional surveys for different stakeholders – eg. annual Fellow Engagement Survey, Alumni Engagement Survey, and Headmaster Engagement surveys, – and analysis and dissemination of results
Analyzing datasets to uncover insights – e.g. unpacking trends around Fellow Attrition numbers, Alumni data; providing on-demand analytical support to other teams
Creating compelling documents to communicate progress, insights and recommendations – e.g. presentations to Leadership Team members on insights from Fellow surveys, weekly updates to the Senior Leadership Team
Conducting primary research, literature reviews, and benchmarking exercises to draw from the best practices in strategic planning, monitoring, change management and organizational development.
Supporting the designing and execution of capacity building workshops for staff and Leadership Team members
Identifying relevant education landscape trends and synthesizing them for the Senior Leadership Team to support their decision making
Engaging in brainstorming sessions with the team to identify problems and hypothesize causes and solutions.

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 committing 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

Bachelor’s Degree from any stream
0-2 years of professional work experience
Strong project management skills
Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Sheets
Data analysis and interpretation skills
Strong research capabilities and ability to synthesize research and insights well in written reports or presentations

Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations