Job Opportunity for Associate, Strategy and Impact at Teach for India in Multiple Locations

Position Summary

Reporting to: Senior Manager, Strategy & Impact

Team Size: 4 people

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 Vertical Heads and City Directors 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, on organisational planning and decision-making. The team serves as a learning partner for our 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, on-going 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.

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.

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. quarterly reporting, research projects with Teach For All and university partners
• Conducting recurring cross-regional surveys for different stakeholders and analysis and dissemination of results– eg. surveys to understand Fellow Engagement, Post-Fellowship plans and clarity, and to gather feedback from School Leaders
• 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, fortnightly 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
• 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 Google Sheets and Google Slides or Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
• 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

• Experience in management consulting or project management
• Verbal and written communication
• Highly organised; has attention to detail
• Result-driven and outcome focused-approach
• Adaptable and flexible in working style, comfortable with ambiguity
• Willingness to learn and grow