Job Opportunity for Manager DEI, Recruitment at Teach for India in Chennai

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 Manager- 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 Manager, 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 2024 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. 

Team Overview

The Recruitment team advocates to get the greatest leaders into our classrooms to ensure Teach For India’s multiplied impact on the Indian education system. The team has the responsibility to influence the future lifepaths of tens of thousands of young people to make the bold choice of doing something for the India that they always dreamed of. As an external-facing team, we build the brand, visibility and aspiration of Teach For India through engagement with the top institutions of the country, media partnerships, branding and promotion campaigns. The team creates strong champions for the movement by identifying, investing and leveraging influencers, and nurturing partnerships with college and corporate stakeholders. The team provides avenues for prospective applicants to meet with Fellows, Alumni, Staff and Students. Internally, the team works alongside several teams to ensure that the organisation acts as one team in its mission to find our movement of leaders who will eliminate educational inequity and ensure that all children attain an excellent vision. 

Responsibilities

As a Manager, DEI you will be responsible for:

• 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 candidatesIdentify 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 programsConceptualise 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. 

As a Manager at Teach For India you will be responsible for

• 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

• A Bachelor’s or a Master’s Degree in any field
• 2-5 years of professional work experience
• 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
• 2- 5 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.