Teach For India
## Job Description: Manager, Human Resources – Hyderabad
**About Teach For India:**
Teach For India is a non-profit organization on a mission to end educational inequity in India. We believe that every child deserves an excellent education, regardless of their background. We achieve this by recruiting and developing a network of passionate leaders who commit two years to teaching in under-resourced schools. These Fellows, along with our dedicated staff, work tirelessly to create a more equitable education system for all children.
**Position Summary:**
As the Manager, Human Resources, you will play a crucial role in building and developing a high-performing team in Hyderabad. You will be responsible for all aspects of human resources, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee relations, and talent development. You will work closely with the City Director and other key stakeholders to ensure that the City Operations team is equipped to deliver on Teach For India’s mission.
**Responsibilities:**
* **Finding our people:**
* Collaborate with the City Director on team restructuring, workforce, and succession planning.
* Cultivate pools of external and internal applicants for roles within the city (volunteers, staff roles, and interns) throughout the year.
* Engage with candidates in the pipeline and execute Teach For India’s hiring process.
* Execute Teach For India’s Volunteer Program in the city in accordance with national guidelines.
* **Developing our people:**
* Design, in collaboration with Managers, a 3-month onboarding and induction plan and 3-month probationary goal sheet for new hires, along with succession plans for tenured members.
* Manage performance from goal setting to probation to mid-year and end-of-year evaluations by facilitating clarity around purpose and process.
* Identify the learning needs of the City Operations team and create/source relevant learning opportunities.
* Create a culture of high performance by supporting those who are unable to meet goals and studying patterns of those exceeding expectations.
* Execute the Fellow Performance Management Cycle by providing the Program Team with clarity on the process and working with the Training & Impact team to pull out trends.
* **Engaging our people:**
* Foster collaboration and connections between staff through team spaces and meetings in partnership with the City’s Leadership to enable ongoing connections with the organization’s vision & mission.
* Collaborate with the Program Team on Fellow spaces like Retreats and Inductions in collaboration with your team (Admin Officer of the City).
* Celebrate and support our people through important personal and professional milestones.
* Create an ecosystem of support to enable our Fellows and Staff to maintain work-life harmony, in collaboration with National Human Resources and the City Team.
* **Managing our people:**
* Create awareness around all Teach For India policies, ensuring compliance and redressal through appropriate mechanisms and managing related partnerships.
* Manage and resolve complex employee relation issues and policy violations by conducting effective, objective, and thorough investigations in collaboration with the City Director and the necessary officers.
* Oversee the execution of strategies to ensure operational efficiency in the City with the Admin Officer.
* Work with City-level data to pull out accurate patterns and insights, design effective interventions towards improving overall culture and processes in the City.
* **As a People Manager:**
* Build a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization.
* Manage and coach Directors in the cluster to ambitious outcomes.
* Drive engagement, growth, and retention of team members.
* Engineer and oversee a monitoring and evaluation system, coupled with strategic direction, to guide our abilities to continuously improve.
* **As a Manager at Teach For India:**
* Contribute to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities.
* Serve 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.
* Support with key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, and Movement Building.
**Minimum Qualifications, Experiences, and Expectations:**
* 2-5 years of professional experience.
* Experience in driving operations in high-pressure, goal-driven environments.
* Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups.
* Experiences and examples of having taken initiative in the past.
* Previous experience in teaching/education would be an added advantage (not mandatory).
**Location:** Hyderabad
**Please note:** We want to hear your unique voice and perspectives through the process, hence all applicants are expected to personally author statements of purpose/essays in the application form. Sole use of AI or Chat-GPT based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.
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