Job Opportunity for Manager, Regional Partnerships at Teach for India in Ahmedabad

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. Fourteen years into our journey we are a movement of 4600+ 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 ~38,000 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have ~940 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India.

In 2022, we embarked 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

The Manager, Regional Partnerships will be a part of the Regional Partnerships Vertical, leading Teach for India’s initiatives with external stakeholders towards a sustainable systemic impact on educational equity within the region. The role involves working closely with social organizations in the region, Teach For India alumni, as well as working with Fellows, students and other school teachers and leaders within and outside our Teach For India intervention schools, to create the necessary conditions to achieve the vision and objectives of the Regional Strategic Roadmap.

The Manager, Regional Partnerships, will contribute as a thought partner to the City Director and to select Vertical Heads (Government Relations, Alumni Impact, Careers) on strategy, annual goals, and operational plans. They will hold an integrated view of these verticals at a city level, leading progress through cross-vertical collaboration and strong team management and execution. They will also play an active role in tactical and strategic decision-making, design and planning of interventions and team culture management as a City Leadership Team member.

Responsibilities

As Manager, Regional Partnerships; your responsibilities include:

• Fostering Alumni collectives:Execute the regional strategy for Alumni in the region, develop quarterly milestones and action plans towards meeting the goals in the regional roadmap.
• Design and curate learning & action spaces for regional Alumni to act collectively towards the regional vision.
• Nurture the growth of and collaboration between Alumni organizations in the region.
• Build strong relationships with Alumni Entrepreneurs and the Regional Alumni Chapter committee to facilitate their progress.
• Sourcing career opportunities for Fellows & Alumni:Identify and engage with organizations that serve children from low-income communities in the region, by providing opportunities for them to interact with and hire from our Fellow & Alumni pool.
• Cultivate a pipeline of key Alumni in the region and match them to roles aligned to the regional vision and their personal aspirations.
• Build an ecosystem of donors and other relevant partners that accelerate our work in the region, especially where barriers to entry are high.
• Building a larger movement for educational equity within partner schools in Teach For India and outside:Engage School Leaders and Head Masters (HMs) of our partner schools and other schools in the region towards deepening their understanding about our movement, creating champions and building more leaders in the region.
• Visit partner schools and classrooms; build relationships and invest our school stakeholders in the vision and mission of Teach For India.

As a Manager at Teach For India, your responsibilites include:

• 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

• 2-4 years of work experience managing teams and projects to excellent outcomes at scale.
• Strong sense of possibility with what is possible for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS).
• Strong competence in negotiating with a diverse set of stakeholders towards Teach For India’s vision and desired outcomes.
• Experience of having built strong relationships and having influenced others without authority.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Ability to adapt to change and work through unstructured environments.
• Ability to manage self, team and time amidst multiple priorities.
• Ability to work collaboratively and make strategic decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• Previous experience working in the development/education sector.
• Experience in building and managing high-functioning teams to targeted outcomes.
• Experience of having created, deep, meaningful learning experiences and resources for adults through strong design-thinking capabilities, addressing both dynamic and diverse learning needs of individuals.
• Experience in building and managing high-functioning teams to targeted outcomes.
• Regional language proficiency preferred.

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.