Job Opportunity for Senior Program Manager at Teach for India in Bengaluru

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. 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: City Director

Directly Managing: Program Staff

The Senior Program Manager coordinates and leads programmatic activity with a region, thus ensuring progress towards student outcomes, fellow development, and citywide culture.

As a Senior Program Manager, 

• In partnership with CD and City Leadership Team designs an annual strategy that includes goals, priorities and timelines to advance progress and build culture for the regional movement.
• Driving the vision of excellence for Student learning and Fellow leadership for the city aligned to our LDJ.
• Using the Fellow Curriculum and city’s current reality, designs a robust Program Implementation
• Plan that includes Fellow Scope & Sequence of trainings, M&E and Managerial support.
• Coordinates suitable Fellow placements across Schools & LCs, supports with upholding school expectations to create enabling learning conditions for Student and Fellows.
• Coordinates the multiple facets of programmatic activity, including student leadership, training, coaching, and partnerships, to ensure coordinated implementation.
• Builds and maintains a strong culture aligned to regional strategy and organizational core values through consistent and frequent communication, holding space and role-modelling.
• Works closely with the central Training and Impact Team –  as well as Senior Managers from other regions – to share best practices and collectively inform a national approach towards Student, Fellow and Staff development.

As a People Manager 

• Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization
• Managing and coaching the team members to ambitious outcomes
• Driving engagement, growth, and retention of team members
• Engineering and overseeing a monitoring and evaluation system, coupled with strategic direction, to guide our abilities to continuously improve

As a Senior Manager at Teach For India 

• Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities
• Driving internal alignment and support for Teach For India’s core Programs
• Serving as an ambassador of Teach For India 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
• A minimum of two years teaching experience in a low-income school with a strong track record of building academics, values, mindsets, and pathways to opportunity with students
• A minimum of 2 year of an instructional leadership role, with strong results in Fellow growth, student growth, team culture, training effectiveness and school partner investment
• Experience in managing teams of 5-7 people or more preferred.