Lead, Careers for Alumni

Location: Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, 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. Fifteen years into our journey we are a movement of 5000+ 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 33,500 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have 1000 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India. Over 16,000 Teach For India students have appeared for the 10th grade board examinations till date, with an impressive 95% pass rate across cities as of November 2024.

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.

1. 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
2. Scale our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development
3. Match the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children
4. Advocate for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity
5. 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: Director, Careers

The Lead, Careers for Alumni will be responsible for matching our Fellow Alumni to roles that accelerate their impact in education equity. This would entail sourcing high-potential roles and opportunities, and coaching and cultivating Alumni for readiness towards these roles and opportunities.

Team Overview:

Once Teach For India Fellows graduate the 2 year Fellowship, they go on to become a part of our Alumni movement. We currently have a 5000+ strong Alumni community. Our Students, once they graduate from their 10th grade, go on to become a part of our Student Alumni community.

The Careers Team at Teach For India works towards matching our Students, Fellows and Alumni to high-potential roles in our prioritized pathways (i.e. working towards education equity for low-income communities).

Responsibilities:

As Lead, Careers For Alumni, you will be responsible for:

• Acting as a thought partner to the Director, Careers and to select Vertical Heads on strategy, annual goals, new initiatives etc. and hold a birds eye view of the cities to leverage economies of scale where possible.
• Designing an ecosystem of differentiated support for Alumni to grow in their roles & scale their impact on children. (differentiated by the role as well as career stage - early, mid-career, senior, etc).
• Coaching and supporting Fellowship Alumni in finding roles at the cross-section of their interests and our children's needs.
• Working with Lead, Partnerships and Platform, Careers to identify key roles in the sector and match them to our Alumni who would be good fits for the role.
• Supporting Senior Regional Partnerships Managers and Network Learning & Collaboration Managers across 8 cities to better leverage Alumni databases to further their talent goals.
• Building partnerships with various organisations that serve our Alumni's career needs.
• Planning creative campaigns, podcasts, newsletters, reports, microsites etc. to make our initiatives and impact visible.

As a Coach at Teach For India, you will be responsible for:

• 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:

• 4-6 years of full-time professional experience in the employability or development/education sector.
• Experience of managing and coaching small, high-performing teams to achieving ambitious outcomes.
• End-to-end project management experience (from vision setting to execution).
• Experience of having built strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and having influenced others without authority.
• Ability to work independently and make strategic decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience of having created deep meaningful learning experiences and resources for adults through strong design thinking capabilities, keeping in mind both dynamic and diverse needs of individuals.

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.