Consultant, Program Operations & Systems, InnovatED

Teach For India; India; On-site; INR 1,674,000 - 2,343,600; Full time

Job summary

Teach For India invites applications for a seven-month Consultant, Program Operations & Systems, InnovatED. This full-time contractual role runs until March 2027 and requires travel across India to support learning sessions, workshops and site visits.

You will lead operational quality, co-design learning touchpoints, draft facilitator guides, and organize resources to support the cohort of aspiring social entrepreneurs across India's regions, advancing a bold equity-driven mission.

Qualifications

• 1–3+ years in program operations, project management, and/or management consulting.
• Proficiency in building trackers and dashboards with Google Sheets/Excel, Airtable, Notion.
• Strong negotiation, budget and vendor management for operational quality control.
• Balance high-level system architecture with hands-on, fast-paced execution over a fixed timeline.
• Experience collaborating with a broad range of individuals and groups.
• Entrepreneurial spirit—thrives in ambiguity, takes ownership, and leads with initiative.
• Two years of Teach For India Fellowship experience is preferred but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operational quality by sourcing, negotiating with, and coordinating external experts, organizations, and vendors for sessions and events.
• Co-design learning touchpoints and create session rubrics, workshop materials, and toolkits for virtual and in-person formats.
• Draft facilitator guides to align content with cohort needs.
• Support cohort execution with follow-ups, worktimes, and feedback loops.
• Organize program resources and consolidate materials into a centralized repository for facilitators and cohort members.
• Build centralized dashboards to monitor founder engagement, attendance, and milestone progress.

Skills

Program operations

Project management

Management consulting

Tools

Google Sheets

Excel

Airtable

Notion

Job description

Consultant, Program Operations & Systems, InnovatED

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.

• 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

Role: Consultant, Program Operations & Systems, InnovatED

Duration : Please note that this is a full-time Consultant contractual role for a period of 7 months [till End of March 2027].

Reporting to : Program Manager- InnovatED

We are seeking a strategic, detail-oriented Program Operations & Systems Consultant for a focused 7-month engagement. In this role, you will not only execute the core learning journey and incubation processes for our current cohort, but you will also build, codify, and optimize the operational engine behind them. This role requires travel across India.

Team Overview

InnovatED is Teach For India’s incubation program. We support alumni-led early-stage social entrepreneurs working to build impactful, scalable solutions for underserved students.

Our program is guided by six core principles:

• Equity: Prioritizing solutions for children from marginalized socioeconomic and regional backgrounds.
• Holistic Development: Supporting students across three growth areas: Leading Self (agency and goal-mastery), Leading Others (empathy and collaboration), and Leading India (understanding systemic challenges and driving solutions).
• Evidence-Based Practice: Using data and research to evaluate, refine, and scale impact.
• Innovation & Adaptability: Encouraging creative, adaptable approaches to evolving educational challenges.
• Ecosystem Collaboration: Partnering with educators, local communities, funders, and policymakers for shared impact.
• Long-Term Sustainability: Building financially resilient, scalable models that deliver lasting systemic change.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operational quality: Source, negotiate with, and coordinate external experts, organizations, and vendors to ensure smooth execution of learning sessions, learning tracks, in-person event logistics, and site visits.
• Co-design learning touchpoints: Partner with the Program Manager and coaches to design session rubrics, workshop materials, and toolkits for virtual spaces, learning tracks, and in-person bootcamps.
• Draft facilitator guides: Prepare detailed session briefs for external experts to align their content with the cohort's specific operational needs.
• Support cohort execution: Facilitate follow-ups, worktimes, and feedback loops to ensure entrepreneurs complete post-session assignments and tools.
• Organize program resources: Consolidate training materials, guides, and tools into a centralized repository for external facilitators and cohort members.

2. Data Management, Tracking & Reporting (~25%)

• Build & maintain tracking systems: Create centralized dashboards to monitor founder engagement, attendance, and milestone progress in real time.
• Financial tracking: Create systems to manage and track all payments through finance team during the incubation year
• Manage survey & feedback workflows: Design, deploy, and analyze milestone surveys to extract actionable insights for program iteration and future planning.

3. Stakeholder Engagement & Ecosystem Building (~20%)

• Maintain communication channels: Establish clear communication updates across internal teams, leadership coaches, external facilitators, and entrepreneurs.
• Enable strategic touchpoints: Support touchpoints between ecosystem leaders (internal and external to TFI) and founders to encourage mentorship, collaboration, and funding opportunities.
• Outreach and expert management: Engage with the ecosystem to bring high expertise facilitators and experts on board.

4. Program Standardization & Learning Repository (~20%)

• Adapt core frameworks: Convert standard business tools (e.g., Theory of Change, pitch decks, financial models) into user-friendly guides tailored for early-stage education founders.
• Document operational SOPs: Codify Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and execution timelines across all cohort touchpoints for future team reference.

Additional Responsibilities

As a Consultant at Teach For India, you will:

• 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 organisational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, and Movement Building.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• 1–3+ years in program operations, project management, and/or management consulting.
• Proficiency in building trackers and dashboards using tools like Google Sheets/Excel, Airtable, Notion, or similar project management/data software.
• Strong negotiation, budget management, and vendor management skills with an eye for operational quality control.
• Ability to balance high-level system architecture with hands-on, fast-paced execution over a fixed timeline.
• Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups.
• Entrepreneurial spirit- thrives in ambiguity, takes ownership, and leads with initiative.
• Two years of Teach For India Fellowship experience is preferred but not mandatory.

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.