Consultant, Program Operations & Systems, InnovatED

Teach For India; Mumbai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Teach For India invites a strategic Programs Operations & Systems Consultant for InnovatED, its incubation program. This full-time role focuses on executing learning journeys, building the operational engine, and shaping processes for the current cohort, with travel across India.

You will co-design sessions, manage data dashboards, coordinate vendors, and engage with educators and social entrepreneurs to drive scalable impact.

Qualifications

• 1–3+ years in program operations, project management, and/or management consulting.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operational quality by coordinating external experts, vendors, and meetings.

Skills

Program operations

Project management

Vendor management

Dashboard creation

Budget management

Stakeholder engagement

Entrepreneurial mindset

Tools

Google Sheets

Excel

Airtable

Notion

Job description

Role: Consultant, Program Operations & Systems, InnovatED

Duration: Please note that this is a full-time Consultant contractual role, till End of March 2027.

Reporting to: Program Manager- InnovatED

We are seeking a strategic, detail-oriented Program Operations & Systems Consultant for a focused 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.

Location: From any of the TFI city - Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad (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, facilitator guides and toolkits for virtual spaces, learning tracks, in-person bootcamps, and site visits..
• Support 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 (~30%)

• 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 (~30%)

• Maintain communication channels: Establish clear communication updates across internal teams, leadership coaches, external facilitators, and entrepreneurs.
• Outreach and expert management: Engage with the ecosystem to bring high expertise facilitators and experts on board.

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.