Consultant, Talent Acquisition

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

Job summary

Teach For India is seeking a Consultant, Talent Acquisition to attract mission-driven talent across our open roles; you will anchor hiring operations end-to-end with rigor and timeliness. Reporting to Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, you will partner with Communications and HR teams to build sourcing strategies, manage selection with empathy, and strengthen our brand in the education sector.

Previous teaching/education experience is a plus; a four-year track record in fast-paced environments

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of relevant full-time professional experience.
• Experience in driving operations in high-pressure, goal-driven environments.
• Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in taking initiative in the past.
• Teaching/education experience is a plus (not mandatory).

Responsibilities

• Design and execute an annual employer branding strategy.
• Advise hiring managers to develop customized sourcing strategies.
• Oversee and execute efficient selection processes with empathy and rigor.
• Coach HR teams across cities on outreach, sourcing, and selection.
• Anchor partnerships for hiring events, campus placements, and year-round roles.
• Develop talent pipelines and contribute to succession planning.
• Produce hiring reports and market insights to strengthen TA.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Initiative

High-pressure work

Stakeholder management

Job description

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

Reporting to: Senior Manager, Talent Strategy, Innovation and Operations

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

Consultant, Talent Acquisition plays a pivotal role in attracting highly mission driven, right-fit talent to Teach For India’s diverse open roles; anchoring hiring operations and processes end-to-end with rigour and timeliness, and delivering special and strategic projects that improve candidate experience and Teach For India’s brand presence.

Team Overview

The HR team at Teach For India drives the organization’s mission of educational equity by finding, developing, and engaging exceptional talent. Our purpose is to foster a thriving, people-centered, value-aligned culture that empowers individuals and teams to deliver transformational outcomes and explore their full potential as social impact leaders.

Key sub-functions include:

• Talent Acquisition: Hiring individuals aligned with our mission and values.
• Performance Management: Driving excellence through clear goals, feedback, and differentiated support and learning provisions.
• Culture & Engagement: Creating an inclusive, vibrant, equitable work culture through policies, benefits and standardized experiences across all our regions.
• Internship and Volunteer Programs: Providing opportunities for emerging leaders to contribute to our movement, and immerse in unique and self-driven formats.
• Child Safety: Keeping our children safe in classrooms, the organization compliant with laws, and build advocates for the safety and holistic development of kids in India.
• People Analytics: Fuelling decision making and improvement through HR analytics, budgeting, role optimization, payroll operations and key culture surveys.

By equipping Staff to grow and thrive, we aim to enable the organization to achieve its vision of educational equity.

Responsibilities

As a Consultant, Talent Acquisition, you will work on:

• Collaborating with the Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, and the Communications team to design and execute an annual employer branding strategy.
• Serving as a talent advisor to Teach For India hiring managers to develop and implement customized sourcing strategies to fill open roles with the best-fit talent.
• Overseeing and executing an efficient, accurate selection process that prioritizes empathy and care for applicants, balanced with operational rigour and excellence.
• Coaching and supporting HR teams across cities to effectively execute outreach, sourcing, and selection processes at all levels.
• Anchoring key partnerships for hiring at Teach For India, such as Internal Career Fair for Fellows, Internal Job Placements for Staff, and Campus & Headhunter partnerships for year-round open roles, especially ones that are complex and skill-specific.
• Developing creative cultivation strategies to create short and mid term talent pipelines and contribute to Teach For India’s succession planning.
• Reflecting regularly through hiring-related reports, data analysis, and hiring landscape insights to strengthen the Talent Acquisition function overall.

As a Consultant at Teach For India

• 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 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

• At least 4 years of relevant full-time professional experience.
• Experience in driving operations in high-pressure, goal-driven environments.
• Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experiences and examples of having taken initiative in the past.
• Previous experience in teaching/education would be an added advantage (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.