Manager, Fellow Readiness

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Access to global network

Focus on employee well-being

Job summary

A prominent educational advocacy organization is hiring a Manager, Fellow Readiness in Mumbai, India. This mid-senior level role involves enhancing career transitions for Fellows through research, curriculum design, and collaboration with various stakeholders. The successful candidate will have strong communication and analytical skills, alongside experience in project management and education sectors. Join a mission-driven team to impact educational equity.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of full-time professional experience.
• Experience in complex project management.
• Collaboration with diverse groups.

Responsibilities

• Conduct large-scale research studies on the education sector job market.
• Design career readiness curriculum for Fellows.
• Manage stakeholder communications.

Skills

Research and analytical skills

Strong verbal and written communication

Design-thinking capabilities

Project management

Job description

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Overview

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:

Every year, hundreds of members from the Teach For India Fellowship community graduate and transition into our Alumni movement ready to take on careers across the Education and Development sector primarily, with a smaller group moving into the Research, Policy or Private sector. Over the years, we've realized that there is high demand in the sector for talent and Teach For India Fellows and Alumni fill this crucial gap of driven, passionate individuals willing to solve India’s complex problems. Teach For India Alumni bring immensely valuable skills of planning, resourcefulness along with a deep passion, an understanding of grass-root realities, an entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong teaching and communication skills.

The Manager, Fellow Readiness will work closely with our Program team and play a critical role in ensuring that the graduating Fellows are able to embark on and sustain career journeys that enable them to work towards educational equity while also fulfilling their personal aspirations.

Team Overview

The Careers team is currently in its 3rd year of operations and together with 7 team members works with Fellows, Alumni, Employers and Student Alumni towards infusing talent in the education and larger development sector. Towards our ten year vision, the Careers team at Teach For India will create more opportunities for our programs leaders to embark and sustain career journeys that enable them to work towards educational equity while also fulfilling their personal aspirations.

Responsibilities

As Manager, Fellow Readiness, you will:

• Research and Analysis (40%)
• Design and execute large-scale landscape and benchmarking studies to add to our internal understanding of the education sector job market, as well as the barriers & opportunities.
• Build and continuously update an internal knowledge repository of the skills and mindsets successful job seekers need to be equipped with for different roles in education, which will serve as the foundation of programmatic and curriculum design for the team.
• Identify external opportunities for our Fellows and Alumni to gain more context about the education sector, the job market, and opportunities - be it conferences, events, webinars, online courses, etc.
• Utilize data management systems to accurately report and track Fellow progress toward career goals, and recommend data-based decisions regarding strategic priorities.
• Content creation (40%)
• Design a robust career readiness curriculum for Fellows, with differentiated support (for example, differentiated by the pathways, experience of Fellows etc).
• Design both online and offline content/resources - in the form of online courses, creatives, posters, decks, videos, websites, resource repositories, and webinar sessions.
• Stakeholder Management (20%)
• Liaise with the Program team to strengthen and support their efforts in preparing Fellows for their transition into the education sector.

As a Manager 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 organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• 3-5 years of full-time professional and relevant experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to deliver high-quality content through various media to a variety of audiences.
• Strong design-thinking capabilities in terms of understanding the dynamic needs of individuals and designing training sessions and resources to meet those needs.
• Excellent research and analytical skills, and proficiency in using data to drive decisions.
• Experience in complex project management, with the ability to manage and execute multiple projects at the same time.
• Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups.

Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• Teach For India Fellowship experience preferred.
• Previous experience working in the development/education sector, especially in roles with a Course design component/a learning management system.

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.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Education

Industries

• Non-profit Organizations

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