Regional Lead - Branding, Partnerships & Sourcing

Teach For India; Chennai District; On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive NGO salary

Medical insurance

Maternity coverage

Job summary

A leading educational NGO in India seeks a Regional Lead for Branding, Partnerships & Sourcing to set national recruitment strategy and oversee team development. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience with a strong focus on goals, project management, and relationship building. This on-ground role entails travel and direct stakeholder engagement, contributing to a significant movement to ensure educational equity for all children. A Bachelor's or Master's degree is required, alongside a deep commitment to the mission.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• In-depth knowledge of the Teach For India Fellowship Program.
• Previous experience managing large projects or teams.

Responsibilities

• Set bold vision and strategy for Fellow Recruitment.
• Assemble and empower a high-functioning team.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and universities.
• Monitor progress towards goals and adapt strategies.

Skills

Goal orientation

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Project management

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree

Job description

Regional Lead - Branding, Partnerships & Sourcing

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

Reporting to: Recruitment Director

The Regional Lead of the Fellow Recruitment vertical will be part of the Recruitment Leadership team, responsible for setting the national strategy alongside with Director and other Regional Leads. They will oversee the development and execution of strategy for one of the two sub‑verticals within the team. They will create a robust, compelling and clear vision for “who” we want to bring into the program – one that reflects thinking beyond just the recruitment vertical – it is a vision that is co‑created keeping selection, branding, talent market and the larger alumni movement in mind. They will also need to hold a medium‑term orientation towards the sub‑vertical, focusing significant time and effort towards ideating and strategizing rooted in talent market needs. They will work alongside the other Regional Leads to attract the right candidates towards the program and design a powerful candidate journey to inform and invest the best‑fit candidates.

Note: This role will be an on‑ground role that will involve travel, including in‑person time with relevant stakeholders, meetings with high potential candidates, and conducting events at different venues.

Team Overview

The Recruitment team advocates to get the greatest leaders into our classrooms to ensure Teach For India’s multiplied impact on the Indian education system. The team has the responsibility to influence the future lifepaths of tens of thousands of young people to make the bold choice of doing something for the India that they always dreamed of. As an external‑facing team, we build the brand, visibility and aspiration of Teach For India through engagement with the top institutions of the country, media partnerships, branding and promotion campaigns. The team creates strong champions for the movement by identifying, investing and leveraging influencers, and nurturing partnerships with college and corporate stakeholders. The team provides avenues for prospective applicants to meet with Fellows, Alumni, Staff and Students. Internally, the team works alongside several teams to ensure that the organisation acts as one team in its mission to find our movement of leaders who will eliminate educational inequity and ensure that all children attain an excellent vision.

Responsibilities

Setting a bold vision and strategy for the work

• Set goals and indicators for the regions and portfolios based on the organisation’s ambition and past years’ progress.
• Develop engagement strategies that allow us attract, inform, invest and influence different candidate archetypes (e.g. Engineers, Male, Corporate, Tier 1 & 2 college students, etc.) toward the vision and mission of the Fellowship.
• Develop mechanisms – behavioural and process – that enable us to remain oriented towards High‑Potential Candidates, whilst scaling our work.
• Oversee the implementation of the Campus Leader and/or Fellow Recruitment Committee programs – including their hiring, up‑skilling, accountability and culture.

People and team management

• Assemble a high‑functioning team of 5‑6 individuals spread across 4+ regions
• Coach, manage, empower and capacity‑build for each person on the team.
• Build a strong collaborative team culture that is rooted in Teach For India's culture that values learning, growth, relationships and results.

Process management

• Capture and investigate data to monitor progress toward goals, identify and analyse trends, and make adaptations to strategy as necessary.
• Create structures, processes and calendars and visibility that enable effective execution, collaboration towards goals, and medium‑term stability.
• Manage the regional team budget by allocating resources efficiently and effectively, and defining the annual team calendar and action plan.

Stakeholder relationship building

• Lead and support efforts in building and maintaining relations with universities across the country and internationally, with corporate organizations, youth hubs, etc.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with City Directors. Deeply understand the regional roadmaps, ensure a clear strategy to leverage them locally, work alongside members of the regional staff team, provide ongoing updates, etc.
• Create strong networks of Alumni, Fellows and Staff in each region that will ensure sustainable channels for investing candidates in the Fellowship Program.
• Work alongside all other verticals in the following ways: Selection team to consistently thought‑partner on insights about the quality of the Fellowship pipeline to refine our strategies; Communications team to enable regional brand building and resource readiness; Technology team to strengthen the necessary platforms and tools to support the candidate journey.

Overall contribution

• Actively participate in all Recruitment Leadership Team initiatives, including long term strategy planning, goal setting, resource allocation, problem‑solving, national‑level projects, team up‑skilling initiatives and resource sharing.
• Lead pilot projects and innovations to upgrade approach and systems towards scale, especially within the Candidate Success & Admissions space.
• Team builder: Take ownership of team members' learning and growth by providing and seeking timely insights and feedback. Additionally, support other sub‑verticals within the team with their efforts on an ongoing and need basis.

Additional Responsibilities

As a People Manager

• Building a robust pipeline of talent for their team.
• Manage and coach the team members to ambitious outcomes.
• Driving engagement, growth, and retention of team members.
• Engineering and overseeing a monitoring and evaluation system, coupled with strategic direction, to guide our abilities to continuously improve.

As a Regional Lead at Teach For India

• 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 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.

Knowledge and Technical Skills

• Strong goal orientation and laser‑like focus on outcomes, with proficiency in analysing large data sets and making inferences to drive strategies and decisions.
• Previous experience managing large projects, setting up systems, processes and teams to successful outcomes.
• Agile, entrepreneurial and resourceful mindset in the face of uncertainty.
• Ability to maintain a demanding travel schedule and work long‑hours (especially at key milestones in the Recruitment cycle like Recruitment deadlines).
• Strategic and critical thinking skills to conceptualise multiple approaches to solving a problem.
• Strong relationship building and communication skills to deliver compelling messages through oral and written medium to diverse stakeholders.
• An orientation towards driving depth and excellence in all aspects of the role.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• A Bachelor’s or a Master’s Degree in any field.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• A deep belief in Teach For India’s vision, mission, and core values.
• In‑depth knowledge of the Teach for India Fellowship Program.
• Previous experience leading large projects and/or teams to successful outcomes.
• Recruitment Manager experience preferred.

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.