Senior Manager, Student Alumni Wing

Teach For India; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Extensive medical insurance

Maternity coverage for both parents

Job summary

A leading educational NGO in India is seeking a Senior Manager for Student Alumni Pathways to enhance educational and career mobility for low-income students. Responsibilities include designing support systems, overseeing team operations, and building partnerships to facilitate successful transitions from school to higher education. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in related fields and strong leadership abilities. This role also involves managing complex projects and driving strategic outcomes to support the mission of educational equity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in education, youth development, or social impact.
• Ability to inspire a team and develop individuals over time.
• Experience managing multiple projects and making strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead a transition support ecosystem for student alumni.
• Collaborate with city teams to implement cohesive operations.
• Manage a team focused on student readiness and transition navigation.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Graduate/Postgraduate in any field

Job description

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

This role builds the organization’s long-term ability to support student alumni beyond schooling — enabling sustained educational and career mobility for young people from low-income communities.

The Senior Manager – Student Alumni Pathways & Transitions will design and lead a transition support eco-system enabling student alumni from low-income backgrounds to successfully move from school to higher education and meaningful careers.

The role is responsible for translating alumni insights into strategy, building structured support across key transition stages, building systems, partnerships, and peer communities that collectively provide students with access to opportunities, expertise, and sustained support across key transition stages.

The Senior Manager will act as a system architect and ecosystem orchestrator , ensuring the right support reaches students at the right time through partners, experts, and alumni networks.

Team Overview

The Careers Team caters to providing college/career readiness support and opportunities to our Fellows-Fellow Alumni. More recently, we have expanded our scope to also provide this support to our Students-Student Alumni. This team plays a crucial role in matching the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system. The overarching charge of this team is to foster lifelong connections through platforms, events, strategic partnerships and more to fuel ongoing interest and visibility into opportunities for individuals to engage with careers enabling educational equity in India.

The Student Alumni Wing, an integral part of our commitment to lifelong success, operates within the broader Careers Team framework, fostering connections among 14,000+ student alumni across 7 cities. Its charge will be to create platforms that foster and encourage many to make support for our Student Alum to grow in their abilities to lead themselves, others and create change.

Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities of the Senior Manager of the Student Alumni Wing:

• Define and evolve a comprehensive, long-term strategy for the Student Alumni Wing, aligning with the organization's goals and mission.
• Operationalize the strategy, outlining clear processes and workflows for effective implementation.
• Design strong foundational operations, data management, collaboration systems that anchor the work, are sustainable, scalable, adaptable yet enduring
• Collaborate with city teams to integrate the student alumni wing seamlessly into their operations, ensuring a cohesive and synchronized approach across different locations.

System and transition support design:

• Design a transition navigation system focused on key decision moments
• Establish frameworks that clarify what support students need, when, and through whom
• Translate alumni insights into strategic interventions
• Ensure coherence across readiness, navigation, partnerships, and community efforts

Creating and eco-system of support:

• Curate opportunities that will help our student alumni grow in their ability to access colleges, secure livelihoods and career of their choice, foster community and be changemakers
• Identify and engage expert organizations, institutions, and practitioners aligned to differentiated needs of students and regions
• Enable partnerships that provide scalable support
• Work closely with the Partnerships Manager to align opportunity pipelines with transition priorities
• Ensure partner contributions integrate seamlessly into the student journey

Community & Peer Support Architecture

• Design structures for student and alumni communities to support navigation and decision-making
• Enable peer learning networks across cohorts and cities
• Strengthen alumni-to-student mentorship and support pathways
• Ensure communities complement structured supports
• Senior Manager responsible for managing team members focused on:
  • Early Readiness (Grades 8–10)
  • Transition Navigation
  • Partners & Opportunities
• Align team work toward shared transition outcomes rather than isolated initiatives
• Build understanding and alignment on the role of the student alumni vertical and the careers team at larger, as well as regional teams and their student alumni focused efforts
• Drive visibility and understanding of the student alumni vertical - partnering with Teach For India’s branding and communications team, development team and others as relevant
• Represent Careers Team pathways in internal and external forums

As a People Manager at Teach For India, responsibilities include :

• Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization.
• Managing and coaching 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 Senior Manager at Teach For India, responsibilities include:

• 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 Teach For India 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

• Graduate/Postgraduate in any field
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in education, youth development, social impact, or talent pathways
• Ability to inspire a team to achieve outcomes and develop individuals over time
• Experience in managing, executing, and taking complete ownership of multiple projects at the same time
• Ability to work collaboratively and make strategic decisions in a fast-paced environment
• Experience of having built strong relationships and having influenced others without authority
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills to solve complex community-related challenges

Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• Experience of having to design complex systems and build eco-systems
• Deep understanding of barriers faced by first - generation learners
• Previous experience working in external facing roles - business development, talent acquisition, development/fundraising, etc.
• Experience building partnerships or eco-systems preferred.
• Team leadership experience