Senior Manager, Careers

Any of the cities: Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Gurgaon

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.

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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.

1. 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
2. Scale our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development
3. Match the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children
4. Advocate for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity
5. 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 prospect 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

Every year, hundreds of members of the Teach For India community graduate and move into our Alumni movement, ready to build careers across the education and development sector.





The Careers vertical exists to make sure that transition, and the decade that follows it, leads our people toward roles of real influence in the movement, not just the next job.

Our work now spans the full Fellow to Alumni arc: sourcing the right opportunities, building readiness across the two-year Fellowship and beyond, and matching leaders to roles that fit both their aspiration and the movement's needs.

The Senior Manager, Careers holds this arc end to end. You will be the operational lead of the Careers vertical, working with and guiding a small team of specialists across sourcing, readiness, matching and data, and holding the cross-functional relationships the strategy depends on while closely holding the partnerships work as your main portfolio. This is a role for someone who can operate as a builder and an integrator at once, and bringing the work of specialists together into one coherent Fellow-Alumni journey.

Responsibilities

Leading the Fellow to Fellow Alumni Journey

- Holding the Careers for Alumni strategy along with the Director, Careers and Director, Alumni engagement and translating this strategy into an operating plan
- Translate the Fellow-Alumni strategy into a practical operating plan across relevant work streams and hold delivery against it end-to-end.
- Hold the cross-functional relationships the strategy depends on: with programme and regional teams for execution, strategy and impact and technology teams for strengthening foundations and the Alumni engagement team for a cohesive strategy and delivery to Fellowship Alumni
- Make sure sourcing roles and opportunities, preparation and matching work in concert rather than in parallel, across the full journey.
- Support the team to hone our understanding of and ability to match effectively, while also owning and executing critical matches, especially for strategic roles in the eco-system that will accelerate our progress towards our broader phase 4 goals

Owning Partnerships and sourcing

- Hold partnerships strategically across the full Fellow-Alumni journey: setting the direction on which organisations and pathways the movement builds toward, with deliberate focus on the areas currently under-represented among our Alumni, roles in government, in funding and philanthropy, and in organisations that shape the wider sector.
- Drive the shift from sourcing for volume to sourcing for long-term fit, curating opportunities that are genuine entry points into three-to-ten-year career pathways, not just strong first jobs.
- Lead strategy and execution on partnerships work where the journey most needs it built, particularly on the Alumni side, where the sourcing infrastructure for later career stages does not yet exist: the mid-career transition roles that help Alumni grow toward influence, and, with senior leadership, the more senior governance, policy and funding roles that Alumni move into over time.
- Hold the most senior employer and sector relationships personally, and deepen Teach For India's role as a long-term talent partner to the sector, not just an organisation that fills vacancies.



Keep employers and Alumni engaged and aware of opportunities through the year.
- Move the vertical from an end-of-cycle Career Fair burst toward a continuous, year-round presence in the sector.

Overseeing readiness, matching and data

- Oversee the design and delivery of the readiness journey across the full Fellow-Alumni journey, making sure preparation for careers is built steadily across the two Fellowship years and continues to support Alumni at later stages.
- Oversee the redesign of the Career Fair from a job board into a platform that matches leaders to roles based on their strengths and long-term goals, working with the human resources, technology and data teams.
- Oversee the build of the data foundation the strategy depends on, a single, reliable source of information on Fellows and Alumni, and the matching tools that sit on top of it, holding its priority and pace with the technology team.

As a People Manager at Teach For India

- Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the team.
- Managing and coaching team members to achieve 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 ability to improve continuously.

Additional Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager 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 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 organisational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, and Movement Building.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
- 5+ years of relevant work experience, including experience leading a function or team and managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Demonstrated ability to forge alliances and build sustainable, mutually beneficial partnerships with Alumni and external stakeholders, ideally in client-facing, business development or corporate engagement roles.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to hold several parallel priorities to delivery.
- Comfort working with data and systems, including Salesforce or comparable CRM platforms, and using Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel for documentation, analysis, presentation and reporting.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English, so as to create and deliver a compelling message through different mediums.
- A growth mindset, with an underlying belief that one's abilities and competencies can be developed through dedication, hard work and practice.

Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
- Previous experience working in the development or education sector, especially in partnerships, corporate engagement, or careers and placement work.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and building new functions or programmes from the ground up, not only running established ones. A meaningful part of this role is helping design the Alumni half of the strategy as it takes shape.
- Experience managing a small team of specialists.
- Teach For India Fellowship experience is preferred.

📌 Senior Manager, Careers (Delhi)
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