Position: Director, Alumni Impact

Organization: Teach For India

Location: Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Bengaluru

Apply: https://teachforindia.secure.force.com/careers/job?id=a0i6F00000d3lomQAA

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 Director, Movement Building

Belongs to: Movement Building Function cluster at Teach For India, which consists of 5 Verticals - Communications, Government Relations, Firki, Kids Education Revolution and Alumni Impact

We believe Teach For India Alumni will be critical leaders in taking bold steps and helping make meaningful progress towards our north star in Phase 4. The Director of Alumni Impact will play an essential role in stewarding the Alumni Impact team as well as helping unleash the power of our larger Alumni community to learn and act collectively, to accelerate progress towards educational equity, so that ultimately, every child can live in an India free of poverty and filled with love.

As a Functional Lead

• Create a robust, collaborative strategic plan to re-envision how we can harness the power of our 4000+ member strong, and growing, community of Alumni to learn together about key issues across regions and act collectively to solve them.
• Build a 3-5 member national team over time with the following key areas of focus:
  • Understanding barriers to educational equity: Work closely with our City Directors to sharpen our understanding of regional barriers to educational equity to identify key areas of leverage 
  • Fostering connections and engagement: Partner with regional teams and Alumni chapters across India to help nurture a community that continues to be closely connected to each other and to a shared vision of educational equity. Through meaningful events, newsletters, resources, technological platforms and more, continue to strengthen engagement with both small and large groups
  • Building a community of learning: Research, design, roll out, and over time, iterate and refine various ways to foster an interconnected community that learns and creates together, online and offline. More importantly, leverage our own Alumni - many of whom are now leading and influencing the sector in remarkable ways - to help identify key areas and design spaces for collaborative learning
  • Fuel social innovations and a community of entrepreneurship: An important lever across regions will be catalytic social innovations that address barriers surfaced through our research and work with the Alumni community. A key role of this vertical, therefore, will be to continue to deepen and grow the work of InnovatEd in fostering and fuelling sustainable social innovations across India by supporting early stage Alumni entrepreneurship as well as deepening our communities of Alumni entrepreneurs at various stages of their journeys.
  • Acting collectively for India’s children: Most importantly, if we’re able to make progress across all of the above, our Alumni community would be poised to come together and galvanise around high leverage problem statements across India and act collectively to solve them - through strategic collectives, coalitions of organisations or even informally held local or community action groups
  • Making our collective progress visible: Invest time in surfacing powerful stories of change driven by our Alumni community and creating an insightful, thought-provoking body of public goods over time to strengthen and accelerate the pace of change in India's educational landscape. 
  • Strategic collaboration with Fellowship program: Work closely with the Training team, and Program teams across regions at all times to both learn from them as well as feed insights back into core Fellowship experience so that Fellows are better prepared to be Day 1 ready Alumni (key areas include, for example: exposure to career pathways, summer internships, Be The Change Projects, Personal Theory of Change, etc.)
• Ultimately, the goal of this vertical is to help foster, in close partnership with out alumni community, an innovative, agile yet caring and passionate Alumni community that is deeply connected, motivated to engage, poised to learn on on on-going basis and eager to, ultimately, act collaboratively, leveraging the tremendous assets within our larger community, in the interest of education equity and India’s children.

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 member of the Leadership team

• Providing feedback on organizational decision making and long-term strategy as a member of the Leadership Team
• 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
• Supporting with key organizational areas such as Fundraising, Movement Building, Alumni Engagement
• Over time, supporting Teach For India’s Alumni and other external organizations in their journey to our vision with organizational insights

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• 6+ years of professional experience
• Experience of having built and managed high functioning team(s) to outcomes 
• Experience of having thrived in a fast-paced, goal driven corporate or social impact environment
• Demonstrated evidence of having created deep, meaningful learning experiences and resources for adults through strong design-thinking capabilities, addressing both dynamic and diverse learning needs of individuals 
• Experience of having worked with a high degree of operational focus, along with the ability to be nimble and agile to continuously improve and iterate projects towards meeting longer-term goals of the team 
• Experience building strong relationships with a range of stakeholders: Alumni, multiple internal teams, Fellows, external partners, etc.
• Experience of using strong communication skills to create and deliver compelling messages through various media to a variety of stakeholders  
• Experience in building communities of practice, implementing programs towards community building, leading informal networks to action, efforts around aggregation and collective  action a plus 
• Prior experience in leading change through complexity with a systems-thinking (preferred but not mandatory)