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Senior Program Manager

At Teach For India, we’ve built a nationwide movement of leaders who are working relentlessly to end inequity in education. It’s been twelve years since we began this journey and today we have 900+ Fellows leading classrooms impacting 32,000 children across the country, Through our Fellowship, we infuse the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem and have a growing movement of 3400+ Alumni. Our Alumni work at all levels of the education system from teaching, teacher training, school leadership and community empowerment to education technology, policy, governance, media as well as in the private sector. Cumulatively, our Alumni have founded 150+ organisations in the social sector with 200 of them occupying senior leadership and CXO positions across organisations.

77% of our Alumni continue to work in the development sector impacting 33 million, or 1 in 10 children across India, thereby demonstrating their commitment to our vision - One Day All Children Will Attain An Excellent Education. Collectively, these numbers represent the immense potential of our model and the power of our broader community - a potential to catalyze a movement for education reform and redefine what’s possible for children from the most vulnerable backgrounds. Our work will only be complete once we have built a movement of leaders large enough to ensure that every child in India is receiving an excellent education.

On Staff, we pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of 200+ individuals who are committed to the pursuit of excellence and practicing the values that shape us as people.. We have been recognised by Great Places To Work and are an equal opportunities employer, providing compensation and benefits at the top of the nonprofit sector.

Position Summary

The Senior Program Manager coordinates and leads programmatic activity with a region, thus ensuring progress towards student outcomes, Fellow development, and citywide culture. As the head of a region’s program, the Senior Program Manager develops a strategic plan that promises to deliver on transformational outcomes for children, by delivering on the development of Fellows. Utilizing existing resources to execute that plan, the role not only manages and coaches a team towards outcomes, but it also serves as culture and movement builder for the region. Finally, the Senior Program Manager holds a wider commitment to Teach For India’s organizational success, providing thought-partnership and broader leadership to building a sustainable and values-driven organization. 

Team Overview

The Program Vertical is arguably one of the most consequential – and the most complex – verticals at Teach For India. It encompasses the core of our Fellowship program and impacts more than 900+ Fellows and 32,000 children directly. When taking into account its indirect impact for future Alumni, the calculation goes up astronomically. 

Over the short and long term, Program is attempting to deliver on three impact statements - 

Transform the lives of children we serve directly 

Develop our Fellows into long-term leaders prepared to lead this movement 

Facilitate a strong cohort culture that has Fellows leaving as ambassadors of Teach For India and members of a larger movement 

What Teach For India Can Offer You

1. A challenging yet flexible workplace in which every individual employee’s staff journey is tracked for excellence and leadership development.
2. A work environment in which employees’ holistic well-being is a core priority, enabling people to be their best selves.
3. 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 while working with changemakers across the country.
4. Access to connections and resources from the global Teach For All network that includes partner organisations spanning over 50 countries across 6 continents.
5. Remuneration that is competitive with Indian NGO pay scales and a benefits package that includes extensive medical insurance and maternity coverage for both parents.

Responsibilities

• Designs a programmatic annual strategy that includes goals, priorities and timelines, as well as a scope and sequence outlining Fellowship and managerial support
• Designs and creates regional support structures and spaces, available for both Fellows and Program Managers, as well as the monitoring and evaluation to continuously invests Program Managers and Fellows in Teach For India’s culture, building a collaborative and supportive network
• Coordinates the multiple facets of programmatic activity, including student leadership, training, coaching, and partnerships, to ensure coordinated implementation
• Manages and coaches Program Managers and Team Members through a variety of individual and group-support mechanisms, including - but not limited to - classroom observations, coaching conversations, group debriefs, team meetings, and training sessions
• Communicates with Fellows and Staff Members frequently and consistently, delivering messages that are aligned to regional strategy and organizational culture
• Works closely with the central Training and Impact Team - as well as Senior Managers from other regions - to share best practices and collectively inform a national approach to Fellow Development
• Leads team and self through frequent reflections on city-level trends – using data from sources across engagement surveys, student-impact data, and observational inputs – to inform short and long-term strategic decisions 
• Contributes to broader organizational priorities such as Recruitment, Selection, and Matriculation
• Works closely with the City Director to thought-partner and advance regional priorities and culture

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Bachelor’s Degree 
• A minimum of two years teaching experience in a low-income school with a strong track record of building academics, values, mindsets, and pathways to opportunity with students 
• A minimum of 1 year of an instructional leadership role, with strong results in Fellow growth, student growth, team culture, training effectiveness and school partner investment Strategic Planning and Design abilities, used to develop a regional programmatic plan 
• Decision-making and problem-solving capacities 
• A nuanced understanding of Teach For India’s approach to Fellow & Student Impact, including a vision for student outcomes
• Demonstrated success in leading teams to ambitious outcomes 
• Demonstrated success in mobilizing partnerships and building organizational culture 

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• 3 years experience preferred in coaching/ managing teams