About Us

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 Manager, City Human Resources is the backbone of the site handling multiple responsibilities to ensure smooth operations, strong processes, systems and decision making at scale for a site like Ahmedabad. As Manager, City Human Resources, you will be responsible for setting a strong city culture and work closely with the city leadership team to ensure high engagement, performance, development, and retention of Staff and Fellows. 

Team Overview

The Ahmedabad City Operations team is the one of the youngest sites of Teach For India. It has 10 staff members and will have close to 70 fellows next year. The city is going from being a smaller site to being a medium size site over the next two years and this will come along with a lot of changes. Hence the role will come with its own exciting challenges and opportunities. We have some of the most engaged set of staff members and fellows. We are going to be looking to increase in size without losing all the strengths that we have in culture, impact, and operations.

As we deep dive into Phase 4 of our organizational plans, the Ahmedabad team is committed to increasing the scale and depth of our collective impact in the region. We aspire to be the best city to work in for both fellows and aspiring staff members.  

The HR vertical lays the foundation for an enabling environment for all Staff members to develop and practice their own personal theories of change while working towards the vision of a collective leadership in the region and bringing the education movement alive. 

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

Culture Strategy 

• Co-creating the culture strategy for the team along with the City Director and the City Leadership team
• Operationalizing the culture strategy and creating enabling conditions through ACSMs (All city staff meetings) and Leadership team meetings

Talent Acquisition

• Attracting talent and executing our hiring process to ensuring 100% Staffing for the City team from the Fellow, Alumni and an external pool of candidates 
• Providing guidance and input on team restructuring, workforce and succession planning for all teams 
• Studying hiring patterns in the team to identify high potential channels and external partners, and create a strategy for effective applicant engagement in consultation with the Manager, Talent Acquisition 
• Provide matriculation support to candidates with an offer, work closely with team leads to support selected candidates as they join the team

Talent Development

• Design, in collaboration with the Managers, a 3-month on-boarding and induction plan and 3-month probationary goal sheet for the new hires 
• Conducting periodic meetings with different team leaders and/or their representatives to get an overview of the health of the team and the organization 
• Upskilling: Identifying the need of the City Ops team and working with team leads and Manager, Learning and Engagement to design programs that will benefit Staff members 
• Developing a strategy and implementation plan towards a high performance culture in collaboration with team leads 
• Managing performance from goal setting to probation to mid-year and end of year evaluations. This will include encouraging the use of tools and resources that have been created by the team to better manage performance 
• Executing exit processes for Staff in collaboration with Managers and National HR to ensure Staff leave as advocates as Teach For India

Talent Management

• Creating awareness on all Teach For India policies, ensuring compliance and redressal through appropriate mechanisms and managing related partnerships 
• Managing and resolving complex employee relation issues by conducting effective, objective and thorough investigations in collaboration with the City Director and Senior Manager, People Support and Development 
• Working closely with the Program vertical and the City Child Protection Officer towards building capacity and adherence to organizational policies in resolving Fellow and Student-level escalations and violations 
• Working closely with the city leadership team, National HR and Staff to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention 
• Working closely with the Admin Assistant to implement finance and administrative processes with 100% efficiency; designing and executing strategies to ensure operational efficiency in the City 
• Working with City-level data to pull out accurate patterns and insights, design effective interventions towards improving overall culture and processes in the City

Talent Engagement

• Conducting periodic All City Staff Meetings (ACSMs) in partnership with the City Director and the City’s Leadership to foster ongoing connections with the organization’s vision & mission 
• Fostering collaboration and connections between Staff through systems and spaces on team days 
• Securing partnerships and creating an ecosystem of support towards Mental health/wellbeing, in collaboration with National HR and City Team

Admin and Finance

• Managing and Coaching the Admin Assistant in their day to day roles and responsibilities
• Due diligence of regional budgeting and finance for the city 
• Supporting the Admin Assistant in designing a clear plan of action for office maintenance, budgeting and petty cash management 

Additional Responsibilities:

• Providing Recruitment/Selection/Matriculation support for new Fellows as needed 
• Working closely with National HR as part of an existing committee or leading a National level project
• Co-planning and execution of different city-wide events with other verticals in the city 

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• 3+ years of work experience 
• Excellent English communication skills – written and verbal
• Ability to remain objective and equanimous in difficult, challenging conversations and situations 
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders and influence outcomes 
• Interest in designing systems and processes to improve overall team effectiveness 
• Ability to manage change in a complex work environment 
• Data orientation and impact analysis 
• Critical thinking to solve reactive, complex and critical issues 

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Experience of working in a talent development role
• Previous experience of managing people

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