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 Design Associate will assist the Marketing and Communications team in conceptualizing and designing the Teach For India brand through digital marketing and print collaterals, this position is an opportunity for young professionals to get a holistic sense of the powerful role that design plays in communication strategy and garner exposure to a wide array of differentiated design projects. 

Team Overview

The National Communications team at Teach For India considers themselves the custodians of the brand. They handle everything related to brand communications, marketing, events, PR, design, merchandising or any element that authentically captures what Teach For India stands for. We innovate, create and optimize every aspect of communication in the hope that we can inspire an entire collective of changemakers to provide an excellent education to all children. 

On a daily basis, we collaborate and thought partner to come up with new ideas to generate creative content and publish it across digital media, listen to stories and capture them across formats, think of all the platforms we can tap into to amplify these inspiring stories and design activations to immerse people in the Teach For India experience.

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

• Create digital and print creatives for Teach For India. 
• Develop a diverse design language and templates that are unique to platforms while keeping in mind the brand manual. 
• Use visuals as a powerful medium for storytelling. 
• Be a design custodian while ensuring that all touchpoints are in line with the creative vision and ensuring designs are consistent across all of our online and offline communications. 
• Concepting, directing, executing, producing, and troubleshooting all aspects of design initiatives.
• Continually maintain awareness of customer behavior towards design to optimize the engagement. 
• Illustrate ideas in various looks and styles, and quickly translate content into visuals. 
• Have a basic understanding of print and vendor management.
• Managing a team of Design Associates and Interns
• Creating Brand Guideline awareness and training Staff and Fellows 

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Graduate/Postgraduate degree preferably in Communication Design. 
• 3-5 years of design experience, agency experience preferred.  
• Exceptional skills in design for online and offline platforms with a passion for creativity.
• A good understanding of typography and editorial design. 
• Proficiency in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, basic knowledge of After Effects is required, and knowledge of Premiere Pro is a bonus.
• Digital/Social Media Principals: Understand best practices on social media, responsive layouts, mobile design, social media graphic guidelines, and fonts. 
• Ability to work in an extremely high-paced deadline-based environment.