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 Mission of the Development team is to build lifelong champions of the cause and to acquire financial support for the movement. The Acquisitions Manager will enable this by identifying new sourcing pools, and onboarding new partners onto the movement, to support Teach For India’s ambitious goals. This will include producing compelling written communications, crafting customised materials and development strategies that inspire a base of donors to invest, while developing extensive knowledge of Teach For India’s programmatic and operational initiatives and impact. Leveraging exceptional writing ability, strategic thinking skills and project management experience, the Acquisitions Manager would be responsible for collaborating with internal stakeholders such as City Directors, Vertical Heads, Communications team to prepare, write and edit grant proposals, donor reports and other high stakes external communications for a select set of fundraising portfolios.

Team Overview

Teach For India embarks on a bold vision – by 2022-23, 5000 Fellow and Alumni, along with our children will be on the path to developing their own leadership and working towards educational equity in India. This ambitious growth needs to be supported by financial resources which the Development team will help secure in addition to building partnerships that go beyond providing only financial support to fuel this growth. 

Development is one of the critical backbones of the organizations as the organization is completely dependent on donations in its current form. The team raises funds from various sources -  Corporate CSR will continue to be our mainstay for the immediate and medium-term. We are also cultivating Foundations as medium-term priorities. 

Additionally, we are building our capacity in the Multilateral and Impact Investing space by engaging with organisations such as USAID, UNICEF, and the likes. Over the past year, we have also piloted two online campaigns, and are looking to continue with such campaigns on a yearly basis. 

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

Responsibilities of the Acquisitions Manager will include, but are not limited to:

• Raise funds by building new champions, and ensure 100% of the new funding goals are met

1. Generating clear and compelling written communications for key external audiences, including the preparation of donor proposals, concept notes, reports, high-stakes emails, PowerPoint presentations, and other communications to inspire prospective donors to support Teach For India
2. Build and allocate portfolios for team members, and drive pursuit of Corporations, Foundations and strategic alternative sources of funding
3. Proactively service leads generated through the pull factor, and engage connectors to build a steady list of new prospects 
4. Revise and build a comprehensive and adaptive strategy for the current and successive year

• Central Project Management

1. Enable bi- monthly collaborations, a space to share insights and learnings with the wider team, drive for results, and ensure updation of relevant donor management systems like Salesforce and Team Drives
2. Centrally manage the writing production process to support the timely review and submission of external materials for regional team members, including developing production timelines, defining division of labor, reviewing donor criteria, and coordinating the review and assembly of required donor documentation

• Build capacity in team members thereby developing a world-class team

1. To maintain and share updated repositories of new proposals and learning documents, while reviewing the team's work
2. To create bi-annual open spaces to amplify voice and dialogues, surface barriers to execution, problem solve, learn and share, celebrate, collaborate. Ensure that the strategy is revised and updated as per the feedback/reflective proces

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Excellent communication and writing skills (in English). 
• Exceptional reasoning and strategic problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational skills, project management and must pay attention to detail.
• Strong time management skills and ability to juggle several competing priorities at once with a solutions orientation and spirit of flexibility
• Strong in the people quadrant with the ability to work with various people and build relationships.
• Entrepreneurial attitude, working independently while also being a team player
• Commitment to excellence and accuracy, with an ability to make decisions in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook preferred
• 5+  years of relevant work experience in client-facing roles
• Graduate/ Postgraduate
• Strong work ethic

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Sectoral exposure to corporates/ foundations / worked with HNIs with experience with fundraising preferred
• Draws satisfaction from supporting other individuals towards success and playing an integral behind-the-scenes role
• Teach For India Fellowship experience is preferred

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