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

Teach For India embarks on a bold vision to enable 5000 leaders to provide access to an excellent education to India's most underserved children over the next few years. This ambitious growth needs to be supported by financial resources, the Development team will help secure and also build partnerships that go beyond providing only financial support to fuel this growth.

As an Associate, you will contribute to this vision by driving fundraising efforts towards building long-term partnerships and strong champions for the movement. These include: strengthening and managing existing partnerships by designing donor cultivation efforts which allow partnerships to thrive; identifying opportunities for new partnerships by conducting prospect research and leveraging connections; grant and proposal writing; comprehensive program knowledge to create impact reports; develop fund utilization strategies, project and portfolio management through planning and execution of donor stewardship plan; build Teach For India’s online retail fundraising efforts.

The role can go much beyond that including looking for creative and new avenues for funding. You will be given a lot of ownership of projects and work allowing for a lot of personal growth and satisfaction. The celebration when a potential donor gets converted or renewed because of your relentless efforts is unparalleled!

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.

The opportunity - what’s in it for you?:

Being a team that works mostly with external stakeholders, our work takes us through a huge learning curve both professionally and personally on relationship management strategies and networking in the sector.  We work directly with the Senior Leadership of TFI and our partners are the finest in their respective sectors.

The skill sets - communication, building relationships, data analysis, and representation, comfort with systems like Salesforce, etc. - acquired in the role are transferable skills in any domain/sector or for higher education.

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

• Identify and cultivate new ideal prospects through research strategies and connections to champion Teach For India’s cause. 
• Prepare grant applications and proposals that contextualize the Teach For India story to the specific conversations. 
• Meet and present the impact of our programs to convince and build relationships and funding pipelines.  
• For existing donors, strengthening donor cultivation and engagement efforts to build a partnership that is meaningful for the donor/organization and supports the renewal efforts for the portfolio.
• Work to build an effective online fundraising strategy and its execution to deepen our funding base.  
• Portfolio and operations management to meet MOU deliverables and showcase the impact of the partnership.
• Plan and seamlessly execute partner engagements in schools, donor offices, and other TFI events, and facilitate donor audits.
• Work closely with the Finance team on budgets, donor expense projections, costing strategies, fund utilization reporting, any other donor due diligence, and deliverables.
• Using Salesforce as the CRM tool to continuously update all current and new donor conversations and to effectively monitor and track progress to goals through data analysis to aid fundraising efforts.
• Creating collaterals, impact reports, and tools to execute and support engagement and outreach across all workstreams.
• Support the cities to achieve their goals, be the learning and resource partner, build relations with the city team, and collaborate with the City Director to build and execute the city development strategy.
• You may also have the opportunity to manage interns and Fellows working on specific projects under their workstream.

Additional Responsibilities

• You may be required to help with the selection process of new Fellows. 
• Volunteering in classrooms is highly recommended to keep in touch with why we do what we do.
• As a part of the Development team, you will make several external contacts for Teach For India, which are to be appropriately leveraged and shared with the Recruitment, Alumni, and Communications teams to help achieve their goals. 
• As a part of the city team, you may be required to collate and spread city specific impact communication for internal and external stakeholders, leading towards development outcomes.  

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Graduate (in any stream) with 2+ years of full-time work experience preferably in a role that required writing proposals and reports
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills 
• Excellent critical thinking skills and ability to analyze complex financials and data sets, drawing conclusions, narratives, and communicating impact stories to external partners.
• Knowledge and ability to run targeted online campaigns to achieve crowdfunding targets.  
• Mastery over Microsoft Office and Google Suite
• End-to-end ownership of the donor portfolio and the operational tracks undertaken.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Past experience in fundraising, running online campaigns, business development, marketing, or project management.
• Past experience in analysing and preparing budgets, cashflows, financial modelling, and projections. 
• Has worked in the CSR department of a corporate, fundraised for a prominent non-profit, or worked in a grant management role with a foundation.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build meaningful external and internal relationships
• Excellent project and time management skills
• Solution-oriented approach when faced with challenges, and the ability to identify and implement solutions to complex ambiguous situations.
• High sense of possibility and an anything-it-takes attitude.
• High attention to detail and strive for excellence.
• Spoken Telugu or/and Hindi is an added advantage for the role.

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