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 Recruitment Manager (RM) is responsible for securing engagements in the nation's top colleges, corporates and youth hubs to inspire the brightest leaders to join the Teach For India Fellowship Program. The RM oversees the brand presence and penetration of the organization in a particular region creates a diverse ecosystem of ambassadors and advocates within colleges, corporates and youth hubs and creates a high-quality candidate experience to ensure excellence in the fellowship and alumni movement. 

Team Overview

The Recruitment team is not just the face, but also the heart of Teach For India. The Recruitment team advocates and fight to get the greatest leaders into our classrooms to ensure Teach For India’s continued and multiplied impact on Indian education. The team’s work is at the core of building our movement.
As one of the most external-facing teams, we build the brand of Teach For India nationally through engagement with the top institutions of the country, media partnerships, branding and promotion campaigns, and by creating strong champions for the movement. We provide avenues for prospective applicants to meet with Fellows, Staff and students, and we meet with corporate and college stakeholders to invest them in the movement. We engage with the city teams in order to ensure that the organisation acts as one team in our mission to find our movement of leaders who will eliminate educational inequity and ensure that all children attain an excellent vision.

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

• Creating a compelling vision and strategy to engage with institutions and individuals in order to attract the best and the brightest leaders in a city.
• Building and managing relationships and partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders such as heads of colleges, corporates, youth hubs, alums, Fellows and staff to create strong networks in the region that will ensure sustainable channels for the Fellowship Program.
• Designing and executing recruitment campaigns/engagements/presentations in colleges, corporates, youth hubs and other events across the country.
• Meeting with high potential youth of the city and investing them in Teach For India's movement towards educational equity all the way up until the Fellowship.
• Managing a team of 4-5 campaign leaders from the top colleges or corporate champions in the city.
• Designing a high-quality candidate experience right from the time when the candidate expresses interest in the Fellowship Program until the candidate joins the Fellowship Program.
• Planning and executing events for the prospective Fellows to build the essential knowledge, mindsets and beliefs in them that are required to join Teach For India's movement towards educational equity.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• 2 years of professional experience 
• A Bachelor’s or a Master’s Degree in any field
• Strong presentation and persuasion skills
• Ability to deeply listen and communicate effectively in speaking & writing 
• Ability to build relationships and invest others in our work internally and externally 
• Strategic planning - planning and executing recruitment campaigns/engagements
• Strong goal orientation and ability to meet targets/deadlines

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Ability to analyse and interpret data 
• Ability to build and lead teams - Managing campaign leaders and relationships with the wider network 
• In-depth knowledge of the Teach for India Fellowship Program
• Previously engaged in market research, branding and sales
• A Bachelor’s or a Master’s Degree in a social/ developmental field
• 2- 4 years of professional experience in the social sector

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