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 Strategic Investments Manager will play a critical role in supporting the actions, strategies and systems undergirding Teach For India’s cultivation of a deep and dynamic Foundations and non-CSR donor pipeline. Their duties will range from data management to research and meeting preparation, as well as managing up to the Head of Development to execute expansive partnerships with foundation donors, other large institutional prospects. 

A critical aspect of the role will be to produce 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. The successful candidate must be able to multitask, produce high quality work in a fast paced, deadline-driven and dynamic environment; and juggle several competing priorities with a spirit of flexibility, positivity and a sense of possibility.

Outcomes:

An effective Foundations Manager will play a key role in building a strong base of support for Teach For India’s efforts by: 

• Supporting the development and co-owning the execution against portfolio strategy along with other team members to increase and accelerate our efforts to build a constituency of champions and raise critical resources for the organization
• Building a deep and expansive understanding of the landscape of potential supporters and making recommendations for how we engage with possible champions of our mission 
• Developing high-impact communications both internally and externally to advance potential partnerships 
• Accurately evolving and maintaining systems that allow the team to understand our progress and track critical tasks
• Maximizing the team’s time by providing administrative support

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

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

1. Landscape analysis and Donor Intelligence ~ 20% 

• Conducting in-depth analysis of new and existing donors to inform strategy for influencing, motivating and inspiring donors to contribute to our work
• Creating strategic meeting briefs for SLT and others with appropriate objectives, asks, angles, and donor history, as well as listing potential questions from funders and propose potential responses
• Preparing landscape analysis research to build Teach For India’s fundraising pipeline, identifying alignment between our work and donor interests and recommending concrete next steps for the organization to take

2. Narrative building, Strategy & Donor Management ~ 50%

• Drafting internal and external donor-related communications, such as high-stakes emails, thank you letters, concept notes, reports, and donor histories
• Sifting through information from disparate sources, and then identifying and prioritizing the key pieces, and synthesizing and organizing them into coherent narratives
• Managing large scale strategic grants (incl. monthly update calls, quarterly reporting, annual publications)
• Building a good grasp on TFI's multi-year annual budgets, being able to build comprehensive budgetary ask in line with proposal narratives, and ensuring financial reporting commitments are met
• Developing targeted donor stewardship touch points 
• Drafting strategy documents and collaborating with internal staff on key approaches to advancing this portfolio 
• Creating & adjusting compelling PowerPoint presentations for funder meetings and touch points

3. Data Analysis and Project Management ~ 15% 

• Managing up to colleagues in order to execute on project plans for cultivation purposes (i.e. ensuring grant reports and milestones are on track)
• Maintaining up-to-date and accurate data on donors in our online CRM system (Salesforce)
• Creating and managing tracking systems to support the ambitious fundraising goals of the foundations portfolio and leveraging them to manage up to the Head of Development
• Leveraging data systems to stay abreast of fundraising efforts across the team to proactively identify internal collaboration opportunities, such as ensuring next steps are completed, making strategic suggestions for donor cultivation strategies, knowing progress and path to fundraising goals, and identifying next steps

4. Operational Support ~ 15%

• Processing cash receipt forms for pledges and gifts
• Managing calendar scheduling for Senior Leadership Team and Foundation Heads /POCs (i.e. across multiple time zones, across multiple orgs, etc.)
• Coordinating engagement planning and execution as needed 
• Providing other administrative support on an as-needed basis

Additional Responsibilities

• Partner with other Vertical Heads and teams (e.g. Recruitment, Alumni, HR, Training & Impact) to stay abreast of all key programs and updates.
• Work closely with the Head of Development for planning and strategizing yearly fundraising goals and operations plan, team hiring and stepbacks.
• The Development team has a great culture of openness and collaboration where they can add value by helping maintain that culture. 
• 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

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Excellent communication and writing skills(in English);prior professional experience writing or editing high-level external communications preferred
• Understands financial management (budgeting, accounting, utilisation etc) and M&E
• Exceptional reasoning and strategic problem-solving skills
• Strong project management and attention to detail.
• Strong in the people quadrant with the ability to work with various people and build relationships.
• Commitment to excellence
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel
• 5+  years of relevant work experience in client facing roles
• Graduate/ Postgraduate

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Sectoral exposure to Foundations/Strategic grants management experience with fundraising preferred
  Teach For India Fellowship experience is preferred

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