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: identifying opportunities for new partnerships by conducting prospect research and leveraging connections; onboarding new partners onto the movement, 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

Responsibilities of the Associate, Outreach Strategy will include, but are not limited to:

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

• 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
• Support the manager in the research for building portfolios of Corporations, Foundations, and strategic alternative sources of funding
• Proactively service leads generated through the pull factor, and engage connectors to build a steady list of new prospects
• Support the manager to revise and build a comprehensive & adaptive strategy for the current and successive year

2. Central Project Management

• Engage in bi-monthly collaborations, a space to share insights and learnings with the wider team, and drive for results
• Support team members and managers in curating essential collateral for new donors and support the management of critical engagement events
• Ensure that the content and context of all new partnerships are regularly updated onto relevant donor and data management systems like Salesforce and Team Drives

3. Build capacity in team members thereby developing a world-class team

• To support the maintenance and updation of repositories of new proposals and learning documents
• Engage in bi-annual open spaces to amplify voice and dialogues, surface barriers to execution, problem solve, learn and share, celebrate, collaborate

Additional Responsibilities

• You will also help during the selection of new Fellows and job placements of graduating ones
• 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. You will need to duly share these with the Recruitment, Alumni, and Communications teams who also deal with external stakeholder

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Graduate degree in any field
• 2+ years of work experience in client-facing roles
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organization & project management skills with attention to detail
• Ability to manage time and thrive in a fast paced environment requiring multi-tasking
• Ability to collaborate with various teams and build strong professional relationships
• Commitment to excellence and accuracy with a drive for results
• Ability to interpret and analyse data

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Work experience in writing roles
• Entrepreneurial & innovative approach to work
• Teach For India Fellowship experience is preferred