Director - Strategy and Impact

Director, Strategy and Impact

Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Ahmedabad

Working at Teach For India

Teach For India is on a journey to reach an India free of poverty and filled with love by ending educational inequity in our country. Fourteen years into our journey we are a movement of 4600+ Alumni working at all levels of the education system, who are reaching 1 in 10 children across the country. These Alumni have graduated from our two-year Fellowship Program where they taught in under-resourced classrooms to put 38,000 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have 940 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India.

In 2022, we embarked on Phase 4, our fourth strategic phase. We have a bold and ambitious ten-year journey ahead of us that aims to grow 50,000 leaders, who will work collectively, and with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in our regions, through an education that unleashes the potential of self, others and India. In this decade, five key priorities will lead us to this vision.

1. Strengthen our core Fellowship to build strong teacher leaders who provide an excellent and equitable education to our children and continue to do so beyond the Fellowship
2. Scale our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development
3. Match the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children
4. Advocate for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity
5. Act collectively with our Alumni to learn about and address key issues in our regions.

Our work will only be completed when we have built a movement of leaders that is large enough to ensure that every child in India attains an excellent education.

We pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of individuals. We're committed to learning and excellence in our roles, and to being deeply rooted in our core values.

What Teach For India Can Offer You

• 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 across the nation and working with changemakers across the country.
• A challenging yet flexible workplace in which every individual employee's Staff journey is tracked for excellence and leadership development.
• A work environment in which employees holistic well-being is a core priority, enabling people to be their best selves.
• Access to connections and resources from the global Teach For All network that includes partner organizations spanning 50+ countries across 6 continents.
• Remuneration that is competitive within the top quartile of the Indian NGO pay scales, and a benefits package that includes extensive medical insurance and maternity coverage for both parents.

Position Summary

Reporting Manager: Senior Director, Impact & Operations.

Team Size: 3-5 people.

Teach For India is currently at a critical inflection point in its journey, over a year into its fourth strategic phase, also known as the Decade of possibility. This role presents a unique opportunity to shape the organization's impact and play a significant role in influencing its strategic direction.

Team Overview

The Strategy and Impact team brings unique and unbiased perspectives in 3 areas of work:

1. Medium-to-long term organisational strategy
2. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
3. Internal consulting projects

Responsibilities

As the Director, Strategy & Impact:

1. Design the long-term vision for the Strategy and Impact Team, as well as the roadmap to advance the team towards it in the short-term.
2. Scope and anchor key projects across the 3 areas of work outlined above - structuring output, liaising with stakeholders, distilling key insights and setting up for implementation.
3. Medium-to-long term organisational strategy: Anchor key projects including a 2-year, longitudinal research study on student outcomes in Fellowship classrooms, route to our North Star (building 50,000 leaders) through building leaders beyond the Fellowship, identifying new sites for expansion of the Fellowship etc.
4. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Drive impact reporting (including to the Board), vertical-level annual strategic planning, data management and analysis
5. Internal consulting projects: Support teams on short-term projects to build internal capacity and solve specific problem statements
6. Interact with internal and external stakeholders and study various sources of information to surface key organisational and industry trends and advise the CEO and Senior Leadership team on long-term strategy.
7. Train team members on skills such as problem definition, structuring and creating solution frameworks, strong analytical skills, slide making/reporting, project management; nurture strong team culture and coach team members for growth opportunities.
8. Support Teach For India Alumni and other external organizations (e.g. - donors, other nonprofits) on need basis (subject to bandwidth availability) with matters related to impact, strategy and monitoring.

As a People Manager

• Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization.
• Managing and coaching the Directors in the cluster to ambitious outcomes.
• Driving engagement, growth, and retention of team members.
• Engineering and overseeing a monitoring and evaluation system, coupled with strategic direction, to guide our abilities to continuously improve.

As a member of the Leadership team

• Providing feedback on organizational decision makingand long-term strategy as a member of the Leadership Team.
• Driving internal alignment and support for Teach For India's core Programs.
• Serving as an ambassador of the Teach For India brand and an advocate for our work and for educational equity in our country through both internal and external communication.
• Supporting with key organizational areas such as Fundraising, Movement Building, Alumni Engagement.
• Over time, supporting Teach For India's Alumni and other external organizations in their journey to our vision with organizational insights.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• 6-10 years of professional experience as a management consultant or as a corporate strategy/operations improvement professional in a complex organisational setting.
• Exposure to short and medium strategic planning exercises - either as a lead or as a key member of the driving team.
• Experience in the areas of Monitoring & Evaluation, impact assessment, data analysis and reporting.
• Experience with having worked with CXOs / senior management stakeholders.
• Experience with stakeholder management in complex settings (e.g. negotiations, client servicing, consulting, fundraising, etc).
• Structured problem-solving at a level of proficiency required (as a project manager or a level higher) in top consulting firms.
• Experience of having built and managed a small but high functioning team(s) to drive outcomes.