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:
- Medium-to-long term organisational strategy
- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
- Internal consulting projects
Responsibilities
As the Director, Strategy & Impact:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Drive impact reporting (including to the Board), vertical-level annual strategic planning, data management and analysis
- Internal consulting projects: Support teams on short-term projects to build internal capacity and solve specific problem statements
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
