Manager, Fellowship Selection Job in Teach To Lead

Manager, Fellowship Selection

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

About Us

At Teach For India, we build a nationwide movement of leaders who work relentlessly to end educational inequity. Ten years into our journey we have 900 Fellows who grow as leaders while teaching 32,000 low-income children and a growing movement of 3400 Alumni who work at all levels of the education system. We are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem. Over the next 3 years, we aim to keep growing this talent pipeline, supporting our Alumni to have even greater impact and innovating constantly to get closer to our vision. Our work will only be done when we have built a movement of leaders 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. Were committed to learning towards excellence in our roles and equally to practicing the values that shape us as people. We are an equal opportunities employer and provide compensation and benefits which are at the top of the NGO sector.

Position Summary

As a Manager, Fellowship Selection, you will contribute to the vision and strategy of the Fellowship Selection Team as well as ensure efficient and accurate implementation of our selection model during the Selection cycle. You will be responsible for ensuring that each applicant at a given stage of the selection process has an experience, which is fair, consistent and inspirational, such that they leave the selection process as advocates of our movement.

Team Overview

What skills and mindsets drive excellent teachers and how are these similar to or different from those that drive our greatest leaders? These are the questions, which guide the work of the Fellowship Selection Team at Teach For India.

The Fellowship Selection Team is charged with the responsibility of ensuring the best possible makeup of our cohort. We conduct research and analysis to design a selection model, which will lead us to efficiently identify those likely to be excellent teachers and impactful leaders. We design and run systems and processes that ensure efficient and accurate execution of this model across the country. All this, by training and supporting over 200 Staff, Fellows, and Alumni to execute their roles as interviewers and reviewers. Outcomes are monitored and evaluated at each stage of our process to ensure all decisions are accurate and that every applicant has an experience, which is fair, consistent and leaves them as advocates of our movement. In short, we put teachers in classrooms who will transform the lives of every child they teach and who will, as Alumni work towards eliminating the wicked educational crisis in India.

What makes this role unique:

• Opportunity to bring innovation to our training systems such as exploring blended learning modules, exploring technology for training which are now at the forefront of desirable skills given the work environment in the post COVID world
• Work with 100+ Reviewers/ Selectors across the organization (Fellows, Staff, Alumni)
• Opportunity to work with other selection functions such as model development, applicant experience, operations, etc.

What Teach For India Can Offer You

1) A challenging yet flexible workplace in which every individual employees 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 across the nation and working with changemakers across the country.
4) Access to connections and resources from the global Teach For All network that includes partner organisations spanning 56 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

• Reviewing applications and interviewing applicants, and supporting others to do the same in a fair and consistent manner.
• Build a strong team culture and collaborate with the selection leadership team as well as the team you are managing to ensure a positive and inspiring work environment
• Designing state-of-the-art and innovative training for adult learners to ensure fair and inspirational implementation of the selection model.
• Designing a training platform/knowledge management system and leveraging technology and automation as part of the training program to reduce dependency on human intervention to deliver training
• Building relationships with and facilitating ongoing training to manage Staff, Fellows and Alumni involved in the selection process to ensure fair and consistent implementation of our model.
• Project management skills, such that you can plan for and manage complex projects with many moving parts and stakeholders. All this, ensuring a high-quality outcome in a tight timeframe.
• Monitoring and tracking progress towards goals through data analysis, which allows you to design and implement strategic solutions to in-the-moment challenges as well as which increase long-term process efficiency.
• Adapting to a dynamic environment which will require you to create and recreate to increase effectiveness.
• Collaborating within the team to design execution of a consistent, aspirational Applicant Experience.
• Quantitative and qualitative research and analysis to understand training needs as well as improve the Fellowship Selection model
• Collaborating with other verticals within the Selection Team on projects to improve efficiency, research and improving systems which in turn improve the training strategies

Additional Responsibilities

Knowledge and Technical Skills

Competencies and Abilities

Values and Mindsets

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Belief that every child deserves an excellent education and that every single child has the ability to be successful academically whatever their background.
• Exceptional English language communication skills both written and verbal, experience in reporting/report creation
• Graduate (any field) with 3+ years of work experience, of which at least 1 year has been in a direct management position (we may consider exceptional applicants without direct management experience).

• Experience or a background working on projects which required complex qualitative and quantitative research or advanced excel and analytical skills
• End-to-end project management experience (from vision setting to execution).
• Background in designing and facilitating training, experience in adult learning or teaching

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• People and team management skills, with the ability to lead and coach a team to achieve ambitious outcomes.
• Project management skills and ability to manage complex projects with many moving parts and stakeholders, ensuring high-quality outcomes in a tight timeframe.
• Strong interpersonal skills, which enable you to build meaningful relationships with diverse others and invest them in a role or purpose, and a focus on collaborating to reach outcomes with teams.
• High attention to detail, with a belief in the importance of the little things.
• Highly organised with the ability to set clear plans and adapt them when required to ensure you meet ambitious project goals within clear timeframes.
• Solution-oriented approach when faced with challenges, and the ability to identify and implement solutions to complex challenges rapidly.
• High sense of possibility and an anything-it-takes attitude.
• Growth-oriented mindset and a drive to develop self as well as to challenge and improve existing systems and approaches.
• Risk-taking appetite and ability to balance stability with innovation and experimentation
• Excitement to work in a high-stakes, deadline-driven environment