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Manager, Kids Education Revolution

Mumbai, Pune

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

The Manager of the Kids Education Revolution (KER) team will support the Senior Manager to lead the KER team towards achieving its ambitious mission of reimagining education for millions of children. He/She will play a crucial role in creating and implementing the annual strategy, managing team members and driving strong team culture, and co-manage KER Week.

Team Overview

Kids Education Revolution is a project that sits under the Innovation Cell at Teach For India. It was established in 2017 with the pursuit of reimagining education, not just within TFI's program and classrooms, but also beyond TFI to explore the possibility of scaling principles that challenge the traditional education system. KER aims to learn and spread out constantly evolving & growing understanding of an excellent education.

The KER National team currently has three areas of work:

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

1. Primary:

• Develop relationships and engage with 3-5 schools (government schools, middle income, and high-income private schools) where we roll out and integrate KER into their structures and curriculum
• Capture and document learnings and impact from Teach for India cities and 3-5 partners from the KER collective
• Design and facilitate learning loop discussions and KER workshops/learning circles with Teach For India cities and KER collective partners
• Lead one vertical of KER Week 2021

2. Managing:

• Manage 1-2 Associates and support the projects that they are leading
• Monitor their performance through regular progress to goals
• Individual leadership coaching and management of team members towards goals through check-ins and mentoring
• Ensure quality hiring

3. Supporting:

• Play a supporting role in the design of various retreats KER team retreat, KER retreats for cities, national committee and partners from the KER Collective
• Play a supporting role in the production of projects that we create to give platforms for voice. For example The Greatest Show on Earth, etc.

Additional Responsibilities

Knowledge and Technical Skills

Competencies and Abilities

Values and Mindsets

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Teaching experience
• 4+ years of work experience
• Basic experience of managing people towards ambitious outcomes
• Knowledge/Practice of alternate education preferred
• Strong ability to motivate, coach and manage individuals towards independent and collective goals
• Ability to build relationships, identify and evaluate synergies, enable collaboration
• Ability to identify and collect stories of impact, analyze data and evidence, and ask the right questions
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment and develop strategy independently, while constantly evaluating the effectiveness of their decision making
• Exceptional project management skills
• Problem-solving mindset with an orientation towards seeing opportunities in difficult situations
• Strong communication skills (written and spoken, individual and group)
• Ability to design and facilitate powerful learning experiences

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Competencies