Coach, Coach, Kids Education Revolution [Arts for Advocacy]

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. Fifteen years into our journey we are a movement of ~5000+ 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 ~33,500 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have ~1000 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India. Over 16,000 Teach For India students have appeared for the 10th grade board examinations till date, with an impressive 95% pass rate across cities as of November 2024.

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.

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.

Reporting to: Director, Kids Education Revolution

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 WITH children, 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 a constantly evolving & growing understanding of an excellent education.

The Phase 4 vision for the Kids Education Revolution is to build a movement of more than 15,000 student leaders who will reimagine education in partnership with their educators and a movement of 2 million people who will advocate and act collectively for educational equity, in partnership with other teams at Teach for India.

We have taken many steps on our journey of musicals, starting from Maya (2014) to Greatest Show on Earth (2019) to The Conference of the Birds (2022) and to With Love (2024). As a Coach, the role would entail effectively project managing and executing similar KER musicals and productions that help elevate student voice and agency. The role will also involve project managing ‘Spotlight’ - a collaborative, project-based performing arts track where Teach For India Fellows partner with KER and professional artists, volunteers to bring music, dance, or theatre into the classroom—culminating in student-led showcases across our regions.

As a Coach, at Kids Education Revolution

• End-to-end project management and execution of the KER musical productions and Spotlight.
• Design and implement a curriculum that integrates academics, values and performing arts, culminating in showcases with 20 Teach For India Fellows and their students.
• Facilitate partnerships and work in collaboration with a team of artists (director, scriptwriter, choreographer, musician, instructors), volunteers, and designers (set, costume, props, light, sound) to ensure on-time completion of deliverables while maintaining high levels of excellence.
• Invest in diverse stakeholders to advocate for student voice, partnership and agency.
• Monitoring, evaluation, and documentation to assess the effectiveness and impact of the project/s.
• Work closely with the KER team to design and execute powerful learning experiences like Revolutionary Retreat for students and educators towards exploring the 3 Principles and 8Cs of KER, as well as arts for advocacy.

As a People Manager

• Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization.
• Managing and coaching the team members 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 Coach at Teach For India

• Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities.
• 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 after committing time in our classrooms to understand our work more deeply.
• Supporting with key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building.

• 3-4 years of professional experience in teaching/education/performing arts in education.
• Experience in driving operations in high-pressure, goal-driven environments.
• Experience having planned and executed complex projects with multiple priorities in a college or work setting.
• Strong planning, content creation, and facilitation skills.
• Experience having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups - Strong People and Partnership Management skills.
• Experiences of having taken initiative in the past.
• Demonstrable ability to work towards ambitious goals in the face of challenges.
• Excellent (written and verbal) communication and Project Management skills.
• Orientation towards innovation (openness, risk-taking, embracing failure) and scale (strategic thinking, identification of key levers, making bets).
• Previous experience in performing arts/managing productions.

Note: We want to hear your unique voice and perspectives through the process, hence all applicants are expected to personally author statements of purpose/essays in the application form. Any use of AI or Chat-GPT based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.