Consultant, Collective Action

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: Senior Manager, Alumni Impact

Please note that this is a part-time Consultant contractual role for a period of 7 months, open to long-term renewal.

The Alumni Impact team at Teach For India is working closely on building a movement of people who act collectively for educational equity.

Collective Action between key players in the education landscape has the potential to create and implement innovative solutions to address some of the long-standing challenges in our regions. It requires transforming existing education systems into new “learning ecosystems”— dynamic networks of educators and other practitioners who have the passion, expertise and social capital and can work together to transform the education ecosystem of a region.

To realize this vision, we need multiple players in a region to come together, work towards a shared purpose, self-organize, and implement solutions at scale. Towards this, we’re executing a pilot that will be the stepping stone to identifying the practitioners and being the catalyst that brings them together until the community reaches maturity and is able to self-organize

As Consultant, Collective Action

• Research the education landscape of the regions, key stakeholders in the regions (through interviews & conversations) and invite them for a dialogue on the challenges the children in the region face and the role this community can plan in addressing those
• Convene the collective for its first formal meeting to begin the discussion on purpose, objectives, and the way forward
• Define the scope of the collective, the ways of working, vision for the year and the year-long plan
• Empower the collective by building a strong culture and consistently bringing the members together to move towards action
• Create an M&E system (as a collective) to evaluate progress and health of the collective at decided intervals
• Collaborate with the Partnerships team at Teach For India to drive impact in the region

Note: Specific project outcomes and monthly milestones will be defined once the project commences

• Graduate or Postgraduate in any field
• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to deliver compelling stories/messages through various media to a variety of audiences
• Proven track record of engaging diverse stakeholders—educators, government bodies, NGOs, funders, and community leaders—and facilitating collaboration among them
• Ability to quickly build relationships and influence others without authority
• Experience in conducting landscape studies, stakeholder mapping, interviews, and synthesizing findings into actionable insights
• Background in designing and/or facilitating workshops, dialogues, or collective forums aimed at building shared vision and purpose
• Familiarity with setting up systems to measure progress, track outcomes, and report on impact
• Exposure to collective impact frameworks, systems change approaches, or ecosystem-building initiatives
• Previous experience in teaching/education would be an added advantage (not mandatory)

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. Sole use of AI or Chat-GPT based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.