Manager, Kids Education Revolution

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: Coach, 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.

As a Manager, this role will focus on strengthening KER’s ecosystem by building multipliers. The work will involve collaborating closely with student leaders from our Alumni Community and other key stakeholders to expand our reach and scale our impact. The role also consists of nurturing leadership, enabling collaboration, and translating shared efforts into meaningful growth for KER.

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.

As a Manager, at Kids Education Revolution

KER Alumni Movement

• End-to-end project management of the Alumni National Committee, comprising KER Alumni across cohorts, to mobilise, engage, and activate alumni through both virtual and in-person platforms.
• Design and implement diverse hackathon formats in collaboration with Teach For India’s Student Alumni Wing, the Alumni Team, and external partners, to engage and activate alumni with an interest in social innovation and entrepreneurship.

Scaling KER’s Philosophy and Work

• Anchor external partnerships and support content development and deployment for KER School, a WhatsApp chatbot–based learning experience for children, delivered in partnership
• Liaise with government bodies and implementation partners to co-design and deploy student governance structures within school ecosystems, towards strengthening the ideas of partnership and student voice.
• Invest in diverse stakeholders to advocate for student voice, partnership and agency through ElevatED and other opportunities.
• 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 a Manager 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.

• 4 years of professional experience in teaching or education
• Ability to work in ambiguous settings with little to no clarity (courage, ownership, initiative and problem solving)
• Experience in driving operations in high-pressure, goal-driven environments
• Excellent Communication skills (written and verbal)
• Excellent Project, Partnership Management and Organizational skills
• Orientation towards Innovation (openness, risk taking, embracing failure, resilience, agility) and Scale (strategic thinking, identification of key levers, making bets)
• Strong goal orientation and ability to meet targets/deadlines

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.