Manager, Performance & Learning Systems

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: Lead, Human Resources (Policies, Compliance & Benefits)

As we strive to build a high-performing organisation, this role will execute our vision and priorities to bring our Leadership Development Journey to life. At Teach For India, our performance management is both an evaluative and developmental mechanism, and we believe that you meet ambitious goals in developing your leadership.

The HR team at Teach For India drives the organization’s mission of educational equity by finding, developing, and engaging exceptional talent. Our purpose is to foster a thriving, people-centered, value-aligned culture that empowers individuals and teams to deliver transformational outcomes and explore their full potential as social impact leaders.

Key sub-functions include:

• Talent Acquisition: Hiring individuals aligned with our mission and values.
• Performance Management: Driving excellence through clear goals, feedback, and differentiated support and learning provisions
• Culture & Engagement: Creating an inclusive, vibrant, equitable work culture through policies, benefits and standardized experiences across all our regions
• Internship and Volunteer Programs: Providing opportunities for emerging leaders to contribute to our movement, and immerse in unique and self-driven formats.
• Child Safety: Keeping our children safe in classrooms, the organization compliant with laws, and build advocates for the safety and holistic development of kids in India
• People Analytics: Fuelling decision making and improvement through HR analytics, budgeting, role optimization, payroll operations and key culture surveys

By equipping staff to grow and thrive, we aim to enable the organization to achieve its vision of educational equity.

As a Manager - Performance, Learning & Development, you will:

Design & implement our Performance Management System [70%]

• Own end to end design, implementation, M&E and quality assurance of our annual performance cycle, comprising of goal setting, mid year and end of year reviews, and interim performance support
• Design and implement key learning modules that are essential for onboarding for all new joiners
• Conduct outside in research and inside out surveys to gather actionable feedback and keep updating our performance systems to be up to date, relevant, value aligned and effective
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to gather significant quantitative and qualitative insights across critical HR functions and the organization to make meaningful connections in performance (ex. Engaging for Results survey, competency analysis, training needs, exit data, etc.).
• Work collaboratively with senior leadership and across HR functions to inform key decisions with performance data and linkages
• Implement key initiatives for low performance support and high performance recognition, in partnership with TFI’s leadership team

Design & implement a comprehensive Learning & Development strategy at TFI [20%]

• Source and build partnerships towards providing strategic and continuous learning and development opportunities for Teach For India Staff
• Analyse learning and upskilling needs of the organization, based on performance trends, and make targeted recommendations and strategies to bridge these
• Bring together a comprehensive Learning & Development philosophy for TFI, in partnership with the HR Director
• Build visibility of learning and development opportunities for TFI Staff & Fellows through creative, engaging communications

Contribute to org-level HR functions and support [10%]

• Play the role of an HR partner (or HR Business Partner) for up to 3 other teams at Teach For India to ensure they are easily connected to relevant support and resources and adhering to key HR process timelines

As a Manager at Teach For India, you will:

• Contribute to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities
• Serve 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
• Support key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building

• 3+ years of professional experience.
• Experience in driving operations in high-pressure, goal-driven environments.
• Experience having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups.
• Experiences and examples of having taken initiative in the past.
• Previous experience in teaching/education would be an added advantage (not mandatory).

• Able to lead complex end-to-end analysis; makes connections, distils insights, and crafts next steps independently.
• Able to independently unpack issues and synthesise multiple perspectives or trends towards arriving at the root cause of a problem.
• Able to independently structure and present output-ready communication deliverables.
• Able to include the lens of equanimity in decision-making and planning, especially in times of crisis, while maintaining alignment with the vision and mission of the organisation.

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.