Senior Program Manager

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: City Director (CD)

Directly Managing: Program Staff

The Senior Program Manager coordinates and leads program activity within a region, thus ensuring progress toward student outcomes, fellow development, and citywide culture.

As a Senior Program Manager:

• Designing an annual strategy that includes goals, priorities, and timelines to advance progress and building a culture for the regional movement in partnership with CD and City Leadership Team.
• Driving the vision of excellence for Student learning and Fellow leadership for the city aligned to our Leadership Development Journey framework.
• Designing a robust Program Implementation Plan every Unit that includes clear goals, structures for monitoring and evaluation, Fellow Scope and sequence of training, and Program Staff support using the Fellow Curriculum and city’s current reality.
• Coordinating suitable Fellow placements across Schools & LCs, supports with upholding school expectations to create enabling learning conditions for Students and Fellows.
• Coordinating the multiple facets of programmatic activity, including student leadership, training with the Regional Training Lead, coaching, and partnerships, to ensure coordinated implementation.
• Building and maintaining a strong culture aligned with regional strategy and organizational core values through consistent and frequent communication, holding space, and role-modeling.
• Working closely with the central Training and Impact Team - as well as Senior Managers from other regions - to share best practices and collectively inform a national approach towards Student, Fellow, and Staff development.
• Playing a key role in one of two Training Institutes and Program Manager Inductions/ Tracks through the year.

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 Senior Manager at Teach For India:

• Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities.
• Driving internal alignment and support for Teach For India’s core Programs.
• Serving as an ambassador of Teach For India 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 key organizational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building.

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 5+ years of full time professional experience.
• A minimum of 2 years teaching experience in a low-income school with a strong track record of building academics, values, mindsets, and pathways to opportunity with students.
• A minimum of 2 years of an instructional leadership role, with strong results in Fellow growth, student growth, team culture, training effectiveness and school partner investment.
• Experience of managing and coaching high-performing teams to achieving ambitious outcomes.
• Strong project management skills and ability to take complete ownership of multiple projects at a time.
• Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups.

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