Location: Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Ahmedabad
Experience: 3 years
Compensation: Competitive
Teach For India
Teach For India (TFI) is a nationwide movement tackling one of India’s most urgent challenges—educational inequity. Founded in 2009, TFI recruits exceptional graduates and professionals to serve as full-time teachers in under-resourced schools for two years, transforming learning for children from low-income communities. Today, TFI’s network is over 5,000 Alumni strong, impacting more than 1 in 10 children across the country through leadership in classrooms, policy, non-profits, and innovative educational ventures. Guided by the belief that every child deserves an excellent education, TFI works collectively to build a more equitable and thriving India.
Role
As Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the fidelity, accuracy, and impact of Teach For India’s Fellowship Selection process. This is a role for someone who thrives at the intersection of data-driven decision making, systems thinking, and people development. You will set the strategy for monitoring and evaluation, oversee seamless implementation of the selection model, and manage a team to deliver ambitious, high-quality outcomes — all while ensuring every applicant experiences a fair, consistent and inspiring selection journey.
Responsibilities
Strategy and Systems
- Set a clear vision for monitoring and evaluation within the Fellowship Selection process.
- Innovate towards reducing Type I and Type II errors in selection decisions through new systems and tools.
- Partner with leadership to evolve strategy and ensure alignment with organisational goals.
Monitoring and Implementation
- Oversee accuracy, fidelity, and timely implementation of the selection process.
- Manage audits, checks, and reporting systems to ensure reliable outcomes.
- Own data and Salesforce systems end-to-end, from application stage to final handover to training teams.
Execution
- Review applications, conduct interviews, and support assessment centre operations.
- Act as a Point of Contact for staff, fellows, and alumni involved in selection.
- Ensure a consistent, high-quality applicant experience across all touchpoints.
Leadership and Collaboration
- Manage and coach an Associate and a Manager to deliver outcomes with excellence.
- Build talent pipelines, drive engagement, growth, and retention within your team.
- Collaborate with peer managers across research, operations, and applicant experience to achieve shared goals.
- Contribute to wider organisational priorities such as recruitment, fundraising, volunteering, and movement building.
Requirements
- Graduate degree in any field with minimum 3 years’ work experience.
- Strong exposure to data analysis, monitoring and evaluation, or assessment systems.
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills in English.
- Ability to analyse complex datasets and translate insights into actionable improvements.
- Strong critical thinking, problem-solving and project management skills.
- Growth-oriented mindset with a drive for self-development and innovation.
Benefits
- Competitive salary aligned with top quartile of NGO pay-scales in India.
- Comprehensive medical insurance, including maternity coverage for both parents.
- Flexible, mission-driven workplace prioritising holistic well-being.
- Access to the Teach For All global network across 50+ countries.
- Opportunity to work with a visionary organisation shaping the future of education in India.
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Note from Teach For India: 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.
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