Teach For India - Senior Program Manager

Reporting to: City Director (CD)

Directly Managing: Program Staff

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

Responsibilities

As a Senior Program Manager:

1. Designing an annual strategy that includes goals, priorities, and timelines to advance progress and build a culture for the regional movement in partnership with CD and City Leadership Team.

2. Driving the vision of excellence for Student learning and Fellow leadership for the city aligned to our Leadership Development Journey.

3. Designing a robust Program Implementation Plan that includes Fellow Scope & Sequence of training, M&E, and Managerial support using the Fellow Curriculum and the city's current reality.

4. Coordinating suitable Fellow placements across Schools & LCs, supports upholding school expectations to create enabling learning conditions for Students and Fellows.

5. Coordinating the multiple facets of programmatic activity, including student leadership, training with the Regional Training Lead, coaching, and partnerships, to ensure coordinated implementation.

6. Building and maintaining a strong culture aligned with regional strategy and organizational core values through consistent and frequent communication, holding space, and role modeling.

7. 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.

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, and Movement Building.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences, and Expectations:

- Bachelor's Degree from any stream.

- A minimum of two years of 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 at Teach For India, with strong results in Fellow growth, student growth, team culture, training effectiveness, and school partner investment

- Experience in managing teams of 5-7 people or more.