Associate, Monitoring, and Evaluation

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: Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation

What skills and mindsets drive excellent teachers and how are these similar to or different from those that drive our greatest leaders? These are the questions that guide the work of the Fellowship Selection Team at Teach For India. The Fellowship Selection Team is charged with the responsibility of ensuring the best possible makeup of our cohort. We conduct research and analysis to design a selection model, which will lead us to efficiently identify those likely to be excellent teachers and impactful leaders. We design and run systems and processes that ensure efficient and accurate execution of this model across 8 cities in India. All this, by training and supporting over 200 Staff, Fellows, and Alumni to execute their roles as interviewers and reviewers. Outcomes are monitored and evaluated at each stage of our process to ensure all decisions are accurate and that every applicant has an experience that is fair, consistent and leaves them as advocates of our movement.

As Associate, Monitoring and Evaluation, you will be responsible for:

Partnering with your manager to set strategy for all aspects related to monitoring and evaluation of every stage of the Selection model (10%)

• Setting a bold, ambitious and exciting vision for how monitoring and evaluation of all aspects of the Selection model can be established.
• Thought partnering with the Senior Manager, Fellowship Selection Operations and Implementation and Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation towards the broader vision for the selection team.

Planning and executing all aspects related to monitoring and evaluation of every stage of the Selection model (40%)

• Running and managing monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure reviewers are reviewing ~10,000 applications accurately and efficiently and selectors are processing ~3,000 applicants at the Assessment Centres with accuracy and fidelity.
• Studying the aforementioned decisions made by reviewers and selectors regularly to understand and contribute to the evolution of our processes - making meaning of the Selection model and communicating learnings with the Recruitment-Selection-Matriculation (RSM) teams through reports and other forms of analyses.
• Collaborating with managers and other team members to ensure alignment in strategy with respect to model implementation so as to maximize learning and impact.
• Studying the quality of applicants in each round and making data-driven recommendations to aid the Recruitment team in making real-time shifts.
• Managing projects related to monitoring and evaluation of different stages of the Selection model.

Executing the selection model at the First Review and Assessment Centre stages (50%)

• Reviewing applications, interviewing applicants, and supporting others to do the same accurately and efficiently.
• Building relationships with internal and external reviewers and selectors to ensure that the model is being implemented with fidelity.

As an Associate at Teach For India, you will be responsible for:

• 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.

• Graduate (any field) with 0-3 years of experience with exposure to data analysis/analytics; experience working with large sets of data in Google Sheets and/or other tools would be a significant advantage.
• Data-driven and results-oriented, but with a ‘purpose-over-process’ approach to work.
• Excellent communication skills in English - written, verbal and interpersonal.
• Strong collaboration skills with a willingness to take initiative.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset (solution-oriented approach to challenges).
• High attention to detail, with a belief in the importance of ‘the little things’.
• Prior experience in teaching/education/monitoring and evaluation systems would be an added advantage (not mandatory).

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.