Program Manager Coach

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: Senior Program Manager (SPM) or City Director

Directly Managing: Program Managers (PM)

The Program Manager Coach coordinates and leads programmatic activity with a group of 4-8 Program Managers, thus ensuring progress toward Student outcomes, Fellow development, PM Development, and citywide culture.

The Chennai City Operations is currently in its eleventh year of operations. We currently have ~9 Staff in the Chennai City Operations team at Teach For India and 61 Fellows in 26 schools directly impacting 60 classrooms; with nearly 400 Alumni who have graduated the Fellowship. The team works towards furthering Teach For India’s short-term theory of change in Hyderabad and the surrounding regions by getting committed individuals to dedicate 2 years to help us achieve our vision of “One Day all children will attain an excellent education”. The team also works towards creating committed and connected stakeholders to further Teach For India’s mission of building a movement of leaders to eliminate educational inequity.

As a Program Manager Coach, you will work on:

• Inputting into the City Strategy in partnership with the Senior Program Manager/City Director towards a robust Program Implementation Plan, in alignment with the Program Playbook that includes clear goals, structures for monitoring and evaluation, Fellow Scope and sequence of training, and Program Staff support.
• Driving the vision of excellence for Student learning and Fellow leadership for their PMs aligned to our Leadership Development Journey.
• Designing and implementing an ecosystem of support for Program Managers towards accelerating Student and Fellow development in consultation with the Senior Program Manager/City Director.
• Communicating with Fellows and Staff Members frequently and consistently, delivering messages that are aligned with regional strategy and organizational culture.
• Leading city-based projects/tracks and builds capacity in Program Managers and Fellows based on regional priorities.
• 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, you will work on:

• 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 Coach at Teach For India, you will work on:

• 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.
• 4-7 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 small, high-performing teams to achieving ambitious outcomes.
• End-to-end project management experience (from vision setting to execution).
• 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.