Alumni Impact Intern Job in Teach To Lead

Alumni Impact Intern

Mumbai

About Us

At Teach For India, we build a nationwide movement of leaders who work relentlessly to end educational inequity. Ten years into our journey we have 900 Fellows who grow as leaders while teaching 32,000 low-income children and a growing movement of 3400 Alumni who work at all levels of the education system. We are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem. Over the next 3 years, we aim to keep growing this talent pipeline, supporting our Alumni to have even greater impact and innovating constantly to get closer to our vision. Our work will only be done when we have built a movement of leaders 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. Were committed to learning towards excellence in our roles and equally to practicing the values that shape us as people. We are an equal opportunities employer and provide compensation and benefits which are at the top of the NGO sector.

Position Summary

The mission of the Alumni Impact team at Teach For India (TFI) is to accelerate the individual and collective impact of the 3000-strong, and growing, Alumni network towards redefining an excellent education for children across India. We intend to realize this mission through a 4- pronged strategy that will involve:

• Fellow Readiness - Ensuring our Fellows are prepared for taking up roles of their aspiration. This includes working closely with the Fellowship program design and implementation teams, understanding what our Alumni and Alumni employers are looking for, and using the insights from these sources to recommend program design-related changes/reinforcements
• Infusing Talent - Infusing talent (graduating Fellows and current Alumni) into identified areas (e.g. - in and around school systems, organizations, governments at multiple levels) that we believe will deliver the most impact for the education system of the country
• Incubate Alumni - Incubating/Supporting Alumni to enter key roles or launch new organizations within prioritized puzzle pieces, particularly where barriers to entry are high but the potential for impact is large
• Connect and Build Leadership - Fostering online and offline connections among our Alumni with the objectives of nurturing a sense of community & pride, and enabling them to access opportunities for their leadership and growth

The Intern will work closely with the Alumni Impact Manager in the City Operations Team on key projects that fall under the strategy mentioned above.

Team Overview

The Mumbai city operations team has an exciting and challenging role of driving the Teach For India vision and mission. This involves training and supporting Fellows to have an impact in their classrooms, schools, and communities, to have an impact on themselves and to prepare Fellows for their post Fellowship journey. The team works with various stakeholders in the city of Mumbai like our Alumni, Government, corporates, foundations, NGOs to drive our vision. Mumbai will be entering into its eleventh year of operation in 2020 21; we have ~150 Fellows, ~17 city operations team members and ~450 Alumni working in the city.

Responsibilities

The intern will be co-leading/supporting the Alumni Impact Manager on the following responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Program team to implement an integrated plan for Fellow readiness, factoring key milestones such as Mid-year retreat, internships, BTCP, career fair etc.
• Support Fellows gain clarity on their options post the Fellowship by providing them resources for them to gain exposure to prioritised puzzle pieces, functional areas and opportunities within the education sector across these
• Coordinate with organizations that serve children from economically weaker section (EWS) in the region, by providing opportunities for them to interact with and hire from our Fellows & Alumni
• Involve Alumni in our Fellow ecosystem of support such as trainings, conferences, Learning circles, newsletters, development conversations etc. and also in our recruitment & partnership efforts
• Implement the virtual platforms and spaces for people from the TFI community & beyond, where they network, self-organize workshops, co-create collaborative projects, anchor communities of practice that develop peoples capacities
• Facilitate the adoption and engagement of our regional Alumni on TFI Connect, our online platform to connect TFI Alumni around the world
• Implement regular communications with different stakeholders regarding updates and on going projects
• Maintain an updated Alumni database which tells us where our Alumni are, the roles they play & the health of their community. Leverage this information to amplify the voice of our Alumni and their stories of individual & collective impact
• Track & report city-level data across Alumni team projects periodically with National teams
• Document, organize & share tools, resources used for execution of Alumni team projects and contribute to the collective of City Alumni Leads across other cities

Additional Responsibilities

Knowledge and Technical Skills

Competencies and Abilities

Values and Mindsets

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Strong communication (verbal/written) skills. Prior knowledge of PowerPoint
• Ability to think creatively.
• Strong planning skills
• Willingness to learn
• Willingness to coordinate and work with multiple stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Competencies