Teach For India - Lead Manager - Fellowship Recruitment

Lead Manager, Fellowship Recruitment

West, South

Position Summary:

The Recruitment Manager Lead (RML) sets the vision and strategy for Fellowship recruitment and branding in the region. The RML is responsible for ensuring that an ambitious number of leaders from a given region arrive at the Institute ready to begin the Fellowship. Depending on the region, the RML will manage a team of Recruitment Managers (RM) and Recruitment Associates (RA) and devise strategies to reach out to the most promising leaders in the region. The Recruitment Manager Lead (RML) plays a role of manager, mentor and coach to the Recruitment Managers (RM) and Recruitment Associate (RA) while supporting them in the field and driving them outcomes. The RML is also critical in promoting, enhancing and protecting the Teach For India brand. The RML will support RMs and RAs who are the face of Teach For India and build and leverage key relationships with high-level stakeholders, heads of colleges and corporates, and create networks in the region that will help the Recruitment team year on year.

Ultimately, the RML ensures that RMs bring in the leaders with the best minds and best hearts to join our Fellowship. At its soul, the role revolves around changing mindsets in this country and, as such, presents tremendous opportunity to build leadership and management skills in a fast-paced, results-driven, and challenging team.

The RML also plays a vital role in national strategy along with the South and West RMLs and the Director of Recruitment.

Team Overview:

The Recruitment Team at Teach For India is responsible for ensuring that the leaders with the best minds and best hearts apply and join the Teach For India Fellowship. To that end, we aim to meet as many promising applicants as possible and inform, inspire and invest them into our work by sharing three key messages with them:

- The Fellowship is the single greatest leadership-development program available

- Our Alumni force is currently spread across sectors around the world fighting to end educational inequity in India and that

- This will be the challenge of your life

We build the Teach For India brand in our respective portfolios, conduct presentations in colleges and corporates nationwide and internationally, drive follow-ups with high-potential candidates, and ensure presence in important events.

- The Recruitment Team engages people across the world to facilitate its outreach and forge partnerships with important entities.

- To this end, the Recruitment Team not only ensures the continuity of the movement, but we also work to substantially change the mindsets of the youth, parents, teachers and professionals we meet across the country every single day.

- The team is vital in ensuring that the vision of Teach For India is ultimately realized: one day all children in India will attain an excellent education.

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Setting a Strategy and Goals:

- Articulate a vision for your region and set ambitious goals for recruitment and matriculation

- Manage, mentor and coach 4-5 RMs/RAs in setting an ambitious goal for their respect portfolio

Build your team:

- Attract, interview, and directly manage a team of 4-5 RMs and RAs

Manage and Support the managers/associates:

- Understand every team's member working style and provide support accordingly

- Manage team to outcomes aligned to the organization goals

- Mentor for team's professional and personal development

- Build a collaborative culture in the team

Develop the Brand and Marketing Plan for the Region:

- Print media: partner with local newspapers, magazines

- Secure radio, television, video, film partnerships

- Initiate tie-ups with youth hubs around the city

Use a Data-Driven Approach:

- Constantly examine application data and analyze trends and translate them into next steps to meet the desired outcomes

- Investigate the data of the RMs to highlight grey areas and do a course correction or share best practices

Partner with other verticals:

- City Team - understand the Teach For India vision in your city/region and drive Recruitment accordingly

- Selection - conduct Assessment Centers

- Communications - leverage our marketing team for branding

Compel the larger Teach For India One Team family:

- Effectively compel Fellows, staff, and alums to participate effectively in Recruitment

Adapt and Exemplify the Teach For India culture:

- You are the face of Teach For India: project the brand internally and externally

Knowledge and Technical Skills:

- Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English

- Superior project management and organization skills

- Demonstrated proficiency in using data to drive decisions: analyzing numbers and trends and critically thinking so as to use data to decide on next steps

Competencies and Abilities:

- People Management skills so as to effectively manage a team of managers including Remote Management - the ability to remotely and effectively manage team members

- Excellent interpersonal, public-speaking and presentation skills: ability to effectively interface with multiple audiences, internal teams and stakeholders while presenting complex ideas clearly and in an engaging manner

- Strong time management skills and ability to remain flexible in order to accommodate multiple projects simultaneously, with tight deadlines

- Data-driven and results oriented but with a - purpose-over-process- approach to work

- Demonstrated self-starting abilities: able to be resourceful, take responsibility and find effective solutions to problems

- Ability to travel extensively (intra and inter-city) and adopt flexible timings (especially during - cycle season- from July-Feb)

Values and Mindsets:

- Belief that every single child deserves an excellent education and that every single child has the ability to be successful academically, despite their background

- Strong work ethic and sense of possibility

- Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt quickly to a new work stream and culture

- Entrepreneurial attitude: working independently while also being a team player

- Commitment to executing a complex plan in an entrepreneurial environment

Education and Experience:

- 2-5 years of relevant work experience, preferably leading a team to success

- Experience as a Teach For India Fellow. Not required, but strongly desired

- Previous experience working in a multicultural environment and is sensitive to the diversity of our target population

- Previous experience working hard in a deadline-oriented, target-driven environment with respect for process and professionalism: able to keep himself/herself, as well as the team, calm during high-stress periods

If interested we request you to visit our website www.teachforindia.org/careers and apply by filling the online application form there.