10 Oct
Teach For India
Ahmedabad
Position Summary
As an Associate, Fellowship Selection (Communications and Operations), you will contribute to the vision and strategy of the Fellowship Selection Team as well as ensure efficient and accurate implementation of our selection model during the Selection cycle. You will be responsible for ensuring that each Reviewer and Selectors at a given stage of the selection process has an experience, which is informative, inspiring, and aspirational such that they are brand ambassadors for Teach For India and also the Selection Team. To do this,
you will play a critical role in designing inspirational and informative content for all Reviewer/Selector-centric materials that effectively communicate the core messages of the movement and source for inspirational spaces to conduct Assessment Centers. You will also work on critical operations for the Reviewer and Selector program such as sourcing these Reviewers and Selectors, providing them ongoing support and resources they need to implement the selection model and processes. You will also be managing a team of 30-40 Staff, Fellows, and Alumni who support us in our work part-time. You will be responsible for training and supporting this team as well as for monitoring their output to ensure they are able to do their work accurately and efficiently.
What makes this role unique:
- Get the opportunity to design, think outside of the box and be at your creative best every day!
- Influence and invest through inspiring and effective communications - the best Alumni, Staff and Fellows to join the Reviewer and Selector program, and sourcing inspirational spaces for the Assessment Center
- The opportunity to utilize and hone your critical thinking skills through effective resource utilization and allocation of Reviewers and Selectors - help the team be agile and improve its efficiency.
Team Overview
Responsibilities
- Reviewing applications and interviewing applicants , and supporting others to do the same accurately and efficiently.
- Collaborating with the training vertical to create inspiring content to inform, invest and inspire Reviewers and Selectors to implement the Selection model
- Running and managing communication systems and logistical operations to ensure Reviewers and Selectors are equipped to process over 17,000 applications efficiently and accurately in a deadline-driven environment.
- Building relationships with and facilitating ongoing training to manage Staff,
Fellows and Alumni involved in the selection process to ensure efficient and accurate implementation of our model.
- Managing complex projects with many moving parts and stakeholders. All this, ensuring high-quality outcomes in a tight timeframe - this might range from sourcing Reviewers and Selectors to running all the operations and systems required while also looking at continuously improving the effectiveness of these systems.
- Monitoring and tracking progress to goals through data analysis, which allows you to design and implement strategic solutions to in-the-moment challenges as well as increase long-term process efficiency.
Additional Responsibilities
Knowledge and Technical Skills
Competencies and Abilities
Values and Mindsets
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
- Belief that every child deserves an excellent education and that every single child has the ability to be successful academically whatever their background.
- Exceptional English language communication skills – both written and verbal.
- An eye for aesthetics and being resourceful , which will enable you not only to find creative solutions to design inspiring content but also enable you to do this efficiently by reaching out to the right people in the ecosystem.
- Experience working with designing inspiring content using technology (such as Canva, Google sites, Adobe Spark, etc.)
- Highly organized with the ability to set clear plans and adapt them when required to ensure you meet ambitious project goals within clear timeframes.
- Graduate (any field) with 2-3 years of work experience.
Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
- Experience in working on communications design.
- Experience in data management.
- Experience or understanding of branding and brand management.
- Ability to think outside the box/ creativity.
- High attention to detail , with a belief in the importance of ‘the little things.’
- Solution-oriented approach when faced with challenges, and the ability to identify and implement solutions to complex challenges rapidly.
- Influencing and persuasion skills when looking to source the best Reviewers and Selectors.
- Adapting to a dynamic environment which will require you to create and recreate to increase effectiveness.
- Strong interpersonal skills, which enable you to build meaningful relationships with diverse others and invest them in a role or purpose, and a focus on collaborating to reach outcomes with teams .
- High sense of possibility and an anything-it-takes attitude.
- Agility in a year that might have some amounts of uncertainty and ambiguity
- Growth-oriented mindset and a drive to develop self as well as to challenge and improve existing systems and approaches.
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.
▶️ Associate, Fellowship Selection (Communications and Operations)
🖊️ Teach For India
📍 Ahmedabad