Development Associate

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. 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.

• The opportunity to be part of one of the most established and visionary movements in the education sector in India which is at a pivotal point in terms of expanding its scale and outreach across the nation and working with changemakers across the country.
• A challenging yet flexible workplace in which every individual employee’s Staff journey is tracked for excellence and leadership development.
• A work environment in which employees’ holistic well-being is a core priority, enabling people to be their best selves.
• Access to connections and resources from the global Teach For All network that includes partner organizations spanning 50+ countries across 6 continents.
• Remuneration that is competitive within the top quartile of the Indian NGO pay scales, and a benefits package that includes extensive medical insurance and maternity coverage for both parents.
  

We are seeking a proven leader who possesses exceptional communication skills, a collaborative and proactive approach to working in teams and a deep personal belief in Teach For India’s vision and mission.

Teach For India embarks on a bold vision – to create a pipeline of 50,000 leaders by 2032 on the path to developing their own leadership and working towards educational equity in India. This ambitious growth needs to be supported by financial resources which the Development team will help secure in addition to building partnerships that go beyond providing only financial support to fuel this growth. 

Development is one of the critical backbones of the organizations as the organization is completely dependent on donations in its current form. The team raises funds from various sources - Corporate CSR will continue to be our mainstay for the immediate and medium-term. We will also be exploring HNIs as our next bet while will continue to cultivate Foundations as our medium-term priority. Over the past year, we have also piloted two online campaigns, and are looking to continue with such campaigns on a yearly basis.

The opportunity - What’s in it for you?

Being a team that works mostly with external stakeholders, our work takes us through a huge learning curve both professionally and personally on relationship management strategies and networking in the sector. We work directly with the Senior Leadership of TFI and our partners are the finest in their respective sectors. The skill sets - communication, building relationships, data analysis, representation, comfort with systems like Salesforce, etc. - acquired in the role are transferable skills in any domain/sector or for higher education.

As an Associate, Development you will be working on:

Donor Cultivation:

• Work closely with the Manager/Senior Manager/Director for renewal efforts for the portfolio of existing donors - CSR, Foundations, and Individuals. 
• Strengthen donor cultivation and engagement efforts by developing targeted donor stewardship touch points, planning and executing high-quality, customised engagements (i.e. event planning, employee volunteering, tracking MOU commitments).
• Support the Manager, Engagement in setting up centralised engagements, sourcing and creating high quality engagements across regions.
• Develop high-impact communications such as drafts on behalf of Director/CEO, engagement collaterals, presentations for donor meetings, short narratives for marketing and promotion pieces, blog postings, and website content.
• Conduct donor research to determine their giving capacity to target upgrades, foresee any potential risk of giving.
• Create strategic meeting briefs for the Director/Leadership team with appropriate objectives, asks, angles, and donor history that anticipate potential questions from funders and propose potential responses.

Donor Reporting:

• Design and develop high-quality quarterly reports according to donor requirements and timelines. This would include collecting and analysing data, editing stories from the Fellows, and drafting visually compelling reports.
• Centrally manage the reporting process by creating quarterly project plans, sharing timely reporting updates, timelines, and insights with the entire team.
• Conduct regular quality checks of team reports to ensure excellence in reporting.

Engage multiple-stakeholders:

• Collaborate with cities to collect Fellow stories and regional updates.
• Work with the Finance team to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Work with the Strategy and Learning team and the Training and Impact team to report the most accurate impact data.

Build and sustain operational excellence, at scale:

• Maintaining up-to-date and accurate data on donors in our online CRM system (Salesforce) and driving rigorous usage for renewal/upgrade projections and data-driven insights 
• Support Manager to drive progress-to-goal process for most accurate projections through data systems (Salesforce). This would include effective monitoring and tracking fundraising efforts across cities, identifying and ensuring next steps are completed by team members, and making strategic suggestions.
• Adherence to MOU commitments, governance structures and policies like Child Protection Policy, field-trip policies, and educate the team and donors for compliance.
• Align with all donor-related systems and processes - Impact Reporting, Stewardship, Audits, Finance, Knowledge management, and due diligence.

Additional Responsibilities

• Work closely with operations track leads on operationalising , developing and improving internal processes.
• Work with the Finance team to process fund utilizations, receipts, and projections through the year.
• You will be required to help during the selection of new Fellows. Volunteering and immersing in classrooms is highly recommended to keep in touch with why we do what we do.
• Providing other administrative support and working on special projects on an as-needed basis.
• You may also have the opportunity to manage interns and Fellows working on specific projects under their workstream.

As an Associate at Teach For India

• 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 commiting time in our classrooms to understand our work more deeply
• Supporting with key organizational areas such as 

  Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building

• Graduate (in any stream) with 2+ years of full-time work experience preferably in a role that required writing proposals and reports.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent critical thinking skills and ability to analyze complex financials and data sets, drawing conclusions, narratives, and communicating impact stories to external partners.
• Knowledge and ability to run targeted online campaigns to achieve crowdfunding targets.  
• Mastery over Microsoft Office and Google Suite.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build meaningful relationships with diverse & ensure better collaboration.
• Commitment to Teach For India’s mission and values.
• Commitment to excellence, accuracy, attention to detail.
• High on integrity, accountability and drive.
  

• Past experience in fundraising, business development, marketing, or project management
• Has worked in the CSR department of a corporate, fundraised for an international NGO or worked in a foundation on the grants side.
• High sense of possibility and an anything-it-takes attitude.