Teach For India
Website:
teachforindia.org
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/teach-for-india
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Industries: Non-profit Organizations
Job details:
Position Summary
Reporting to: Director, Strategy & Impact. This role will also work closely with the Senior Director, Impact & Operations and the Leadership Team of Teach For India.
The Consultant, Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) will lead the design and delivery of S&I’s core strategy, performance tracking, and institutional reporting. This role will anchor the broader M&E, planning, and strategic analytics priorities of the S&I team. The role requires strong structured thinking, analytical rigor, and stakeholder management to translate data into clear insights for leadership, donors, and the board, while building scalable systems that improve organizational decision-making.
Team Overview
The Strategy and Impact team is the internal consulting arm at Teach For India - a key thought-partner for the CEO, and an advisor and implementation partner for the Vertical Heads and City Directors who lead various teams and constitute the ‘Leadership Team’. It is a team that strives to bring unique and unbiased perspectives into organizational performance by working on 3 areas of work:
- Medium-to-long-term organisational strategy
- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
- Internal consulting projects
The key responsibilities of the Strategy and Impact Team include supporting the CEO, as well as the Senior Leadership team, on organisational planning and decision-making. The team serves as the primary monitoring and evaluation body for the organisation, as well as a learning partner for our Vertical Heads and City Directors. The work involves collaborating with internal teams on a project-basis- on topics ranging from designing strategy, key-lever analysis, building team capacity, designing monitoring and learning frameworks, implementing performance improvement initiatives, change management, or more. The team also works jointly with the Chief of Staff to the CEO, to conduct periodic structured reviews to enable the Teach For India Board to have a strong, on-going understanding of where we are as an organization and what needs to be done in order to sustain and improve our progress. In essence, the Strategy & Impact team helps Teach For India find the right things to do in service of our mission, and the right ways to do them. Thus, the team is, in many ways, an engine that drives the organization towards its goal of educational equity.
Responsibilities
1. Organizational M&E & Performance Tracking
- Lead design and strengthening of S&I’s M&E frameworks
- Own periodic performance tracking, dashboards, and reporting rhythms.
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and rigor across organizational metrics.
- Institutionalize templates and automated reporting processes.
2. Strategy & Long-Term Planning
- Drive analytical inputs for long-term strategy, including Phase 4 projections and the pathway to the North Star.
- Support analytical work for strategic initiatives such as new site expansion and other priority projects.
- Synthesize cross-functional data to inform leadership priorities and trade-offs.
3. Board, Donor & Leadership Reporting
- Lead preparation of high-quality materials for board reviews and donor requests.
- Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives for senior stakeholders.
- Ensure timely and accurate responses to internal and external analytical asks.
5. Team Leadership and Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Manage and coach a Manager/Associate to deliver high-quality outputs.
- Build team capability in structured problem-solving and data storytelling.
- Strengthen internal practices around analytical rigour and project management.
- Partner closely with Program, Development and other teams to ensure alignment on metrics and reporting.
As a Senior Manager 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 educational equity in our country through both internal and external communication after committing time in our classrooms to understand our work more deeply.
Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
Qualifications and skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree from any stream
- At least 3-5 years in management consulting or complex project management
- Strong project management skills and ability to take complete ownership of projects; ability to influence multiple stakeholders.
- Strong data and analytical skills (excellent Excel skills, data/evidence gathering, analysis and interpretation, hypotheses framing and validation) and research capabilities
- Ability to translate insights into slide decks
Mindsets:
- Belief that every single child deserves an excellent education and that every single child has the ability to be successful, despite their background.
- Result-driven and outcome focused-approach
- Adaptable and flexible in working style, comfortable with ambiguity
- Composure and ability to thrive under pressure, while maintaining high-levels of accuracy and attention to detail
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Rigour and attention to detail
- Time management, ability to keep calm during pressure situations
- Result-driven and outcome-focused approach.
- Adaptable and flexible in working style, comfortable with ambiguity
- Ability to rapidly grasp complex contexts and dive into execution
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