Teach For India Hiring for Manager, Data and Operations at Kolkataan hour Full Time

Position Summary

Teach for India receives around 15,000 Fellowship applications each year. The Selection Team is responsible for choosing all (and only) the right candidates for our kids. While we have had a strong model and monitoring system in place, we might need to revisit many of these systems with an anticipated revamp in our selection model as well. The Fellowship Selection Manager will drive accurate and efficient implementation of the selection model and design smooth systems for testing and piloting model changes while ensuring a fair, consistent, and accurate outcome for all applicants at every stage of the process. 

What makes this role unique:

This role most directly impacts the selection funnel and, through data analysis, systems and structures determine the accuracy of implementation of the selection model, course-correcting where necessary. Working towards reducing Type I and Type II errors through innovation, automation, and digitization.

Team Overview

What skills and mindsets drive excellent teachers and how are these similar to or different from those that drive our greatest leaders? These are the questions that guide the work of the Fellowship Selection Team at Teach For India. 

The Fellowship Selection Team is charged with the responsibility of ensuring the best possible makeup of our cohort. We conduct research and analysis to design a selection model, which will lead us to efficiently identify those likely to be excellent teachers and impactful leaders. We design and run systems and processes that ensure efficient and accurate execution of this model across 8 cities in India. All this, by training and supporting over 200 Staff, Fellows, and Alumni to execute their roles as interviewers and reviewers. Outcomes are monitored and evaluated at each stage of our process to ensure all decisions are accurate and that every applicant has an experience, that is fair, consistent and leaves them as advocates of our movement. In short, we put teachers in classrooms who will transform the lives of every child they teach and who will, as Alumni work towards eliminating the wicked educational crisis in India. Our team is entering an exciting phase where we strive to maintain the stability of our operations while focusing on innovation and automation of our processes to prepare for scale and strong analysis to measure the impact of our model better. 

Responsibilities

As Manager, Fellowship Selection:

Enabling our team to effectively prepare for various stages of the selection process by making informed predictions. Studying the Applicant Pool Quality in each round to ensure the sustainability of our process – making data-driven recommendations to aid the Recruitment & Selection Teams’ sense and adapt to changes. Driving the team to ensure that each stage of the selection process is implemented within the set timeframe, with a focus on the accuracy and efficiency of the decisions we make, via effective monitoring and evaluation systems (such as audits, checks, scrutiny, etc). Studying the aforementioned decisions on an ongoing basis to understand and contribute to the evolution of our process; making meaning of the model, documenting and communicating the learnings with the Recruitment-Selection-Matriculation (RSM) teams consistently by means of reporting and analysis. Collaborating with Reviewer Training, Selector Training, and Model Development verticals to ensure alignment in strategy and to maximise learnings and impact. Managing the data and Salesforce systems end to end, from the application form to the transfer of final insights to the matriculation and training and impact teams. Implementing the model through application reviews, phone interviews, and selection at assessment centers. Being a point of contact to Reviewers and Selectors and training and supporting them through the model implementation process. Being an ambassador and advocate for the team internally and externally. Ad-hoc data and analysis to explore problem statements that come up as a part of the implementation process.

As a 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 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.

Additional Responsibilities

Knowledge and Technical Skills

Competencies and Abilities

Values and Mindsets

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

Graduate (any field) with 2+ years of work experience, with exposure to data analytics. End-to-end project management experience (from vision setting to execution). A 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. Ability to analyse complex data sets from varied sources (both quantitative and qualitative), drawing conclusions and identifying appropriate next steps.

Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

A background in research and analysis, statistical modelling, data visualization or advanced data management systems. Solution-oriented approach when faced with challenges, and ability to identify and implement solutions to complex challenges rapidly. High sense of possibility and an anything-it-takes attitude. Growth-oriented mindset and a drive to develop self as well as to challenge and improve existing systems and approaches. Data-driven and results-oriented , yet with a ‘purpose-over-process’ approach to work. Risk-taking appetite and ability to balance stability with innovation and experimentation. Excitement and stamina to work in a high-stakes, deadline-driven environment.

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.