The Program Manager plays the critical role of developing our Fellows as teachers and leaders thus ensuring a developmental journey for our Fellows as well as quality education in classrooms. In order to enable that, she/he will focus on the following areas:

Primary Responsibilities (~70-80% of the time)

Coaching towards Outcomes

• Manage & coach a group of approximately 16-18 Year 1 and Year 2 Fellows to achieve ambitious outcomes in their classrooms:
• Support Fellows in understanding their children’s context, understand gap to grade and its impact and internalize the stakes
• Enable and support Fellows to set ambitious yet feasible academic and holistic goals for their students, design their leadership development goals and ensure accountability towards the same through regular interventions
• Reviewing, providing feedback on daily lesson plans, weekly plans unit plans, assessments, etc and wherever required co-plan with Fellows.
• Observing Fellows in their classrooms to coach & strengthen execution, to gather data on student learning and teacher proficiency
• Analysing student achievement data and problem solving with Fellows to prioritize the teacher actions that most impact student performance
• Building strong relationships and a strong team culture among their cohort of Fellows and investing them in their potential impact in the movement.
• Design Unit Plans & Action Plans that build on city PIP and priorities to facilitate on-going learning experiences, both at an individual and group level (e.g Learning Circles, Coaching Conversations) that allow Fellows to connect all aspects of the Leadership Development Framework towards being ambassadors of the movement.
• Collect, analyze and respond accurately and effectively to individual and group-wide data sets and evidence to understand underlying causes and design appropriate support.
• Train & Coach Fellows in developing TAL competencies to drive growth towards student outcomes as per the Fellow Curriculum and City PIP.
• Foster clarity and conviction in Y2 Fellows to serve underserved children through their preferred domain and role choices.
• Use LDJ2.0 and its tools (Commitments, Cs, SVS & TAL, Portfolios) effectively to facilitate reflection and meaning-making to build a movement of leaders who will eliminate educational inequity.

Building a Strong City Culture:

• Build and execute a robust culture strategy for the Fellow team that is focused on the LDJ2.0 Commitments
• Facilitate and enable shared learning, support and strong self and peer accountability within the Learning Circle and School Teams
• Clarify and reinforce adherence to organisational and school policies, practices and procedures within their Learning Circles.

Role as ambassadors of the movement (10-20% of the time)

Note: With time, our Program Managers build mastery over some of these practices and often are more efficient at executing these pieces. Also, with time, the role of the PM might also evolve from only inputting to owning parts of the city ecosystem.

• Maintaining positive relationships with school administration, HM, and various stakeholders.
• Support the regional city team in inputting into training design for city-wide spaces (Unit Training, MY Retreat, City Conference etc.)
• Selection and Matriculation

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2-year Teach For India Fellowship experience
• Strong classroom learning outcomes over the 2 years of the Fellowship with a minimum of 30% Students accessing learning consistently in the pandemic
• Have driven outstanding student outcomes in their class/group
• Basic Proficiency in Pedagogy and advanced proficiency in at least 1 core content area and grade level. in alignment to our Student Vision and the TAL Framework
• Demonstrate emotional maturity, trust, effective relationship-building and teamwork with adults in order to achieve results
• Clear, confident, and engaging communication
• Strong reasoning, problem-solving skills – including analysing data to respond to the needs of Fellows through the Fellowship
• Ability to establish and manage a community of Fellows towards achieving collective and personal goals eds
• Strong desire to learn new things and grow professionally
• Making informed, timely decisions and using sound judgment to prioritize actions