Associate, Programs

Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Ahmedabad

Working at Teach For India

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. Twelve years into our journey we are a movement of 3800 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 32,000 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have 970 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India.

In 2022, we embark on Phase 4, our fourth strategic phase. We have a bold and ambitious ten-year journey ahead of us that aims to grow 50,000 leaders, who will work collectively, and with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in our regions, through an education that unleashes the potential of self, others, and India. In this decade, five key priorities will lead us to this vision.

1. Strengthen our core Fellowship to build strong teacher leaders who provide an excellent and equitable education to our children and continue to do so beyond the Fellowship
2. Scale our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development
3. Match the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children
4. Advocate for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity
5. Act collectively with our Alumni to learn about and address key issues in our regions.

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.

What Teach For India Can Offer You

• 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.

Position Summary

Reporting to: Manager, Programs-Firki

The Course Designer will work on end to end development of a course on the Firki Teacher Education Portal. Having an understanding of the current state of schooling in India and Teacher Education would be an added benefit in performing the role effectively. A commitment to get into the shoes of the user and the ability to create well-written content, which is also relevant, and easy-to-consume is required for the role. The role also includes being part of other team projects and working on their implementation.

Impact of the job:

The courses that are designed by course designers are accessed by teachers across the country

including the Teach for India Fellows, and the teachers in government and private schools in urban and rural areas. This gives the course designer an opportunity to support teachers in their development and hence impact the lives of many children across the country.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Content Creation and user engagement (70%)

• Design and create compelling courses aimed to aid K-12 government and affordable private school teachers
• Re-create the content meant for offline instruction into engaging material for online learning
• Adapt and distill the content to create relevant and easy-to-understand course material for the core user groups on Firki
• Explore and learn different features available on ‘articulate storyline 3’ and use them in designing courses
• Partner with teacher educators from leading teacher education institutions in India to create content on the portal
• Deliver individual or group instruction to users or make arrangements for instruction with various network partners
• Give feedback to courses designed by others 
• Facilitate online learning spaces through courses and online discussions.
• Plan and execute course based webinars 
• Run continuous tests with relevant user groups, collect feedback and implement the feedback in the design of the course

Team project support (30%)

• Contribute to team projects as and when needed
• Work on research and/or implementation of team projects
• Represent the product and the Firki team at meetings, webinars, and conferences
• Collaborate with other departments at Teach For India as and when needed
• Be part of team calls and course design team calls

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• Undergraduate degree in any discipline and a minimum 2 years of teaching experience
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills in English
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office and Google Suite
• Understanding of curriculums, trainings and assessments
• Being open to feedback and have an open mind set to implement the feedback received
• Experience working in a deadline-oriented, target-driven environment with respect for process and professionalism
• Self-accountability in terms of work, project deadlines, and professional expectations.

Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations

• Previous experience with a Learning Management System (LMS) or other online learning tools 
• An additional 1 year of supporting teachers and schools towards teaching and learning practices is preferred
• Strong people and partnership management skills, so as to effectively oversee partnerships with diverse stakeholders
• Proficiency in using data to drive decisions