Job Description
Position Summary
Reporting to: City Director (CD)
Directly Managing: Program Staff
The Senior Program Manager coordinates and leads programmatic activity with a region, thus ensuring progress towards student outcomes, fellow development, and citywide culture.
Team Overview
Responsibilities
As a Senior Program Manager,
• Designing an annual strategy that includes goals, priorities and timelines to advance progress and build culture for the regional movement in partnership with CD and City Leadership Team.
• Driving the vision of excellence for Student learning and Fellow leadership for the city aligned to our Leadership Development Journey.
• Designing a robust Program Implementation Plan that includes Fellow Scope & Sequence of trainings, M&E and Managerial support using the Fellow Curriculum and city's current reality.
• Coordinating suitable Fellow placements across Schools & LCs, supports with upholding school expectations to create enabling learning conditions for Student and Fellows.
• Coordinating the multiple facets of programmatic activity, including student leadership, training with the Regional training Lead, coaching, and partnerships, to ensure coordinated implementation.
• Building and maintaining a strong culture aligned to regional strategy and organizational core values through consistent and frequent communication, holding space and role-modeling.
• Working closely with the central Training and Impact Team - as well as Senior Managers from other regions - to share best practices and collectively inform a national approach towards Student, Fellow and Staff development.
As a People Manager
• Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization.
• Managing and coaching the team members to ambitious outcomes.
• Driving engagement, growth, and retention of team members.
• Engineering and overseeing a monitoring and evaluation system , coupled with strategic direction, to guide our abilities to continuously improve.
As a Senior Manager at Teach For India
• Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities.
• Driving internal alignment and support for Teach For India's core Programs.
• Serving as an ambassador of Teach For India and an advocate for our work and for educational equity in our country through both internal and external communication after committing 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
• Bachelor's Degree from any stream.
• A minimum of two years teaching experience in a low-income school with a strong track record of building academics, values, mindsets, and pathways to opportunity with students.
• A minimum of 2 years of an instructional leadership role at Teach For India, with strong results in Fellow growth, student growth, team culture, training effectiveness and school partner investment
• Experience in managing teams of 5-7 people or more preferred.
Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
Report
Reporting to: City Director (CD)
Directly Managing: Program Staff
The Senior Program Manager coordinates and leads programmatic activity with a region, thus ensuring progress towards student outcomes, fellow development, and citywide culture.
Team Overview
Responsibilities
As a Senior Program Manager,
• Designing an annual strategy that includes goals, priorities and timelines to advance progress and build culture for the regional movement in partnership with CD and City Leadership Team.
• Driving the vision of excellence for Student learning and Fellow leadership for the city aligned to our Leadership Development Journey.
• Designing a robust Program Implementation Plan that includes Fellow Scope & Sequence of trainings, M&E and Managerial support using the Fellow Curriculum and city's current reality.
• Coordinating suitable Fellow placements across Schools & LCs, supports with upholding school expectations to create enabling learning conditions for Student and Fellows.
• Coordinating the multiple facets of programmatic activity, including student leadership, training with the Regional training Lead, coaching, and partnerships, to ensure coordinated implementation.
• Building and maintaining a strong culture aligned to regional strategy and organizational core values through consistent and frequent communication, holding space and role-modeling.
• Working closely with the central Training and Impact Team - as well as Senior Managers from other regions - to share best practices and collectively inform a national approach towards Student, Fellow and Staff development.
As a People Manager
• Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead the organization.
• Managing and coaching the team members to ambitious outcomes.
• Driving engagement, growth, and retention of team members.
• Engineering and overseeing a monitoring and evaluation system , coupled with strategic direction, to guide our abilities to continuously improve.
As a Senior Manager at Teach For India
• Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities.
• Driving internal alignment and support for Teach For India's core Programs.
• Serving as an ambassador of Teach For India and an advocate for our work and for educational equity in our country through both internal and external communication after committing 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
• Bachelor's Degree from any stream.
• A minimum of two years teaching experience in a low-income school with a strong track record of building academics, values, mindsets, and pathways to opportunity with students.
• A minimum of 2 years of an instructional leadership role at Teach For India, with strong results in Fellow growth, student growth, team culture, training effectiveness and school partner investment
• Experience in managing teams of 5-7 people or more preferred.
Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
Report
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Senior Program Manager position is now open for candidates interested in the Teacher Jobs sector. This role in Kolkata offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Teacher Jobs is a plus.