Senior Director, Regions

Position Summary

Reporting to: Chief Regional Officer

Directly Managing: City Directors of 8-10 Regional Sites

The Senior Director, Regions will be responsible for the execution and scaling of our Fellowship Program while facilitating collective learning and action in our Alumni community within and across regions. The Senior Director, Regions, will be responsible for goals across three big buckets:

As a Cluster Lead
• Driving transformational student outcomes in regions, thus ensuring that the students we serve directly access better life opportunities
• Delivering a high-quality Fellowship program to over 1000 Fellows across all our regions every year
• Bringing our Alumni together to foster collective learning and action , towards transforming lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in each of our regions
• Building regions with sustainable funding, talent, and operations by assembling advisory boards and cultivating local champions for our work
• Supporting our Chief Regional Officer in our expansion to 3-5 new Teach For India sites
• Partnering with TFIx (our growth model) to take our impact beyond our citiesand drive synergies between the Teach For India Fellowship and TFIx
• Leading cross functional projects across the organization, focused on ensuring that regions are equipped to drive transformational outcomes in classrooms and build strong teacher leaders through the Fellowship

As a People Manager
• Building a robust pipeline of talent to lead and steward our sites and our program
• Manage and coach the Directors in the cluster 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 member of the Senior Leadership Team
• Contributing to organizational decision making and long-term strategy as a member of the Senior Leadership Team
• Driving internal alignment and support for Teach For India's core Programs
• 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
• Supporting with key organizational areas such as Fundraising , Movement Building , Alumni Engagement
• Over time, supporting Teach For India's Alumni and other external organizations in their journey to our vision with organizational insights

Team Overview

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Knowledge and Technical Skills

Competencies and Abilities

Values and Mindsets

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations
• 8-12 years of professional experience
• Experience of having built and managed high functioning team(s) to outcomes through multiple layers
• Experience in driving operations in high pressure, goal driven environments
• Willingness and ability to spend significant amounts of time traveling to Teach For India sites
• Previous experience in teaching/education would be an added advantage (preferred not mandatory)

Preferred Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations