Program Intern – Teach For India 2024

About Teach for India

At Teach For India, we’ve built a nationwide movement of leaders who are working relentlessly to end inequity in education. It’s been twelve years since we began this journey and today we have 900+ Fellows leading classrooms impacting 32,000 children across the country, Through our Fellowship, we infuse the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem and have a growing movement of 3400+ Alumni. Our Alumni work at all levels of the education system from teaching, teacher training, school leadership and community empowerment to education technology, policy, governance, media as well as in the private sector. Cumulatively, our Alumni have founded 150+ organisations in the social sector with 200 of them occupying senior leadership and CXO positions across organisations.

77% of our Alumni continue to work in the development sector impacting 33 million, or 1 in 10 children across India, thereby demonstrating their commitment to our vision – One Day All Children Will Attain An Excellent Education. Collectively, these numbers represent the immense potential of our model and the power of our broader community – a potential to catalyze a movement for education reform and redefine what’s possible for children from the most vulnerable backgrounds. Our work will only be complete once we have built a movement of leaders large enough to ensure that every child in India is receiving an excellent education.

On Staff, we pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of 200+ individuals who are committed to the pursuit of excellence and practicing the values that shape us as people. We have been recognized by Great Places To Work and are an equal opportunities employer, providing compensation and benefits at the top of the nonprofit sector.

Program Intern 2024 – Teach For India – Position Summary

The Program Intern will work closely with the Program team, Fellows as well as Student Interns at Teach For India to coordinate the collation of the plethora of curricular resources created and used by Fellows so far. The Program intern will also train the Fellows on the resource bank created, incorporate feedback on usage, and make timely edits to the resource bank.

Team Overview

The Program team in cities plays a critical role in the continuous support and development of Fellows across cities. The primary objective is to drive excellence in the classroom and a deep sense of clarity and conviction in the long-term movement. The Program team supports Fellows through training, facilitating spaces for collaboration, regular classroom observation, continuous feedback, and coaching cycles. They are also responsible for cultivating a strong and productive ecosystem in the city and a positive team culture across their team and the larger city cohort.

Internship Responsibilities

Team leadership (tentative)

• Guide and train your team of student intern(s) to collate curricular resources from Grade 2 to Grade 10 created by Staff and Fellows.
• Coordinate with your team of student interns to monitor and track the completion status of the curricula resources from Fellows and Staff members.

Collating resources

• Be in constant touch with student interns, assisting them if and when they face issues in collating resources or following up with Staff or Fellows.
• Create and use a system for you and your team of student interns to keep track of the resources collected and details around them so it may be used later.
• Explore or create a tool that will help display all collated resources (Eg: Google site, Google classrooms, etc.) in a user-friendly and efficient manner.
• Train Fellows on the usage of said tool.
• Gather feedback based on usage from the Fellows.
• Implement multiple iterations of feedback and revert to Fellows with changes if any.
• Document the processes and steps involved to provide a holistic view of the process of curation.
• Gather usage statistics of the tool.
• Run this whole project in a timely, professional manner to ensure completion of quality outputs on time.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Bachelors / Masters Degree (Law Graduates can also apply; and 3 year LLB students who have a prior Bachelors Degree in any field.)
• Creativity and a good aesthetic sense.
• Professionalism and respect while working with our stakeholders like Alumni, children, parents, and other officials at the school/organization level.
• Committed to learning continuously and developing technical as well as softer skills.
• Self-driven worker to proactively take on and complete the project owned.
• Strong Communication (Verbal and Written) and Presentation skills.
• Proficiency in use of MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, and Word) and G Suite (Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Drive, Forms).
• Learnability in using technical resources and tools (quickly learning how to use and make google sites or other online tools).
• Time management and flexibility to coordinate with multiple stakeholders and people within a team.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate closely with members of a team.
• Ability to critically think and work with feedback.

How to apply for 2024 Internship at Teach For India

Apply through the ‘Apply now’ link on the official web page : Program Intern – Teach for India

You can also check out other internship roles on the Careers section of the Teach for India website at this link : Careers – Teach for India