Manager, Kids Education Revolution

Reporting to: Director, Kids Education Revolution

Managing: Associate, KER

Kids Education Revolution is a project that sits under the Innovation Cell at Teach For India. It was established in 2017 with the pursuit of reimagining education WITH children, not just within TFI's program and classrooms, but also beyond TFI to explore the possibility of scaling principles that challenge the traditional education system. KER aims to learn and spread out a constantly evolving & growing understanding of an excellent education.

The Phase 4 vision for the Kids Education Revolution is to build a movement of more than 15,000 student leaders who will reimagine education in partnership with their educators and a movement of 2 million people who will advocate and act collectively for educational equity, in partnership with other teams at Teach for India.

As a Manager, the role would entail effectively project managing and executing musicals and productions that help elevate student voice and agency. We have taken many steps in our journey of musicals, starting from Maya (2014) to Greatest Show on Earth (2019) and to The Conference of the Birds (2022) - a larger-than-life musical with 25 under-resourced school students from Pune, based on embodying the constitutional values of Liberty, Equality, Justice, and Fraternity.

As a Manager at Kids Education Revolution

• End-to-end project management and execution of the musicals and productions.
• Design and implement a curriculum that integrates academics, values and performing arts with a group of students from under-resourced schools.
• Work in collaboration with a team of artists (director, scriptwriter, choreographer, musician, instructors), volunteers and designers (set, costume, props, light, sound) to ensure on-time completion of deliverables while maintaining high levels of excellence.
• Invest in diverse stakeholders to advocate for student voice and agency.
• Monitoring, evaluation and documentation to assess the effectiveness and impact of the project/s.
• Work closely with the KER team to design and execute powerful learning experiences for students and educators towards exploring the 3 Principles and 8Cs of KER, as well as arts for advocacy.

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 Manager at Teach For India

• Contributing to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities.
• 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 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.

• 2-4 years of professional experience in teaching/education/performing arts in education.
• Experience in driving operations in high-pressure, goal-driven environments.
• Experience of having planned and executed complex projects with multiple priorities in a college or work setting.
• Strong planning, content creation and facilitation skills.
• Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups.
• Strong People and Partnership Management skills.
• Experiences of having taken initiative in the past.
• Demonstrable ability to work towards ambitious goals in the face of challenges.
• Excellent (written and verbal) communication and Project Management skills.
• Orientation towards innovation (openness, risk-taking, embracing failure) and scale (strategic thinking, identification of key levers, making bets).
• Previous experience in performing arts/managing productions.

Note: We want to hear your unique voice and perspectives through the process, hence all applicants are expected to personally author statements of purpose/essays in the application form. Sole use of AI or Chat-GPT based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.