Regional Lead

The Regional Lead (RL) is part of the Recruitment Leadership team, responsible for setting the national strategy alongside with Fellowship Recruitment Director and other Regional leads. This person will set the vision, strategy and operational plan for Fellowship Recruitment and branding in their region. They are responsible for ensuring that an ambitious number of leaders arrive at the Institute ready to begin the Fellowship. The RL will manage a team of Recruitment Managers (RM) and play the roles of a manager, mentor and coach while supporting them on the field, to make data-driven decisions, and to achieve their outcomes. The RL will promote, enhance and protect Teach For India’s brand while building and leveraging key relationships with high-level stakeholders, heads of colleges and corporates, and create networks in the region that will enhance Recruitment team’s year on year ambition. At its soul, the role revolves around changing mindsets in this country and, as such, presents a tremendous opportunity to build leadership and management skills in a fast-paced, results-driven, and challenging team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop goals and strategies for the region’s recruitment and matriculation cycle based on a balance of the team’s ambition and past years’ progress
• Develop a regional strategy for marketing, communications and branding centred around locally relevant themes, leveraging “Campus Leaders” across institutions, and generating awareness through various channels such as print and social media, radio, television, and film.

• Break down the goals into a set of milestones for each phase of the cycle as well as by portfolios within the region
• Capture and investigate data to monitor progress to goals, identify and analyse trends, make adaptations to strategy as necessary.
• Create structures, processes and visibility that enables effective execution, collaboration towards goals, and medium-term stability
• Manage the regional team budget by allocating resources efficiently and effectively, and defining the annual team calendar and action plan

• Coach, manage, empower and capacity build for each person on the team
• Recruit a support team of Fellows and Interns
• Build a strong collaborative team culture that is rooted in Teach For India’s culture, and values both relationships and results
• Build partnerships and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across universities, corporates and youth clubs across the regions to grow our network, goodwill, brand and eventually have talent pipelines.
• Actively participate in all Recruitment Leadership Team initiatives including long term strategy planning, goal setting, resource allocation, problem-solving, national-level projects, team coaching/upskilling initiatives, resource sharing, and constantly innovating and upgrading processes and systems towards scale.
• Work alongside all other verticals in the following ways: Selection team to refine our selection processes and criteria, Communications team to develop a regional Communications strategy,Technology team to build the necessary platforms and tools to support the application process as well as enable data-collection, Development team to cross-sell Recruitment and Development, City Teams on regional collaborations, etc.

• A Bachelor’s or a Master’s Degree in any field
• 4-6 years of relevant work experience
• Previous experience leading large projects and teams to successful outcomes
• A deep belief in Teach For India’s vision, mission, and core values
• Strategic and critical thinking skills to conceptualize multiple approaches to solving a problem and drawing out a clear roadmap with roles and responsibilities
• Proficiency in analyzing large data sets and making inferences to drive strategies and decisions
• Strong goal orientation and laser-like focus on outcomes
• An orientation towards driving depth and excellence in all aspects of the role
• Excellent project planning, project management and people management skills
• Strong relationship building and communication skills to deliver compelling messages through oral and written medium to diverse stakeholders
• Ability to be highly resourceful and entrepreneurial in the face of uncertainty
• Ability to maintain a demanding travel schedule and work long hours (especially at key milestones in the Recruitment cycle like Recruitment deadlines)