Teach For India

The Programme 

The Digital Communications Intern will play a vital role in supporting the communications function within Teach for India Kolkata.  
As a Communications Intern, you will design creatives, execute social media campaigns, and support outreach efforts.  

This is an opportunity to contribute to educational equity and make a lasting impact. 

This is a full-time, paid internship.  

Internship Duration: 3 months. 

Team Overview: 

The National Communications team and Team in Kolkata at Teach for India consider themselves the custodians of the brand.  
They handle everything related to brand communications, marketing, events, PR, design, merchandising, or any element that authentically captures what Teach for India stands for.  

They innovate, create, and optimize every aspect of communication in the hope that they can inspire an entire collective of changemakers to provide an excellent education to all children.  

Daily, you collaborate and thought partner to come up with new ideas to generate creative content and publish it across digital media, listen to stories and capture them across formats, and think of all the platforms you can tap into to amplify these inspiring stories and design activations to immerse people in the Teach For India experience. 

What You Will Do 

• Content Creation: Curate and write compelling stories for Digital Platforms featuring Fellows, Students, Alumni, and Donors that showcase the impact of Teach for India.  
• Monthly Content Planning: Develop and implement monthly content calendars that align with regional goals and resonate with our target audience. 
• Campaign Execution: Plan and execute social media campaigns that enhance regional brand awareness and engagement, focusing on promoting Teach for India Kolkata events. 
• Brand Narrative: Strategically build regional brand narratives for Kolkata, aligning them with the overall national brand.
• Ensure consistency and relevance in messaging. 
• Classroom and Event Coverage: Visit key events and classrooms to capture first-hand stories, experiences, and moments that highlight the impact of Teach for India. Translate these experiences into compelling content for digital platforms.
• Analytics and Reporting: Regularly monitor and analyze digital media analytics, providing insights and recommendations for continuous improvement. Prepare and document monthly reports on key performance indicators. 

Required Skills and Abilities 

• Enrolled in or recently completed a degree in Communications, Marketing, or a related field. Knowledge of using design tools is an add-on.  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• Ability to create compelling visuals and photographs 
• Familiarity with social media platforms and trends. 
• Creativity and ability to think strategically.
• Proactive and detail oriented.  

Working at Teach for India:  

Teach For India is on a journey to reach an India free of poverty and filled with love by ending educational inequity in our country.   
Fourteen years into our journey we are a movement of 4600+ Alumni working at all levels of the education system, who are reaching 1 in 10 children across the country. These Alumni have graduated from our two-year Fellowship Program where they taught in under-resourced classrooms to put ~38,000 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have ~940 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India.  

In 2022, we embarked on Phase 4, our fourth strategic phase. We have a bold and ambitious ten-year journey ahead of us that aims to grow 50,000 leaders, who will work collectively, and with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in our regions, through an education that unleashes the potential of self, others and India. In this decade, five key priorities will lead us to this vision.  

Strengthen our core Fellowship to build strong teacher leaders who provide an excellent and equitable education to our children and continue to do so beyond the Fellowship 

Scale our impact by strategically introducing additional Fellowships as alternative pathways for leadership development 
Match the Alumni of our programs at an intersection of their interests and the needs of the system and our children 
Advocate for key issues that impact educational equity, and engage 3.5% of the population in the movement for educational equity 

Act collectively with our Alumni to learn about and address key issues in our regions.  
 
Our work will only be completed when we have built a movement of leaders that is large enough to ensure that every child in India attains an excellent education.  
We pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of individuals. We’re committed to learning and excellence in our roles, and to being deeply rooted in our core values. 

About Us: 

Teach For India was founded in 2008.  

Inspired by Teach for America’s journey, we worked with McKinsey & Company to craft a blueprint around the belief that all children must attain an excellent education.  

Today, we are a movement of 900 Fellows teaching 33,000 children and 4,500+ Alumni who are collectively reaching 50 million children across India.