Teach For India

The Programme 

The Talent Acquisition Intern will play a vital role in supporting the talent acquisition function within Teach For India.  

This internship provides an excellent opportunity for individuals interested in pursuing a career in human resources, specifically in talent acquisition.  

The intern will gain valuable hands-on experience by assisting with various hiring activities and contributing to the overall talent acquisition strategy.  

Team Overview: 

The Talent Acquisition team at Teach For India falls under the larger National Human Resources team and works towards building a talent pipeline for all Staff roles, creating & executing a smooth selection process and fulfilling the hiring needs of over 25 verticals at Teach For India.  

We value operational excellence, attention to detail, compelling communication and sound decision making and judgment. 

Responsibilities: 

• Ensuring that applications are reviewed, and applicants are responded to within prescribed timelines. 
• Conducting screening, phone reviews, interviews and also ensure interviews are conducted by the hiring teams with an objective to minimize Turnaround Time (TAT). 
• Conducting reference checks effectively and within prescribed timelines. 
• Updating key hiring information on our internal systems (Salesforce). 
• Maintaining timely and consistent communication with hiring managers. 
• Partnering with applicants in their journey through timely communication and feedback. 
• Creating digital communication collaterals for the Talent Acquisition team including but not limited to infographics, presentations, resource toolkits etc. 
• Liaising with internal teams/stakeholders to collect and collate information. 

Required Skills and Abilities 

Knowledge and Technical Skills: 

• Basic Proficiency in Google Sheets, Slides, Docs.
• Proficiency in Canva and PowerPoint.  

Competencies and Abilities: 

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills. 
• Ability to work with and invest multiple stakeholders towards common outcomes. 
• Bring in fresh and creative ideas.
• A quick learner.  

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations: 

• Laptop required. 
• Time commitment: 5 to 6 hours daily, five days a week.  
• Volunteered with Teach For India in the past (preferred but not mandatory) 
• Preferred duration of the internship: 6 months. 

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.