Chief of Staff to The CEO - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - TeachForIndia

TeachForIndia

Verified Company

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

beBee Recuiter

Description

Reporting to:
Chief Executive Officer - Shaheen Mistri

As Chief of Staff, you will enhance our organization's strategic alignment, operational efficiency and overall effectiveness.

Your work will directly impact our mission and involve engagement with key high-level stakeholders in our movement and progress; including but not limited to our global Board, Leadership Team (including the CEO, Senior Directors, and Vertical Heads), and multi-stakeholder partners.

This position offers a unique vantage point at the intersection of governance, strategy, project management, research, and leadership development.

Responsibilities:

Board Engagement and Support:

Support the CEO in building rigorous agendas and content, driving crossteam coordination and collaboration, and maintaining highquality documentation of meeting minutes and decisions.
Provide logístical and operational leadership towards board engagement activities, including meetings, retreats, workshops and events.

Senior Leadership Team Support:

Manage agendas and logistics for biweekly senior leadership meetings, focused on organizational priorities and strategic discussions, for a group of 5 Senior Direcotors and the CEO.
Facilitate biannual leadership retreats to build inspiration, clarity, culture and camaraderie among TFI's leadership team.
Promote a culture of honesty, trust, and clear communication across the organization, in close partnership with the CEO.

Leadership Team Engagement:

Manage Plan monthly sessions for the leadership team (25+ members) to ensure alignment, engagement, and awareness of organizational priorities.
Manage agendas and logistics for monthly leadership meetings, focused on driving organizational alignment, engagement, visibility and collaboration, for a group of 25+ Vertical Heads and decisionmakers.
Foster a healthy, inclusive and honest culture among vertical heads.

CEO Operations

Oversee the CEO's operational team, working closely with the CEO's executive assistant to enable high quality, wellpaced, and mission

- aligned progress to goals.

Lead the annual budgeting process.
Strategically manage the CEO's calendar to reflect organizational priorities towards driving impact, wellbeing, and brandbuilding (ex. external speaking engagements).
Lead initiatives and complex special projects as part of the CEO's office, chosen yearonyear based on external and internal considerations.

As a Senior Manager at Teach For India, You Will:

Develop a strong talent pipeline for the CEO's office.
Coach team members toward achieving ambitious outcomes.
Contribute to and prioritize organizational goals alongside personal responsibilities.
Represent and advocate for the Teach For India mission and educational equity through internal and external communications underpinned by experiences in our classrooms.
Support key organizational functions, including Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, and Movement Building.

Minimum Qualifications, Experiences and Expectations:

5+ years of professional experience
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience in driving strategy and operations in highstakes, goaldriven environments
Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups
Exceptional judgment, decisionmaking, initiative, time management and planning, and orientation to learning
Agility and optimism, with an orientation towards being proactive, solutionsfocused, and collaborative
Previous experience in teaching/education/working with children (preferred, not mandatory)
Alignment with Teach For India's core values, vision, and mission