Director, National Recruitment

TEAM: National Recruitment Team

ROLE TITLE: Director, National Recruitment

REPORTS TO: Vice President, Strategy & Operations

LOCATION: Flexible

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Sunday, June 22nd, at 11:59 PM ET

THE ROLE

Teach For America seeks a Director, National Recruitment, to lead strategic efforts in building strong campus-based recruitment campaigns across the country. This role focuses on supporting the Recruitment Team (RT) by stepping into campaigns where mid-season vacancies exist. You’ll cultivate relationships, plan events, design compelling candidate experiences, and activate a range of stakeholders to recruit a talented and high-potential corps. Given the flexible and wide-ranging nature of this role, the portfolio may span multiple geographies, and candidates should be comfortable traveling regularly.

Like all Recruitment Directors, you will create strategic plans, identify and cultivate top prospects, and inspire a broad network to take action. You’ll also play a unique role in shaping the team’s national strategy by identifying where you can have the greatest impact and establishing metrics to track short-term progress. As a front-line leader of this work, you’ll receive robust training, coaching, and development as part of a team committed to excellence, leadership, and building a strong corps to meet the needs of students and communities across the country.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Vacancy Coverage (75%)

• Cover vacancies due to leaves or exits across the RT and AT, stepping into hubs to understand campaign and regional context, execute recruitment responsibilities (connect, cultivation, matriculation support, etc), and work in close partnership with pods and team leads to drive outcomes 

Capacity Adding (25%)

• Add capacity to our full Recruitment Team to drive outcomes for the corps and Ignite campaigns, and drive results aligned to the RT’s strategic needs by contributing to central workstreams such as coaching, Learning + Development, National events, technology platforms management, and staff hiring

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

As a Director on the National Team, you might start the week by meeting with the National Team to dig into key campaign challenges and needs across the full team, and identify ways that the team can support. You might attend the team meeting for the vacancy you are covering, and run the pod meeting to align on progress to goals. Throughout the week, you’ll execute recruitment work, which could include sending connect, nurturing leads, taking cultivation calls, sending ongoing cultivation, engaging influencers, planning campus events, supporting matriculation efforts, and more. You might also have a central project that you are stewarding, such as coaching a new team member, updating our centralized connect learning and development resources, or co-hosting an interview prep workshop.  You might have an intake meeting for a new vacancy, aligning with the team lead on key responsibilities and campaign needs. You’ll close the week by gathering input from your project teams to refine strategies and reviewing campaign data. 

YOUR EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Prior Experience

• At least 4 years of work experience, including at least 2 years of experience on Teach For America’s Recruitment Team 

• Proven track record in leading highly successful recruitment campaigns

• Proven project management skills 

• Appetite to work across the full recruitment funnel that includes either both connect and cultivation experience, or a willingness to learn and execute both workstreams 

• Ability to laterally and upwards manage 

• Commitment to Teach For America’s core values and proven cultural leadership

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrates an exceptional learning orientation, as well as an eagerness to rapidly build their depth of knowledge for each of the campus environments within their campaigns.

• Naturally builds relationships quickly and efficiently, and is particularly adept at developing and cultivating partnerships and networks, especially across lines of difference, in order to achieve results.

• Remains flexible, adaptable, and has the ability to quickly jump in and pivot on strategies when they see that they are ineffective.

• Verbally communicates thoughts and ideas clearly and succinctly, often in a way that captures the attention of the intended audience. They can modify their approach to fit 1:1 meetings, small group discussions, or larger, full-scale events.

• Operates with a high degree of autonomy, making informed decisions on what levers they need to pull (marketing strategies, alumni engagement, etc.) to optimize impact.

• Demonstrates strong interpersonal awareness and deep listening skills to build an informed hypothesis of a potential partner’s motivations and barriers.

• Always seeks to grow and improve. They reflect on successes/failures, seek feedback, incorporate feedback immediately to improve, ask for the help or resources they need to be successful, and assume personal responsibility.

Work Demands

• Ability to work some evenings, specifically on National events

• Ability to travel to campuses across the country to drive campaign success (travel commitment and frequency will change based on the vacancies you are covering)

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

Teach For America’s Recruitment Team (RT) is charged with recruiting a high-quality and large corps that fuels the broader movement towards educational excellence and opportunity across our placement regions. In this pursuit, the Recruitment Team engages with leaders across college campuses and professional career sectors to discuss the challenges of educational excellence and opportunity in the nation and inspires them to choose the corps as a means of expanding opportunities for kids and develop a long-term commitment to the movement. 

YOUR COMPENSATION

The applicable salary range for each U.S.- based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers according to a cost of labor index in that geographic area. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint depending on qualifications, internal review, and the budgeted amount for the role. The expected salary ranges for this role are set forth below. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Tier A: $74,300 to $99,300

• Tier B: $81,000 to $108,300

• Tier C: $87,700 to $117,200

You can see which Tier you belong to here. If you do not see your location listed, click here for additional total rewards information.