As a Director of Talent Recruitment (DTR) you will help identify and hire curious, conscious leaders and change agents who will work toward Teach For America’s shared vision of ensuring educational opportunity for all children. In this effort, you will collaborate with senior leaders to design and execute efficient and strategic hiring campaigns that bring the right people to the right seats at the right time!
We are currently hiring a DTR for our Regional Talent Recruitment (RTR) team. As a DTR on this team, you would work with several different TFA regions across the country, engaging directly with Executive Directors and other senior level staff to recruit and hire for a variety of roles.
These percentages are reflective of a typical DTR role, but fluctuate based upon strengths and experiences of the DTR as well as the unique hiring needs of the client.
Recruit a highly-qualified and diverse pipeline of talent for TFA’s current and future positions (60%):
- Create strong sourcing plans designed to attract top-notch, diverse and mission-aligned talent, including but not limited to
- Sourcing for candidates using our client relationship management and applicant tracking systems (Salesforce), LinkedIn Recruiter, social media, etc
- Generate referrals via the professional networks of senior leaders across the organization
- Build a deep understanding of position profiles and leverage that understanding to identify top talent across roles
- Design recruitment and hiring plans that secure talent for immediate openings and long-term pipelines
Understand and respond strategically to client team hiring needs (30%):
- Build strong, trusting partnerships with hiring managers and team leaders by sharing progress to goals and holding them accountable for our aspirations towards fair and equitable hiring practices
- Provide strategic hiring consultation to hiring managers and team leaders
- Support your regions in crafting strong job descriptions (akin to this one!) and design an efficient and thoughtful interview process (interview scripts, activities, etc)
Ensure candidates have a positive experience (10%):
- Ensure candidates move throughout the interview process and have a positive experience
- Manage matriculation efforts to ensure that offered candidates accept their offers
- 3+ years of Teach For America staff experience or 3+ years of staffing experience at other organizations required
Work Demands
- Travel 3-6 times per year, required
- Attendance at some weekend and evening events may be necessary during peak season
This job may be for you if:
- You are a relationship-building powerhouse!
- You build rapport quickly, get your energy from seeking to understand the perspectives of your partners and prospects and leverage those insights to connect them to people and experiences aligned with their interests and needs;
- You communicate clearly;
- You are comfortable working across lines of difference and layers and are excited about the opportunity building the positive relationships necessary to get work done.
- You want to learn how to become an expert in online networking and sourcing strategies.
- You are an exceptional project manager and excel at adapting existing systems and/or creating new ones.
- You are a curious problem solver. You are comfortable and nimble in backwards planning, assessing progress and course correcting as the road map changes.
- You are hungry to learn and grow. You’re excited by the opportunity to navigate a new, recruitment space, and changing hiring landscapes. You seek strategic opportunities for your own professional development and encourage others to do the same.
- You exemplify our core values, especially Achieve Impact, Strengthen Community and Pursue Equity. You know better work is done when informed by a range of perspectives, take personal responsibility for your work, and are solutions-oriented.
- You are motivated to provide great customer service – to prospects, applicants, and hiring managers.
- You have set and reached ambitious goals in your current role.
- You have exceptional judgment and integrity in your work with all of your current stakeholders.
- You are an innovator who anticipates and seizes opportunities to refine strategies and processes.