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Director, Talent Recruitment

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Indianapolis, IN, USA
Full-time

We seek a Director of Talent Recruitment to lead our recruitment, matriculation, and placement of incoming corps members.  In this role, you must be comfortable setting vision and direction for incoming corps recruitment, working in partnership with our national team, colleagues/universities, local talent organizations, and school partners.  You need to be effective in influencing a diverse, wide-ranging group of external stakeholders and prospective corps members. Given the scale of your efforts, you must have an exceptional ability to manage the execution of work plans and meticulously track execution of highest leverage strategies, adjusting as needed and taking calculated risks to reach outcomes.

A successful candidate is passionate about the potential leadership of our Teach For America community and specifically, how we grow the scale and diversity of our community through our incoming corps year over year.  You believe in the power of early experiences with Teach For America and in classrooms to strengthen or establish a life-long commitment to leading for educational equity.  You believe our corps member talent plays an essential role in building a system of excellent schools in Indianapolis.  In this role, you will report directly to and work closely with our Managing Director, Talent.   

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Passionate about Indianapolis and educational equity. You are passionate about what is possible and necessary in Indianapolis for us to realize our vision for all Indy’s children to lead lives of their choosing and contribute to a more vibrant and just city. You are determined to leverage and build upon our assets to ensure we realize educational equity in partnership with the hundreds of alumni and even more community members working in and around our schools. You are incredibly optimistic about what we can achieve together. If you are considering a move to our community, you are deeply curious and eager to learn our history, current innovations, and greatest opportunities while investing in building relationships.
  • A skilled influencer. You quickly build relationships and can comfortably speak to and build credibility with individuals and groups. You believe in the leadership imperative in classrooms now and in Indianapolis over time. You are skilled at quickly identifying individual motivations and interests to compel a wide ranging, diverse, group in individuals to join our corps.
  • A strategist. When you face a large and complex problem, you demonstrate resilience. You break work streams into smaller, manageable pieces and meticulously track execution of highest leverage strategies, adjusting course as necessary to achieve desired outcomes. You have exceptional organizational systems and exemplary follow through to ensure work is completed at the highest level, consistently defining and prioritizing what is most important and urgent among many competing priorities for your time.
  • Uncommonly high personal responsibility.  You take immense ownership and assume significant personal responsibility for achieving results. You are self-driven and constantly seek to increase your locus of control and influence to drive strong outcomes. You possess a persistent optimism and “whatever it takes” mentality to accomplish goals, particularly in the face of challenges. 
  • A culture leader and relationship builder.  You model our core values and are known as a culture builder and leader in both visible and invisible ways.  In every action and interaction, you are an example to others and you take that role seriously and with pride.
  • A conscious leader. You are always oriented towards justice and equity, particularly in education. You lead, and believe others must lead, through a culturally responsive lens and in a way that empowers students and communities to lead lives of their choosing. You constantly reflect, learn, and improve and model this for others.

Primary Responsibilities
Set, own, and execute our vision and strategy for incoming corps member recruitment (50%)

  • Lead vision and execution of regional recruitment of incoming corps members with a focus on diversity – percent identifying as people of color & percent identifying as coming from a low-income background
  • Manage and execute a portfolio of recruitment strategies, including on your own recruitment visits and facilitating site visits for prospective corps members to Indianapolis  
  • Build strong partnerships with national Recruitment Team members, at colleges and universities, and with potential talent partners to cultivate diverse pipelines of prospective corps members
  • In partnership with MD, Talent and key stakeholders, launch a multi-year talent initiative focused on extending the pipeline of local prospective corps talent, beginning with high school juniors and seniors through early undergraduate prospects
  • Leverage the latest research and innovations in Recruitment domain as well as member profile research (e.g., Millennial insights research) nationally at TFA and broadly in the field, and evolve strategies to reflect the research

Set, own, and execute our vision and strategy for confirmation, matriculation, and hiring of incoming corps members (40%)

  • Lead vision and execution of regional confirmation throughout the year, including the regional assignment processes with national partners and the lateral management of colleagues involved in corps member confirmation
  • Liaise with national Admissions team throughout the year to manage corps member deferrals, regional reassignments, matriculation extension requests, and other special processes
  • Collaborate with regional colleagues to steward a smooth transition of incoming corps members into our network, with specific accountabilities around the successful retention, matriculation, and onboarding of each incoming corps
  • Lead hiring process and events for our incoming corps annually and manage our partnerships with school based hiring managers, including preparing incoming corps members with the orientations and capabilities necessary to successful navigate school based hiring processes and launch (or continue) a successful career path in Indy education
  • Develop systems share information about incoming member interests & motivations learned in recruitment to inform regional programming

Serve as member of the Talent team and cultural leader within region (10%)

  • Inform the strategic direction of Talent team
  • Establish strong partnerships with the community grounded in a shared vision of excellent education for all and to optimally advance our mission and strategy 
  • Grow yourself as a leader by holding a clear, personal vision for impact and how it relates to your goals
  • Have deep knowledge of your identity and how race, class, and privilege influence your values, mindsets and behaviors and ability to work alongside lines of sameness and difference
  • Sustain yourself in this work and model this for our team, corps, and alumni
  • Participate in our region’s corps member selection, matriculation, induction, and ongoing engagement initiatives
  • Attend regional meetings and retreats held throughout the year, bi-weekly staff meetings, and occasional conferences and trainings

Goal Areas

  • Incoming corps size and diversity
  • Informing corps member placement/employment
  • Confirmation and matriculation of incoming corps members
  • Corps member talent pipelines
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience leading large, complex recruitment initiatives and related responsibilities within educational organizations
Skills/Experience: 
  • 4+ years professional work experience demonstrating progressively increasing responsibility, with demonstrated success in all or most of the relevant work domains
  • Experience working directly with low-income communities
  • Prior experience in in recruitment preferred, but not necessary
  • Prior experience as a TFA corps member preferred, but not necessary
  • Experience working in the Indianapolis education landscape highly preferred, but not necessary

Work Demands

  • Ability to work evenings and weekends when necessary
  • Moderate travel required to various parts of Indiana and neighboring states, on average, 2-3 times a month

Skills

  • Setting Vision and Direction
  • Conducting Analysis; Synthesizing, Integrating and Developing Strategies
  • Building Relationships and Networks
  • Influencing Others to Achieve Outcomes
  • Organizing, Planning, and Executing

Organization Info

Teach For America

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1993
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Mission: 

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, professionals, or graduate students who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Teach For America's mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation's most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence. In the 2016-2017 school year, 6,900 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members are teaching in 53 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than 10 million students. Teach For America's more than 40,000 alumni are providing critical leadership -- as teachers, school and district leaders; elected officials and policy advisers; and founders and leaders of education and social reform initiatives -- to ensure all children have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jun 26 2019
Active Until: 
Jul 26 2019
Hiring Organization: 
Teach For America
industry: 
Nonprofit