As the Director, Alumni Talent Initiatives, you are the thread that sews together our mission promise of supporting alumni across their lifetimes and our vision of a day when all children in Nashville and Chattanooga have the opportunity to attain an excellent education. You are the person that talent personnel turn to when they have a role that urgently needs a skilled and eager person. You are the person that alumni and corps members turn to when they are not sure of what’s next for themselves; when they know they want to have a bigger impact but aren’t sure of how to get there. You are the person that matches the talented alum to the organization that needs their gifts. And in cities in which hundreds of high impact student- and teacher-facing roles remain vacant year-on-year, you are desperately needed. As the Director, Alumni Talent Initiatives, you will report to the Managing Director, Alumni Leadership.
Areas of Responsibility:
Relationship Management (45%)
- Developing and strengthening relationships with key partners and potential employers of alumni across Nashville and Chattanooga
- Meeting (virtually, by phone, or in-person) with talent partners and hiring managers across Nashville and Chattanooga
- Meeting (virtually, by phone, or in-person) with job-seeking alumni and alumni interested in moving to Nashville or Chattanooga for career-specific reasons
- Connecting alumni to hiring partners directly and developing portfolios of candidate resumes for open roles to share with hiring partners
- Attending key events to source candidates, such as hiring and opportunity fairs, School Leaders of Color Conference, etc.
- Explore and bring-to-fruition emerging connections for talent matching beyond the field of k-12 education, such as the private sector and social venture sector.
Talent Initiatives Project Management (25%)
- Designing the vision and execution of Nashville’s Talent Hub – the model by which we find, cultivate and match alumni to open roles related to educational equity in Nashville and Chattanooga. Implementing a new model that meets talents needs, matches great talent to their next roles about which they’re passionate, and creates new earned revenue streams that contribute to the sustainability of the organization
- Running marketing campaigns for the Talent Hub that intersect with our website, social media, targeted email outreach, traditional mail campaign, and public advertisements
- Managing the planning and execution of the following projects:
- Nashville Assistant Principal Fellowship: Fellow recruitment, admissions, candidate sourcing, and outreach
- One Day in BNA: potential attendee sourcing, programming, outreach to talent partners (The Manager, Alumni Experience will oversee operations such as food, marketing collateral, etc.)
- TFA Connect: Managing job board aspects of TFA Connect, including archiving out-of-date or no longer open roles
Finance, Data Strategy, and Administration (15%)
- Assist with developing human capital initiatives for region-specific opportunities (i.e. regional Institute, school leadership scholarships, public leadership fellowship programs, etc.) through tracking pipelines and candidate readiness via Salesforce
- Create and run systems for tracking alumni talent, such as lists of people looking for new roles in the next school year, people currently looking, and maintaining a list of Nashville-based alumni talent
- Consistently track and update Alumni Affairs data in our contact management database (TFACT via Salesforce) to ensure accuracy to drive team priorities
- Ensure compliance with key Teach For America systems, such as expense reporting and time management
Regional and Organizational Stewardship (15%)
- Support team-wide priorities for TFA Nashville and organizational-wide initiatives. Examples include:
- Participating in staff committees, teams and task forces
- Corps member recruitment, admissions, and matriculation
- Team meetings and professional development
- Institute
- Regional events and programming (such as teacher orientation and end-of-year celebration)
- Role check-Ins, cross-team meetings, performance management conversations, etc.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree required
Skills/Experience:
- 5+ years professional work experience preferred, preferably related to talent (such as recruitment, hiring, professional development, etc)
- Experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Google Drive, Outlook, Web design/maintenance, and/or Salesforce highly preferred
- Previous project and data management experience required
- Teach For America alumni strongly preferred, but not required
Work Demands
- Ability to work some weekends and evenings
- Ability to travel locally and quarterly travel to Chattanooga or Nashville (depending on primary location)
- Position can be based in Nashville or Chattanooga
To be successful in this role, you will need to possess four traits:
- Woo: people need to instantly trust, like, and believe in you. And you need to feel the same way about the people you encounter, regardless of how early they are in their career skill development. Your sweet spot will be somewhere at the intersection of career coaching, life coaching and customer service, and you thrive on being the person people need at some of the most vulnerable times in their lives.
- Time Maximizer: you are able to put things first things first, and to brutally prioritize your limited time. At the end of any given day, it would not be surprising to hear that you have talked to 10 or 12 candidates or talent partners because you are constantly expending your time and energy in the most fruitful ways.
- Builder: You will be the person chiefly responsible for carrying out the work of building our team’s talent matching infrastructure that supports our region’s goal of putting every alumni to work in the role that maximizes his/her/their potential. You’ve got to take what may feel intangible or ambiguous and make it concrete, and you have experience launching new projects in the past that have sustained over time.
- Interdependent AND Independently-Driven: you’ll need to lean on your teammates to support you, and to manage up, across and down with ease while also extending generosity of spirit for your teammates. At the same time, you will likely spend a significant portion of your time operating in the field, on the phone and outside of the field of vision of others on your team, so you’ll need to be a person who can self-manage and drive yourself towards your goals with little day-to-day intervention.
Additional key traits for success:
- Strong strategic thinker and systems orientation
- Strong personal responsibility; takes ownership for quality work
- Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit
- Demonstrates professionalism, poise, and judgment at all times
- Incredibly collaborative and team-oriented
- Excellent relationship building skills – friendly, approachable, and enjoys developing relationships
- Ability to manage competing priorities
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Ability to thrive in a goal-oriented, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment, including the ability to be flexible in project execution
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Apr 13 2018
Active Until:
May 13 2018
Hiring Organization:
Teach For America
industry:
Nonprofit