As Director, Corps Member Hiring, you will oversee corps member hiring for the New York Region. You will ensure New York’s incoming corps members have a positive experience navigating our hiring process and a clear understanding of their role as a teacher and leader. You will also ensure our team has the support and resources to execute the process. As you manage the execution of both the partner-facing and corps-facing components of our process, you will seek to ensure that all corps members are hired at a school where they are wanted, needed, and can have the biggest impact. You will also be responsible for facilitating hiring logistics (resume matching, interview scheduling) and interview support (prep, demo lesson resources, interview coaching) while building strong relationships with corps members. You execute the logistics of hiring rounds and the Hiring Immersion days, while also developing corps members’ knowledge, skills, and mindsets when it comes to their role as a teacher and leader. With a laser-like focus on matching corps members to best fit roles within our target footprint, you will innovate and build on existing hiring systems and tools that allow Directors of Programs to execute the hiring process with school partners. The systems you innovate and execute will consider local context and needs, facilitate authentic relationships with schools and corps members, and account for high volume (hundreds corps members and more than 150 school partners). Finally, in conjunction with our Leadership Team, you will help to determine our placement priorities and strategy for hiring and school/site partnership.
You are a strong relationship-builder, a clear communicator, and you thrive at inspiring others to achieve outcomes. You are innovative, solutions-oriented, and love fast-paced work. You love analysis, systems-design, and appreciate that small details can make a big difference in outcomes. You seek out opportunities and challenges in complex, interconnected, strategic work.
Hiring Strategy (20%)
- Lead collaborative process with NY regional leadership team to establish annual strategic hiring criteria and goals, and to determine our strategic placement footprint with goal of maximizing our impact in the region
- Ensure our hiring process is aligned with our priorities and strategy allowing us to place corps members in partner schools who meet our eligibility and partnership criteria
Partner-facing Hiring Operations and Logistics: (50%)
- Interview Process: Plan and manage interview process and systems throughout the hiring campaign, draft strategic timelines, create and utilize complex data systems, and craft communications to staff and partners
- Communications: Execute streamlined systems to communicate with external partners and staff about interview and partnership logistics as well as results (i.e. who was hired).
- Staff Support: Lateral management of 15+ Directors of Programs to ensure successful execution of hiring process (in conjunction with their managers)
- Data Integrity: Oversee internal tracking systems to manage communication between Programs team staff and their portfolios of network/school level relationships
- DOE Employment: Manage knowledge of district application and processing requirements
Corps Member-facing Hiring Operations and Interview Support: (15%)
- Corps Member Readiness: In partnership with the Program Design team, you will be responsible for ensuring our ICMs know what it takes to be a transformational teacher with an eye towards TFA’s mission, our NYC regional vision, and our focus on Culturally Responsive Education (CRE). You will support planning and execution for four hiring immersion days for the incoming corps, while also developing corps members’ knowledge, mindsets, and skills as it relates to hiring and partnerships.
- Case Management: Support our Corps Operations team in retention and performance of all ICMs participating in hiring during the pre-service phase of their commitment to ensure they understand what it means to be a part of TFA and also a NYC teacher.
Teamwork (15%)
- Program Operations Team Participation:
- Pre-Service: Support the Director of Corps Operations and Manager of Corps Operations with email and coaching support of ICMs as needed.
- Institute: Support pre-institute conferences, registration day, and office hours at one school site for the summer
- Programs, New York Regional, and National Participation:
- Contribute to ongoing Programs team meetings (i.e. sub-team, boroughs, full team, etc.)
- Participate in all-staff meetings, activities and events such as selection, confirmation, strategic planning and conferences/summits
- Adhere to all deadlines, action items and structures to support the work of our regional team
- Minimum 6+ years of work experience; Teach For America alumnus/alumna strongly preferred
- Work Demands: some weekend and evening work required
- Demonstrated experience designing and managing project plans to ensure high-quality process execution
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Expert proficiency with excel and data management experience
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Exceptional customer service ethic