Teach For America’s New York regional team seeks a Director, Talent Recruitment to oversee regional hiring, onboarding and retention of our full-time staff. We are looking for an accomplished project manager who is poised to lead full-cycle recruitment for our regional team of nearly 50 full-time staff. In addition to this, the Director, Talent Recruitment will orchestrate a campaign to hire approximately 100 seasonal staff to run our summer training program (NYC Institute). This person has the opportunity to build a team of leaders who are committed to Teach For America's mission and New York's regional direction, and who embody our organizational core values and commitment to diversity and inclusiveness. A competitive candidate has experience as a talent recruiter, excels at influencing and motivating others, and is driven to tackle a complex and competitive NYC hiring landscape to help us excel at recruiting, selecting, onboarding and retaining exceptional talent.
Full-Time Staff Recruitment
- Oversee all aspects of talent recruitment and hiring, including:
- Establishing a clear profile for open roles and writing job descriptions
- Advising regional hiring managers to maximize hiring outcomes for open roles
- Sourcing, cultivating, and recruiting exceptional and diverse talent for all open roles on the New York regional team
- Reviewing applications and conducting initial interviews
- Monitoring, tracking, and reporting applicant status for various active open roles through SalesForce and Jobscience
- Owning ongoing communicating with candidates and stakeholders
- Designing lean and efficient interview processes and scripts focused on collecting evidence and differentiating interview processes with hiring managers as needed
- Laterally managing hiring managers to ensure a swift and positive interview experience
- Create a culture where all staff engage in ongoing talent cultivation throughout the year
- Ensure all hiring managers are trained in Teach For America’s hiring practices
- Suggest, implement, and own strategic efficiencies in our hiring structure to improve the regional hiring process
- Liaise with national talent recruitment team and serve as the dedicated regional recruiter for New York
Institute Staff Recruitment
- Partner closely with members of the Programs team to run an orchestrated and efficient campaign to recruit and hire approximately 100 summer institute staff members
- Provide guidance on all aspects of the summer staff hiring process, including: job description, candidate exercises, application deadlines, application goals, sourcing strategies, interview experience, etc.
- Conduct in-person and virtual information sessions to share information about our summer institute to larger audiences
- Partner with Director of Alumni Learning & Development to monitor all new hire paperwork and processing
Staff Onboarding and Retention
- Work closely with hiring managers to support the design and implementation of regional staff onboarding processes and protocols, ensuring all new staff member onboarding steps are finalized correctly
- Execute some elements of centralized regional onboarding
- Collaborate with necessary stakeholders to monitor new hire paperwork and necessary documentation
- Build proactive strategies and systems to increase our staff satisfaction and retention, as a member of the regional culture committee
Team-wide Responsibilities
- Support planning and participate in all-staff (region and organization-wide) activities and events such as selection, confirmation, strategic planning and all-staff meetings
- Minimum of five years of work experience required
- At least two years of full-cycle recruitment strongly preferred
- Experience working in Salesforce strongly preferred
- Previous experience working in education in NYC and/or Teach For America corps experience a plus
Work Demands
- Ability to work some evenings and weekends
Skills
- Strong strategic thinking, as evidenced by an ability to improve systems and process that maximize outcomes
- Ability to set strong vision and direction
- Exceptional ability to build and execute a project plan (and invest others in the execution of the plan)
- Ability to produce a strong record of results and evidence of driving toward outcomes
- Ability to build relationships and manage across teams
- Demonstrated commitment to building and working with diverse teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Appetite for working through ambiguity and leading through change