It’s easy to focus on the technology. Ed Tech Recruiting focuses on the people.
Ed Tech Recruiting helps educational institutions and other mission-aligned organizations successfully navigate challenging staffing transitions—particularly at the senior leadership level. The company, founded in 2015, has developed both a strong brand recognition and solid reputation as an industry leader that runs retained searches for positions such as CTO, CIO, and innovation director. In addition, Ed Tech Recruiting serves as a strategic consulting partner to domestic and international clients in need of leadership training, interim placement services, and project management.
Ed Tech Recruiting seeks a recruiting associate to join its core team. The recruiting associate will work primarily on retained searches, first in a supporting role and eventually as a lead project manager. The ideal candidate will bring an analytical, can-do mindset along with exceptional writing and organizational skills. This is an opportunity to learn the insights of executive recruiting, strategic consulting, and departmental restructuring in the field of educational technology. The job starts this summer and reports to the principal.
For more information please visit the following link, which contains the job opportunity statement and complete application instructions.
http://www.EdTechRecruiting.com/jobs/ETR
IMPORTANT DATES
Post date: May 16, 2019
Application deadline: June 10, 2019 @ 5:00pm PDT
On-site final round: June 24-28, 2019
Start date: July 8, 2019
Executive recruiting
- Learn, adopt, and embrace company methodologies and protocols for hiring
- Write and design thorough and professional opportunity statements for executive-level positions that (a) describe the core duties of and qualifications for a job, (b) provide extensive background and context in relation to the mission, values, and goals of the hiring organization and (c) motivate and inspire a diverse set of qualified candidates to apply
- Work diligently and creatively to solicit and recruit as diverse and extensive a pool of qualified applicants as possible
- Review, interview, and screen applicants to assess their interest, experience and qualifications
- Perform in-depth reference checks on applicants
- Design and develop performance tasks tailored to each opportunity, including (a) writing prompts for the initial application, (b) supporting materials for second- and third-rounds, and (c) multifaceted exercises for final-round visits
- As directed, travel to client sites to (a) conduct kick-off meetings and needs-assessment interviews, (b) facilitate candidate selection meetings, (c) design the final round, and (d) run the final round and facilitate finalist deliberation meetings
- Other duties as assigned
Project management
- Provide clients advice and assistance throughout the hiring process, and ensure that projects remain on schedule with high client satisfaction
- Support, and eventually run, multiple hiring projects concurrently, and coordinate tasks and decisions among clients, candidates, and internal Ed Tech Recruiting staff
- Deliver regular and thorough updates via written summaries, conference calls, and in-person meetings to clients, candidates, and Ed Tech Recruiting team members
- Other duties as assigned
ED TECH RECRUITING IS LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES WHO CAN DEMONSTRATE
Professional Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
- At least three years of successful office work history involving regular interaction with customers and/or colleagues, and major contribution to concurrent projects
- PREFERRED, BUT NOT REQUIRED: Experience hiring, recruiting, and/or supervising
- PREFERRED, BUT NOT REQUIRED: Experience working in an educational or other nonprofit institution, and/or in a role involving technology administration
Skills and Personal Qualities:
- Excellent writing skills
- An ability to manage concurrent projects at different stages and different paces
- A we-can-do-it and I-will-get-it-done approach to goals, projects, and tasks
- An analytical mindset
- A proactive work ethic requiring minimal daily oversight
- A willingness to follow company methodologies, receive strategic advice, and embrace managerial feedback
- An ability to recognize situations that would benefit from adjustment to normal practices, and a deftness to articulate alternative courses of action when needed
- An adaptive communication style and an ability to make positive connections with a diverse set of clients and candidates
- An understanding that each client has different needs, preferences, and approaches to the same situation, and an eagerness to create customized solutions
- An ability to clearly and confidently provide updates, deliver presentations, and lead meetings—both to internal colleagues and external clients
- A commitment to detail, accuracy, organization, confidentiality, and ethics
- A proficiency with technology, particularly with productivity and collaboration environments such as Microsoft Office and G-Suite
- PREFERRED, BUT NOT REQUIRED: Familiarity with a CMS or database environment
For more information please download the opportunity statement, which contains complete application instructions: