Recruitment Associates (RAs) work behind the scenes to support Recruitment Managers’ efforts to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity by compelling top leaders to join the Teach For America corps. As a Recruitment Associate, you will build and execute strategies to identify and initiate communication with a broad network to build a large, diverse, and talented corps.
Recruitment Associates will support the Recruitment Team’s undeniably consequential work, fueling TFA’s Theory of Change and broader movement for social equity in the nation. Aligned with the Recruitment Team’s deep conviction around leadership, you will receive extensive training, ongoing coaching, and professional development to innovate and achieve success.
Identify and communicate with diverse leaders in order to build successful TFA corps recruitment campaigns
- ‘Source’ (identify and track) diverse and competitive seniors, juniors, and/or professionals as potential TFA corps applicants by conducting research and using resources on campus and/or professional networks.
- Develop tailored individual communication based on audience (professors,campus faculty, college students, professional candidate, warm leads, cold leads) to plan full days of events and individual meetings for Recruitment Managers and campus visitors such as corps members or alumni.
- Support and collaborate with Recruitment Managers to devise and execute strategies to engage potential applicants and drive interest in applying to Teach For America through a variety of channels including planning events, partnering with student organizations, engaging career service offices, and creating marketing campaigns to reach large audiences.
Track, communicate, and utilize corps recruitment data to drive campaign strategy
- Manage data entry and maintain data accuracy.
- Manipulate and communicate quantitative recruitment data using Salesforce.
- Collaborate with teammates to analyze data, identifying problems and opportunities, and developing aligned solutions to drive campaign effectiveness.
Organize, prioritize, track, and manage workflow and resources for self and others
- Balance multiple projects at once, using internal resources to perform prioritized campaign responsibilities and ensure all deadlines are met.
- Organize and provide logistical coordination for recruitment events, information sessions, career fairs, and the visits of alumni and TFA staff.
- Provide administrative support including, but not limited to: conducting relevant research, managing teammates’ calendars, coordinating travel.
Education and Experience
- 0 to 2 years of professional experience
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
A strong RA candidate …
- Acts in alignment with Teach For America’s core values.
- Embodies a deep conviction around our mission to find, develop, and support a diverse network of leaders who expand opportunity for children from classrooms, schools, and every sector and field that shapes the broader systems in which schools operate.
- Deeply believes in the necessity of building a diverse coalition of people working toward educational equity and successfully builds relationships across multiple lines of difference.
- Is oriented around attaining ambitious, reasonable goals (both individual and collective), and has a track record of achievement.
- Has the desire and commitment to working behind-the-scenes and supporting a team. Feels equally satisfied by achieving goals both collaboratively and independently.
- Demonstrates extremely strong organizational skills, including detail-orientation, and is able to organize, prioritize, track and manage workflow/resources. Has the ability to strategically manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment.
- Can analyze multiple pieces of data and draw strong conclusions to impact strategy.
- Writes clearly and compellingly to influence action in others, both internally and externally.
- Learns, improves, adapts, and shifts seamlessly to evolving team needs and opportunities.