Teach For America seeks Recruitment Associates (RAs) who will lead operational, technical, and strategic functions to build movements for educational equity amongst communities of leaders across our country. As a Recruitment Associate, you 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 engage a pipeline of diverse leaders in order to build successful TFA corps recruitment campaigns
- ‘Source’ (identify and track) a diverse and competitive pipeline of 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 prospect meetings for recruitment managers and campus visitors such as corps members or alumni.
- Alongside Recruitment Managers, devise and execute strategies to engage prospects and drive interest in applying to Teach For America through a variety of channels and processes 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 impact campaign strategy
- Manage data entry and maintain data accuracy.
- Manipulate and communicate quantitative recruitment data using Salesforce.
- Work with Recruitment Managers and Directors to analyze data to identify problems and opportunities, and develop aligned solutions.
Organize, prioritize, track, and manage workflow and resources for self and others
- Lead or support (depending on context) the design and execution of a plan for reaching goals and strategies by prioritizing, sequencing and distributing the work among teammates.
- Balance multiple projects at once, leveraging the use of 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.
Experience
- Teach For America alumni preferred
- 0 to 4 years of professional experience
- Experience working with database programs and software preferred (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Salesforce)
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Embodies deep conviction around Teach For America’s mission and Theory of Change and exemplifies TFA’s core values. Holds deep belief that educational inequity is a massive, urgent injustice, TFA plays a crucial role in long-term fight for change, and that we need to enlist as many outstanding, diverse leaders as we can to join the corps.
- 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 strong track record of achievement.
- Desire and commitment to working behind-the-scenes and supporting a team. Equally satisfied in achieving goals collaboratively and independently
- Extremely strong organizational skills including detail-orientation. Able to organize, prioritize, track and manage workflow/resources. Ability to strategically manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment.
- Ability to analyze multiple pieces of data and draw strong conclusions to impact strategy
- Communicates (especially in writing) exceptionally clearly and compellingly to influence action in others, both internal and external.
- Learns, improves, adapts, and shifts seamlessly to evolving team needs and opportunities.
- Proactive about trying to get better at whatever they do; reflect on successes/failures, seek feedback, incorporate feedback immediately to improve, ask for the help or resources they need to be successful, and assume personal responsibility
- Demonstrates ability and motivation to build community and team, virtually and in-person
Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included.
We are currently looking for a Recruitment Associate to be based in the Central Timezone.