Recruitment Managers (RMs) grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity by compelling top leaders to join the Teach For America corps. As a Recruitment Manager, you will create visions and lead strategic plans for your campaigns, identify and cultivate diverse top prospects to act, and inspire a broad network of constituents to build a large, diverse, and talented corps. You will be on the front lines of the Recruitment Team’s undeniably consequential work, fueling TFA’s Theory of Change and the broader movement for social equity across 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.
Set bold vision and direction for your ambitious campaign to find and inspire extraordinary, diverse future leaders - people who have massive leadership potential and are on a trajectory to be leaders and influencers in our society - to become Teach For America corps members and join the movement for educational equity.
- Analyze the recruitment landscape to clearly articulate a vision for the long term success of a recruitment campaign on a college campus or within a professional portfolio
- Set and define strategy to achieve goals for outcomes tailored to college or professional cohort
- Design the communication, engagement, and marketing strategies for your college campuses or for professional cohort, utilizing internal resources
Build strong relationships and networks - both internally and externally - to advance your recruitment campaign. Influence candidates, external stakeholders, and internal partners to achieve bold outcomes.
- Identify and influence diverse leaders to apply to and join Teach For America.
- Communicate through multiple channels with diverse audiences to deliver a compelling, engaging message tailored to their motivations and interests.
- Use recruitment team messaging and resources to inspire candidates and build their long-term commitment to the movement for educational equity
- Effectively plan and execute events in pursuit of recruitment campaign outcomes.
- Strategically engage the Teach For America community (corps members, alumni, staff) to support broader campaign vision and build candidate conviction.
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in your campus, partner organizations, and/or professional community in your recruitment campaign to maximize outreach efforts and promote a stronger organizational brand (e.g., administrators, faculty members, career service representatives, advisors, presidents of organizations, etc).
- <For campus-based RMs> Hire and manage part-time student employees to meet objectives, and build awareness of Teach For America and the issue of educational inequity across the campus.
Work across teams to plan, execute, and improve strategy, using data-based tools to identify gaps, patterns, and opportunities within campaigns and develop solutions to achieve outcomes.
- Timely and accurately input and utilize data to ensure consistency and relevancy in reporting the progress of your campaign.
- Analyze data and trends associated with your campaign, leveraging relevant data to identify opportunities or challenges.
- Solve for problems through analysis and strategic reasoning, prioritizing choices and actions that matter and taking into account ambiguity and time considerations.
- Partner with Recruitment Associates, Managing Directors, and other internal teams to address challenges in planning and execution in planning and execution and make appropriate decisions to optimize your campaign’s success.
Education and Experience
- Teach For America alumni strongly preferred
- At least 2 to 5 years of professional experience
Work Demands
- Travel to Recruitment Team conferences required (1-2 times per quarter)
- Other travel depends on the specific recruitment portfolio, ranging from very infrequent to 3-4 times per month.
- Some evening and weekend work expected.
- Depending on the specific recruitment portfolio, some positions require a valid driver’s license or the ability to obtain one before the first day of employment with no major driving violations in the last three years.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
A strong RM 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 strong track record of achievement.
- Communicates clearly and compellingly (both verbally and written) across lines of difference and in multiple contexts - 1:1, small groups, large audiences.
- Is a natural networker, adept at developing and cultivating relationships and networks, especially across lines of difference, in order to achieve results.
- Maintains honesty, optimism, and clarity in times of conflict, tension, and disagreement.
- Thinks strategically, using data to make timely and informed decisions to prioritize actions that matter and have the greatest impact on campaign effectiveness.
- Always seeks to grow and improve - reflects on successes/failures, seeks feedback, incorporates feedback immediately to improve, asks for the help or resources they need to be successful, and assumes personal responsibility.
- Demonstrates ability and motivation to build community and team, virtually and in-person.
- Thrives in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, diverse, results-oriented environment.