Manager, Recruitment (Memphis)

TEAM: Recruitment Team (RT)

POSITION REPORTS TO: Senior Managing Director, Recruitment

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 9th, 2024 at 11:59pm EST

LOCATION: Memphis, TN

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Recruitment Managers (RMs) grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity by compelling top leaders to join the Teach For America corps and our Ignite tutoring fellowship program. As a Recruitment Manager, you will execute strategic plans for your campaigns, identify and cultivate diverse top prospects to pursue TFA, and inspire a broad network of constituents to build a large, diverse, and talented corps. This particular role will be charged with actively executing our recruitment strategy throughout the Memphis region by serving as the external lead for events, cultivation meetings, campus engagement, and strengthening key partnerships.

As a Recruitment Manager, you will work closely with recruitment colleagues to execute engaging cultivation strategies across pools of undergraduate and graduate students and other key stakeholders. You will analyze data, build relationships, engage partners, and execute on other innovative strategies to accelerate field recruitment outcomes, supporting the recruitment team’s vision of fostering the next generation of corps members in pursuit of educational inequity.

As a Recruitment Manager, you will be on the front lines of the Recruitment Team’s (RT) undeniably consequential work, fueling Teach For America’s Theory of Change and the broader movement for social equity across the nation. Aligned with the RT’s deep conviction around leadership, you will receive extensive training, ongoing coaching, and professional development to innovate and achieve success.

The RT keeps equity at the center of our work, as we believe it is essential to assemble a diverse team of recruiters in order to build the most diverse and impactful corps each year, and we recognize the stakes and urgency behind doing so. Students of color should have access to teachers who reflect their backgrounds, and we aim to find, cultivate, and develop those teachers to lead in these classrooms, as well as lead systems change, across the country. Additionally, all recruiters consistently engage in personal and professional growth in order to more meaningfully live out our Commitment to DEI, and continue to receive coaching and development to build a stronger lens for equity in all aspects of recruitment work, including pipeline building, communication strategies, team-wide collaboration, and hiring practices.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Recruitment Managers take on the following responsibilities:

• Set, internalize, and communicate bold visions and directions for each campaign’s recruitment strategy.

• Build strategy for stakeholder engagement and empower key influencers (alumni, corps members, etc.) to steward the TFA movement and promote a stronger organizational brand within campuses or markets.

• Maneuver within our agile team structure and making strong decisions in order to achieve your goals, influencing and laterally managing the impact of all members involved in Memphis recruitment.

• 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.

• Apply a racial equity lens to analyzing relevant data (e.g., disaggregate data by race, critically examine issues for biases and inequities, center the voices and lived experiences of BIPOC staff members) in order to develop strategies that eliminate racial inequities and inform the strategic direction of campaigns, pilots and other initiatives.

• Identify campaign levers to explore due to their potential for significant impact (e.g. partnering more closely with the Career Services Office, prioritizing social impact summits, etc.)

• Initiate relationships with potential network partners and external stakeholders, deepening their knowledge of the Teach For America mission and reinforcing their commitment to the movement for educational equity.

• Leverage these stakeholders and work alongside colleagues to plan and execute high-quality events, conduct individual meetings, and utilize other strategies to compel prospective corps members to join Teach For America. 

• Build strong relationships with prospects and individualize on-going cultivation strategies based on the individual’s experience and background to ensure they complete the application process, confirm their acceptance into the corps, deepen their understanding of the root issues of educational inequity in the country, and continue building conviction and investment in the organizational mission.

• Communicate through multiple channels with diverse audiences to deliver a compelling, engaging message tailored to their motivations and interests.

• Effectively plan and support the execution of events and other initiatives in pursuit of recruitment campaign outcomes.

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

Weeks vary based on context and needs of the campaign. Every week, a Recruitment Manager will spend time engaging with various stakeholders, including prospects and network partners. They will conduct direct outreach and partner with student and campus organizations across each university where they recruit. They will meet with their direct managers and other recruiters to review and analyze data and collaborate on the next steps for their campaigns. They will also strategically seek out and use various levers to improve Teach For America’s overall brand on each campus. 

YOUR EXPERIENCE

Prior Experience

• Teach For America alumni and/or experience working in low-income schools strongly preferred

• At least 2 to 5 years of professional experience

• Close personal connection to the Memphis community preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrates strengths in operating, planning, and execution, and gets energy from the design and execution of key recruitment strategies (e.g. events, meetings, career fairs, etc.) to draw prospects towards Teach For America.

• Naturally builds relationships and is particularly adept at developing and cultivating partnerships and networks, especially across lines of difference, in order to achieve results.

• Verbally communicates thoughts and ideas clearly and succinctly, often in a way that captures the attention of the intended audience. They can modify their approach to fit 1:1 meetings, small group discussions, or larger, full-scale events.

• Demonstrates strong interpersonal awareness and deep listening skills to build an informed hypothesis of a potential partner’s motivations and barriers.

• Always seeks to grow and improve. They 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.

• Proactively engages in individual and collective Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) growth, building context, knowledge and skills to inform a personal vision for development and aligned action steps.

• Enjoys building strong working relationships and maintaining open, two-way communication with colleagues (within this role, key stakeholders include other recruiters and regional staff).

• Skilled at identifying opportunities and barriers within a given strategy; can work with agility to adjust strategy from week to week in order to achieve overarching team goals.

Requirements

• Regular campus travel is required, which may include overnight depending on location

• Some evening and weekend work is expected

• Must be located in Memphis

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

Teach For America’s Recruitment Team (RT) is charged with recruiting a high-quality, diverse, and large corps and cohort of Ignite Fellows that fuel the broader movement towards educational equity across our placement regions. In this pursuit, the Recruitment Team engages with leaders across college campuses and professional career sectors to discuss the challenges of educational inequity in the nation and inspire them to choose Teach For America as a means of expanding opportunities for kids and building a long-term commitment to social equity.. The RT seeks to ensure all team-wide actions and initiatives reflect this lens of equity, and ultimately support team members to lean into their own strengths and passions as they seek to build a truly diverse corps.

YOUR COMPENSATION

The applicable salary range for each U.S.-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers according to a cost of labor index in that geographic area. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role. The expected salary range for this role are set forth below. This range may be modified in the future.

• Tier A: $61,300 to $82,000

You can see which Tier you belong to here. If you do not see your location listed, click here for additional total rewards information.

NEXT STEPS

In lieu of a Cover Letter, please respond to this prompt in 1-2 typed pages and add to your application and/or share with [email protected]:

Our most successful Recruitment Managers (RMs) have demonstrated strong achievement in their professional experience prior to taking on the RM position. Please describe the most ambitious goal you have ever set and achieved, and what actions you took to attain it. How did you engage others, if at all, to reach this goal? What challenges, if any, did you encounter while working towards your goal?

Your response should include all of the following:

• A professional experience supporting/leading a small group, large group, or complex project

• Explicitly state the goal you were working towards

• The action steps you took to achieve this goal

• How you involved diverse perspectives and/or invested partners (e.g. colleagues, administration, parents, etc.) to help you to achieve this goal

• Quantitative results that demonstrate your impact AND

• Qualitative results that demonstrate your impact

We have provided some “sentence starters” below to help guide your thinking. You can choose to leverage these sentences as you write your reflections, or you can write something entirely different! Both methods are encouraged: we want to get the most accurate information about your record of results as possible.

• At the beginning of the year, I set a classroom goal of X

• I set this/these goal(s) because of

• We achieved . I know this because of .

• In addition to quantitative targets, I set a qualitative goal(s) of X