Manager, Recruitment

ROLE: Manager, Recruitment (Ohio)

POSITION REPORTS TO: Executive Director, Ohio

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, June 9, 2025 at noon ET

LOCATION: Ohio (statewide, but preference for Cincinnati, Cleveland, or Columbus)

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Teach For America (TFA) is seeking a dynamic Recruitment Manager to help lead our efforts in Ohio and Northern Kentucky by attracting outstanding leaders to join our corps and advance educational opportunities in the region. Ohio/NKY corps members serve thousands of students across the state, and this role will be instrumental in deepening our presence and partnerships with key campuses and mission-aligned organizations across the area.

As Manager, Recruitment, you will build and execute targeted outreach strategies to source and cultivate top talent, manage a calendar of high-impact events and meetings, and work closely with regional and national staff to align efforts across our Midwest Recruitment Hub. You will build brand awareness and execute community-based recruitment initiatives that reflect the needs and stories of local communities in the region.

The ideal candidate is deeply connected to the Ohio/NKY region, thrives in collaborative environments, and is passionate about recruiting an inclusive and committed corps. You’re a relationship-builder, strategic thinker, and strong communicator who is eager to represent the TFA mission to a wide variety of audiences, from student leaders and faculty to nonprofit partners and prospective corps members.

This is an externally facing role and will require travel throughout Ohio and Northern Kentucky. You’ll receive coaching, professional development, and support to help you grow in your work and maximize your impact in one of the most critical regions in our network.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Primary responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: 

Set and Execute Recruitment Strategy Across Ohio/NKY (15%)

• Design and implement a recruitment strategy that strengthens TFA’s presence at Ohio and Northern Kentucky colleges and universities and community-based organizations.

• Identify and execute branding opportunities and campaigns (both on-campus and virtually) that elevate TFA’s visibility and message with relevant audiences.

• Build partnerships with stakeholders (e.g., alumni, faculty, student organizations, nonprofits) to mobilize them as advocates of TFA’s mission and support local campaign success.

• Leverage data tools like Salesforce and PowerBI to evaluate outcomes, identify gaps, and continuously improve strategy.

Identify and Cultivate High-Potential Candidates (35%)

• Source and engage top local talent to apply to the corps through proactive outreach and stakeholder referrals.

• Customize messaging and outreach strategies based on candidates’ motivations, experiences, and context.

• Execute high-quality recruitment events, presentations, and 1:1 meetings that inspire investment and deepen understanding of educational excellence and opportunity for all.

Steward Candidates Through the Admissions Process (35%)

• Serve as a trusted guide for candidates throughout their application journey, using personalized follow-up and cultivation touchpoints.

• Collaborate with teammates across the Midwest Recruitment Hub to ensure candidates receive seamless support from interest to confirmation.

• Utilize stories, data, and mission-aligned messaging to help candidates understand the impact they can make through TFA.

Lead and Contribute to Broader Team Goals (15%)

• Participate in both regional and Midwest Hub team meetings, trainings, and collective priorities.

• Support team operations and local initiatives including Ignite or alumni events, data entry, interview support, and matriculation planning.

• Actively engage in cross-team collaboration and foster a culture of belonging, learning, and results.

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

As the Manager, Recruitment, your week may include traveling to a university in Cincinnati for a partnership meeting with campus faculty, hosting a career panel with alumni virtually, tabling at a nonprofit fair in Northern Kentucky, and hopping on the phone to coach prospective candidates through their final application steps. You'll be organizing events, gathering data, building authentic relationships, and making the case for why top leaders should join the movement for educational excellence and opportunity right here in Ohio and Northern Kentucky.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

Prior Experience

• Teach For America alumni or former staff member preferred

• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience (prior recruitment experience preferred)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Passion for access to educational excellence and a deep commitment to advancing opportunity across Ohio and Northern Kentucky

• Strong strategic planning and execution skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and campaigns simultaneously

• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills; able to connect and build trust across lines of difference

• Clear, engaging communicator (verbally and in writing); able to tailor messages for diverse audiences

• Ability to reflect, receive feedback, and take ownership of personal and professional growth

• Comfort navigating both in-person and virtual spaces across geographies and organizations

• Familiarity with Ohio/NKY higher education or nonprofit landscape is strongly preferred

WORK DEMANDS

• Frequent regional travel required. This ranges from week to week, based on the strategy or needs of the time.             

• Ability to lift and transport materials (up to 20 lbs) to recruitment events

• Occasional evening and weekend work required

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

Teach For America Ohio/ NKY corps members reach nearly 6,000 students across the state.  Additionally, over 1,000 alumni are working from all sectors to achieve educational excellence and opportunity for all. Regional staff members work to train and support corps members, continually strengthen relationships with local schools and districts, foster the leadership of local alumni, and grow the regional funding base and community partnerships to guarantee that Teach For America Ohio can build a sustainable movement to reach the day when every child in the region has access to an excellent education. To realize this vision in our lifetime, we know that we must accelerate the impact of TFA’s network to work towards implementing and sustaining progress in education and other sectors that most shape the outcomes of our students. Our unique value add as Teach For America is to be the premier talent recruiters, matchers, and developers to our local community of fellow education leaders as we collaborate toward this vision.
 

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 starting salary range for this role is set forth below. This range may be modified in the future:

• Tier A (Ohio): $61,300 to $82,000

NEXT STEPS

In lieu of a cover letter, please respond to this prompt in 1–2 typed pages and share with [email protected]:

Prompt:

Our most successful Recruitment Managers have demonstrated strong achievement in their professional experience. Please describe the most ambitious goal you’ve ever set and achieved, and what actions you took to attain it. How did you engage others to help you reach this goal? What challenges, if any, did you face?

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 different 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