Manager, Recruitment

ROLE TITLE: Manager, Recruitment

POSITION REPORTS TO: Managing Director, Recruitment

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 27th, 2026 at 11:59pm ET

LOCATION: EST, CST, or MST

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Teach For America (TFA) is seeking a dynamic Recruitment Manager to help drive the movement for educational opportunity by attracting top leaders to join the TFA corps. This role is crucial in addressing long standing educational challenges in the country by engaging top leaders who are committed to teaching and leading change. As a Recruitment Manager, Internal (RMI), you will play a pivotal role in executing high-impact strategies that attract and engage top-tier candidates, connecting with talent pools, and inspiring a broad network of advocates to build a high-caliber corps.

As a Recruitment Manager, Internal, on the Emerging Campus and Professional Recruitment Team (ECP) you will execute strategic plans for your campaigns, identify and connect with diverse top prospects to pursue TFA, and inspire a broad network of constituents to build a large, diverse, and talented corps. 

Collaborating closely with Recruitment Managers, External (RME), you will lead innovative strategies for high volume applicant management,  lead generation, and outreach across undergraduate and professional pools. You will analyze data, build pipelines, and execute on other innovative strategies to accelerate field recruitment outcomes. You will contribute to the broader vision for ECP connect, create outreach systems, develop resources, and operationalize campaigns for ECP pipeline prioritization and execution within professional and emerging markets. 

The ideal candidate loves to collaborate with others. They have exceptional writing, communication and organizational skills. They demonstrate excitement around building and executing a long-term strategy for both college senior and professional markets. They demonstrate strong adaptability and can modify their approach to fit different settings and ensure their messages and strategies are tailored to audience and markets. 

As a Recruitment Manager, you will be on the front lines of Teach For America’s most consequential work, driving the broader movement for educational excellence and opportunity. You will receive robust training, ongoing coaching, and professional development to hone your leadership and innovation skills, ensuring you have the tools to succeed and help us reach new heights in our mission.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Set campaign vision and direction (15%)

• Contribute to the vision for ECP connect, create outreach systems, develop resources, and operationalize campaigns for ECP pipeline prioritization and execution within professional and emerging markets

• Help inform team strategy to achieve recruitment goals for emerging and professional markets.

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

Build relationships and networks (15%)

• Navigate within an agile team structure, making decisive choices to drive results and influencing peers across various teams to maximize collective impact

• Communicate across multiple channels to engage different audiences, delivering compelling, customized messages that resonate with their motivations and interests, and inspiring action toward the TFA mission.

• Build and nurture relationships with potential network partners and external stakeholders, expanding their understanding of Teach For America’s mission and strengthening their commitment to educational opportunity.

Execute campaign outreach (40%)

• Source and connect leaders with Teach For America by identifying strong prospects and tailoring outreach through multiple channels to match their values and potential fit with the organization’s mission. 

• Engage in regular data analysis to make prioritization decisions and adjustments for emerging and professional segments. Leverage routine analysis of interview invited and pass thru rates of the market segments to adjust connect prioritization and support applicant conversion and interview completion-rates for met and unmet pipelines. 

• Design and execute Handshake and LinkedIn campaigns in partnership with regional teams to generate leads for regions and prioritized universities. 

• Execute consistent follow up from REMI leads nurture and sourcing/prioritization from new leads generated. 

• Steward unmet competitive pipeline/not prioritized pipeline throughout recruitment funnel via touch points, resources, activate fellows, and virtual events. 

• Plan, promote and execute recruitment events and initiatives, ensuring alignment with campaign goals and driving tangible progress in recruitment efforts.

• Conduct pipeline quality and volume checks cross recruiter campaigns smoothing of pipelines/comb ups as needed.

Make data-driven decisions (20%)

• Collaborate across teams to design, implement, and refine strategies, using data-driven tools to uncover gaps, patterns, and opportunities within campaigns. Develop targeted solutions to optimize outcomes and accelerate progress toward goals.

• Conduct routine analysis of progress to goals and outcomes for connect campaigns including leads acquisition, reg/app management, and applicant stewardship once invited to interview

• Assess the viability of talent pipelines and making adjustments as needed to ensure smooth flow of a competitive group of candidates through the recruitment process.

Lead across the movement (10%)

• Actively participate in all organizational commitments, including selection, confirmation, RT-wide events, and team meetings to foster a sense of community and shared purpose.

• Stay deeply informed about the educational landscape of partner regions, including local news, regional happenings, and community needs, using this context to guide meaningful conversations with prospects and stakeholders.

• Adapt to the changing needs of the team, region, or organization, supporting various initiatives as needed

• Responsibly steward available resources through consistent compliance with all employee policies and expectations

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

The weekly responsibilities of a Recruitment Manager - Internal (RMI), will vary depending on the specific needs and context of the campaign. Each week, you will dedicate time to refining and optimizing the recruitment pipeline, drafting and sending personalized outreach emails and follow-ups to potential candidates, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of data within our internal CRM. You will proactively identify and leverage strategic opportunities to bring in new leads for both the professional and college senior markets. You will collaborate closely with your direct manager and partner Recruitment Managers - External (RME), to review and analyze campaign data, adjust strategies, and determine next steps. 

YOUR EXPERIENCE
Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role (minimum qualifications):

  
Prior Experience

• At least 2 years of professional experience

• At least 6 months of recruitment sourcing or inside sales experience

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

• ECP experience is strongly preferred, especially in terms of understanding the ECP market contexts, generating leads via Handshake and LinkedIn, high volume registrant and applicant management systems, and hybrid campaign tactics. 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

A strong candidate;

• Demonstrates strengths in operating, planning, and execution, and gets energy from the design of key recruitment strategies (ex. virtual event invitations and follow ups, engaging Activate Fellows, leveraging partnerships, Handshake/LinkedIn sends) to draw prospects towards Teach For America.

• Thrives in behind-the-scenes strategy development, creating tailored, targeted engagements and actions that align with campaign objectives and drive results.

• Exhibits exceptional attention to detail while efficiently managing high volumes of work and balancing multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring deadlines and quality standards are consistently met.

• Committed to continuous growth and improvement. Actively reflects on successes and challenges, seeks constructive feedback, integrates it quickly to enhance performance, and takes ownership of personal development by requesting the necessary resources to succeed.

• Enjoys building strong working relationships and maintaining open, two-way communication with colleagues (within this role, key stakeholders include early career and professionals team leads, external recruiters, fellow internal recruiters, and regional staff).

• Proactively identifies both opportunities and obstacles within strategies, working with flexibility and agility to pivot and adjust tactics week to week in pursuit of overarching team goals.

Work Demands

• Periodic travel may be required  

• Some evening and weekend work is expected

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

Teach For America’s Recruitment Team (RT) is charged with recruiting a high-quality and large corps that fuels the broader movement towards educational excellence and opportunity 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 excellence and opportunity in the nation and inspires them to choose the corps as a means of expanding opportunities for kids and developing a long-term commitment to the movement. 

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 ranges for this role are set forth below. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Tier A: $61,300 to $82,000 

• Tier B: $66,800 to $89,400

• Tier C: $72,300 to $96,700

You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here.

NEXT STEPS

If you think you’d be a good fit for this role, prepare a response to the following prompt in 750 words or less. You’ll submit your response in lieu of a cover letter along with your resume when you apply via Workday.

Initial Application Prompt:

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 different perspectives and/or invested partners (ex. colleagues, administration, parents, community members, 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