Manager, Recruitment

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.
• You will play a key role in executing a targeted recruitment strategy, particularly in understanding the unique challenges and opportunities within partner regions’ educational landscapes.
• You will actively lead recruitment initiatives by serving as the external lead for events, cultivation meetings, campus engagement, and key partnerships at Morgan State University and Howard University.
• You will work closely with the RT and regional teams to identify opportunities, engage prospects, and support the development of strategies that resonate with local communities while aligning with TFA's mission.
• You will initiate new partnerships, deepen existing relationships, and chart a path forward for successful recruitment efforts across different communities.
• Co-leading campaigns in partnership with Recruitment Managers - Internal (RMI), you will make data-driven decisions and employ innovative strategies that accelerate our field recruitment efforts.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Set and execute recruitment strategy at targeted campuses across the state (15%).
• Develop and execute a recruitment strategy that strengthens and amplifies the overall campaign landscape across subsets of schools, driving success at individual campuses and laying the foundation for success in future recruitment efforts, specifically at HBCUs.
• Build strategy for stakeholder engagement and empower key influencers (alumni, corps members, campus ambassadors, etc.) to steward the TFA movement and promote a stronger organizational brand across the state.
• 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.
• Hire and manage part-time student employees to meet campaign objectives and build awareness of Teach For America and the issue of educational opportunity across various campuses.
• Source high-potential leaders and develop outreach strategies to connect them with Teach For America.
• Identify campaign levers to explore due to their potential for significant impact (ex. partnering more closely with the Career Services Office, prioritizing social impact summits, etc.).
• Tailor communication to different audiences, crafting compelling and engaging messages that resonate with candidates' motivations and interests.
• Initiate and nurture relationships with potential network partners and external stakeholders, deepening their understanding of Teach For America’s mission and reinforcing their commitment to the movement for educational opportunity.
• Plan and execute high-quality recruitment events and initiatives that support campaign goals and drive candidate engagement.
• Execute recruitment strategies to drive applications and steward candidates through the admissions process (35%).
• Leverage 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 and maintain strong, individualized relationships with prospective candidates, tailoring cultivation strategies to their personal backgrounds and experiences to ensure they complete the application process, confirm their commitment to joining the corps, and deepen their understanding of access to educational opportunity.
• Guide candidates through the admissions process, ensuring their continued investment in the organization’s mission and their readiness to contribute to systemic change.
• Lead across the movement (15%).
• 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.
• Responsible steward available resources through consistent compliance with all employee policies and expectations.

Experience

• Prior Experience: At least 2 years of professional experience.
• Teach For America alumni and/or experience working in low-income schools strongly preferred.
• Prior recruitment experience at HBCUs preferred.
• A strong candidate is proficient in planning, execution, and strategy design, thriving on creating and leading key initiatives (such as in-person events and campus partnerships) that attract top prospects to Teach For America.
• Exceptionally detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously while maintaining high-quality results.
• Skilled at building and nurturing relationships, particularly across different groups, to foster strong partnerships and achieve meaningful outcomes.
• Able to communicate clearly and persuasively in a variety of settings, whether one-on-one, in small groups, or at large-scale events; can effectively tailor messaging to engage and inspire different audiences.
• Continuously striving for personal and professional growth, reflecting on experiences, seeking feedback, incorporating it quickly, and taking ownership of their development and success.

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.