Director, National Recruitment

Teach For America • Bentonville, AR

2d • $74,300 - $131,300 • Remote

About The Position

The Director, National Recruitment works across nationwide recruitment campaigns to help the Recruitment Team meet corps and early talent recruitment goals. The National Team deploys recruitment capacity where it can have the greatest impact, including in response to team transitions, vacancies, and high-potential opportunities. The Director steps into different teams and recruitment contexts, builds relationships with campaign leads and teammates, learns campaign strategies and goals, and carries out high-quality recruitment work that drives results.

The Director also contributes to initiatives that strengthen the Recruitment Team, such as learning and development, communities of practice, staff hiring, team culture and communications, national events, and other high-impact projects. The position is remote, with travel required for some recruitment campaigns as needed. The role offers opportunities to work across campaigns, strategies, teams, and challenges while expanding recruitment leadership skills.

Requirements

• Current or former experience as a Teach For America recruiter.
• Exceptional recruitment skills and a deep commitment to recruitment craft, including understanding recruitment strategy, moving prospects to action, building effective execution systems, and demonstrating campaign results.
• Strong relationship-building, partnership, credibility-building, networking, and cross-team collaboration skills.
• A strong learning orientation and comfort with ambiguity, including the ability to learn quickly and adapt across new workstreams, teams, and recruitment contexts.
• Deep alignment with Teach For America’s core values, particularly Achieve Impact.
• Strong judgment and autonomy, including the ability to assess situations, identify where to have the greatest impact, and choose strategies likely to drive results.
• Willingness and ability to travel as needed for recruitment campaigns.

Nice To Haves

• The strongest applicants will bring exceptional recruitment skill and a deep commitment to recruitment craft, strong relationship-building and partnership skills, a strong learning orientation and comfort with ambiguity, deep alignment with core values (particularly Achieve Impact), and strong judgment and autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead strategic recruitment campaigns addressing vacancies and exits across the Recruitment Team and Admissions Team, including Emerging Campus and Professionals, Early Talent, campus recruitment, and matriculation.
• Build productive partnerships and trust with internal stakeholders, including team leads, pod members, and hub members, to collaborate effectively and meet campaign outcomes.
• Execute core recruitment strategies and Recruitment Team messaging, including prospect connection, prospect cultivation, and influencer stakeholder engagement.
• Contribute capacity to central Recruitment Team workstreams such as communications, coaching, learning and development, national events, and staff hiring.
• Lead or support projects and initiatives that strengthen teamwide learning, strategy, and performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed