Director, Talent (Las Vegas)

Teach For America • Las Vegas, NV

229d • $74,300 - $99,300

About The Position

Teach For America Nevada seeks a Director, Talent who will drive key aspects of our recruitment campaign, deepen prospective applicant and stakeholder conviction about our work, and build awareness about TFA and the impactful opportunities that exist across Nevada. You will identify and cultivate diverse top talent to pursue joining TFA and empower our network of corps members, alumni and other influential leaders through layers of influence to build a large and effective corps. You will set a vision for and execute on high-impact project(s) and innovative approaches that improve our regional approach to recruitment and yield a larger corps size year over year. After our recruitment season is over you will shift to matching our alumni to high impact roles. You will build relationships with local organizations and TFA Nevada alumni, serve as a resource to help connect alumni with local opportunities, and help our alumni successfully find roles that align with their skills and aspirations for impact.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of relevant work experience related to recruitment and/or talent.
• Experience working in the field of education or related industries.
• Ability to influence and motivate prospective corps members and get them excited about our mission and our efforts in Nevada.
• Strong communication and project management skills and ability to lead and organize multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to develop and execute strategies and monitor progress to continuously improve outcomes.
• Experience working with database programs and software required (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Salesforce).
• Thinking outside of the box and ability to design and test out innovative approaches.
• Ability to travel locally and periodically outside of Nevada and work occasionally during evenings and weekends.
• Ability to build, strengthen, and sustain relationships with corps member, alumni, and key external stakeholders.
• Continuously strives for personal and professional growth, reflecting on experiences, seeking and incorporating feedback, and taking ownership of their development and success.
• Experience leveraging quantitative and qualitative data to make informed decisions, and record of taking initiative to operate in a grey space.

Nice To Haves

• Teach For America alumni preferred or experience as a teacher.
• Knowledge of the Nevada and Clark County education landscape.
• Strong network within the Nevada education ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with national recruitment team members and local staff to increase the number of admitted applicants to the Nevada region.
• Lead the design, execution, and operations for recruitment events or projects through planning, exemplary attention to detail, and benchmarking and tracking progress.
• Participate in various recruitment efforts, including both local and out of state events.
• Collaborate with others to evolve our approach to recruitment by contributing to the design of our national strategy and supplemental regional strategies.
• Design and lead new innovative approaches to help the region tap into new markets and pools of potential applicants.
• Assist with designing and implementing a regional matriculation and onboarding strategy to ensure that our admitted applicants successfully begin the school year.
• Support our alumni team to ensure TFA Nevada alumni are matched to local roles where they can continue to achieve impact.
• Build relationships with local organizations and track and monitor open roles that may be a good fit for our alumni.
• Create and implement communication systems to keep our alumni aware of professional opportunities.
• Serve as a resource for alumni looking for new roles.
• Set and monitor goals around alumni talent matching, including increasing the number of alumni in high impact roles that influence our education ecosystem.
• Support, attend, and participate in regional team activities, including corps member and alumni-facing events, staff meetings, functional team meetings and retreats, and more.
• Operate flexibly to lend skills and capacity to meet the needs of emerging projects or priorities as they arise.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Administration of Human Resource Programs
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree