Talent Recruiter + Special Projects

ROLE TITLE: Talent Recruiter and Special Projects (Temporary: January 2- May 31, 2024)

POSITION REPORTS TO: Vice President, Talent Mobility, Acquisition, and Total Rewards

LOCATION: Home office, flexible

RATE: $27 per hour

WHAT YOU’LL DO

At Teach For America, we are inspired by a single mission – one day, all children will have access to an excellent education. In pursuit of that mission, we are looking for a Talent Recruiter + Special Projects to support the dynamic needs of our rapidly transforming organization by ensuring high impact, equity oriented, diverse talent is in the right role at the right time. You will be recruiting for a wide portfolio of professional level job profiles, spanning a variety of core disciplines and geographies.

This role requires a people first, customer-service, and solutions orientation and an unwavering focus on the details. The ideal candidate:

Is an Impact Player with a strong ability to learn and adapt to change Is a self starter with a high degree of personal motivation and independence Is comfortable in a direct, feedback- and results-oriented culture Thrives in an ambiguous, evolving environment Has a hard-to-match level of hustle, grit, and perseverance

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

You’re responsible for finding and guiding candidates through our hiring process and connecting them to the magic of working at TFA. You are creative, innovative, and driven, which allows you to develop lasting relationships with both candidates and hiring managers. You’re also comfortable with numbers and drawing insights from analytics to make our hiring process smarter and more efficient.

Talent Recruitment

• Manage full lifecycle recruiting processes including developing the recruitment strategy and sourcing, qualifying, and closing candidates.
• Champion the candidate, be their advocate, and create an authentic candidate experience by setting clear expectations and corresponding to them in a timely manner
• Create a culture of recruiting where hiring teams are knowledgeable about interviewing and recruiting best practices through training and coaching
• Champion inclusion and diversity in the recruitment process to drive equitable results
• Identify opportunities and recommend solutions for process improvement based on trends and best practices

Maintain agile working habits that allow for the emergent needs across Teach For America

• Manage ad-hoc and special projects as they arise, providing project-management capacity to the Talent Mobility, Acquisition, and Total Rewards team.
• Flow to support Talent Mobility, Acquisition, and Total Rewards teammates when capacity needs present (eg. unexpected vacancy, leave, urgent needs that arise)
• Demonstrate strong flexibility and prioritization when assessing team needs and supporting decisions about your work and time allocations
• Assess and adjust your time allocation and talent flow to ensure prioritized projects have the capacity, resources, and support needed to grow

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

As a member of the People Team, you can expect that every week will be just a bit different; there is no one “week in the life!” Given the specific projects you may be working on, whether team-specific or enterprise-wide, you’ll be spending your time finding high impact talent, executing, problem-solving, and project managing. You can also expect to collaborate closely and frequently with other teams.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

• Recruitment experience with expertise in Education, Nonprofits, or high-tech.
• You build rapport quickly, get your energy from seeking to understand the perspectives of your partners and prospects and leverage those insights to connect them to people and experiences aligned with their interests and needs;
• You are adaptable and motivated to provide great customer service – to prospects, applicants, and hiring managers.
• You communicate clearly and you are comfortable working across lines of difference.
• You are an exceptional project manager and excel at adapting existing systems and/or creating new ones.
• You are a curious problem solver. You are comfortable and nimble in backwards planning, assessing progress and course correcting as the road map changes.
• You are hungry to learn and grow. You’re excited by the opportunity to navigate a new recruitment space, and changing hiring landscapes. You seek strategic opportunities for your own professional development and encourage others to do the same. You are especially excited to become an expert in networking and sourcing strategies.
• You exemplify our core values and you know better work is done when informed by a range of perspectives.
• You take personal responsibility for your work and are solutions-oriented.
• You have set and reached ambitious goals in your current role.
• You have exceptional judgment and integrity in your work with all of your current stakeholders.
• You are an innovator who anticipates and seizes opportunities to refine strategies and processes.

To perform the job successfully, candidates will need to demonstrate the following:

Equity Focus: You use an equity-conscious lens, language, and tools to drive our work internally and externally. You understand how identity, power, white conditioning and privilege impacts lived experiences of an individual (including yourself), structures, and institutions. You possess the courage, inclination, AND skill-set to speak up/interrupt oppressive situations/structures/power dynamics moments because you recognize inequity and act accordingly. You take on a heavier burden of speaking up when your identity is in the mainstream.

Results-Driven: You are focused on outcomes (both quantitative and qualitative). You hold yourself and others to agreed-upon standards and you clearly define what it is you are trying to accomplish with a deliverable or contribution to the work/project. You develop and execute a strategic pathway forward so that you can deliver high-quality short-term results/deliverables and build capacity for longer term results.

Culture Keeper: You build relationships with colleagues demonstrating curiosity about others’ background and perspectives. You express interest in the team’s well-being and care. You leverage and celebrate differences. People who know you and work with you feel valued and respected. You accept and support your teammates in all of their humanity. You strive for the collective best, you see yourself as part of a team and recognize your impact on that team with a sense of possibility, adaptability, and optimism, as well as with responsibility. You feel a degree of ownership for the success of the team and the organization, and not just for your own success.

Feedback: You bring a growth mindset and curiosity to giving and receiving feedback. You offer honest, actionable, and timely feedback through the appropriate channels specific to the work or deliverable expectations using an equity-conscious lens. You strive to internalize and incorporate developmental feedback and ask questions to seek clarity when needed. You actively seek out and receive feedback from others when appropriate with the intent of growing professionally and enhancing work products.

Adaptability: You approach new ideas, changes in work, or challenges with a sense of possibility and a solutions-based attitude. You have the ability to adapt to various working and management styles. You have the ability to tailor approaches to projects across multiple types of natural tensions, including: speed vs. quality, repeat/copy-paste vs. customization, and physical deliverable vs facilitation. You develop innovative solutions when challenges arise.

Self-Awareness: You know where your skills are strong, where you need resources and support, and you actively seek to understand these things. You possess an awareness of your own feelings, thoughts, and behaviors and their impact on others and work to positively impact others/mitigate harmful impact. You know where the boundaries of your experiences and vantage points are and you acknowledge that you have limits to what you can see. You know when to pull back vs. lean in in various settings. You demonstrate humility. You have the ability to both voice and navigate tensions with colleagues related to things like bandwidth, availability, and accessibility.

Communication: You communicate in a way that is accessible. You differentiate your communication style based on the audience and situation to have the greatest impact. You are able to distill and communicate complex information in a way that moves the work and/or team forward. You are able to clearly, proactively, and consistently articulate your ideas and document them when necessary.

Integrity: You demonstrate a high level of integrity, trust, and accountability