Overview

Company Description

Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit network of high-performing, public charter schools providing an outstanding K-12 education in historically under-resourced communities. We have proudly built schools that reflect our student population, with more than 60% of our teachers and staff across our network identifying as a person of color. Uncommon currently manages 53 schools serving more than 20,000 students in five cities: Boston, Camden, New York City, Newark, and Rochester. We are proud that Uncommon graduates persist in and graduate from college at five times the rate of their peers nationally. We achieve this by offering strong academic, co-curricular, and social-emotional learning that prepares students for success in college and beyond.

Job Description

This Associate Manager, Talent Recruitment will serve as the Brooklyn Outreach Lead on the Talent Recruitment team; establishing the regional outreach strategy, vision, and goals with support from the Director of Outreach. They are responsible for developing and training 2 recruiters as well as leading regional external recruitment initiatives (Uncommon Institute, Hiring Fairs, Open Houses, Information Sessions, PDs, etc.), formalizing local/national partnerships, and supporting the development of regional marketing strategies for school-based openings. They will lead all aspects of regional recruitment strategies to source high-quality, diverse talent from local colleges/universities, mission-aligned organizations, and career partners (FLI, BASTA, POSSE, Girls Who Code). Additionally, they will collaborate with the Director of Outreach to implement portions of Recruitment’s strategic plan (growing USI alumni engagement, developing an HBCU and HSI campus-specific strategy, developing content-specific national partnerships, and crafting an internal substitute and student-teacher pipeline).

Core Duties and Responsibilities

  • Leads Brooklyn outreach (planning, vision, and goals) for sourcing instructional, operations, and leadership staff
  • Serves as the Brooklyn Outreach expert, crafting a regional talent recruitment strategy and encouraging a positive regional culture with school leaders. (ASUPs, Principals, and DOOs.)
  • Leads local and national HBCU and HSI outreach (planning, vision, and goal setting), which includes management of 6 regional recruiters who complete initiatives
  • Create and handle substitute teaching and student-teaching regional pipeline
  • Develop, build, and strengthen new and existing regional relationships to attract quality teachers, operations, and school-based leaders
  • Assess data to adjust Brooklyn outreach strategies, support recommendations, and drive outreach decisions

Qualifications

  • Knowledge of and experience using key recruitment tools (handshake, LinkedIn Recruiter, social media; Indeed; etc.); using LinkedIn to market openings
  • Passionate dedication to the mission of Uncommon Schools, and aim to build a high quality, diverse workforce at Uncommon to better serve our students, families, and communities
  • Excellent organization, time management, and ability to follow through; a high sense of urgency
  • Ability to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate goals, strategies, projects, and initiatives
  • Ability to successfully lead multiple tasks and responsibilities
  • Shown ability to take multiple perspectives to solve challenges in real-time
  • Familiarity with key recruitment data and Ability to apply data to advise practices and build short-term and long-term goals
  • Ability to self­-reflect and self-assess workstreams
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Experience with management and coaching
  • Ability to learn quickly and take initiative in a fast-paced, dynamic, ambitious environment
  • Project management skills

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