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Teach For America

Director, National Recruitment

🇺🇸 Remote - US 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $74K - $131K 💻 Other 🗓️ October 27th, 2026
Recruitment Non-Profit

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Teach For America is hiring a Director, National Recruitment. The director joins the National Team, which sends recruitment capacity to the campaigns where it can do the most to meet Teach For America's goals for recruiting its teaching corps (its cohort of new teachers) and early talent, stepping in when teams have transitions, vacancies, or high-potential opportunities. Beyond campaign work, the role contributes to team-wide efforts such as learning and development, communities of practice, staff hiring, and national events.

Highlights
  • Design and lead strategic recruitment campaigns that address vacancies and exits across teams on the Recruitment Team and Admissions Team, including emerging campus and professionals, early talent, campus recruitment, and matriculation (admitted candidates accepting and joining the program).
  • Build strong partnerships and trust with team leads, pod members, and hub members to meet campaign outcomes.
  • Execute core recruitment strategies and messaging, including prospect connection and cultivation and engagement of influencer stakeholders.
  • Add capacity to the Recruitment Team through central workstreams such as communications, coaching, learning and development, national events, and staff hiring.
  • Lead or support projects that strengthen the team's learning, strategy, and performance.
  • Requires current or former experience as a Teach For America recruiter; the strongest applicants bring exceptional recruitment skill, relationship-building, comfort with ambiguity, and strong judgment and autonomy.
  • Remote position with travel as campaigns require; salary ranges by location tier run from $74,300 to $131,300 (Tier A $74,300-$111,300, Tier B $81,000-$121,300, Tier C $87,600-$131,300).

Director, National Recruitment Full Description

About the Role
Reports to: VP, Strategy & Operations. Location: Remote.
The National Team seeks a Director, National Recruitment to drive outsized impact across recruitment campaigns nationwide.
The National Team exists to ensure the Recruitment Team (RT) is able to meet our corps and early talent recruitment goals by deploying capacity where it can have the greatest impact, whether in response to team transitions, vacancies, or high-potential opportunities.
As a Director on the National Team, you will step into a wide range of teams and recruitment contexts. You'll quickly build relationships with campaign leads and teammates, understand the strategy and goals of each campaign, and execute high-quality recruitment work that drives results.
You'll also contribute to initiatives that strengthen the Recruitment Team as a whole. This could include leading learning and development, facilitating communities of practice, supporting staff hiring, advancing team culture and communications initiatives, supporting national events, or taking on other high-impact projects as needs and opportunities emerge.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and lead strategic recruitment campaigns to address vacancies and exits across teams on the Recruitment Team and Admissions Team, including Emerging Campus and Professionals, Early Talent, campus recruitment, and matriculation.
  • Establish strong partnership and trust with key internal stakeholders (including team leads, pod members, hub members) in order to collaborate effectively, meet campaign outcomes, and build strong working relationships and trust between National Team and our partners
  • Execute core recruitment strategies and RT messaging with excellence, including prospect connect, prospect cultivation, and influencer stakeholder and engagement
  • Add capacity to our full Recruitment Team by contributing to central workstreams such as communications, coaching, Learning + Development, National events, and staff hiring
  • Lead or support designated projects and initiatives that strengthen RT teamwide learning, strategy, and performance

Key Expertise and Experience
It is required to have:
  • Current or former experience as a Teach For America recruiter
The strongest applicants will bring:
  • Exceptional recruitment skill and a deep commitment to the craft of recruitment. You understand recruitment strategy, know what it takes to move prospects to action, build strong systems for execution, and have demonstrated results across your campaigns.
  • Strong relationship-building and partnership skills. You can quickly establish credibility and trust, develop productive partnerships and networks, and collaborate effectively across teams and lines of difference.
  • A strong learning orientation and comfort with ambiguity. You'll regularly step into new workstreams, teams, and recruitment contexts, and you're energized by learning quickly and adapting your approach.
  • Deep alignment with our core values, particularly Achieve Impact. You are motivated by taking on the work that matters most, even when that means shifting priorities, learning something new, or stepping into an unfamiliar challenge.
  • Strong judgment and autonomy. You can quickly assess a situation, determine where you can have the greatest impact, and make informed decisions about the strategies and levers most likely to drive results.

Work Demands
This position is remote; however, some recruitment campaigns will require travel. Candidates must be willing and able to travel as needed.

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. The expected salary ranges for this role are set forth below.
  • Tier A: $74,300 to $111,300
  • Tier B: $81,000 to $121,300
  • Tier C: $87,600 to $131,300