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Teach For America is hiring a Manager, Recruitment & Retention to lead efforts in recruiting and matriculating high-quality teacher leaders and Ignite Fellows in Los Angeles. The role involves collaborating with national and local teams to increase STEM and Spanish-speaking applicants, managing matriculation and onboarding processes, and organizing community-building events to support corps members’ retention and engagement.

Highlights

Lead recruitment initiatives to increase STEM applicants and Spanish-speaking Ignite Fellows in Los Angeles.
Design, execute, and manage recruitment events and contribute to national and regional recruitment strategies.
Develop and implement matriculation and onboarding strategies for incoming corps members, focusing on vulnerable groups.
Serve as a point of contact for corps members requiring extra onboarding support.
Participate in regional activities including events and team meetings, providing flexible support for emergent projects.
Required skills include project management, strong communication, strategic planning, and experience with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and Salesforce.
Minimum qualifications include at least 2 years of relevant work experience in recruitment, talent, or external affairs and education-related experience.
Preferred qualifications: Teach For America alumni/staff experience, teaching or school experience, and knowledge of the Los Angeles education landscape.
Salary ranges vary by location tier: Tier A ($61,300-$82,000), Tier B ($66,800-$89,400), Tier C ($72,300-$96,700).
The position reports to the Vice President, SoCal Regional Leadership.

Manager, Recruitment & Retention Full Description

ROLE TITLE: Manager, Recruitment and Retention (Los Angeles)

POSITION REPORTS TO: Vice President, SoCal Regional Leadership (Ashley Terada)

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Sunday, 11/9 at 11:59pm PST

LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Teach For America Southern California seeks a Manager, Recruitment & Retention (Los Angeles) to lead our local efforts to recruit and matriculate a corps of excellence-minded teacher leaders in Los Angeles and to recruit Ignite Fellows who will redefine what's possible for students in the schools where we work across Los Angeles. You will support Corps Member and Ignite Fellow cultivation in partnership with our national Recruitment Team, with a focus on increasing the number of STEM applicants in Los Angeles and increasing the number of Spanish-speaking Ignite fellows. You will collaborate with the Managing Director, Matriculation Generalist, to successfully confirm admitted candidates who are assigned to the Los Angeles corps, monitor LA corps member retention throughout the onboarding season (October - August), and provide targeted support where needed. Additionally, you will lead a series of community building and engagement events to connect them with one another and our regional network, and invest them in the fight for excellence in education for all students as leaders who have overcome obstacles to change their own life course and/or understand the prevailing barriers to access.

The ideal candidate is passionate about sharing Teach For America's vision and mission, committed to expanding our impact and network in Los Angeles, energized by working and building relationships with a diverse set of constituents, and an exceptional verbal and written communicator. The Manager, Recruitment & Retention (Los Angeles) will report to the Vice President, Collective Leadership.

WHAT YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Corps Member and Ignite Recruitment (40%)

Collaborate with national recruitment team members and local staff to increase the number of admitted STEM applicants to Los Angeles and Spanish-speaking Ignite Fellows
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 on-campus recruitment efforts, including both local and out of state events for corps members and Ignite fellows
Collaborate with others to evolve our approach to recruitment by contributing to the design of our national strategy and supplemental regional strategies (such as our instructional aide/paraprofessional pipeline)

Corps Member Matriculation, & Onboarding (40%)

Assist with designing and implementing a regional matriculation and onboarding strategy to ensure that our admitted applicants successfully begin the school year
Design specific supports for our most vulnerable groups of incoming corps members such as those coming from out of state and those who are experiencing financial hardship
Collaborate with the admissions team to ensure incoming corps member community calls are meeting the needs of the region, the needs of the org, and the needs of the incoming corps members
Serve as a point of contact for a small group of corps members who need extra support through the onboarding process

Additional Regional Responsibilities (20%)

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.

A WEEK IN THE LIFE

During our recruitment season in the fall and early winter, the Manager, Recruitment and Retention (Los Angeles) will spend most of their time connecting with prospective applicants and supporting campus recruiters to compel exceptional candidates to apply to Teach For America Los Angeles. You will work closely with national recruitment team members, other regional staff, and members of the admissions team to ensure that we are moving toward having teachers and tutoring fellows in our hardest-to-staff content areas in Los Angeles, such as science, math, special education, as well as candidates who speak Spanish. Throughout the winter and spring your focus will shift to supporting the retention of our new corps members through a series of virtual and in-person events, as well as holding a portfolio of people struggling with onboarding. Throughout the year you will also support the SoCal regional team in our flexible working model by bringing your strengths and gifts to our regional working groups and initiatives.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role (minimum qualifications):

At least 2 years of relevant work experience related to recruitment, talent, and/or external affairs
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 Los Angeles
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 Los Angeles and work occasionally during evenings and weekends
Ability to build, strengthen, and sustain relationships at many levels

BONUS (preferred qualifications)

Teach For America alumni or staff experience preferred or experience as a teacher and/or in schools in general
Knowledge of the Los Angeles education landscape

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

The Los Angeles Onboarding team is charged with equipping our incoming corps members with the knowledge, leadership skills, and mindsets they will need during their time in our program and through alumnihood to fuel the movement towards educational excellence for all students in Los Angeles. We ensure that our teachers are qualified to teach in California, ready for their classroom experiences and roles as instructional leaders, and engaged to be long-term contributors to our work. The primary phases of the pre-corps experience are: confirmation, when accepted applicants make their decision to join the corps; onboarding, when incoming corps members complete the steps to become qualified to teach in California; and pre-service, when incoming corps members come together to build community and context on our work and to train to prepare our new teachers to enter their classrooms on the first day of school.

YOUR 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. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role. The expected salary ranges for this role are set forth below. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Tier A: $61,300 to $82,000
Tier B: $66,800 to $89,400
Tier C: $72,300 to $96,700

You can see which Tier you belong tohere. If you do not see your location listed, clickhere for additional total rewards information.

NEXT STEPS

In lieu of a Cover Letter, please respond to this prompt in 500 words or less (or by sharing a link to a video response) and send to RTStaffing@teachforamerica.org:

Our most successful staff members have demonstrated strong achievement in their professional experience prior to taking on their positions. Please describe the most ambitious goal you have ever set and achieved, and what actions you took to attain it. How did you engage others, if at all, to reach this goal? What challenges, if any, did you encounter while working towards your goal?

Your response should include all of the following:

A professional experience supporting/leading a small group, large group, or complex project
Explicitly state the goal you were working towards
The action steps you took to achieve this goal
How you involved different perspectives and/or invested partners (e.g. colleagues, administration, parents, etc.) to help you to achieve this goal
Quantitative results that demonstrate your impact AND
Qualitative results that demonstrate your impact

We have provided some "sentence starters" below to help guide your thinking. You can choose to leverage these sentences as you write your reflections, or you can write something entirely different! Both methods are encouraged: we want to get the most accurate information about your record of results as possible.

At the beginning of the year, I set a classroom goal of X
I set this/these goal(s) because of <X, Y, Z reasons>
We achieved <Y results>. I know this because of <X, Y, and Z>.
In addition to quantitative targets, I set a qualitative goal(s) of X

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