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Transcend is hiring a Partner, Talent Recruitment. The role involves leading the recruitment and onboarding efforts to attract, vet, and integrate exceptional talent aligned with the organization's mission and culture. The position requires designing recruitment strategies, managing end-to-end hiring processes, improving recruitment systems, and overseeing onboarding to ensure a positive experience for new teammates.

Highlights

Lead recruitment strategy and execution, managing 7-15 hires annually in partnership with hiring managers.
Design and refine recruitment processes, tools, and onboarding experiences for new teammates.
Coach hiring managers and collaborate with recruitment contractors for cohesive candidate outreach.
Utilize Applicant Tracking Systems (e.g., Greenhouse, JazzHR, BambooHR) to manage hiring pipelines.
Recruit diverse talent primarily in K-12 education, social impact, or nonprofit sectors.
Coordinate candidate screening and interviews with virtual tools like Zoom.
Commit to a quarter-time travel schedule (~10%) for organizational needs.
Contribute to culture-building, learning, and organization-wide collaboration.
Requires exceptional project and operations management skills in a virtual environment.
Offers competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid leave, and professional development opportunities.

Partner, Talent Recruitment Full Description

Start Date: Immediate
Role Type: Full-time employee
Location: Flexible -- Fully remote/virtual team
Travel: Willingness to travel once a quarter, ~10% of the time
Manager: Manuela Monsalve; Partner, Talent & People Supports

Who We Are

Transcend’s mission is to support communities to create and spread extraordinary learning environments for all. Founded in 2015, Transcend has partnered with over 390 schools/partners, which collectively serve thousands of students in over 30 states across the country. As a research & development hub for the education field, Transcend provides schools and systems with research-backed, community-driven models and capacity so they can make significant leaps to reimagine the future of education. Transcend is a nonprofit that operates with a fully remote, nationwide team; currently with 120+ teammates and growing. For more information, follow us on LinkedIn, check out this podcast featuring our two co-founders on Class Disrupted, or read this recent article that illuminates the need for this work.

The Role

Over the past 10 years, Transcend has grown from a dream on a napkin to an organization of ~120 teammates reimagining the future of schools. At the heart of our organization is our people—the incredibly talented and world-class team we’re privileged to work alongside. We truly believe our people are our greatest asset and the most powerful driver of our mission. That’s why we’re excited to bring on a

Partner, Talent Recruitment—a role that will lead our recruitment and onboarding efforts, and help shape the full experience of joining and thriving at Transcend.

We’re looking for a dynamic and strategic people-person to join as our Partner, Talent Recruitment, and guide our recruitment and onboarding efforts, ensuring that every new teammate’s journey into Transcend is thoughtful, welcoming, and sets them up for success.

This role will draw on your expertise as a proven talent recruiter and strategic systems-thinker to shape how we attract extraordinary people, vet and select them to match specific needs, and integrate them into our community, and help them thrive here. This is first and foremost a recruitment role—you’ll spend about half your time leading searches and sourcing extraordinary talent, with the rest focused on strategy, process improvements, onboarding, and contributing to our culture. You’ll lead and contribute work across these core areas:

Recruitment Strategy: ~10% of the time

In close partnership with the Partner, Talent & People Supports, lead the development and execution of a clear, values-aligned recruitment vision that reflects Transcend’s mission, culture, and strategy.
Lead and model Transcend’s core values in every step of the recruitment process — ensuring candidates feel welcomed and inspired to join our team.
Identify opportunities to strengthen Transcend’s branding and expand our reach into new talent pools.

Recruitment Execution: ~50% of the time

Lead end-to-end searches for 7-15 new teammates per year, in partnership with hiring managers, ensuring a smooth, evidence-based, and people-centered process for candidates and hiring teams.
Coach, support, and thought-partner with hiring managers on candidate decisions.
Drive sourcing and cultivation efforts, including proactive outreach, cultivation calls, and nurturing relationships with teammates and network referrals.
Design and manage end-to-end recruitment processes, including developing role competencies, selection tools, and hiring materials.
Lead the screening and interviewing of candidates via Zoom. While you won’t conduct every single interview yourself, you’ll play a central role in designing and coordinating the process — conducting some directly yourself, setting up teammates, hiring managers, or contractors to step in as needed
Coordinate all interviews at all stages of the process.
Research and build relationships with professional associations, partner organizations, graduate programs, and other networks.
Facilitate mid-point and post-search “stepbacks” to reflect, learn, and improve.

Recruitment Process & System Improvements: ~10% of the time

Own, refine, and update our recruitment playbook, tools, and key routines.
Identify and implement systems upgrades to make our recruitment processes more sustainable, scalable, and human-centered.
Manage relationships and alignment with recruitment contractors to ensure cohesive messaging and a seamless candidate experience.
Leverage AI tools and other operational systems to enhance our future-focused recruitment efforts.

Onboarding Strategy & Execution: ~10% of time

Design the arc of onboarding across a teammate’s first year—from New Hire Experiences to role- and team-specific supports.
Lead and own the planning for New Hire Onboarding Experience in partnership with teammates across the organization to design and facilitate onboarding experiences.
Partner with the Special Projects Manager to iterate onboarding systems and structures.

Recruitment of Contractors: ~5% of time

Drive sourcing, cultivation, and vetting of independent contractors and firms.
Create recruitment materials, systems, and tools to support strong contractor pipelines.

The remainder, ~10-15% of the role’s allocation, is dedicated to org-wide collaboration and learning. An important and valued part of this role is engaging in our culture, community-building spaces, and learning and development opportunities. This means contributing to our culture, connecting with teammates, understanding our strategy and work so you can recruit for it effectively, and continuing to grow across a range of dimensions.

Who You Are

You are an experienced recruiter and a people person at heart who knows how to spot incredible talent. You’re great at getting work done through and with others—even when their calendars are packed—and you can manage up with ease to keep things moving. You’re also a connector who makes people feel comfortable, seen, and valued, and you treat every interaction as a chance to reflect our mission and values. Interviewing fuels your energy, and you also love rolling up your sleeves to design recruitment processes that are consistent, rigorous, and evidence-based, leaving every candidate with a great experience and a positive impression of our team (and the same for hiring teams!). You’re all about building people-centered systems that help great talent find the right match.

To all of this, you also bring the following knowledge, skills, experiences, and orientations:

Successful track record of recruiting diverse, top-notch talent in K-12 education, social impact, or nonprofit organizations.
A passion for delivering an outstanding, people-centered candidate and teammate experience—you understand that you’re often the first interaction someone has with Transcend, and you treat that responsibility with care and intentionality.
A systems-thinker who gets excited about helping us scale and mature our recruitment infrastructure—building tools, routines, and processes that make things more sustainable, repeatable, and people-centered across searches.
You know how to coach, thought-partner with, and advise hiring managers so they feel confident and supported in making great, evidence-based hiring decisions.
You’re fluent in Applicant Tracking Systems (Like Greenhouse, JazzHR, BambooHR, etc) and can use them to keep searches running smoothly and to track progress.
A wholehearted dedication to Transcend’s mission to build and spread extraordinary learning environments for all.
A values-driven approach that centers trust and collaboration.
Flexibility, curiosity, and a deep hunger for feedback.
A collaborative spirit and team-first mindset—you enjoy working across functions and roles to move work forward and make each other better.
Exceptional project and operations management skills—you’re organized, proactive, and able to juggle multiple workstreams without letting anything slip through the cracks, particularly in a virtual environment.
Proactive self-starter and can independently manage time and workflow across competing priorities to achieve results, and navigate through ambiguity.

Application & Hiring Process
We review applications on a rolling basis and are committed to a thoughtful and people-centered hiring experience that helps candidates feel what it’s like to work at Transcend. Here’s what you can expect if you are selected to move forward:

Initial interview with the team via Zoom to learn more about your background. A note on compensation: during your initial interview with the team, we will share the salary range for your particular location. *More on how we determine this is below.
Try-on activity to engage in a role-aligned exercise. This helps us get a sense of how you approach the work and gives you a feel for what the role might be like.
Try-on task debrief with the team.
Compensation & benefits convo where we’ll share information around where we anticipate you’ll share within the range, share more about our employment policies and benefits for the role, and answer any questions you may have.
1:1 with the hiring manager to debrief the role, talk more about working styles, and create the space to explore the role more deeply.
Coffee chats with the team to learn more about our team and culture.
Reference checks to learn more about your superpowers and working style.
Final interview with our Chief Operations Officer.

A Few Nuts & Bolts
We are an experienced team focused on extraordinary learning for all. We welcome candidates who are passionate about ensuring that all students thrive. We are also committed to providing our colleagues with a competitive benefits package and offer medical, dental, and vision coverage options, org-wide holidays, paid time off, paid parental leave, professional development opportunities, and fully remote work. We take pride in our collaborative environment, exceptional team, and shared commitment to principled, impactful work.

*As a national team, we apply a cost-of-labor adjustment by adjusting salaries into 3 geographical bands (geo-band) in order to offer competitive compensation for all employees across the US. These geo-bands help us tailor compensation appropriately based on the specific location of each teammate.

We look forward to learning more about you!

Original Job Description

Who We Are

The Role

Recruitment Strategy: ~10% of the time

In close partnership with the Partner, Talent & People Supports, lead the development and execution of a clear, values-aligned recruitment vision that reflects Transcend’s mission, culture, and strategy.
Lead and model Transcend’s core values in every step of the recruitment process — ensuring candidates feel welcomed and inspired to join our team.
Identify opportunities to strengthen Transcend’s branding and expand our reach into new talent pools.

Recruitment Execution: ~50% of the time

Lead end-to-end searches for 7-15 new teammates per year, in partnership with hiring managers, ensuring a smooth, evidence-based, and people-centered process for candidates and hiring teams.
Coach, support, and thought-partner with hiring managers on candidate decisions.
Drive sourcing and cultivation efforts, including proactive outreach, cultivation calls, and nurturing relationships with teammates and network referrals.
Design and manage end-to-end recruitment processes, including developing role competencies, selection tools, and hiring materials.
Lead the screening and interviewing of candidates via Zoom. While you won’t conduct every single interview yourself, you’ll play a central role in designing and coordinating the process — conducting some directly yourself, setting up teammates, hiring managers, or contractors to step in as needed
Coordinate all interviews at all stages of the process.
Research and build relationships with professional associations, partner organizations, graduate programs, and other networks.
Facilitate mid-point and post-search “stepbacks” to reflect, learn, and improve.

Recruitment Process & System Improvements: ~10% of the time

Own, refine, and update our recruitment playbook, tools, and key routines.
Identify and implement systems upgrades to make our recruitment processes more sustainable, scalable, and human-centered.
Manage relationships and alignment with recruitment contractors to ensure cohesive messaging and a seamless candidate experience.
Leverage AI tools and other operational systems to enhance our future-focused recruitment efforts.

Onboarding Strategy & Execution: ~10% of time

Design the arc of onboarding across a teammate’s first year—from New Hire Experiences to role- and team-specific supports.
Lead and own the planning for New Hire Onboarding Experience in partnership with teammates across the organization to design and facilitate onboarding experiences.
Partner with the Special Projects Manager to iterate onboarding systems and structures.

Recruitment of Contractors: ~5% of time

Drive sourcing, cultivation, and vetting of independent contractors and firms.
Create recruitment materials, systems, and tools to support strong contractor pipelines.

Who You Are

To all of this, you also bring the following knowledge, skills, experiences, and orientations:

Successful track record of recruiting diverse, top-notch talent in K-12 education, social impact, or nonprofit organizations.
A passion for delivering an outstanding, people-centered candidate and teammate experience—you understand that you’re often the first interaction someone has with Transcend, and you treat that responsibility with care and intentionality.
A systems-thinker who gets excited about helping us scale and mature our recruitment infrastructure—building tools, routines, and processes that make things more sustainable, repeatable, and people-centered across searches.
You know how to coach, thought-partner with, and advise hiring managers so they feel confident and supported in making great, evidence-based hiring decisions.
You’re fluent in Applicant Tracking Systems (Like Greenhouse, JazzHR, BambooHR, etc) and can use them to keep searches running smoothly and to track progress.
A wholehearted dedication to Transcend’s mission to build and spread extraordinary learning environments for all.
A values-driven approach that centers trust and collaboration.
Flexibility, curiosity, and a deep hunger for feedback.
A collaborative spirit and team-first mindset—you enjoy working across functions and roles to move work forward and make each other better.
Exceptional project and operations management skills—you’re organized, proactive, and able to juggle multiple workstreams without letting anything slip through the cracks, particularly in a virtual environment.
Proactive self-starter and can independently manage time and workflow across competing priorities to achieve results, and navigate through ambiguity.

Initial interview with the team via Zoom to learn more about your background. A note on compensation: during your initial interview with the team, we will share the salary range for your particular location. *More on how we determine this is below.
Try-on activity to engage in a role-aligned exercise. This helps us get a sense of how you approach the work and gives you a feel for what the role might be like.
Try-on task debrief with the team.
Compensation & benefits convo where we’ll share information around where we anticipate you’ll share within the range, share more about our employment policies and benefits for the role, and answer any questions you may have.
1:1 with the hiring manager to debrief the role, talk more about working styles, and create the space to explore the role more deeply.
Coffee chats with the team to learn more about our team and culture.
Reference checks to learn more about your superpowers and working style.
Final interview with our Chief Operations Officer.

We look forward to learning more about you!

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