KIPP Texas Public Schools
Talent Sourcing Coordinator
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Dallas, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $50K
💻 Other
🗓️ August 4th, 2025
K-12
Edtech.com's Summary
KIPP is hiring a Talent Sourcing Coordinator to attract and recruit a diverse and high-quality workforce for KIPP Texas Public Schools. The role involves designing and executing digital and in-person recruitment campaigns, building pipelines of educators and school staff, and collaborating closely with talent acquisition teams to meet staffing goals and support the organization's mission.
Highlights
- Create and maintain job postings and execute targeted digital recruitment campaigns via platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed, and social media.
- Engage in community and on-the-ground recruitment efforts including career fairs and university events.
- Partner with talent recruiters to organize hiring events and nurture pipelines for instructional and non-instructional roles.
- Use data analytics to measure and optimize recruitment campaign effectiveness.
- Maintain accurate records in applicant tracking systems and customer relationship management tools.
- Required skills include digital sourcing, collaboration, time management, and adaptability.
- Proficiency with MS Office and Google applications required; experience with ATS preferred.
- Qualifications include an associate degree or equivalent experience; bachelor's degree preferred.
- Starting salary is $50,000, commensurate with experience, plus benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid family leave, and retirement plans.
- Position requires occasional travel (up to 15%) within the region and hybrid work environment.
Talent Sourcing Coordinator Full Description
Company Description
KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 34,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more fair world.
Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in belongingness, academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission and values-driven community who wants every child to want to run to school, the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you!
KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 280 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.
Job Description
About the Role
The Talent Acquisition Team at KIPP Texas attracts, recruits, and selects a top, diverse workforce committed to creating joyful and academically excellent schools to meet the organization’s current and future staffing needs. KIPP Texas is seeking a Talent Sourcing Coordinator who will play a key role in building a robust pipeline of high-quality educators, school leaders, and other school-based staff through digital and on-the-ground recruitment outreach strategies. The Talent Sourcing Coordinator will develop and execute recruitment campaigns designed to identify, attract, and engage candidates who align with our mission and values. This role requires expertise in digital sourcing, passive candidate engagement, and in-person recruitment efforts, ensuring a strong talent pipeline for both instructional and non-instructional roles. The ideal candidate is proactive, creative, and results-driven, with a passion for connecting top-tier educators and professionals with opportunities that make a lasting impact on students.
As a sourcer you will be held accountable to:
- 93% staffed for all schools by the first day of school
- 94% hired (for known vacancies) by the first day of leader onboarding
- Prospect conversion rates
- Net promoter on candidate experience survey
Key Responsibilities
Talent Sourcing & Digital Recruitment Campaigns
- Create and maintain accurate job postings for an assigned portfolio of positions.
- Implement targeted digital recruitment campaigns to attract top educators, school leaders, and other school-based talent, leveraging platforms such as LinkedIn, Indeed, Handshake, and other job boards.
- Partner with the Manager, Talent Acquisition Projects to utilize social media marketing strategies (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok) to enhance employer branding and drive candidate engagement.
- Develop and maintain talent pools and pipelines through consistent outreach, engagement, and relationship-building.
- Implement email and SMS campaigns to nurture relationships with passive candidates and re-engage previous applicants.
- Track and analyze digital sourcing metrics to refine strategies and improve campaign effectiveness.
On-the-Ground Recruitment & Community Engagement
- Represent KIPP Texas at career fairs, university recruitment events, and networking functions to build relationships with prospective candidates.
- Collaborate with talent recruiters to organize regional and school-based recruitment and hiring events such as info sessions, virtual hiring fairs, job fairs, shadowing opportunities, and open houses.
- Participate in engagement opportunities and events with pipeline partnerships and programs to cultivate prospective big KIPPsters, including university and alternative certification programs.
- Engage with local communities and professional groups to increase awareness of career opportunities at our schools.
- Maintain accurate and up to date materials and collateral for all recruitment and hiring events.
Collaboration & Process Improvement
- Work closely with recruiters and the Manager, Talent Acquisition Projects to understand hiring priorities and craft customized recruitment strategies.
- Contribute to employer branding efforts, including the development of marketing materials, blog content, and video testimonials to showcase schools across the states’ impact.
- Utilize data and analytics to measure the success of sourcing channels and optimize recruitment campaigns.
- Maintain accurate and organized prospect candidate records within our customer relationship manager system and applicant tracking system (ATS).
- Support recruiters leading open searches by sourcing high quality talent leads, driving applicant conversion rates.
Serve as a member of the Talent Division Team and Family
- Champion KIPP Texas’ mission and core values, modeling our values in your work, decisions, and relationships.
- Model the Talent Division’s culture to foster high-performance, inclusion, and belonging. Support key team culture initiatives.
- Build a network of engaged stakeholders across the organization. Leverage a diverse set of perspectives to implement and strengthen our talent practices.
- Serve as an expert in sourcing and recruitment practices.
- Foster a culture of collaboration through active participation in manager, team, division, and organizational meetings.
- Demonstrate a growth mindset through co-creating a personalized learning plan and participating in development experiences to improve your practice in cultural competence leadership.
Performs other duties as assigned. Responsibilities and tasks outlined in this document are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the network
Qualifications
- Associates degree or 2 years equivalent work experience in sales, marketing, talent recruitment or student recruitment; Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Experience working with K-12 public education or non-profit sector preferred
- Working knowledge of MS Office and Google applications required; knowledge of applicant tracking systems or customer management databases preferred
- Passion for advancing KIPP Texas’ mission
Skills
- Excellent collaboration skills with the ability and comfort to work across multiple projects
- Exceptional at adapting to changing circumstances, including demonstrating flexibility, resilience, willingness to learn, and embrace new approaches to challenges
- Results-oriented with a demonstrated record of success leading teams to goals through exceptional circumstances
- Self - starter with a record of delivering on time, in budget, and high-quality results
- Exceptional organization and time management skills
- Strong interpersonal skill, can align key stakeholders and manage conflict
What We Bring to the Table
- The starting salary for this position is $50,000 and is commensurate upon experience and internal-equity
- Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies
- Paid family leave
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with varying coverage for employees and their families, inclusive of virtual physician visits. High deductible health plan with HSA also offered
- Employee assistance programs.
- Participates in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
- 457 Roth and 403b retirement plan options
- KIPP also offers the following employee-paid benefits: legal plans, LifeLock identity protection, life insurance and disability insurance
- Flexible spending account or high-yield HSA
Physical Requirements
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions
- Considerable time spent at a desk using a computer/laptop
- Attending conferences or training sessions
Work Environment
- Hybrid - 3 days working from the regional KIPP Texas office and 2 days working from a home office.
Travel Requirements
- Ability to travel to various locations within the assigned region for recruitment events, travel time up to 15%.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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