Uncommon Schools

Uncommon Schools

Talent Recruiter Full-Cycle (Boston)

Reading, MA | $65K - $77K

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Qualifications

  • Passionate dedication to the mission of Uncommon Schools, and drive to build a high-quality, diverse workforce at Uncommon to better serve our students, families, and communities
  • Ability to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate goals, strategies, projects, and initiatives
  • Excellent organization, time management, and follow-through; a high sense of urgency
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully handle multiple projects concurrently; ability to work independently and lead projects from start to finish
  • Outstanding problem-solving and critical thinking skills and desire to use data to drive decision-making
  • Proven ability to take multiple perspectives to solve challenges in real-time
  • Ability to learn quickly, take initiative, and incorporate feedback in a fast-paced, dynamic, ambitious environment
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills particularly when communicating withsenior leaders
  • Ability to develop systems that achieve efficiency
  • Ability to inspire top educators to join the staff of Uncommon Schools
  • Role may require some weekends
  • 2-4 years of experience (must have some professional experience - could be during college)
  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Will be required to carry and set up large scale event and career fair backdrops and an assortment of recruitment collateral and swag
  • 20% Travel nationally

Responsibilities

  • This role is responsible for leading and executing talent selection and outreach work for instructional hiring, school-based ops hiring, and other school support hiring (Dean of Students, Social Work, Behavior Specialist, Teacher Assistants, etc.) for 4 Boston schools
  • They will be responsible for developing and executing outreach strategies to source teachers, instructional leaders, Summer Teaching Fellows, school support staff, and operations staff
  • They will ensure a strong pipeline of candidates by managing relationships with key universities and organizations both locally and nationally (including HBCUs and HSIs); attending in-person and virtual career fairs and events; managing communications with key organizations and leveraging recruitment tools to headhunt and identify strong potential candidates
  • They will ensure a strong candidate and leader experience by managing candidate communications and school leader relationships from initial application, interview scheduling, and through the offer process
  • They will manage a candidate funnel through an ATS and leader shared candidate tracking systems, facilitate effective leader and candidate communications, coordinate interviews, and support in-person interview events as needed
  • Implement on-campus and virtual recruitment events and initiatives (career fairs, information sessions, panels, professional learning, etc.)
  • Use recruitment tools (applicant tracking systems, resume databases, LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Handshake, spreadsheets, OneNote, etc) to source high-quality talent
  • Write creative and compelling communications to promote career opportunities to target audiences and move partners to action (professors, faculty, AmeriCorps staff, mission-aligned organizations, etc.)
  • Identify, establish, develop, and maintain strong relationships with local and national organizations that provide high quality and diverse talent for our schools
  • Collaborate with Outreach Team partners in other regions to brainstorm effective strategies for attracting quality candidates to Uncommon
  • Manages candidate relationships and enthusiastically communicates the benefits of working at Uncommon
  • Cares deeply about and can articulate a thorough understanding of Uncommon’s mission and schools (our Boston Region in particular)
  • Manages school leader relationships and collaborates with the Regional Superintendent of Instruction and Regional Superintendent of Operations to lead regional hiring, and assess short and long-term talent needs and trends
  • Assesses all candidates via application review and screening; identifies and engages with strong candidates whose experience aligns with the needs of the role and our schools
  • Partners with school leaders to coordinate and run interview processes (in-person and virtual) with the goal of driving the selection process and ensuring candidates stay engaged and move through the application process efficiently
  • Ensures accurate data in all of our recruitment systems; analyzes data to identify and address trends in real-time and refine outreach and selection strategies as needed
  • Supports various Selection work streams across the team as needed
  • Collaborates with the Selection Team to continue to strengthen our hiring systems/processes, and to support hiring across Uncommon as needed
  • Set up for events in schools (requires some moving of furniture)
  • Will require the use of stairs if the school or event space doesn’t have an elevator

Benefits

  • Compensation for this position: The starting compensation for this role based in Boston is between $65,300 to $76,800 and generally, we expect that qualified candidates in this location will be made an offer between $65,300 and $69,200
  • The starting pay will depend on a variety of factors that may include but are not limited to experience, education, training, certification, and location

Company information

We are a nonprofit network of high-performing public schools providing an outstanding K-12 education in historically under-resourced communities.

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1,001-5,000 employees
Education, Social Services, Education Management, Nonprofit, Charter Schools, Primary/Secondary Education, Public Schools, K-12 Schools
Nonprofit
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Last round: Grant
New York, New York
Company Specialties:
Public Charter School, Education, Data Driven Instruction, Professional Development, Non Profit Organization, and School