Coordinator & Scholar Recruiter

Success Academy Charter Schools; Success; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charter school network located in Saskatchewan is seeking a Scholar Recruitment Coordinator to enhance community engagement and drive student applications. The ideal candidate excels in relationship-building, possesses field marketing experience, and is bilingual in English and Spanish. Responsibilities include coordinating outreach efforts, facilitating school tours, and maintaining recruitment metrics. Join us in our commitment to providing every student a fair shot at education regardless of their background, with competitive compensation and benefits offered.

Benefits

Full benefits program

Opportunities for professional growth

Qualifications

• 2+ years field marketing experience or canvassing and organizing experience preferred.
• Experience working with diverse communities preferred but not required.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist with community outreach, presence, and awareness.
• Engage with prospective parents and families at events.
• Track and log all recruitment activities.

Skills

Skilled relationship building

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Self-motivation

Bilingual (English and Spanish)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business administration, communications, or related field

Job description

Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running a large, fast-growing, and high-performing network of public charter schools takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates, and supporters alike. We are growing fast in New York and expanding to Florida, and we would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through our doors a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.

Reporting to the Team Lead, Scholar Recruiter, the Scholar Recruitment Coordinator supports Success Academy’s field marketing efforts. The Scholar Recruitment Coordinator works face-to-face with prospective families in the field to inform, excite, invest and motivate them to apply to and attend Success Academy. The Scholar Recruitment Coordinator identifies and cultivates relationships with potential families and partner community-based organizations and supports Scholar Recruitment Managers to ensure that the Success Academy brand has high visibility across Success Academy’s communities in NYC. S/he is a self-starter committed to educational choice, education reform and the development of exemplary schools.

Key Responsibilities

• Within assigned region/territory, assist with community outreach, presence, and awareness; distribute marketing and promotional collateral in the field; support in-person/virtual school tours, tabling and recruitment events
• Work with Scholar Recruitment Managers to schedule, host and facilitate in-person and virtual school tours, information sessions and recruitment events that drive towards the regional application goals
• Engage with prospective parents and families one-on-one at local events, both those hosted by Success Academy as well as by other organizations
• Support the Identification of and relationships with community based organizations (CBO’s) to develop CBO-to-Success Academy pipelines, identify Success Academy as the premier educational choice in the community, and cement Success Academy as a member of the community
• Identify further opportunities to reach and engage prospective families
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of Success Academy’s K-12 offering as well as competitive school options and how they compare and contrast against Success Academy, confidently answer questions and respond to objections
• Log contact information from potential leads, interested families and partners for follow-up, respond to information queries via phone, email or text
• Keep abreast of demographics, trends, competition, and new opportunities in assigned region/territory
• Track and log all recruitment activity, including but not limited to event attendees, leads generated per event, collateral used for canvassing, cost per event, keeping the Scholar Recruitment event calendar accurate, and applications generated per event
• Contribute to internal reports
• Consistently meet daily and weekly targets
• Support the annual lottery process as appropriate, including at lottery events or with results notification
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Skilled relationship builder who truly enjoys and excels at engaging and exciting consumers with a wide variety of backgrounds and knowledge levels about charter school choices
• 2+ years field marketing experience or canvassing and organizing experience in political or issue campaigns preferred
• Experience working with diverse communities preferred but not required
• Excellent interpersonal, written, oral and presentation skills
• Can identify community organizations with whom to establish and nurture relationships to help build awareness
• Can develop outreach plans that carefully consider the needs of each community and fit into a larger field marketing strategy
• Must have flexibility, ability to prioritize and manage differing time constraints
• Self-motivation is essential as is a willingness to work with others as part of a team toward a shared goal
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business administration, communications, or another related field preferred
• Good time management and the ability to work under pressure.
• Has a positive, “can do” attitude and will identify opportunities to gain deeper insight into creating more efficient and streamlined processes
• English and Spanish required

Success Academy Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Success Academy offers a full benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.

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