Director, National Recruitment

Teach For America; United States; Remote; USD 81,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Teach For America seeks a Director, National Recruitment to drive outsized impact across recruitment campaigns nationwide. The role is remote, reporting to the VP of Strategy & Operations, and involves leading campaigns, building cross-team partnerships, and advancing learning initiatives.

You will collaborate with campaign leads, manage high-impact projects, and help steer national events while ensuring recruitment goals are met across the organization.

Qualifications

• Current or former experience as a Teach For America recruiter.
• Exceptional recruitment skill and a deep commitment to the craft of recruitment with demonstrated results.
• Strong relationship-building and partnership skills across teams.
• Learning orientation and comfort with ambiguity to navigate new workstreams.
• Alignment with core values, particularly Achieve Impact, and strong judgment.
• Autonomy to assess situations and drive impactful strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead strategic recruitment campaigns to address vacancies and exits across teams.
• Establish partnerships with internal stakeholders to meet campaign outcomes.
• Execute recruitment strategies and messaging to move prospects to action.
• Contribute to central RT initiatives such as learning, events, and staffing.
• Lead or support projects that strengthen team-wide learning and performance.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Relationship building

Strategic thinking

Adaptability

Autonomy

Learning mindset

Job description

ROLE TITLE: Director, National Recruitment

POSITION REPORTS TO: VP, Strategy & Operations

LOCATION: Remote

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The National Team seeks a Director, National Recruitment to drive outsized impact across recruitment campaigns nationwide. The National Team exists to ensure the Recruitment Team (RT) is able to meet our corps and early talent recruitment goals by deploying capacity where it can have the greatest impact, whether in response to team transitions, vacancies, or high-potential opportunities. As a Director on the National Team, you will step into a wide range of teams and recruitment contexts. You’ll quickly build relationships with campaign leads and teammates, understand the strategy and goals of each campaign, and execute high-quality recruitment work that drives results. You’ll also contribute to initiatives that strengthen the Recruitment Team as a whole. This could include leading learning and development, facilitating communities of practice, supporting staff hiring, advancing team culture and communications initiatives, supporting national events, or taking on other high-impact projects as needs and opportunities emerge.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and lead strategic recruitment campaigns to address vacancies and exits across teams on the Recruitment Team and Admissions Team, including Emerging Campus and Professionals, Early Talent, campus recruitment, and matriculation.
• Establish strong partnership and trust with key internal stakeholders (including team leads, pod members, hub members) in order to collaborate effectively, meet campaign outcomes, and build strong working relationships and trust between National Team and our partners
• Execute core recruitment strategies and RT messaging with excellence, including prospect connect, prospect cultivation, and influencer stakeholder and engagement
• Add capacity to our full Recruitment Team by contributing to central workstreams such as communications, coaching, Learning + Development, National events, and staff hiring
• Lead or support designated projects and initiatives that strengthen RT teamwide learning, strategy, and performance

KEY EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

• It is required to have: Current or former experience as a Teach For America recruiter
• The strongest applicants will bring: Exceptional recruitment skill and a deep commitment to the craft of recruitment. You understand recruitment strategy, know what it takes to move prospects to action, build strong systems for execution, and have demonstrated results across your campaigns.
• Strong relationship‑building and partnership skills. You can quickly establish credibility and trust, develop productive partnerships and networks, and collaborate effectively across teams and lines of difference.
• A strong learning orientation and comfort with ambiguity. You’ll regularly step into new workstreams, teams, and recruitment contexts, and you’re energized by learning quickly and adapting your approach.
• Deep alignment with our core values, particularly Achieve Impact. You are motivated by taking on the work that matters most, even when that means shifting priorities, learning something new, or stepping into an unfamiliar challenge.
• Strong judgment and autonomy. You can quickly assess a situation, determine where you can have the greatest impact, and make informed decisions about the strategies and levers most likely to drive results.

WORK DEMANDS

This position is remote; however, some recruitment campaigns will require travel. Candidates must be willing and able to travel as needed.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

The National Team values community, connection, learning, and impact. You’ll join a team of talented colleagues who take on meaningful work across the Recruitment Team and step in wherever they can to make the greatest difference. This role offers a unique opportunity to expand your range as a recruitment leader. You’ll work across different campaigns, strategies, teams, and challenges, building new skills and perspectives that you can carry from one context to the next. If you’re energized by variety, motivated by impact, and excited to continually stretch and grow your toolkit, the National Team could be a great fit.

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. You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here.

• Tier A: $74,300 to $111,300
• Tier B: $81,000 to $121,300
• Tier C: $87,600 to $131,300

Teach For America is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

*Our job descriptions reflect Teach For America's assignment of essential functions and qualifications of the role. Nothing herein restricts management's right to assign, reassign or eliminate duties and responsibilities to this role at any time.