School Network Staff Recruitment & Selection Manager
Job Description
DREAM (formerly known as DREAM Charter School and Harlem RBI), is an innovative educational and youth development organization, serving over 2,500 East Harlem and South Bronx youth in 6 schools. Through its network of rigorous PK-12 public charter schools and out-of-school time programs, DREAM connects youth and families to rigorous, student-centered academics, age-appropriate programs, and passionate professional staff in an intensive multi-year commitment to truly serve the whole child and community.
Reporting to the Director of Recruitment and Selection, the Recruitment and Selection Manager executes on the selection process to annually hire close to 300 part-time program staff at DREAM, ensuring that our after-school and summer programs have the talented staff they need in order to serve our students and families. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is highly organized and goal-driven to apply their skills to hire large numbers of talented and passionate youth-facing staff to execute on DREAM’s mission.
Responsibilities
- Manage the selection of candidates through all stages of DREAM’s interview process for part-time community program roles (such as youth workers, summer reading teachers, and recess coaches)
- Consistently utilize and improve systems to guide and track the effectiveness and efficiency of talent recruitment for these roles
- Communicate with candidates in a timely manner throughout the hiring cycle to meet hiring goals and ensure high offer acceptance rates
- Create and manage strategic partnerships with hiring managers and serve as a partner in selecting the best possible talent for their teams
- Create deep alignment with hiring managers to ensure high offer rates, and collaborate to ensure high offer acceptance rates
- Develop and execute on talent outreach strategies to attract additional candidates, as needed
- Codify essential hiring information, including updating job descriptions, selection processes, and hiring goals
- Execute on outreach tactics to drive talent recruitment for all roles, including but not limited to: (1) Sourcing and reaching out to leads; (2) Uploading, managing, and cleaning up leads in candidate tracking system; (3) Additional talent outreach and operations tasks, as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Prior experience recruiting for high-volume seasonal positions, strongly preferred
- Superior organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to anticipate and solve problems
- Strong drive to meet hiring goals, and ability to develop and execute on outreach strategies proactively to stay on track
- High standards for quality of work and a desire to improve continuously
- Superior written and verbal communication skills
- Eagerness to work collaboratively to solve problems
- A deep commitment to DREAM, including the ability and desire to serve as the organization’s ambassador, including a commitment to talent practices that ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion.
