Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit network of high-performing, public charter schools providing an outstanding K-12 education in historically under-resourced communities. We have proudly built schools that reflect our student population, with more than 60% of our teachers and staff across our network identifying as a person of color. Uncommon currently manages 53 schools serving 20,000 students in five cities: Boston, Camden, New York City, Newark, and Rochester. We are proud that Uncommon graduates persist in and graduate from college at five times the rate of their peers nationally. We achieve this by offering strong academic, co-curricular, and social-emotional learning that prepares students for success in college and beyond.

This Associate Manager, Talent Recruitment will serve as the Brooklyn Outreach Lead on the Talent Recruitment team; establishing the regional outreach strategy, vision, and goals with support from the Director of Outreach. They are responsible for developing and training 2 recruiters as well as leading regional external recruitment initiatives (Uncommon Institute, Hiring Fairs, Open Houses, Information Sessions, PDs, etc.), formalizing local/national partnerships, and supporting the development of regional marketing strategies for school-based openings. They will lead all aspects of regional recruitment strategies to source high-quality, diverse talent from local colleges/universities, mission-aligned organizations, and career partners (FLI, BASTA, POSSE, Girls Who Code). Additionally, they will collaborate with the Director of Outreach to implement portions of Recruitment’s strategic plan (growing USI alumni engagement, developing an HBCU and HSI campus-specific strategy, developing content-specific national partnerships, and crafting an internal substitute and student-teacher pipeline).

Core Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads Brooklyn outreach (planning, vision, and goals) for sourcing instructional, operations, and leadership staff
• Serves as the Brooklyn Outreach expert, crafting a regional talent recruitment strategy and encouraging a positive regional culture with school leaders. (ASUPs, Principals, and DOOs.)
• Leads local and national HBCU and HSI outreach (planning, vision, and goal setting), which includes management of 6 regional recruiters who complete initiatives
• Create and handle substitute teaching and student-teaching regional pipeline
• Develop, build, and strengthen new and existing regional relationships to attract quality teachers, operations, and school-based leaders
• Assess data to adjust Brooklyn outreach strategies, support recommendations, and drive outreach decisions

• Knowledge of and experience using key recruitment tools (handshake, LinkedIn Recruiter, social media; Indeed; etc.); using LinkedIn to market openings
• Passionate dedication to the mission of Uncommon Schools, and aim to build a high quality, diverse workforce at Uncommon to better serve our students, families, and communities
• Excellent organization, time management, and ability to follow through; a high sense of urgency
• Ability to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate goals, strategies, projects, and initiatives
• Ability to successfully lead multiple tasks and responsibilities
• Shown ability to take multiple perspectives to solve challenges in real-time
• Familiarity with key recruitment data and Ability to apply data to advise practices and build short-term and long-term goals
• Ability to self­-reflect and self-assess workstreams
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience with management and coaching
• Ability to learn quickly and take initiative in a fast-paced, dynamic, ambitious environment
• Project management skills

Our people are what make us uncommon. It’s important to us that our compensation practices align with our values and enhance our ability to attract and retain talent.  Our compensation philosophy is focused on equity and fairness, retaining our talented staff and valuing their expertise, and transparency and clarity.

Compensation for this position: The starting compensation for this role based in New York is between $82,450 to $97,000 and generally, we expect that qualified candidates in this location will be made an offer between $82,500 and $87,300. The starting pay will depend on a variety of factors that may include but are not limited to experience, education, training, certification, and location. Because we value staff staying in their roles over time, we do not currently cap salary ranges.

Uncommon Schools believes in the importance of being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization that enables our students and staff to thrive. We are committed to building a talented team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students. At the same time, we work to ensure an inclusive community through creating a space for meaningful dialogue about issues of race and identity for our staff and students. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.