Director, Professional Acquisitions (Flexible)

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Director, Professional Acquisitions (Flexible)

Description

Primary Location

: Flexible (anywhere in the U.S.)

Team

: Recruitment

Description

Position Summary

The director of acquisitions is responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive strategy to build awareness of Teach For America as a career opportunity among professionals and generate prospect leads via Teach For America’s website. The director will focus on both paid and earned opportunities, including advertising campaigns, e-mail campaigns, news media, social media, webinars, regional events and other acquisition strategies. The director will lead a team of two managers of professional recruitment and work closely with Teach For America’s Marketing and Communications teams. The director will report to a managing director, professional recruitment; serve as a member of the professional recruitment leadership team; and be an active contributor to the development of the team’s professional recruitment strategy.

Team Overview

The Recruitment team works to enlist this country’s most promising future leaders in the movement to eliminate educational inequity. The team identifies and inspires thousands of potential corps members on college campuses and from multiple career sectors to apply to and join Teach For America. Additionally, the team is responsible for meeting our ambitious goals for the quality, growth and diversity of our corps.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Setting the vision and strategy for Teach For America’s professional acquisition strategy
Participating in the design, execution and analysis of marketing insights research to inform the professional recruitment strategy
Writing and editing recruitment materials with tailored messaging for distinct segments
Developing and executing an advertising campaign focused on professional recruitment (online advertising, social media, job boards, etc.)
Identifying earned media opportunities to feature professional corps members and alumni in partnership with the communications team
Evaluating opportunities and helping execute cross-promotional marketing campaigns with Teach For America’s nonprofit partners
Evaluating opportunities and helping execute cause marketing campaigns with Teach For America corporate partners
Partnering with Teach For America’s marketing team to execute social media campaigns and promote our referral campaign
Designing and implementing a list acquisition strategy
Evaluating the effectiveness of individual strategies using a variety of analytical approaches (e.g., Google Analytics) and evolving the acquisition vision and strategy as needed
Cultivating relationships and working collaboratively with other recruitment team members and members of other Teach For America teams (Communications, Marketing, etc.) to both inform and execute acquisitions strategies
Designing and executing campaigns across a variety of Teach For America constituents, including staff members, board members, and other external supporters
Leading, coaching and developing team members to ensure all acquisition strategies are executed at a high level
Participating in corps member selection and matriculation
Cultivating second-year corps members and alumni for staff positions

Demonstrated experience

Thriving in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, diverse, results-oriented environment
Operating with a strong goal orientation and achieving ambitious results
Analyzing and synthesizing data from a range of sources in order to set a compelling vision and strategy for immediate and long-term impact
Developing comprehensive, data-based strategies and executing on those strategies
Developing and cultivating relationships and networks in order to achieve results
Communicating effectively and tailoring messages to specific motivations and interests
Inspiring committed and positive action toward individual and organizational goals
Making informed and timely decisions, and using sound judgment to prioritize actions
Tracking tasks and following through on execution
Exemplifying Teach For America’s core values

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree required
4-6 years of professional work experience required
At minimum, 1-2 years of public relations/marketing/advertising experience required with acquisition experience preferred
Prior experience as a Teach For America corps member or staff member helpful

Other

Willingness to travel and work some weekends and evenings

Application Requirements and Process

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please submit your resume and one-page cover letter with your application.

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Benefits and Salary

Salary for this position is competitive and depends on prior experience. In addition, a comprehensive benefits package is included.

Anti-Discrimination Policy and Commitment to Diversity

Teach For America seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for this position. We are committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization, as we want to engage all those who can contribute to this effort.

About Teach For America

Teach For America is the national corps of top college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Our mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting the nation’s most promising future leaders in the effort.

At the start of the 2011-2012 school year, more than 9,000 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members began teaching in 43 regions across the United States. Since 1990, Teach For America corps members have reached more than three million students. Nearly 24,000 Teach For America alumni are working in education and many other fields, where they continue to advocate for students and families in low-income communities. While only one in six corps members was interested in the teaching profession before joining Teach For America, nearly two-thirds of its alumni remain in the field of education.

Teach For America’s culture and work is grounded in and guided by a deep commitment to pursuing true transformational change for students growing up in low-income communities. It is a leadership development organization – committed to fostering staff members, corps members and alumni who establish a clear and bold vision for the future, set measurable and ambitious goals, work purposefully and strategically to achieve that vision, always operate with a deep sense of possibility and with perseverance, and define broadly what is within its control to solve. It is an organization committed to its people, to diversity and inclusion, and to operating with respect and humility toward the other important people and organizations working to advance the cause of educational excellence for all children.

90% of the students our corps members teach are African American and Latino and come from low-income backgrounds. Since the academic achievement gap in our country is largely drawn along lines of race and class, we know that it’s particularly important to foster the leadership of individuals – at all levels – who share the racial and economic backgrounds of our students. Our staff is diverse and we are thrilled to have staff members representing all racial backgrounds working here. For more information about our commitment to diversity, visit: http://www.teachforamerica.org/our-organization/diversity

We are a high-growth, outcomes-oriented organization, with a $220 million budget and over 1,500 staff. In 2011 and 2012, we were named a Fortune 100 Best Company to Work For. We operate in an entrepreneurial environment, maintain focus on quantitative measures, and are committed to continuous improvement.

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