Talent Recruiter

Company Description

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 34,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in belongingness, academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission and values-driven community who wants every child to want to run to school, the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you!

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 280 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

About the Role

The Talent Acquisition Team at KIPP Texas attracts, recruits, and selects a top, diverse workforce committed to creating joyful and academically excellent schools to meet the organization’s current and future staffing needs. KIPP Texas is seeking a Talent Recruiter to ensure that KIPP TX attracts, recruits and selects exceptional diverse and mission-aligned talent who are passionate about and skilled at advancing KIPP Texas’ mission.  Reporting to the Director, Talent Acquisition you will implement the KIPP Texas talent acquisition outreach strategy, and lead the recruitment and hiring for a portfolio of schools and/or KIPP Texas SSP departments. Through working with stakeholders in your assigned portfolio, you will implement sourcing and outreach tactics, recruitment campaigns, and hiring processes to attract diverse and mission-aligned talent, ensure a seamless selection experience, and position KIPP Texas as an employer of choice in education in Texas. 

The Talent Recruiter is responsible for delivering on key talent acquisition, outreach metrics in alignment with team, department and organizational level goals:

• 93% staffed for all schools by the first day of school

• 94% hired (for known vacancies) by the first day of leader onboarding

• 94% of roles filled within time to fill parameters

• Positive net promoter for candidate, hiring manager, and new hire experience

• 90% retention of new hires

Key Responsibilities

Sourcing and Recruitment Campaigns

• Implement innovative, multi-channel recruitment campaigns to attract diverse, high-quality talent, including digital marketing, social media outreach, and in-person engagement for a portfolio of schools.

• Participate in engagement opportunities and events with pipeline partnerships and programs to cultivate prospective big KIPPsters. 

• Implement regional based strategic sourcing initiatives to proactively engage passive candidates and ensure a steady pipeline of talent for key roles.

• Organize regional and school-based recruitment events such as info sessions, virtual hiring fairs, shadowing opportunities, and open houses.

• Engage with regional universities and leverage on-campus recruitment outreach opportunities.

• Represent KIPP Texas at careers fairs, job fairs, conferences, recruitment and networking events.

• Maintain accurate records of recruitment resources and materials, including contacts and engagements in the CRM.

• Identify opportunities and adjust recruitment strategies to meet goals through actively monitoring and analyzing candidate funnel and pipeline data, matriculation data, and retention data.

Full-Cycle Recruitment

• Lead full-cycle recruitment for a portfolio of schools or departments within KIPP Texas, ensuring that hiring practices support a diverse and representative workforce for school-based positions or central office staff.

• Foster a culture of belongingness and empathy, delivering the talent acquisition team’s A+ service delivery model to clients across an assigned portfolio.

• Host job fairs to fill vacant positions.

• Complete initial candidate screenings and share qualified candidates with hiring managers for hiring decisions.

• Drive results across your assigned portfolio, efficiently and