Director, Talent Recruitment

Company Description

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a nonprofit public charter school network that envisions a world where every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities. Together with families and communities, we 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 just world. Today, KIPP Texas operates 57 free open enrollment public charter schools educating nearly 35,000 students across four regions – Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. KIPP Texas students graduate college at a rate four times higher than the national average for low-income students.

KIPP Texas is committed to hiring a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. As a team and family, we seek to embody our cultural north star through living our core values, champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, rise together, and an unwavering commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Job Description

The Talent Recruitment Team at KIPP Texas attracts, selects, and hires top, diverse talent committed to educational equity and passionate about creating joyful, academically excellent schools to meet the organization’s current and future staffing needs. As a Talent Recruitment Leadership Team member, you will collaborate with other leadership team members to align on the vision of excellence for talent acquisition at KIPP Texas. You will oversee the Campus Operations hiring portfolio (~200 positions), setting strategy for equity-based campus operations recruitment, managing a team of 2 recruiters, and working with stakeholders across the organization to design and implement hiring processes that attract and select candidates who reflect the diversity of our students and embody the values of KIPP Texas Public  School. As a sub team leader you will model and foster a culture that drives excellence, joy, inclusion and belonging. 

Major Responsibilities Duties  

Serve as a member of the Talent Recruitment Leadership Team and Family

• Partner with the Talent Recruitment Leadership Team to define and operationalize KIPP Texas’ vision of excellence for talent acquisition, rooted in our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Champion KIPP Texas’ mission to ensure choice-filled lives for Little KIPPsters, by championing equity in recruitment content and team management. 
• Collaborate with the other Directors of Talent Recruitment to progress monitor annual goals and team execution. Identify inequities in systems, analyze them with empathy and take actions to drive positive change in our talent recruitment approach, implementation, and infrastructure.
• Assist the Managing Director of Talent Recruitment with annual resource planning. 
• Model the Talent Recruitment Team’s culture to foster high-performance, inclusion, and belonging. Lead key team culture initiatives.
• Build a network of engaged stakeholders across the organization. Leverage a diverse set of perspectives to implement and strengthen our recruitment practices.
• Serve as an expert in equity-based recruitment and hiring practices and the workforce market. 
• Foster a culture of collaboration through active participation in manager, team, department, and organizational meetings.
• Demonstrate a growth mindset through co-creating a personalized learning plan and participating in development experiences to improve your practice in equity-based recruitment and leadership.

Lead the campus operations portfolio management

• Develop and implement the sourcing and recruitment strategy for the campus operations portfolio aligned to the talent recruitment team’s direction and KIPP Texas’ 2025 plan.
• Drive results across the campus operations portfolio, efficiently and effectively implementing equity-based hiring processes to close open positions.
• Progress monitor performance, including data tracking and reporting, towards short and long term portfolio goals.
• Leverage data to develop and deliver solutions to ensure campus operations have diverse, top talent to meet current and future staffing needs.
• Design equity-based hiring processes and practices across the campus operations portfolio.
• Collaborate with the Talent Development Team to design and implement an annual talent planning process to project annual hiring needs across the campus operations portfolio.
• Builds pools of active and passive candidates for future, current, and hard-to-staff positions.
• Foster a culture of inclusion and empathy, delivering the talent recruitment team’s A+ service de