Manager, Recruitment Projects & Brand

Company Description

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 public charter, open-enrollment, Pre-K -12 schools educating nearly 35,000 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 just world.

Founded in Houston in 1994, and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in our classrooms, in our offices, and in the communities we serve is unwavering. We are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join our Team and Family and champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, and help us rise together.

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

As a Talent Recruitment Project Manager, you will lead and oversee critical strategic initiatives and projects to ensure that the talent recruitment team is delivering cutting edge attraction, souring, recruitment, and selection practices and services. The Project Manager will plan, execute, and deliver these projects successfully, ensuring they align with organizational and team goals and enhance KIPP TX talent. Additionally, the project managers will build the talent recruitment team’s capacity management framework, ensuring that the talent recruitment team has the tools, systems, and processes, to deliver A+ service for current and future hiring needs. This multifaceted position requires strong project management skills, strategic thinking, problem-solving abilities, and effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

Assist with recruitment and hiring of future Big KIPPsters (45%)

• Support talent recruitment leadership to implement recruitment campaigns to attract high-quality applicants, particularly for hard to fill positions at KIPP TX.

• Collaborate with Directors, Talent Recruitment to compile and implement Talent Recruitment calendar of sourcing and recruitment events, including career fairs, information sessions, and in-person events

• Develop systems for tracking, reporting, and evaluating recruitment campaigns and marketing activities. Identify and recommend opportunities to improve recruitment marketing campaign results

• Engage with the marketing team and contribute to the development of compelling messages to target audiences. Incorporate messaging into all KIPP TX recruitment promotion materials, including job descriptions

• Serve as brand ambassador at various events, like career fairs or on-campus recruiting events

• Create and implement mass outreach campaigns in smartrecruiters to drive applications conversion rate 

• Support with recruitment events logistics (zoom operations, career fair registrations, event communications and follow-up) ensuring high-quality candidate and team member experience

• Serve as administrator for recruitment platforms, including LinkedIn, SelectEd, Indeed, Glassdoor, VidRecruiter, and ACP lists

• Support recruiters leading open searches by sourcing high quality talent leads, driving applicant conversion rates, reviewing applications, and screening high quality applicants

• Provide logistical support for hiring processes, including in person and virtual interview setup

Lead talent recruitment projects (30%)

• Lead the full project management cycle of talent recruitment projects and strategic initiatives to ensure client-centric, on time, and quality deliverables and/or services.

• Collaborate with talent recruitment leadership to align project goals with organization, department, and team goals and objectives.

• Evaluate project’s progress, making recommendations to adjust project scope or implementation plans, escalating issues, and enacting mitigation risk strategies that might prevent on time and/or quality project delivery.

• Coordinate and align key stakeholders within the talent recruitment team, talent department and across the organization to ensure seamless project execution.

• Facilitate user group feedback sessions and incorporate findings into project plans, deliverables and services.

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