Manager, Talent Acquisition Projects

Company Description

About KIPP Texas Public Schools 

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

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 Manager, Talent Acquisition Projects to support key strategic and operational initiatives related to candidate attraction, recruitment outreach, and selection implementation. This individual will lead full cycle project management to ensure that KIPP Texas is positioned as an employer of choice and can attract, cultivate, and select exceptional teachers, school leaders, and other school district staff who are deeply committed to our mission. This multifaceted position requires strong project management skills, strategic thinking, problem-solving abilities, and effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.

The Manager, Talent Acquisition Projects is responsible for delivering on key metrics in alignment with team, department and organizational level goals:

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

• 92% hired (for known vacancies) by the first day of leader onboarding

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

• 90% retention of new hires

• Other project management related goals

Key Responsibilities

Lead Talent Acquisition Projects (25%)

• Lead the full project management cycle of projects aligned to the talent acquisition strategic plan. 

• Collaborate with department leadership to align project goals with organization, division, 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 across the team to ensure seamless project execution.

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

• Provide direction to, motivate, and lead project teams to develop quality deliverables and/or services based on project requirements.

• Ensure strong project closure, including, transferring and training appropriate users or owners on implementation of project processes, policies, and services.

• Maintain all projects and strategic initiatives documentation, including, project plans, reports, budgets, communications, etc.

• Regularly communicate with plans and forecasts to internal stakeholders, including escalating risk of over capacity concerns.

Employer Attraction (20%)

• Act as a brand champion of KIPP TX’s employee values proposition.

• Monitor Glassdoor, Indeed, and LinkedIn and plan and execute activities for engaging reviewers.

• Collaborate with the marketing team to amplify KIPP TX employees as ambassadors for our brand.

• Incorporate employer value proposition messaging into all KIPP TX promotional materials, including career fair materials, recruitment events materials, and job descriptions.

• Identify and make recommendations on new opportunities to expand brand awareness for talent recruitment.

Recruitment Outreach and Campaigns (30%)

• Lead the Early Hiring, F