Senior Associate of Talent Outreach

About Achievement First

Achievement First (AF) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization supporting 39 public charter schools across New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. For more than 25 years, AF has been recognized as one of the top tuition-free public charter school networks in the country. We are committed to creating schools of academic excellence within nurturing environments — schools that prepare students to be college-ready and to pursue and succeed in whatever paths they choose in life.

The majority of AF students are Black and Latinx children from low-income families, many of whom will be the first in their families to graduate from college. Across our network, we employ more than 2,200 staff members — 64% of whom identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color — who collectively educate nearly 15,000 students in Brooklyn and Queens, NY; New Haven, Bridgeport, and Hartford, CT; and Providence and Cranston, RI.

Our mission is to prepare every student to excel in college, career, and life; deepen their understanding of self and community; and lead lives of purpose. We believe in the limitless potential within our students and their power to shape a more just society. That belief drives our deep commitment to student achievement: we aim to set a high bar for learning and create warm, demanding classrooms where rigorous instruction is paired with the care, encouragement, and consistency every student deserves. 

We are looking for a Senior Associate of Talent Outreach to join our Recruitment team. 

Your Impact

The Senior Associate of Talent Outreach will support Achievement First’s recruitment and selection goals across our 39 schools to ensure that our schools are fully staffed with highly qualified, mission-aligned employees. The Senior Associate will achieve this by managing the outreach planning and implementation strategies for the referral program, event planning, job board and postings, public profile management and mining of third party sites.  

Reporting directly to the Senior Director of Talent Outreach, your responsibilities will be:

• Outreach Planning and Implementation
• Assist in the design of the annual outreach plan that systematically builds a short- and long-term teacher talent pipeline using data
• Conduct high-quality sourcing on platforms such as Indeed, LinkedIn, Handshake, CT REAP, and SchoolSpring to meet monthly quality and quantity goals aligned with broader team initiatives
• Design and implement opportunities for high-quality candidates to learn more about Achievement First through events, outreach campaigns, and direct engagement
• Perform annual review of sources, strategies, and platform usage; restructure based on evolving team needs and goals
• Lead Team Recruit’s effective use of outreach platforms and tools, ensuring alignment with talent goals
• Train and coach new staff on headhunting platforms, offering regular workshops, refreshers, and individualized support
• Create and implement innovative strategies to drive candidate interest and meet outreach targets
• Use data to track and analyze progress toward outreach goals, adjusting strategies as needed
• Referral Programming
• Create a monthly referral strategy to hit our referral quality and quantity goals, as well as our hiring needs.
• Supervise the Talent Partners (TPs) in fully engaging all referral candidates.
• Provide follow up and alternative strategies for engagements that aren’t successful.
• Manage the Referral Zendesk to equip staff with resources, address questions, and resolve issues regarding the referral program.
• Submit quarterly bonus payout schedules to Team Finance for successful referrals who were hired to work at AF
• Create and oversee the proper execution of the referral rules and guidelines.
• Work with Team Communication and Team IT for external facing execution of the referrals process
• Educate new hires and current staff on the referral process.
• Event Planning
• Independently plan and own large-scale recruitment and referral events across all three regions
• Represent Achievement First at career fairs, job expos, and professional development events nationwide to engage new candidates
• Coordinate event registration and manage travel/accommodations for participating team members
• Oversee swag purchasing and maintain the team’s in-office swag inventory
• Design and host professional development events as strategic recruiting opportunities for Achievement First
• Job Postings
• Candidate outreach via job postings, including maintaining a systematic approach to ensuring Achievement First’s job postings are visible to potential candidates, following up with potential applicants from selected job boards, and developing intermediary recruitment processes to identify candidates during between-season hiring periods
• Serve as liaison between job posting account managers and Achievement First
• Manage job board monthly postings for over 120+ jobs 
• Research, contact, implement and pilot new job posting platforms, including communication with company representatives, and test for use in teacher recruiting
• Talent Brand & Partnerships
• Maintain updated culture and job related posts on platforms like Glassdoor and LinkedIn
• Support partnerships with local universities and aligned organizations 
• Create annual plan to generate Glassdoor reviews & manage plan execution across network
• Identify reviews of concern and coordinate with marketing & communications team to respond
• Support the Senior Director, Talent Outreach to leverage NY digital marketing for effective recruitment outreach, utilizing social media, email, and online ads to engage prospective candidates.
• Partner with AF Marketing Team and External Marketing consultants to communicate NY hiring needs.  

Additionally, this role will use third party sights to identify, source and reach out to qualified candidates. 

Candidate Profile

All candidates for this position will have a bachelor’s degree and at least 2-3 years in recruiting, marketing, sourcing, project planning, and data analysis.  

In addition, the following characteristics are required to be successful on this team:

• Experience with Microsoft Office, specifically proficiency in Excel  
• Strong technology skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast‐paced, entrepreneurial environment; 
• Flexible, able to work autonomously as well as take direction as needed 
• Exceptional eye for detail, follow-up skills, and organization 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a proactive communication style
• Belief in the Achievement First mission and educational model 

Travel Expectations 

This is a hybrid role with the expectation that the person in this role will travel to AF schools and attend recruitment events, career fairs, and other activities that support Achievement First’s recruitment pipeline across all regions.

Estimated Travel: (not limited to)

• AF School travel twice a month
• Regional travel twice a month
• National travel once a month
• Home Office once a month

Compensation

Achievement First sets salaries are set through a lens of equity, and based on the requisite skills, education, and experience relevant to the role.  The salary for this position is $85.295. In order to uphold our commitment to equity, Achievement First does not negotiate pay.  Additionally, Achievement First offers to all regular, full-time employees a comprehensive benefits package that includes paid time off, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, a 403(b) retirement benefit package with match, and paid Family Leave.

Achievement First is an equal opportunity employer and an organization that values diversity. People from all diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. Spanish language proficiency is a plus. You can learn more about diversity at Achievement First here: http://achievementfirst.org/about-us/diversity/