Talent Recruitment Manager

Overview

We’re excited about professionals who are fired up about our liberal arts program, positive approach to discipline, and commitment to serve all students. Join us as we foster innate curiosities, encourage discussion and debate, and guide students to think their own way through to answers.

Over the next five years of Ascend’s growth, the network will recruit between 200 and 300 outstanding candidates each year to work at Ascend’s high performing college-preparatory charter schools and network team. The Talent Recruitment Manager will lead the execution of cohesive, strategic talent selection processes, informed by research and historical data, to recruit a highly qualified and diverse population of prospective teachers. The ideal candidate should enjoy working in close collaboration with hiring managers, and informing big picture strategies and systems, while successfully executing on very specific, detail‐oriented work.

Why extraordinary professionals teach at Ascend

Ascend is the largest Brooklyn-based public charter school serving nearly 6,000 K-12 students in 17 schools. We exist to serve every student – to help them embody their inherent excellence by providing rich, joyful learning experiences that unlock a life of boundless choice.

Access to education is a social justice issue. As educators, we center justice and live out our commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism (DEIA) by ensuring that our students have the skills, tools, and confidence they need to thrive today and in the future. We are proud to have a workforce that mirrors the diversity seen in our students. Working at Ascend provides a community focused on developing an environment of support and belonging. Educators collaborate closely and encourage each other to achieve great outcomes.

Our schools honor, nurture, and challenge the whole child. Ascend fosters critical thinking skills and a love of learning through an inquiry-based learning approach, Responsive Classroom model, and anti-racist education. We are deeply committed to advancing educational equity for all of our students. Students at Ascend benefit from a rich and rigorous liberal arts curriculum that nurtures natural curiosity about the world and guides them to think critically and independently.

For more information on Ascend Public Charter Schools’ model, approach, and core values, please visit our website.

Responsibilities

The Talent Recruitment Manager manages the selection process and life cycle of teaching and other school personnel candidates, and ensures candidates receive an exceptional experience from application through onboarding.

• Systems
• Oversee a portfolio of schools on all staffing processes and maintain accurate staffing plans
• Support the selection of exceptional candidates through Ascend’s interview process
• Assist in the refinement of interview guidelines, evaluation tools, and assessment procedures to ensure that all school teams are equipped with the necessary resources to hire personnel
• Recommend, create, and support systems to guide and track the effectiveness of recruitment strategies and onboarding practices, and update systems accordingly
• Relationship management
• Manage relationships with hiring managers and serve as a thought partner in selecting the best possible talent for school teams
• Maintain and strengthen relationships with candidates post-hire and create avenues for unsolicited referrals
• Coordinate efforts with hiring managers to ensure high offer to acceptance rates
• Cultivate candidates to ensure en exceptional experience and influence their decision to select Ascend
• Recruitment outreach
• Collaborate with the talent outreach team to develop and execute national, regional, and local recruitment strategy focused on targeting high-quality academic leadership and teacher candidates through candidate cultivation and pipeline development
• Represent Ascend at virtual engagements, networking events, conferences, job fairs, and meetings, articulating and fostering awareness of Ascend’s mission and the distinctiveness of the Ascend design

Staff and reporting relationships

The Talent Recruitment Manager works closely with school leaders, other members of the Talent team; and reports to Ascend’s managing director of talent.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Previous teaching experience; previous charter school teaching experience preferred
• A minimum of 1 year of experience recruiting for a nonprofit organization preferred; previous charter school network recruitment experience strongly preferred

Skills and Traits

• Superior organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Exceptionally high standards for the quality of work and a strong growth mindset to improve continuously
• Ability to develop strong relationships and authentically connect with candidates, prospects, and colleagues
• Alignment with the educational philosophy and core beliefs of Ascend and ability to inspire excellent candidates to join
• Strong written, verbal, and communication skills
• Eagerness to work collaboratively to solve problems
• Deep excitement to identify top talent

Compensation

Initial salary offers for this position range from $70,000 - $75,000. Salaries are determined using an equitable compensation scale that accounts for years of experience and levels of attained education.

Diversity at Ascend

Ascend is committed to building a diverse and inclusive community, both through our hiring practices and our focus on creating a culture and environment where diverse perspectives, ideas, and identities are valued and integrated into our way of working and educating students. Ascend staff represent a wide diversity of racial, socio-economic, gender, religious, and national identities—opening a window to the entire Ascend community on the richness of humanity. We welcome all applicants who share our mission and vision to join us in our deeply consequential work.