Talent Recruiter

About KIPP Texas Public Schools

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a free, public charter school network with more than 45 Pre-K - 12 schools across Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. With over 30 years in Texas, we work together with our families and communities to prepare students for college, career, and beyond! Our schools provide a high-quality, well-rounded education built on academic success and personal growth, where all students learn and thrive in a productive, safe, and joyful way!

As one of the earliest charter networks in Texas—founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018—we hire 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 academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission-driven community that wants every child 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 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni

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 Talent Recruiter to ensure that KIPP TX attracts, recruits and selects exceptional diverse and mission-aligned talent who are passionate about and skilled at advancing KIPP Texas’ mission.  Reporting to the Director, Talent Acquisition you will implement the KIPP Texas talent acquisition outreach strategy, and lead the recruitment and hiring for a portfolio of schools and/or KIPP Texas SSP departments. Through working with stakeholders in your assigned portfolio, you will implement sourcing and outreach tactics, recruitment campaigns, and hiring processes to attract diverse and mission-aligned talent, ensure a seamless selection experience, and position KIPP Texas as an employer of choice in education in Texas.

The Talent Recruiter is responsible for delivering on key talent acquisition, outreach metrics in alignment with team, department and organizational level goals:

• 93% staffed for all schools by the first day of school
• 94% hired (for known vacancies) by the first day of leader onboarding
• 94% of roles filled within time to fill parameters
• Positive net promoter for candidate, hiring manager, and new hire experience
• 90% retention of new hires

Note: These metrics may be adjusted or updated to align with evolving organizational priorities and needs.

Key Responsibilities
Sourcing and Recruitment Campaigns

• Implement innovative, multi-channel recruitment campaigns to attract diverse, high-quality talent, including digital marketing, social media outreach, and in-person engagement for a portfolio of schools.
• Participate in engagement opportunities and events with pipeline partnerships and programs to cultivate prospective big KIPPsters.
• Implement regional based strategic sourcing initiatives to proactively engage passive candidates and ensure a steady pipeline of talent for key roles.
• Organize regional and school-based recruitment events such as info sessions, virtual hiring fairs, shadowing opportunities, and open houses.
• Engage with regional universities and leverage on-campus recruitment outreach opportunities.
• Represent KIPP Texas at careers fairs, job fairs, conferences, recruitment and networking events.
• Maintain accurate records of recruitment resources and materials, including contacts and engagements in the CRM.
• Identify opportunities and adjust recruitment strategies to meet goals through actively monitoring and analyzing candidate funnel and pipeline data, matriculation data, and retention data.

Full-Cycle Recruitment

• Lead full-cycle recruitment for a portfolio of schools or departments within KIPP Texas, ensuring that hiring practices support a diverse and representative workforce for school-based positions or central office staff.
• Foster a culture of belongingness and empathy, delivering the talent acquisition team’s A+ service delivery model to clients across an assigned portfolio.
• Host job fairs to fill vacant positions.
• Complete initial candidate screenings and share qualified candidates with hiring managers for hiring decisions.
• Drive results across your assigned portfolio, efficiently and effectively implementing full-cycle recruitment to fill school-based or central office vacancies.
• Maintain accurate records of candidate interview materials,including interview guides and notes shared between stakeholders and candidates.
• Regularly update the applicant tracking system and provide accurate data to determine hiring needs and priorities.
• Monitor and report progress towards priority goals.

Hiring Manager Partnership

• Build and maintain strong relationships with human resource business partners (HRBPs) to understand talent needs and ensure alignment with workforce planning.
• Coordinate with HRBPs and hiring managers to identify staffing needs, job requirements, ideal candidate profiles, selection criteria, and execute appropriate selection process logistics.
• Provide expert thought partnership and talent insight to hiring managers and key recruitment stakeholders utilizing metrics (time to fill, compensation, candidate pool etc.) to influence effective high leverage recruitment actions and efficiently hire .

Candidate Experience Management

• Ensure a best-in-class candidate experience by fostering transparent communication, timely follow-ups, and a positive hiring journey.
• Implement candidate engagement strategies, including talent communities, alumni networks, and referral programs.
• Engage and cultivate active and passive talent aligned with current and future KIPP Texas opportunities.
• Maintain and track consistent candidate touchpoints to ensure a pool of diverse and qualified candidates.
• Serve as point of contact  for candidates interested in KTX opportunities providing  support and resources to build knowledge of roles, responsibilities, and KIPP Texas organizational overviews.

Serve as a member of the Talent Division Team and Family

• Champion KIPP Texas’ mission and core values, modeling our values in your work, decisions, and relationships.
• Model the Talent Division’s culture to foster high-performance, inclusion, and belonging. Support key team culture initiatives.
• Build a network of engaged stakeholders across the organization. Leverage a diverse set of perspectives to implement and strengthen our talent practices.
• Serve as an expert in sourcing and recruitment practices.
• Foster a culture of collaboration through active participation in manager, team, division, and organizational meetings.
• Demonstrate a growth mindset through co-creating a personalized learning plan and participating in development experiences to improve your practice in cultural competence leadership.

Performs other duties as assigned. Responsibilities and tasks outlined in this document are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the network

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required from an accredited college/university or Associate's with 3 years equivalent experience in talent recruitment or similar field
• Minimum 2 years of experience in talent recruitment or talent management preferably in a public K-12 education environment or comparable years of experience working in education
• Previous experience managing ATS software (ie. SalesForce, SmartRecruiters, Lever etc.) preferred
• Working knowledge of MS Office and Google applications

Skills

• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability and comfort to work across multiple projects
• Exceptional at adapting to changing circumstances, including demonstrating flexibility, resilience, willingness to learn, and embrace new approaches to challenges
• Results-oriented with a demonstrated record of success leading teams to goals through exceptional circumstances
• Self - starter with a record of delivering on time, in budget, and high-quality results
• Exceptional organization and time management skills.
• Strong interpersonal skill, can align key stakeholders and manage conflict

Physical Requirements

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions
• Considerable time spent at a desk using a computer/laptop
• Attending conferences or training sessions

Additional Requirements

• Relieable transportation is needed for travel between campuses 
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress 
• Work with frequent interruptions

Work Environment

• Hybrid - three days working from a regional SSP office in San Antonio, Houston, Austin or Dallas; two days working from a home office.

Travel Requirements

• Ability to travel to various locations within Texas or nationally, travel time up to 20%.

KIPP provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

What We Bring to the Table:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage options for employees and their families.
• Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies.
• Paid family leave.
• Flexible spending account or high-yield HSA.
• Employee assistance programs.
• KIPP also offers the following employee-paid benefits: legal plans, LifeLock identity protection, life insurance and disability insurance.

EEO:

KIPP Texas is an Equal Opportunity Employer. KIPP Texas ensures equal employment opportunities regardless of race, creed, gender, color, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or disability. Any individual needing assistance in making an application for any opening should contact the Talent Team.

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