Director of Recruitment at DC Prep

Role Type: Full-Time

Location: Washington, DC

FLSA Status: Exempt

WHO WE ARE

DC Prep is a high performing network of public charter schools serving over 2,100 preschool through 8th-grade students across six campuses in Wards 5, 7, and 8. We’re proud of  the high bar we set for ourselves to achieve results–our students deserve our best! We recognize that how we support our students to be successful is just as important as the results we achieve, which pushes us to reflect on questions such as: 

• How can we facilitate our students’ academic, social, and emotional development?  
• How can we support our team members’ professional growth and personal ability to do this work long-term? 
• How can we engage our students’ families as our own? 

While this work is hard, it’s worth it – we believe in the transformative power of education, the can-do-itness of our students and staff, and the joy that comes from engaging in meaningful work with people we care about and trust!  

Here’s how we drive results: 

• Rigorous academic focus.  Our Preppies receive the highest level of academic preparation through standards-based instruction, daily targeted interventions, and meaningful assessments.

• Social-emotional learning. We have always had a dual mission of academic and social-emotional skill development.  Our research-based SEL curriculum is integrated into daily instruction, helping students leverage their personal values to strengthen their self-awareness, social awareness, and responsible decision-making skills and create a school-wide culture of empathy and reflection. 

• Commitment to reflection and refinement.  Our results tell us that we are moving in the right direction, but there’s further to go to ensure that every student receives a transformative education. As a team, we regularly reflect on our programmatic model to see what’s working and where we can get better.  

Are you interested in learning more about the DC Prep Way? If so, check out our website to find out more about what we’re working towards and how we’re doing it.

We are successful if our students build the knowledge, skills and confidence that will enable them to change the world. Achieving that goal requires an incredible team, and it’s our Director of Recruitment’s personal mission to ensure that each and every one of our students is taught and supported by people who believe in them fervently, and have the knowledge and skills to help them grow into their very best selves.  Our Director of Recruitment leads a team of two Associate Directors of Recruitment to partner with DC Prep’s senior leaders, principals, teachers and staff to make that mission a reality.

The Day-to-Day

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage the Recruitment team
• Manage the Recruitment Team (two Associate Directors of Recruitment) to meet ambitious recruitment and selection goals through inspirational leadership, tactical management support, and ongoing coaching
• Coach & develop the recruitment team
• Consistently gather, analyze, and communicate the data on DC Prep’s attraction and selection efforts to ensure even greater success
• Keep up-to-date on trends in the DC community, the national education landscape and the broader economy that may impact Recruitment’s efforts and identify those which we should act on as an organization
• Drive Recruitment Strategy
• Partner with senior leaders to create ambitious and measurable recruitment goals
• Create and drive the implementation of a comprehensive marketing and recruitment strategy for all DC Prep positions
• Build & oversee a range of strategies to increase the diversity of the candidate pool for all positions
• Represent and promote DC Prep through external events, on-campus tours, and other opportunities
• Lead selection process for campus based teachers and leadership team
• In partnership with senior instructional leaders and the Recruitment team, drive our efforts to develop, execute and refine our teacher and leader selection strategies
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience through unwaveringly high levels of customer service with both internal and external audiences by being honest, warm, responsive, and thorough at all times
• Lead our work to develop, execute and refine a strategy to ensure that high-quality candidates accept our offer
• Collaborate with Director of Talent Management, campus leaders and other members of the Home Office team to ensure a seamless onboarding process for new hires

Who You Are

You are passionate about the life-changing impact that excellent public education can have on individual children. You believe deeply in DC Prep’s approach to delivering on our mission: ensuring that every student has teachers and leaders in their classrooms who work together to deliver compelling, rigorous instruction while using real-time data to drive outcomes–and you want to make that vision a reality by recruiting and hiring educators who share this commitment to excellence.

As a strong communicator with a systems-oriented mindset, you thrive on setting ambitious goals for yourself and your team—and then building the structures, strategies, and relationships to achieve them.  As a fierce collaborator, you understand that your vision can only become reality through ongoing partnership with your team and the campuses you serve, and you proactively plan to ensure investment in your recruitment vision through ongoing collaboration and feedback.  

You invest in the people around you and believe in their ability to change and be change agents.  You are willing to dive into any situation, work on any challenge, and explore all opportunities to ensure our students are best served.

Above all, you believe deeply that all students deserve an excellent education, and that too few receive that today.  You’re open to feedback, eager to grow, and bring your best to everything you do.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated belief in DC Prep’s Vision, Mission and Values
• 5+ years of recruitment experience, preferably for a high performing school network
• Track record of delivering high-quality work against ambitious goals  
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and relationship-building skills with staff at all levels  
• Outstanding problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate nuanced situations and conversations with a variety of stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills  
• Highly organized; able to convert many moving pieces into a plan that is clear, simple, and accessible
• Optimistic, mature, flexible, hungry to grow and improve
• Deep familiarity with urban school systems and/or urban teaching experience in a high-performing school strongly preferred

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Recruitment Team members must be able to report to any of DC Prep’s six campuses
• Additional responsibilities may arise during the school year.  This could include: out of state/offsite trainings or recruitment events as well as morning or evening duties at a DC Prep campus.  DC Prep will communicate mandatory events outside of school hours with ample notice.

Physical Demands

The physical demands and environmental conditions described below are representative, but not exhaustive, of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the role.  All of these physical requirements should be able to be performed with clarity, coherence and connectedness to DC Prep’s vision.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Must be able to sit and work at a desk/computer for extended periods of time
• Must be able to spend the majority of the day standing or mobile throughout the classroom, as well as talk, hear, grasp, reach and lift up to 30lbs with or without accommodations
• Ability to concentrate in active and noisy environments such as cafeterias and playgrounds, to more moderate situations such as classrooms or large group professional settings
• Must be able to have repetitive wrist/hand/finger movement to work on computer and/or related office equipment
• Ability to handle potential high stress conditions

JOIN US

Do you believe that Learning Has No Limits? Are you eager to join a supportive, innovative, and collaborative community of educators? Are you committed to growing your strengths as an educator through individualized professional development and coaching? Apply today!

We’re an equal opportunity employer and hire without consideration of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or disability. We strongly encourage diverse candidates to apply.