Job Description

Our Promise: To Equip all scholars to Excel in learning and Empower them to Lead purpose-filled lives.

Purpose: Foundation Academies exist to address inequity facing the communities that we are honored to serve. Understanding our influence in closing the systemic inequalities is to ensure we have strong teams of highly talented people who have what they need to thrive. The Director of Talent Acquisition designs and implements talent systems and strategies that attract and retain high-quality talent. Without you we can't ensure our scholars have the best talent to deliver on our promise.

What's in it for you: In addition to joining us in the social justice fight you will be competitively salaried and much more. Learn more here!

Reports to: Chief Talent Officer

Starting Salary Range: $87,000-$108,000

Responsible: Tasks you are responsible for. Tasks are subject to change.

• Coach and develop team members and hiring manager to reach our goals:
  • Model best practice strategies to improve employee recruitment and retention .
  • Take ownership over closing the gaps in recruitment and retention data.
  • Track, analyze and utilize org-wide data to make adjustments to practice and approach to meet outcomes
  • Facilitate excellent, practice-changing professional development in response to Talent and org-wide data, grounded in school/network goals and priorities.
  • Observe classrooms weekly and deliver targeted feedback to principals in relation to the Talent goals
    • Meet with employees who may exhibit retention flags.
• Talent Planning and Strategy
  • Continuously monitors and analyzes data for hired, rejected, and non-accepting candidates to inform recruitment strategies and pivots to meet the goal
  • Ensuring the Employee Value Proposition is competitive and sustainable
• Active End to End Recruiting
  • Design a year-long outreach plan that systematically builds a short- and long-term talent pool and pipeline by establishing events and partnerships to secure the highest quality candidates
  • Ensure Candidates have an effective and consistent onboarding process

Accountable: What you are accountable for. These do not change, as you are the decider of them.

• Effective talent planning, outreach/sourcing and selection strategy for high quality candidates resulting in 90% highly qualified staffed for the new SY in all roles by EOY
  • Pool and Pipeline development
  • Collaborate with Marketing & Communications teams to create branded materials
  • Active End to End Recruitment for passive candidate
  • Equitable positive candidate and employee experience
• Establish and maintain high standards of team performance by developing clear long-term and annual goals and actively monitoring performance against them where we maintain a retention rate of 90%
  • Demonstrate exceptional leadership by leading with accountability, empathy, emotional intelligence and empowerment.
  • Coaching and Development of members of the team and hiring managers and supervisors

Consulted: What you are consulted for and therefore should be deeply knowledgeable about.

• Performance Management
  • High Performance Culture
• Total Rewards
• Succession Planning
• Annual Budget

Informed: Ensure you stay abreast on the influence of these systems on what you are accountable for.

• Candidate Market Analysis
  • Where are the candidates we need
  • What do the candidates need to thrive in our organization
• Coaching and Development strengths and needs
• Organization Skills gap analysis

Want to join our FAmily?

We are Foundation Academies: Trenton, New Jersey's largest and highest-ranking K-12 free public charter school. Our mission is to ensure that all of our students secure the academic knowledge and skills to prepare them for the nation's finest colleges, and to instill in them the core values of caring, respect, responsibility, and honesty. We serve more than 1,000 of the city's K-12 population across four schools on two campuses. We admit students by lottery, irrespective of gender, race, household income, or academic ability.

Our team of experienced and mission-driven urban educators values growth mindsets, lifelong learners, and individuals who believe that every child deserves an excellent education. We hold ourselves, our students, and our city to high standards because that's what our families deserve.

We are conveniently located a quick car ride to downtown Princeton, a 45-minute SEPTA ride to Philly's Center City, and a hop on the NJ Transit Express to New York City.

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