Head of Talent Acquisition

The Role: Head of Talent Acquisition:

Teach for Thailand is a nonprofit organization committed to more equitable and just education opportunities for children in Thailand. We want to better Thai education, one classroom at a time. And we do this by partnering with communities to develop a network of leaders through our Fellowship Program.

What We Do:

We develop leaders to improve educational opportunities for children in Thailand through our 2-year Fellowship Program.

In the Fellowship Program, we recruit, develop, and place people from all backgrounds to teach in underserved schools for two years. During this time, Fellows learn through firsthand experience and grow their leadership skills by collaborating with stakeholders in schools and communities.

After their experience, graduates of the Program are empowered to drive positive changes in Thai education and beyond. Whether they carry on as teachers, become policymakers, start their own social enterprises, or work in the public or private sector, they are able to affect change in different ways.

The Role: Head of Talent Acquisition

At the core of Teach for Thailand’s unique model is our ability to inspire Thailand’s best talents to join the movement and become lifelong champions of educational inequity.  The Talent Acquisition Team of Teach for Thailand takes a unique approach in identifying, cultivating, and selecting Thailand’s future leaders to join our flagship “Leaders For Change” Fellowship program – the 2-year leadership development program for our country’s most promising young leaders.  In 2025-2027, the team will recruit 70-200 participants (“fellows”) to join the eighth cohort of the Fellowship program.  

The Talent Acquisition team has 3-4 full-time members with support from student volunteers (“campus leaders”) in some of the top domestic universities. The Talent Acquisition team strives to establish Teach for Thailand as a popular employer of choice among top Thai graduates.  The team plans to do this by being one of the most creative recruiters on campus and generated buzz around the program which will lead to successful recruitment seasons. Besides university campus recruitment, leveraging on social media will be another means of recruitment channels for our fellowship program. Looking ahead over the next few years, the vision of our team is to become one of the most prestigious graduate employers and recruit 100 - 200 fellows in a year.  To achieve this ambitious goal, the Talent Acquisition team will need to grow significantly while continuing to innovate our recruitment and selection approaches.

Outcomes for the role include, but are not limited to:

• Build a strong qualified candidates pipeline and recruit 70–200 to start fellowship program in 2025 - 2026
• Understand the potential candidates’ motivations and barriers in order to create the right message to the right target audience.
• Streamline the recruitment and hiring processes to drive higher conversion rates and efficiency
• Ensure the candidate's matriculation rate (candidates who accept the offer and actually join the 1st day of training) is above 70%

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

The Head of Talent Acquisition is responsible for all aspects of fellow (teacher) recruitment. This includes the management of leading & driving the growth of fellow admissions, optimizing recruitment, selection process, matriculation, and innovation in the area of recruitment marketing strategies that resulted in the achievement of recruitment objectives. This role will allow an experienced executive to transform management and business practices into building an efficient, transformative, and impact-driven social impact organization, including overseeing the full spectrum of talent attraction strategy from marketing and branding to recruitment and research-based selection. The Head of Talent Acquisition is also a member of Teach for Thailand’s Senior Leadership Team and will have the opportunity to help steer the overall direction of the organization.

Recruitment & Selection: Leading & driving the growth of fellow (teacher) admissions

• Developing and overseeing a strategic business plan to achieve an ambitious recruitment target, which is expected to grow by 100% over the next few years
• Managing and scaling a selection process that involves the screening of more than 1,000 candidates per application cycle
• Tracking and analyzing relevant recruitment and selection data to drive progress towards our ambitious goals
• Building and strengthening Teach for Thailand’s on-campus recruitment infrastructure, including relationships with the most influential professors at top universities
• Innovating Teach for Thailand’s social media marketing and recruiting strategy on Facebook and other platforms
• Collaborating with the Research, Impact, and Evaluation team to improve the selection model by analyzing the correlation between student outcome data and candidate attributes
• Reporting on all phases of the recruitment and selection process to the Management Team

Team Management:

• Managing team members and student volunteers (both in Thailand and abroad) to be successful and engaged in a fast-paced, goals-driven environment; continuing to grow the team in response to the scale of the fellowship program
• Building a strong team culture to ensure that the Talent Acquisition team is a great and sustainable place for every team member to work
• Coaching and developing team members on core recruiting and management skills and cultivating them as future leaders of the Talent Acquisition team
• Providing leadership for the organization and representing the vision, mission, and core values of the organization both internally and externally
• Engaging the entire organization in coming up with a long-term vision and strategy for the organization
• Developing and overseeing organization-wide strategic and operational plan; monitoring organizational performance across the board
• Working on key strategic initiatives and issues to optimize the operations of the organization as well as maximize impact

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years of management experience in a fast-paced and goals-driven environment is mandatory and having recruitment management experience is a plus.
• Proven experience developing and executing recruiting marketing and branding strategies
• Track record of achievement in ensuring deadlines and team targets are achieved
• Experience in mass/campus recruiting or previous background from recruiting agency is a plus
• Has a “hustler” mentality and does whatever it takes with integrity to get the results
• Ability to work under pressure with target
• Flexibility (able to travel and work on the weekend when required) 
• Native speaker of Thai with professional working proficiency of English

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• A deep commitment to education equity - a belief that all children can succeed regardless of their background. 
• Visionary leadership skills, with the personal drive and energy to inspire and motivate colleagues and peers.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills - ability to establish and manage authentic working relationships with people of all working styles with humility, empathy and respect to get things done. 
• Exceptional organizational skills - ability to manage multiple complex projects independently to achieve results.
• A learning orientation with self-awareness and commitment to development for growth
• Good command of English and Thai fluency is mandatory (written and spoken)
• Exemplify Teach for Thailand’s core values: Mission Comes First, Grow Together, Sense of Possibility, and Act Like Owners.

Compensation and Benefits 

We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team well! We offer:

• Competitive salary in the local non-profit sector. We benchmark our salaries against similar organizations, and use a scale that considers job complexity and magnitude of responsibility to determine role levels and corresponding base salaries, as well as offer regular opportunities for salary increases.
• 15 days paid time off plus public holidays (we follow the Government calendar) - – Your well-being is a priority.
• An organization with exceptional teams to support and develop you to the next level
• The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact organization.

To Apply:

To join us as a team member, apart from being well qualified, you need to believe as strongly as we do in our mission and vision to ensure the success of our organization.

Please send your resume and a one-page cover letter to careers@teachforthailand.org with the subject line of the position you are applying for. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.