Senior Talent Acquisition Associate
Associate Level
Bachelor Degree
1 Position
Full-time
Bangkok, Thailand
Mid-Senior level
Bachelor Degree
1 Position
Full-time
Bangkok, Thailand
Teach For Thailand (TFT) is an independent charity with a mission to address educational inequity in Thailand by enlisting our nation’s future leaders to teach in high-need schools. We believe in the value of giving back, inspiring others, and using our knowledge to make a real impact to better the lives of the future generations. At Teach For Thailand we aim to create an equitable education system with the placement of great teachers in high need schools who are committed to improve educational attainment, raise aspiration, and expand educational opportunity for all children. Over time, with insights gained in the classrooms we are committed to drive the impact of our network of alumni to become lifelong leaders in education and across all sectors who work to ensure excellent education for all.
Teach For Thailand is a partner in the Teach For All (www.teachforall.org) network. Teach For All is a network of 61 social enterprises pursuing specific theories of change to end educational inequity in their respective countries.
Our Story
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 takes a unique approach in identifying, cultivating, and selecting Thailand’s future leaders to join our flagship Fellowship Program – the 2-year leadership development program for our country’s most promising young leaders. In 2023, the team will recruit 100 to 200 participants (“fellows”) to join the 10th cohort of the Fellowship program.
Since its inception, the Scale Team has started to establish Teach For Thailand as a popular employer of choice among top Thai graduates. As one of the most creative recruiters on campus, we have generated buzz around the program, leading to successful recruitment seasons as well as a significant number of social media followers (around 60,000+).
Scale Team is responsible for recruitment and selection process, matriculation, placement and recruitment marketing strategies, the Scale Team has numbers of full-time members and student volunteers (“campus leaders”) from top domestic universities as well as US- and UK-based universities.
The Senior Talent Acquisition Associate will need to grow significantly while continuing to innovate our recruitment and selection approaches and help to support TFT to be one of the preferred employer upon their graduation.
The Role : Senior Talent Acquisition Associate (Section and Admissions)
Teach For Thailand is looking for a results-driven person to take on the challenge of scaling the Talent Acquisition work to the next level to ensure sustainable growth and impact. The organization is seeking individuals who display superior leadership, analytical, communications and interpersonal skills to join our team. Potential candidates should have the desire to work urgently in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
The Senior Talent Acquisition Associate is responsible for all aspects of fellow (teacher) recruitment. This includes the management of leading & driving the growth of fellow admission, optimizing recruitment, selection process, matriculation, placement 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. 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. This role will report to the Head of Scale.
Outcomes:
- Build strong qualified candidates pipeline and recruit 100 – 200 to start fellowship program in 2023
- 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 candidates matriculation rate (candidate that accept the offer and actually join the 1st day of training) is above at 70%
Recruitment & Selection: Leading & driving the growth of fellow (teacher) admissions
- Developing, executing and overseeing a strategic business plan to achieve 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 various teams (Training and Support, Alumni and Data and Impact teams) to improve the selection model by analyzing correlation between student outcome data and candidate attributes
- Reporting on all phases of recruitment and selection process to the Management Team
Team Management:
- Managing a team of 3-5 high-performing team members and 30-40 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 Scale 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 Scale Team
- Formalizing performance management within the team, including promotion criteria; standardizing the work across the team to ensure consistency and efficiency
Qualification And Experience
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 4+ 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
- Strong analytical skills and proven record of using data and research to support initiatives undertaken
- Experience of high level networking to build beneficial relationships that positively impact on strategic and tactical business development
- 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
- Strong sense of urgency and accountability to drive outcomes
- Ability to work under pressure
- Native speaker of Thai with professional working proficiency of English
- Willingness to travel and work some weekends and evenings
Desired 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
- Ability to work effectively with ambiguity in an organization transitioning out of its startup phase, including willingness to operate outside of one’s formal role to ensure the success of the broader organization
- A learning orientation – commitment to development and openness to feedback
- Exceptional interpersonal skills – ability to establish and manage authentic working relationships with people of all working styles to get things done
- Excellent in execution skills – ability to set strategic goals and analyze by using data to guide daily actions and decisions
- Exemplify Teach For Thailand’s core values: Mission comes first; Grow Together, Sense of Possibility: Act like an owner.
What's on offer
Employees share their diverse experiences and opportunities made possible by Teach For Thailand. We believe in the value of giving back, inspiring others, and using our knowledge to make a real impact to better the lives of the future generations. We invest in our people, and the communities in which we live and work.
Teach For Thailand offers a hybrid work model. There are ample professional development opportunities at Teach For Thailand and through the Teach For All Network as well.
What are you waiting for? Make an impact with Teach For Thailand today.
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.
TeachFor Thailand Foundation
People & Culture Team
7th floor , Athakavi Building 2
Sukhumvit26 Road
KlongToey, Bangkok 10110
