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New Classrooms is a recently launched, non-profit organization that creates transformative innovations for K-12 education. Founded by the creators of School of One, the award-winning personalized educational program named one of the top 50 inventions of 2009 by TIME, New Classrooms designs new models for instruction that reimagine the role of educators, the use of time, the configuration of physical space, and the use of data and technology within traditional public, charter, and independent schools.

Our client’s organization was born from the belief that today’s model for delivering education – one teacher and 28 or so students in a classroom – does not sufficiently account for each student’s needs and assumes that all students arrive on the first day of school with the same academic foundation and ways of learning. For a teacher, this presents the nearly impossible challenge of trying to teach grade-level curriculum while also meeting the needs of each student.

New Classrooms complements the role of live, teacher-led instruction with other instructional modalities such as independent learning, collaborative learning, and virtual tutoring. In doing so, the organization redesigns the classroom experience to better meet the needs of each and every student.

New Classrooms is a passion-led, mission-driven organization – one that continually looks to match its team members with roles that fit their strengths and interests. The organization looks to bring on new team members who share a deep-seated interest in improving our nation’s schools, solving problems in innovative ways, getting things done in a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment, and growing professionally.

For more information about New Classrooms, please visit its website: .

The Director of Talent is responsible for designing and leading New Classrooms’ efforts to build a team of talented and committed individuals who bring a diverse set of skills and a common sense of purpose. The organization anticipates rapid growth over the next five years, and is looking for an organizational leader who shares in its values and who can design and build the human capital strategies and systems required to meet its long-term objectives.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to lead the charge in attracting, selecting, developing and retaining top talent , as part of a cutting-edge, mission-driven organization dedicated to academic excellence and closing the achievement gap. The ideal candidate will be a strong strategic thinker with a proven track record of building innovative and effective systems and processes.. This individual will not only have a passion for human capital work, , but will also have an ability to innovate to create new pathways to secure passionate and mission aligned talent.

Candidates will also be able to work independently and will have the drive and energy to thrive in an innovative, fast paced, entrepreneurial environment. The Director of Talent will have experience in process-building, planning and execution, working under tight deadlines, and navigating systems and organizations of scale and complexity without sacrificing thoroughness and detail.

Responsibilities will include:

• Set the organizational vision for how New Classrooms recruits, develops, and manages talent in ways that are both consistent with the organization’s values and in alignment with its long term objectives
• Design and lead a strategy to execute against this vision, including the development of both a long-term organizational design and the requisite systems and processes required for support
• Build the necessary relationships within and outside the organization required to realize this vision
• Manage directly the short-term recruitment needs of the organization
  • Draft and promote job descriptions that are both inspiring and clear
  • Reach out to potential candidates within the organization’s network as well as within the networks of other members of the team
  • Screen and assess candidates for fit with organizational culture and to the specifics of the roles
  • Collaborate with the organization’s senior leadership on candidate assessment
  • Manage follow-up communications
• Schedule, screen, interview, monitor, and cultivate potential applicants to identify the best prospects from the candidate pool, assisting with finalist selection
• Lead development of interview guidelines, evaluation tools, and assessment procedures to ensure that all school teams are equipped with the necessary resources to hire personnel
• Recommend and develop systems to guide and track the effectiveness of recruitment strategies and update systems accordingly
• Perform other related duties as requested and assigned

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree
• MBA strongly preferred but not required
• Eight-plus years of work experience with evidence of building effective strategies, systems, and processes
• Management experience strongly preferred but not required

Skills, traits and beliefs:

• Alignment with the educational philosophy and core beliefs of New Classrooms
• Demonstrated experience and passion for work in K-12 education
• Natural tendency toward innovative and creative problem solving
• Comfort working in a highly collaborative start-up/entrepreneurial work environment
• National network of education, policy, and/or business contacts
• Extensive knowledge of recruitment tools and best practices
• Strong strategic thinker with proven track record of securing talent
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability and willingness to seek innovative solutions to recruiting challenges
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Ability and willingness to travel for recruitment and networking purposes

Commensurate with experience