EF High School Exchange Year Hiring for Director of Recruitment Job at Remote Full Time

Director of Recruitment

Denver, Boston, or Remote

EF High School Exchange Year sponsors international high school students who spend a semester or academic year living with host families across the United States. With a bustling network of 1,000 local coordinators, 1,500 partnering high schools and 3,000 volunteer host families, our program relies on strong leadership, clear communication, and consistent support to achieve our goals of quality and growth.

In this dynamic role, you’ll oversee recruitment efforts in all regions of the U.S. You will directly manage staff, motivating staff towards team and individual goals. Your team’s primary focus is to source and recruit coordinators to help grow and develop the structure of this program in a quality way. Your ability to build relationships and motivate a diverse group of independent contractors is crucial to this role, as is the ability to work effectively with your domestic and international colleagues. Your outstanding communication and problem-solving skills, excellent attention to detail, good judgment, and sincere passion for international education will ensure the experience of a lifetime for all or our exchange students. As part of a driven, goal-oriented, and hard-working team, you’ll gain invaluable experience and skills in areas such as marketing, volunteer management, and cross-cultural communication.

In this role you must be able to think quickly on your feet, multi-task, and provide the team you manage with guidance, professional development, support, and the tools to be successful in their roles. You are incredibly proactive and can balance the big-picture company goals with day-to-day management and tasks. You have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications. You are a quick learner, your communication skills are superior and your commitment to growth, customer service and quality is second to none. You have an entrepreneurial spirit and a think outside of the box mentality to bring forward new proposals and ideas that will continually enhance our exchange program.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage a team of 5+ Recruitment Managers, who strategically recruit International Exchange Coordinators in respective regions across the country
• Create weekly and daily recruitment goals for the team and keep the team on track towards benchmarks
• Develop strategies for recruitment across the country, collaborating closely with the marketing team
• Regional networking, brand building, and recruitment event management
• Oversee a budget for incentives and staff costs
• Process incentive bonuses for the recruitment staff and coordinators
• Work closely with the placement team to analyze target areas for Recruitment
• Travel Requirements: Regional visits, attendance at a National Conference; work weekends and late nights during peak season.

Qualities Required:

• Entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to create and test new recruitment strategies
• Strong staff management skills
• Goal driven with a sales mentality to meet and exceed team benchmarks
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure timely, accurate, and professional communication
• Ability to manage multiple projects and situations simultaneously
• Possess strong critical thinking skills to effectively manage and cultivate continuous education
• Passion for cultural exchange and ability to increase customer satisfaction
• High level of professionalism in all interactions with staff, coordinators, families, and schools
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Outlook and Excel) and Salesforce
• Attention to detail

Why You’ll Love Working Here: Perks, Benefits and Earning Potential
As if changing lives and making the world a better place isn’t enough, we also offer the opportunity to:

Live Well

• Benefits include a competitive base salary and 25% company match on your 401(k).
• Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with life and disability insurance
• Expand your worldview with paid international business travel plus three weeks of paid vacation time to start (and four weeks starting in year two) plus 12 paid holidays. The more you develop, the more passport stamps you will collect.

Be You

• We believe our business, like our world, is better when we embrace diversity.
• Build your network by joining one of EF’s employee resource groups, or EF-Finity groups: Black@EF, LGBTQ+@EF, Latinx+@EF, API@EF, MENA@EF, Accessiblility@EF, Jewish@EF, Faith@EF, Indigenous@EF and Parents@EF.

Be engaged

• We work in an open environment without a cubicle in sight.
• You will also enjoy comprehensive professional development.

Have fun

• Explore the neighborhood with discounts to local businesses, concert tickets and sporting events.
• Explore the world with discounts to hotels and flights as well as paid international travel.

In addition, you can expect:

• Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings, workshops, and TED Talk style sessions
• Wellness benefits including onsite and virtual classes run by EF instructors and a yearly fitness reimbursement
• EF Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, childcare with our Au Pair product and more)
• Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Discounts at local venues and businesses
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  Compensation: Annual salary of $60,000-$65,000 depending on prior work and management experience. Bonus potential of up to three months’ salary based on performance.

EF High School Exchange Year (HSEY) is a non-profit high school foreign exchange program affiliated with Education First. We bring students from around the world to live with volunteer host families and enroll in local high schools for either one semester or a full academic year. Our mission is to promote international understanding and global awareness across the US. Together we share culture and languages, open communities to the wider world, and create lifelong bonds that span the globe. For more information, please visit www.efexchangeyear.org.

EF Education First is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

About EF Education First:

At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.

When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, ability, parental status, experience and everything else that makes you unique.

Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has school and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at https://ef.com