Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
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 effect 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 generating 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.
