EducationSuperHighway

• Design and build an API-first full-stack platform connecting employers, employees, and payroll systems • Own integrations with payroll and HRIS providers — authorization flows, data sync, and deduction management • Build employee-facing enrollment flows and employer-facing campaign and dashboard tooling • Design reliable background job pipelines with status tracking, retry logic, and error handling • Handle sensitive employee and financial data with appropriate security practices • Make sound architecture decisions under ambiguity, balancing speed with long-term extensibility

• Design and build the end-to-end donation processing infrastructure, covering critical fundraising tracks. • Manage and optimize the donation platform stack, ensuring payment processing, pledge management, recurring gift administration, and payroll deduction flows operate reliably and at scale. • Build reconciliation processes that ensure donation records, payment receipts, and CRM data are accurate and consistent across all systems. • Become EducationSuperHighway's internal expert on EFTC compliance requirements. • Build and maintain the documentation, recordkeeping, and reporting systems required to demonstrate compliance with EFTC regulations. • Develop donor acknowledgment and tax documentation processes. • Own the financial flows from donated funds to scholarship disbursements. • Build financial reporting on scholarship fund utilization. • Build and maintain financial dashboards providing real-time visibility into donation volume, revenue by track, and compliance status. • Manage the annual audit process for donation operations and scholarship funds.

• Build and own an outbound pipeline targeting employers with strong CSR/ESG commitments and meaningful employee donation capacity. • Run the full sales cycle: cold outreach, discovery, pitch, multi-stakeholder navigation, and close. • Sell directly to HR, Benefits, and CSR/ESG leaders. • Maintain rigorous CRM discipline and report weekly against pipeline and partnership targets. • Identify and close partnerships with payroll, HR, and benefits platforms to integrate EFTC donation functionality into employee portals. • Build relationships with platform BD, product, and partnership teams. • Document your process: pitch library, objection handling, outreach sequences, and partner onboarding workflows.

Role Description The Contract Recruiter will lead full-cycle recruiting for EducationSuperHighway's first major hiring push across six to eight roles spanning partnerships, marketing, program operations, and organizational support. This is a high-volume, fast-moving engagement for a recruiter who is comfortable working independently, managing multiple searches simultaneously, and closing strong candidates quickly. This is a six-month contract with potential to extend based on organizational need. Key Responsibilities - Manage full-cycle recruiting for multiple open roles simultaneously, from job posting through offer acceptance. - Source candidates through job boards, LinkedIn, networks, and referrals, with a strong bias toward active outreach over inbound-only pipelines. - Screen candidates, coordinate interviews, and manage candidate communications throughout the process, ensuring a timely and positive candidate experience. - Conduct reference checks and coordinate background screenings on final candidates. - Draft and extend offers in coordination with leadership. - Support job description development for roles that are not yet fully defined. - Partner closely with ESH leadership to understand role requirements, priorities, and ideal candidate profiles. - Provide regular updates and reports on pipeline status, interview feedback, and search progress for each open role. - Advise on compensation benchmarking and sourcing strategy as needed. - Coordinate with ESH leadership on offer logistics and onboarding handoff. - Build and maintain a referral pipeline by working ESH's leadership network and encouraging warm introductions. - Manage candidate pipelines, interview notes, and search status in Ashby, ESH's ATS, keeping all records accurate and up to date. - Produce a regular pipeline report for leadership covering open requisitions, candidate status, and projected time-to-fill. - Advise leadership on Ashby configuration and workflow setup as needed to support ESH's first major hiring push. Qualifications - 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including significant time working as an independent contractor or agency recruiter managing multiple searches. - Demonstrated ability to manage six or more concurrent searches without losing momentum. - Strong sourcing skills, including active outreach via LinkedIn Recruiter and other channels. - Experience setting up or administering an ATS (Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, or similar). - Excellent communication and relationship management skills with both candidates and hiring managers. - Comfort working in a startup or early-stage environment where priorities can shift quickly. Requirements - Experience recruiting for nonprofit, education, or mission-driven organizations. - Familiarity with partnership, business development, or sales recruiting. - Experience using recruiter networks, or similar platforms for contract engagements. - Track record of closing candidates for roles that require mission alignment, not just compensation. Company Description EducationSuperHighway is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit that closed the K-12 broadband gap, connecting 99.3% of America's public schools to high-speed internet and helping 5 million low-income households get online. Now, EducationSuperHighway is turning those connections into opportunity — working to close the nation's literacy gap by providing literacy tutoring scholarships to first-grade students reading below grade level. We are a Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO) leveraging the new $1,700 federal Educational Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC), effective January 1, 2027, to build the most ambitious literacy funding campaign in the country.

• Develop and execute an outbound prospecting strategy targeting employers across sectors, with strong CSR/ESG commitments and employee bases that create meaningful donation capacity • Own the full sales cycle from cold outreach through signed partnership agreement — pitch development, multi-stakeholder navigation, and close • Sell to executive leadership across HR, benefits, and CSR/ESG functions, positioning the EFTC as a transformational employee benefit and corporate impact opportunity • Track a pipeline of employer prospects with rigorous CRM discipline, reporting weekly against partnership goals • Identify and pursue partnerships with payroll, HR and related platform companies integrate EFTC donation functionality into employee portals • Build relationships with platform BD, product, and partnership teams to position EducationSuperHighway as a preferred SGO and giving infrastructure partner • Explore co-marketing and partnership structures that support long-term platform engagement and promotion • Document a repeatable sales process, pitch library, objection handling, and partner onboarding workflow that a growing team can execute at scale • Build and lead a team in preparation for the 2027 EFTC launch • Collaborate closely with the Employer Success Manager to ensure smooth handoffs and a high-quality partner experience