Senior Director of Education Staffing
Job Description
Senior Director of Education Staffing
Location: Hybrid role in Orange County, CA
What you’ll do:
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Own and optimize recruiting end-to-end (sourcing, screening, interviews, hiring flow) for high-volume school staffing roles (e.g., special ed instructional aides, general education aides, nutrition assistants, before/after school staff).
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Modernize the sourcing engine: reduce over-reliance on job boards, expand/direct sourcing channels, and improve conversion and quality while operating within a low-pay-rate recruiting environment.
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Maximize current tools and workflow, including an AI screener (Classet) and Zoom interviews then improve the process and decisioning framework around them.
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Lead and develop the recruiting org: coach recruiters, improve quality/consistency, and help scale a growing team.
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Oversee staffing service delivery/operations tied to the staffing business—scheduling, training, and account/service delivery rhythms.
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Build the operating system: develop/refine SOPs, metrics, and weekly/monthly cadences that drive throughput, quality, and retention.
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Select and implement staffing technology (they do not currently have an ATS / staffing platform), including evaluation, rollout, adoption, and change management.
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Be a key leader at the table: partner closely with executive leadership and board stakeholders to help professionalize and scale a fast-growing business.
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Help design the future org model, including a longer-term move toward a more structured split-desk/full-desk approach.
What you’ll bring
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Staffing leadership experience with strong command of recruiting operations and staffing/service delivery mechanics (education staffing helpful, not required).
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A track record of building, fixing, or scaling recruiting teams/processes in a high-change environment.
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Strength in process design + execution: SOPs, funnel metrics, quality controls, and operational cadence.
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Comfort being hands-on early (“in the weeds”) while simultaneously building for scale.
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Strong stakeholder management—able to align founders, operators, and board-level audiences.
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High agility, accountability, and resilience in “build-mode” environments.
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Willingness to be onsite in Orange County at least 2 days/week (ideally more).
What you’ll get
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Compensation: up to $150,000 base + bonus up to 20% (company + department performance targets; comp plan expected to evolve as the staffing org matures).
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Autonomy and impact: true opportunity to build the staffing and recruiting function—process, org design, and technology—from a foundational stage.
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Growth runway: the business is targeting significant growth next year with meaningful operational transformation underway.
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Visibility: direct partnership with senior leadership and board stakeholders.
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A platform to help expand capabilities over time (including potential move into more licensed/clinical staffing once licensing allows).
Job Number 8060
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Additional Information
MeeDerby is an executive search firm uniquely dedicated to serving the staffing industry. For nearly three decades, we've helped thousands of executives, managers, senior sales and senior recruiters who have worked in staffing find their place in this robust industry. You spend your days helping people find the perfect job. Don’t you deserve a partner who can do the same for you? Leverage our hard-won connections to take the next step in your staffing career.
Meet Your Recruiter
Walter Shedd
Executive Recruiter
With over 16 years of experience in sales and recruiting management, Walter Shedd is a seasoned Executive Recruiter at MeeDerby, the leading source for executive search in the Staffing Industry. He has a proven track record of finding and placing qualified candidates for various staffing disciplines and verticals across the nation, leveraging his extensive network, subject matter expertise, and consultative approach.
Walter’s passion is to create lasting and mutually beneficial relationships between clients and candidates, and to help them achieve their growth and success goals. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the Staffing Industry, having worked across all corners of the industry, expanding on his roots in Commercial Staffing. He also has a unique background in visual storytelling, having interned with a photojournalist from TIME Magazine and covered major events such as the 2004 presidential election and the World Series. Walter’s focus at MeeDerby is to source and recruit top managers and executives for the Staffing Industry, with a special emphasis on his hometown of Chicago.
