Recruitment and Outreach Manager

What would it mean to dedicate your time, talent, and energy to creating a more just and sustainable food system?

New Roots Institute is a growing nonprofit dedicated to ending factory farming by empowering the next generation of advocates. Our fellowship programs train students to lead real-world campaigns that create structural and behavioral change in their communities.

We’re seeking a passionate and experienced Recruitment and Outreach Manager to join our team and help deepen our impact. As Recruitment and Outreach Manager, you’ll lead New Roots Institute’s high-touch, relationship-based recruitment efforts, helping us build talented, motivated, and diverse cohorts of fellows. You’ll serve as an outward-facing ambassador for New Roots, identifying and engaging promising prospective applicants, cultivating partnerships with educators and organizations, and generating excitement about our programs.

Through personalized outreach and consistent follow-up, you’ll guide prospects from initial identification and interest through application. As the first person to hold this role, you’ll establish our relationship-based recruitment function, building the partnerships, strategies, and systems needed to expand our reach while personally leading outreach and prospect cultivation.

• Ending factory farming is not merely our employment. We prioritize our lives around it and are looking for people who bring that same commitment, along with the self-awareness and discipline to sustain it.
• We continuously question our own biases and assumptions and adapt when we recognize we’re wrong. We’re looking for people who can see their ego and know how to put it aside to achieve shared goals.
• We’re results-oriented, strive for excellence, and are looking for people who can say they never miss deadlines.
• Giving and receiving honest and direct feedback is foundational to our culture and a performance requirement for all of us. We’re looking for people who are eager to use constructive feedback to grow and help others to grow, both personally and professionally.
• Because we work remotely, proactive communication and quick responses are key to building trust and working effectively together. We’re looking for people who excel at keeping everyone updated. If you don’t always respond within a few hours, New Roots won’t be the place for you.
• We genuinely enjoy working together and look for ways to have fun, despite the tragic nature of what we are up against.

• Lead New Roots Institute’s high-touch, relationship-based recruitment efforts, building a strong pipeline of high-potential high school and university students and supporting prospective applicants from initial engagement through application.
• Build the foundational systems and processes for this new function, including how New Roots identifies and prioritizes prospects, tracks relationships and follow-up, manages recruitment partnerships, and evaluates results.
• Develop and execute targeted outreach strategies to meet recruitment goals and engage priority audiences, including researching and building prospect lists, conducting direct outreach, meeting with students and student groups, leading information sessions, engaging campus communities, and attending conferences and other recruitment events.
• Cultivate priority prospects by helping them understand New Roots Institute’s programs, addressing questions and barriers, and supporting qualified candidates in deciding whether to apply.
• Build and sustain recruitment partnerships with schools, educators, university staff, student organizations, movement organizations, and other…