Assistant Recruitment Manager (Pupil Transportation)

Start date: ASAP

Travel: 25% \- 30% of the time

Shift: 12:00 \- 21:00 EST

What’s in it for you (benefits will vary if not hired for full\-time permanent):

• PTO (Minimum 120 hours per year)\- Accrued per pay period
• 13 Paid company\-wide Holidays
• An annual $250 stipend to support any home office needs
• Work in an inclusive, caring, and values\-driven environment
• Make a critical difference for children, families and educators
• Growth opportunities

Weekly hours: 40 \- 50 per week (Required Overtime, which includes weekend hours, 6 weeks out of the year)

Wage: $26 \- $32 per hour

We are seeking a highly organized, results\-driven operational leader to join our team as an Assistant Recruitment Manager. This individual will play a critical role in driving day\-to\-day execution of our recruitment function, ensuring consistency, quality, and performance across the team. This role is responsible for developing coordinators, reinforcing best practices, and maintaining high standards across all recruitment activities. The ideal candidate is both hands\-on and people\-focused—someone who doesn’t mind doing the day\-to\-day work when support is needed, can execute at a high level while coaching others, identifying gaps, and strengthening overall team performance. This role reports directly to the Recruitment Manager and partners closely with Recruitment, Onboarding, and Compliance teams.

Who you are:

• Deep belief in our mission and values
• Have a high degree of emotional intelligence
• Enjoy speaking to people for the majority of the day by executing a high volume of phone calls
• Detailed in logging a written account of conversations and actions with candidates
• Able to exhibit our comprehension\-level company competencies (review by clicking here)
• Persistent
• Can thrive in a fast\-paced, ever\-changing environment
• Highly skilled at building rapport quickly and influencing through strong communication.
• Able to balance strategic thinking with hands\-on execution in a fast\-paced, high\-volume recruitment environment.
• Proactive in spotting trends, challenges, and opportunities in candidate pipelines — and acting on them.
• Resilient and resourceful in ever\-changing circumstances, with a track record of delivering results under tight deadlines.
• Confident in making recommendations, improving processes, and supporting the success of the entire recruitment function.
• Holds others accountable
• Gives direct feedback
• Operates with ownership, not just task completion

What you’ll do:

Leadership \& Team Oversight

• Directly manage and develop coordinators, including performance management, coaching, and daily accountability
• Lead training for both specialists and coordinators, ensuring consistency in execution, messaging, and candidate experience
• Conduct regular call reviews and provide structured, actionable feedback to improve conversion and quality
• Monitor daily activity and pipeline health across the coordinator function, ensuring targets are consistently met
• Identify performance gaps and address them quickly through coaching, training, and accountability measures

Execution \& Recruitment Ownership

• Lead and execute recruitment efforts for high\-volume roles, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and extending offers
• Conduct outreach as needed to support pipeline conversion and ensure hiring goals are met
• Serve as a subject matter expert and point of contact for complex or high\-priority requisitions
• Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to engage both active and passive talent
• Monitor candidate pipelines and proactively address gaps to ensure hiring targets are achieved

Operational Excellence \& Quality Control

• Own quality control across outreach, calls, scheduling, and overall candidate experience
• Ensure all recruitment activity aligns with established standards, processes, and expectations
• Identify inefficiencies or breakdowns in the process and implement corrective actions
• Support process improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency and candidate experience

Cross\-Functional Partnership \& Reporting

• Partner with cross\-functional teams to understand workforce needs and align recruitment priorities
• Prepare recruitment metrics and insights for leadership, highlighting performance trends and opportunities
• Handle sensitive or escalated candidate situations with professionalism and discretion
• Respond to internal recruitment\-related inquiries and ensure timely, accurate resolutions

* Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Read, write, and speak English at a proficient level
• At least 18 years old
• Have a working computer with a camera and microphone
• Have a reliable internet connection
• Minimum 3 years of high\-volume recruitment experience, including sourcing and full\-cycle hiring.
• 1–2 years leading or formally managing people
• Proven ability to coach and improve performance (not just hit metrics)
• Proven track record of achieving recruitment goals in a fast\-paced, metric\-driven environment.
• Proven track record of leading key recruitment projects and initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to handle complex requisitions, prioritize competing demands, and manage high call volumes (100\+ outbound calls/day).
• 1\+ year of full\-time remote work experience (remote experience related to COVID or hybrid does not meet this criteria).
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple hiring projects simultaneously.

About Us:

At BuckledIn our purpose is to enable every person to access the opportunities they deserve. Specifically, we eliminate transportation as a barrier to a families’ success by matching people in need of transportation with safe, consistent, compassionate drivers.

Our values:

* Excellence Everywhere: We don’t settle—we set the standard. From safety to service, we exceed expectations to protect and support students at every turn.

* Driven to Learn: Curious, open\-minded, and always improving. We embrace feedback, seek new ideas, and grow so we can serve better every day.

* Trust Is Everything: We earn trust through consistency, respect, and follow\-through. Our words and actions align, every time.