Commercial Lead - Recruitment and Onboarding (Cape Town)
Commercial Lead - Recruitment and Onboarding (Cape Town)
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24-05-2025
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24-05-2025
Job Description
Location: Office based in Cape Town
Type: Full-time
Working hours are expected to be:
9AM - 6PM UK time. (11AM - 8PM SA time in Winter 10AM - 7PM SA time in Summer)
Shorter days during some of August.
Reports to: Head of Resourcing
About Zen Educate:
Zen is revolutionising education. Schools spend over 2bn a year on agency staff and 600m of that goes straight into the pockets of recruitment agencies. Thats why weve built an alternative.
Our online platform gives schools instant access to hundreds of profiles of fully vetted teachers and support staff. Since launching in 2017 weve saved schools over 10m money that goes straight back into school budgets and increases teachers pay.
The opportunity
This is your chance to join a tech startup in hypergrowth. Were passionate about professional development and well work to maximise your personal and career growth. Were looking for enthusiastic mission-driven people who fit our values and are passionate about what we do.
We have recently raised our Series B funding of $37mil the largest round in European EdTech this year. This is an exciting opportunity to make a difference and be part of a high growth start-up that is expanding rapidly in the UK and US markets!
The Role:
We are looking for a Commercial Lead - Recruitment and Onboarding to take full ownership over the operations of our Cape Town office.
This is a unique hybrid role that blends commercial consulting sales and office management. Youll be responsible for driving output leading a high-performing team and collaborating closely with our UK team to onboard and promote platform adoption by teachers and teaching assistants.
Youll act as the key driver of our Cape Town operations building a culture of accountability and efficiency ensuring team growth and owning day-to-day office management. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment is passionate about people and knows how to turn strategy into results.
Key deliverables:
Use data and business insight to drive operational efficiency and output from the Cape Town office.
Identify and implement improvements to our candidate onboarding funnel and internal processes to drive speed quality and consistency.
Coach and develop the sales and onboarding team to consistently hit team targets (new sign-ups activations verifications etc.)
Act as a player-coach - jumping into candidate onboarding and supporting the team where need to lead by example.
Collaborate with UK-based leadership on hiring training and performance management.
Continue to build a collaborative and high performing culture as part of our global values and mission.
Lead initiatives to improve performance streamline processes and increase ROI.
Oversee day-to-day office operations of our Cape Town office
What Were Looking For:
Passion for education recruitment and mission-driven work.
5 years of experience in a commercial operations or team leadership role ideally within a high-growth tech company or startup.
Proven track record of leading and motivating sales or operations teams.
Comfortable working across time zones and collaborating with remote teams.
Experience managing an office or physical operations is a strong plus
Whats in it for you
Work that you want to talk about
Competitive salary
25 days of holiday in line with UK education term dates plus UK bank holidays.
Fun-loving tight-knit team solving a problem that makes a difference
Diversity and Inclusion
At Zen we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion where everyone is respected valued and appreciated for their unique traits experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive regardless of age ethnicity race gender identity sexual orientation socio-economic status disability religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer more compassionate environment for all.
We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where peoples voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work.
We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions beliefs and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; weve had former teachers pilots fundraisers engineers lawyers marketers social media experts and more join our team.
We cant wait to hear from you!
Employment Type
Full-Time
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