Director of HR and Recruiting（到期)

*About Tokyo Academics*

Tokyo Academics is Tokyo’s leading academic tutoring, test preparation, and college admissions counseling company, providing world-class education in the heart of Tokyo. TA is the passion project of a constellation of teachers, researchers, and academics in Tokyo, Japan. Since 2012, we’ve evolved from a few university friends tutoring at a tiny restaurant in Tokyo into an organization of academic, test prep, and college admissions experts, helping students to realize and reach their potential and capture the opportunities of the future.

Our tutors work with English-speaking, international students from 1st grade through 12th grade (and some post-graduate students), in various academic subjects, ranging from Latin and Debate to Computer Science and AP Physics. Most of our team is in Japan and in the Philippines, but we are growing our US-based team as well. Most of our students are located in Japan, but we also have students in the US, Europe, and other parts of Asia.

We have been around for 8 years and have grown consistently year after year. We are also constantly expanding our line of services. We started with just private test prep tutoring, and now we offer academic tutoring, group classes, online learning, college admissions counseling, boarding school admissions counseling, coding classes, and student research (also running one of the only international high school research conferences in the world). We are now looking to stabilize and grow further and are hoping to expand our services beyond Tokyo, to other parts of Japan, Asia, and the world.

Our team of 50+ staff is making the change from “startup” company HR systems and policies to something more mature, reliable, and industry-standard. Additionally, we are looking to increase its number of candidates/channels and improve the quality/fit of successfully hired candidates. We are looking for a director of HR and recruiting who can help us to take our organization to the next level.


*About the role*

Performance Tracking and Reporting:
- Develops, maintains, and improves performance reviews on divisional or individual levels with the input of stakeholders such as managers and executives.

Team Management & Administrative Duties:
- Manages team performance by assigning tasks, setting targets, delegating authority (when applicable), checking quality of work, disciplining, and motivating to elevate and achieve excellent levels of performance.

Talent Acquisition & Management:
- Guides the development of strategies to build a talent pool and pipeline of candidates that will eventually create a sustainable talent supply chain, enabling HR to cater to current and future talent needs.

Employee Discipline and Labor Compliance:
- Monitor appropriate implementation of progressive discipline based on company rules and regulations, ensuring the practice of due process in every administrative case.

Training & Organizational Development:
- Develops best practices around Labor Relations and HR policies, salary benchmarking, employee engagement, operational manuals, and employer branding.
-Works with Department Heads in the strategic planning process of the company to enable leaders to participate in formulating corporate goals and developing departmental plans.

Budget Management:
- Develops human resources operations financial strategies by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements, trends, and variances; aligning monetary resources; developing KPIs and action plans; measuring and analyzing results; initiating corrective actions; minimizing the impact of budget variances.



*Our ideal candidate*

- Has 3+ years of experience in HR and recruiting
- Is committed to Japan for the next 3+ years
- Has familiarity and comfort with US/UK working cultures
- Is fast, self-starting, organized, detail-oriented, and systematic in order to “get it done”
- Is magnetic, energetic, sociable, efficient, and creative
- Is comfortable working through the ambiguity of a growing organization, and feels comfortable asking questions and seeking help
- Has an entrepreneurial hands-on can-do attitude
- Has a high degree of judgment and can juggle a diverse range of priorities
- Is data-driven and results-focused
- Has experience with both quantitative and qualitative data and analysis