HR Manager French Tutor Recruitment

HR Manager — French Tutor Recruitment

Company: Toronto French Academy (TFA)Role: HR Manager — French Tutor RecruitmentLocation: Remote (India-based)Compensation: INR 60K - 1.2L Per monthEmployment type: Full-timeExperience: 3–5 yearsReports to: Founder / DirectorTeam: Works directly with founder and operations

About Toronto French Academy

Toronto French Academy (TFA) is a Canadian online French-language school that prepares adult learners for the TEF (Test d'évaluation de français) and TCF (Test de connaissance du français) examinations. These are the most widely used French proficiency tests for Canadian immigration, academic admission, and professional certification. We deliver live, synchronous French classes over Google Meet and Zoom through a distributed team of certified French tutors based in India. Our students are adults, mostly Canada-bound, and they rely on us to get them to a specific score on a specific test by a specific date. The quality of our tutors is the single most important lever in our business, and this role exists to protect that quality.

Why this role exists

TFA is growing, and so is our need for consistently high-quality French tutors. Currently, tutor recruitment is handled by the founder, which is neither scalable nor sustainable. We're hiring a dedicated HR Manager whose sole and focused mandate is to own end-to-end recruitment of French tutors — from sourcing and outreach through negotiation, offer, and onboarding handoff. This is not a generalist HR role. You will not be handling payroll, policy, employee relations, or back-office HR admin. You will focus exclusively on finding, evaluating, and closing excellent French tutors for TFA.

What you will own

• Sourcing & pipeline building: Build and continuously refresh a pipeline of DELF/DALF-certified French tutors (B2, C1, C2 levels) based in India. Identify and tap into the right channels, including LinkedIn, language-teacher communities, Alliance Française networks, Naukri, Indeed, Apna, university French departments, Telegram/WhatsApp tutor groups, referrals, and niche job boards. Run proactive outbound outreach (cold messages, referral campaigns, targeted posts) beyond inbound applications. Maintain a clean, organized applicant tracking system (ATS or structured spreadsheet/Notion) with candidate stage, notes, and follow-ups.
• Screening & evaluation: Review resumes and credentials; verify DELF/DALF/equivalent certifications. Conduct first-round screening calls to assess communication, professionalism, availability, and cultural fit with TFA. Coordinate and administer TFA's tutor evaluation process, including demo classes, written/spoken French assessments, and subject-matter interviews. Filter candidates so the founder only meets serious, qualified finalists.
• Interview coordination: Schedule and run structured interview loops. Collect standardized feedback from every interviewer. Keep candidates warm, informed, and moving throughout the process.
• Negotiation & closing: Present offers in line with TFA's compensation framework. Handle negotiation on per-hour rates, working hours, and availability commitments. Close candidates, understanding when to push and when to walk away. Handle counter-offers and competing offers professionally.
• Contracting & onboarding handoff: Issue the TFA Independent Contractor Agreement, collect signatures and required documents (government ID, certification proofs, bank details). Run the administrative portion of onboarding, including access, tooling, and introductions. Hand off cleanly to the academic/operations team for teaching onboarding.
• Recruitment ops & reporting: Own recruitment metrics such as pipeline volume, time-to-hire, source effectiveness, offer-accept rate, and early-tenure drop-off. Report weekly to the founder on pipeline health and hiring velocity. Continuously improve job descriptions, screening rubrics, interview scorecards, and outreach templates based on performance.

What you are not responsible for

To keep this role sharp and focused, you will not own: General HR operations, payroll, or statutory compliance. Employee relations, performance management, or grievances for existing tutors. Tutor training, academic supervision, or pedagogical evaluation. Recruitment for non-tutor roles (unless specifically asked). Student-facing or sales work. Your success will be measured by one thing: a consistently full, high-quality tutor pipeline and clean, fast, fair hiring.

Who you are

Must-haves

• 3–5 years of end-to-end recruitment experience, ideally in a high-volume or specialized-talent environment. EdTech, BPO, tutoring platforms, language services, or agency recruitment experience is a strong plus.
• Proven track record of owning hiring loops from sourcing to offer acceptance, not just coordinating.
• Comfortable with outbound sourcing on LinkedIn and other channels; you go find people.
• Strong written and spoken English; you'll be representing TFA to candidates and communicating daily with the Canadian founder.
• Sharp judgment on people: you can distinguish between a polished resume and a person who will actually show up, teach well, and stay.
• Organized and systematic: pipeline hygiene, follow-ups, and data tracking are second nature.
• Comfortable working India hours with meaningful overlap with Toronto time (typically early mornings or evenings India time for founder syncs and North American candidate conversations).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience hiring teachers, tutors, trainers, or subject-matter experts, especially language tutors.
• Familiarity with DELF/DALF/CEFR or similar language-proficiency frameworks.
• Working knowledge of French (not required, but helpful).
• Experience using ATS tools (Workable, Recruitee, Zoho Recruit, Greenhouse, Lever) or building lightweight tracking systems in Notion/Airtable/Google Sheets.
• Exposure to the Indian freelance/independent contractor talent market.

How you work

• Ownership-first: You treat this pipeline like your own business.
• Bias to action: Fewer meetings, more closes.
• Direct communicator: Clear updates, clear blockers, clear asks.
• Comfortable being the only HR person: This is a standalone role, not a team to inherit.

What we offer

• A focused, well-defined mandate with clear success metrics.
• Direct access to the founder — no layers, no politics.
• Fully remote work from anywhere in India.
• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience.
• The satisfaction of building the team that directly impacts students' lives — every TEF/TCF pass we enable is someone's path to Canada.

Hiring process

1. Application review — resume + a short note on a tough recruiting challenge you solved.
2. Screening call (30 min) with the founder.
3. Case exercise — source and shortlist 5 DELF C1 tutor candidates in India using publicly available channels, and walk through your approach.
4. Deep-dive interview (60 min) — recruitment process, negotiation scenarios, judgment calls.
5. Reference checks.
6. Offer.

We aim to complete the process within 2–3 weeks from the first call.

How to apply

Send your resume and a short cover note to info@frenchwithtfa.com with the subject line