Recruiter

Freelancingforgood; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A global hiring organization is seeking a recruiter to manage full-cycle hiring from start to finish. The role includes understanding hiring needs, writing job descriptions, sourcing candidates, and improving recruiting processes. This position offers a remote work opportunity and requires strong organizational and communication skills. Ideal candidates will have project management experience and a passion for effective altruism.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Comfortable reaching out to potential candidates.
• Clear and compelling written communication.
• Ability to make trade-offs and decisions under pressure.
• Experience in managing projects from start to finish.
• Previous recruiting experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with effective altruism ideas.
• Willingness to travel internationally for conferences.

Responsibilities

• Run end-to-end hiring rounds for critical roles.
• Understand and calibrate hiring manager needs.
• Write job descriptions and source candidates.
• Conduct initial interviews and manage offer processes.
• Improve recruiting operations processes and identify opportunities.

Skills

Organizational skills

Relationship building

Clear communication

Judgment under pressure

Project management

Recruiting experience

Motivation by principles-first EA

Job description

Overview:

• Full-time role
• Language: English
• Location: Anywhere (Remote)
• Salary: depending on location
• Applications closing: 2nd November

Job Description

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is an organization dedicated to building and stewarding a global community of people who are thinking carefully about the world’s most pressing problems and taking action to solve them.

We’re building out our recruiting function to professionalize our hiring and build the capacity to attract exceptional talent to CEA and the EA movement as a whole. Currently a two-person team, we’re building systems and processes to help CEA hire efficiently while maintaining high standards. Reporting to the Recruiting Manager, Kale Ridsdale, you’ll work alongside another recruiter, Rika Gabriel, to run hiring rounds across the organization and continuously improve our recruiting operations.

We’re looking for a recruiter to own full-cycle hiring rounds from start to finish, working alongside hiring managers each step of the way. You’ll manage everything from writing job descriptions and sourcing candidates to conducting interviews and facilitating offers. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys building relationships with candidates, and wants to contribute to hiring decisions that shape CEA’s ability to accomplish our ambitious goals. We currently don’t have the recruiting capacity to hire for all the roles we have in our budget; this role will counterfactually increase our pace of hiring, and thus our ability to grow and support the EA community.

Responsibilities

Run end-to-end hiring rounds

Your primary responsibility will be partnering with hiring managers to fill critical roles on the team. This includes:

• Understanding hiring manager needs, calibrating with them throughout the process
• Writing compelling job descriptions and launching open roles
• Sourcing and attracting candidates through proactive outreach and network building
• Screening applications and conducting initial interviews
• Developing work tests and grading rubrics in collaboration with hiring managers
• Coordinating interview schedules between candidates and hiring teams
• Conducting reference checks
• Managing offer processes
• Maintaining high standards and an excellent candidate experience throughout, ensuring communications reflect CEA’s values
• Serving as a resource for hiring managers on recruiting best practices

Improve recruiting operations processes

You will also be expected to spend some of your time improving our hiring infrastructure. This may include:

• Contributing to process improvement projects. This will start with clearly-scoped projects. Over time, your role may expand to include ownership over a particular area of recruiting operations (e.g., employer brand, sourcing, etc).
• Identifying and flagging opportunities to improve recruiting processes
• Tracking and maintaining candidate pipeline data

Role Requirements

You might be a good fit for this role if you:

• Are organized and detail-oriented: you can manage multiple workstreams simultaneously without dropping balls, and you know how to prioritize when things get busy.
• Build relationships easily: you’re comfortable reaching out to potential candidates, getting people excited about new opportunities, and maintaining professional connections over time.
• Communicate clearly and reliably: your written communication is clear and compelling. You take communication seriously, and you can be relied upon to steward the experience of both candidates and hiring managers throughout the process.
• Make sound judgments under pressure: you’re comfortable making trade-offs and decisions when timelines are tight and information is incomplete.
• Enjoy managing projects end-to-end: you’re energized by the prospect of taking ownership of a hiring round from start to finish—almost like a consultant embedded with each team you work with—before moving on to partner with a new team on their next hiring need.
• Have recruiting experience: while not a strict requirement, we would also be excited to consider candidates who have previous recruiting experience, whether as a dedicated recruiter or as part of another role.
• Are motivated by principles-first EA: you’re familiar with effective altruism ideas and excited about helping CEA find the people who will contribute to our mission.
• Are willing to travel: You’ll travel to various conferences and team retreats; about 4-6 times per year internationally.

How to apply?

To apply for this role, please fill in the application form.

We expect the interview process to include the following steps, subject to minor changes:

• Application
• Work test 1
• Short interview
• Work test 2
• Final interviews (3-4)

We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, so it’s better to apply sooner than later!