Recruitment Manager

Freelancingforgood; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A nonprofit organization based in London seeks a Recruitment Manager to enhance their talent acquisition process. This role emphasizes evaluating candidates to enhance the founding teams of impactful organizations. You will design outreach campaigns and oversee the vetting process, with a commitment to making a significant social impact. Ideal for individuals who are adaptable and driven by purpose.

Qualifications

• Excited about evaluating people’s skills and motivations.
• Great at engaging communication in-person or in writing.
• Able to work both independently and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing multi-channel marketing campaigns.
• Evaluating application forms and conducting candidate interviews.
• Refining data on communication methods for applicant sourcing.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Clear communication

Adaptability

Evaluating skills and motivations

Tools

Data analysis

Project management

Job description

Ambitious Impact (AIM) is looking for a Recruitment Manager to join their team.

Overview:

• Full-time position: 35 hours per week
• Location: London, UK
• Language: English
• Salary: £40,000 – £50,000 per year
• Applications closing: 19th October

Job Description

As a Recruitment Manager, you’ll drive our process for finding and selecting the founders of the new organisations we launch. This is a highly impactful role, for two key reasons:

1. The number of organisations we launch is currently limited by the number of exceptional founders we can find. Your ability to find and select an additional outstanding founder will likely result in an additional incredible organisation launching. For every Lucia Coulter & Jack Rafferty we find, we can launch another organisation like LEEP, preventing more than 44 million children suffering lead poisoning.
2. The biggest predictor of charity success we have is the strength of the co-founding team. If you can refine our recruitment process to reliably attract and select higher-potential founders, the organisations we launch will help more humans and animals at scale.

Our Recruitment team operates across two distinct, though overlapping, areas of work:

• Outreach: attracting high-potential entrepreneurs to apply
• Vetting: selecting the very best founders out of the applicant pool

We operate as a tight-knit team of four who work flexibly across the two domains. We anticipate a new hire doing both Outreach and Vetting work, with some possibility to specialise more in one direction or the other based on experience and preference.

At AIM, we prize the ability of staff to work with speed, autonomy, and flexibility. We don’t expect you to have prior experience in recruitment. We do expect you to be a fast learner and excited about taking on whatever work is most essential on a given day.

More concretely, you’ll split your time between the following:

• Outreach: Designing and executing campaigns to reach promising applicants; writing newsletters, social media posts, and outreach copy; attending conferences and events; and working closely with our communications team to build partnerships and grow our applicant pipeline.
• Vetting: Running multi-stage application processes, reviewing written applications and test tasks, conducting interviews, and refining our selection methods.

Responsibilities

Executing Marketing & Communications Activities [40%]

• Designing and implementing multi-channel marketing campaigns across digital, traditional, and in-person channels (such as our website, newsletter, LinkedIn, job boards, and conferences)
• Identifying and persuading top talent to apply for our programs through one-to-one engagement, such as through LinkedIn, email, and online calls
• Soliciting and collating referrals for potential top applicants to our programs, especially from members of our community and affiliated organisations
• Writing blog posts, newsletters, articles, and other copy in a clear, accurate, and convincing tone
• Attending conferences and other professional events to represent AIM, conducting talks, workshops, and 1-on-1 meetings

Executing our Candidate Selection Process [40%]

• Evaluating hundreds of application forms and test tasks to figure out which are the most promising, using a wide range of formal and informal indicators, heuristics, and other information
• Conducting and grading candidate interviews to help identify and select the most promising candidates to join our programs
• Project management for each application round to ensure each candidate receives accurate and timely information on decisions, next steps, and other details of the application process
• Automating aspects of the process to increase scalability and reduce staff time

Evaluation and Systems Improvement [20%]

• Collating and refining data on the cost-effectiveness of different communication methods for finding high-quality applicants to our programs
• Analysing historical data to pull out findings to improve our selection rubrics for future rounds
• Testing potential new communication avenues, such as digital advertising or pitching articles to major publications

Role Requirements

We are looking for someone who is adaptable, fast-moving, and singularly committed to using their career to improve the world to the greatest reasonable extent they can. You will bring strong strategic thinking to the challenge of how and where we can find the very best potential founders, and how to select them from our applicant pool.

We do not expect prior experience in recruitment or communications/marketing. What matters is the ability to learn quickly, work flexibly, and stay focused on impact.

What makes you a good fit:

• Excited by evaluating people’s skills, motivations, and potential
• Great at clear, transparent, and engaging communication – whether in-person or in writing
• Comfortable holding and weighing many different kinds of evidence when making judgments
• Able to
• Interested in the drivers of high-level performance and how to spot these, such as through a background interest in psychology, sports, or business
• Able to work both independently and collaboratively in a small, fast-paced team
• Passionate about AIM’s mission

Potential bonus skills or experience:

• Hiring or recruitment experience
• Familiarity with complex project management
• Marketing or communications experience (especially in nonprofits or startups)
• Data analysis or spreadsheet fluency

Familiarity with AIM, our incubated charities, and/or the effective altruism movement.

How to apply?

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