Recruitment Associate (US)

Impact Ops; Northern (KY); A distancia; USD 60.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Flexible schedule

25 days vacation

Descripción de la vacante

Impact Ops is seeking a Recruitment Associate (US) to join a remote-first team supporting nonprofits, with a starting salary of $60,000–$80,000. The role emphasizes ownership of core recruitment tasks, process design, and candidate experience.

Rolling reviews with a deadline of October 31, 2026, and a preference for candidates on the US East or West Coast. The organization offers comprehensive benefits, a generous PTO policy, and opportunities to contribute to AI safety and governance

Formación

• 1–3 years of experience in recruitment or a related role
• Experience supporting end-to-end recruitment processes, including sourcing, screening, and coordination
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Comfort working with recruitment tools, ATS platforms, and documentation systems

Responsabilidades

• Design recruitment processes and templates across multiple clients
• Conduct candidate sourcing and build pipelines
• Perform early-stage candidate evaluation and screening calls
• Manage candidate communications to ensure a professional experience
• Track candidates and roles across ATS and internal tools
• Support recruitment coordination tasks including interview scheduling

Conocimientos

Recruitment experience

Sourcing & outreach

Organizational skills

ATS tools

Communication skills

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

ATS platforms

Documentation systems

Descripción del empleo

Impact Ops is looking for a Recruitment Associate (US) to join our team. The starting salary range is $60,000–$80,000 , depending on prior experience and location. There may be flexibility in salary for exceptional candidates with significant experience.

If you’re looking for a role where you can learn quickly, take ownership of core recruitment tasks, and make a meaningful impact supporting high-impact nonprofits, particularly in AI safety, alignment, and governance, we’d love to hear from you.

The deadline to apply is 31 October 2026 , although we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis.

About Impact Ops

Impact Ops is an independent organization that provides operational support to high-impact nonprofits, many of our clients work on AI safety, alignment, and governance challenges. Our services include finance, recruitment, entity setup, due diligence, ops audit, and systems implementation. We’re a "remote-first" organization with team members and clients based across the world.

We’re looking for motivated, altruistic, and optimistic people from diverse backgrounds to join us in this impactful work by providing excellent operational support to our clients.

You can read more about our first three years at Impact Ops here .

Key responsibilities

As a Recruitment Associate you will be part of a team responsible for recruitment operations for both Impact Ops and our clients. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Designing, documenting, and continuously improving recruitment processes and templates across multiple clients, working closely with hiring managers and internal stakeholders
• Conducting candidate sourcing and outreach, including identifying relevant talent pools and helping build and maintain candidate pipelines
• Conducting early-stage candidate evaluation, including application reviews and screening calls, to identify high-potential candidates early in the hiring process
• Managing candidate communications throughout hiring processes to ensure a professional, timely, and positive candidate experience
• Tracking candidates, roles, and hiring progress accurately across applicant tracking systems and internal tools
• Assisting with recruitment coordination tasks, including interview scheduling and managing process logistics
• Proactively identifying gaps, inefficiencies, or failure points in recruiting systems and proposing improvements
• Maintaining and improving scoring rubrics and assessment frameworks to ensure fair, consistent evaluation
• Supporting the recruitment team with day-to-day operational and administrative tasks to ensure hiring processes run smoothly

About you

You’ll need to have:

• 1–3 years of experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, or a related role
• Experience supporting end-to-end recruitment processes, including sourcing, screening, and coordination
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Comfort working with recruitment tools, ATS platforms, and documentation systems

You’ll also likely have:

• Enthusiasm for adopting cutting-edge recruitment technologies and AI tools, with willingness to innovate
• An operations mindset: you enjoy improving processes and making systems run smoothly
• Ambitious growth mindset with excitement about scaling recruitment operations
• Positive, optimistic approach with strong interpersonal skills
• Experience in nonprofit, social impact, or mission-driven recruitment is a plus
• Experience recruiting for technical research roles, particularly in AI/ML or adjacent fields
• Interest in the unique challenges of recruiting for emerging, specialized cause areas
• Understanding of or an interest in the AI safety landscape

Benefits and salary

Your starting salary range is $60,000 to $80,000, depending on prior experience and location. There may be flexibility in salary for exceptional candidates with significant experience.

Our benefits include:

• Prioritized health & wellbeing: We provide private medical, vision, and dental insurance, and up to 2 weeks’ paid sick leave. We also offer a generous allowance for you to spend on your mental health.
• Flexible working: You’re generally free to set your own schedule (with some overlapping hours with colleagues as needed). We’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one.
• Generous vacation: 25 days’ holiday each year, plus public holidays. We encourage you to use the full allowance.
• Professional development opportunities: We offer a generous allowance each year for professional development. We build in opportunities for career growth through on-the-job learning, increasing responsibility, and role progression pathways.
• Pension: We offer a 10% employer pension contribution or equivalent salary increase (if we’re unable to offer this in your country).
• Equipment to help your productivity: We’ll pay for high-quality and ergonomic equipment (laptop, monitors, chair, etc.) for your remote work set up.
• Global team retreats: As a remote team we hold in-person staff retreats twice a year, to work on our plans and build strong working relationships.

This is a full-time role, but part-time would also be possible. We prefer candidates based on the US East or West Coast, but we’re open to other arrangements for exceptional candidates.

Diversity and inclusion

We’re aware that factors like gender, race, and socioeconomic background can affect people’s willingness to apply for roles for which they meet some but not all the suggested attributes. We’d especially like to encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to express interest.

There’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. If you’re on the fence about applying because you’re unsure whether you’re qualified, we’d encourage you to apply.

If you require any adjustments to the application process, such as accessibility accommodations, additional preparation time, or other, please contact [e-mail] . We’re happy to support your needs and adjust the application process.