Director of Recruitment

About Code for San Jose:

Code for San Jose is an all-volunteer organization. We are a chapter of Code for America. 

As a chapter, we focus on civic innovation and government technology. We welcome everyone interested in solving community problems through technology, user experience research, and community partnerships. 

Our mission is to make community services more transparent, accessible, and equitable by collaborating with local government and other community-based organizations on civic projects.

We have over 30 active volunteers with over 8 active projects. Our leadership team consists of 9 other directors, 2 executive directors and 6 project leaders.

As a group, we meet every other Thursday at 6:30 PM PST to sync up and work on projects.

About the Role:

Director of Recruitment’s Goals:

• Build and maintain a pipeline of new volunteers
• Retain new members by providing a smooth onboarding process and keeping them engaged

Director of Recruitment’s Responsibilities: 

• Foster relationships with external partners
• Bootcamps, universities, professional associations etc.
• Develop and host general onboarding
• Follow up with new members
• Keep up-to-date with all projects
• Know what skills we’re looking for
• Know where to point new members based on their interests/skills

If this sounds like an opportunity you would be interested in please join our Slack channel:

https://join.slack.com/t/codeforsanjose/shared_invite/zt-iwnx99kh-motBC0J47O8ItlR3zjAIBA 

We will connect with you via Slack.

Find more information:

• Our active projects: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S7V9U_fK1iOidGRAhy-fBM6GLySpC2RNoHWzsm9Qj9k/edit?usp=sharing 
• Our website: https://codeforsanjose.com 
• Our meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/code-for-san-jose