Talent Acquisition Recruiter - Location Flexible

OVERVIEW:

The location for this position is flexible and open to candidates in any city where there is a Year Up site with a strong preference for East Coast time zones.

Reporting directly to the Director of Talent Acquisition, the Recruiter will play an integral role in managing our scouting and recruiting activities and is a contributor to defining our overarching goal to ensure top talent chooses Year Up. The Recruiter drives Year Up's talent acquisition efforts as our organization continues to grow and current staff advance along career paths.

As an ideal candidate for this position, you are someone who is relationship-oriented, a fast learner, resourceful, detail-oriented, self-directed, and proactive. You must be flexible to work in a fast-paced, highly interactive and diverse environment. Experience and comfort working via phone and email is critical, as you will remotely support hiring managers across the region.

The Recruiter will also have the opportunity to interact with students as a mentor, group facilitator, and advocate, participating in building a positive educational environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Recruitment and Scouting

• Manage searches including: developing search strategies to include diverse pipelines of talent, utilizing ATS to track candidates, screen resumes, schedule and hold phone and in-person interviews, compile interviewer feedback, and shepherd the hiring process towards decision and offer status
• Coach and guide managers and leaders through complex and nuanced conversations, as well as key aspects of the recruitment workflow
• Learn and share talent acquisition best practices across the organization
• On occasion, conduct informational interviews, including forwarding candidates to local staff as appropriate
• Provide input to Year Up's scouting strategy along with other members of the HR team
• Source passive candidates through career sites and social media
• Other duties as assigned

Regional/National Support

• Serve as regional "go-to" on recruiting process, guidelines, templates, and tools
• Support and train local search managers on active searches, particularly before search launch
• Interface with talent sources and partner search firms in your region to build stronger candidate pipelines of talent with a focus on priority roles and diversity
• Ensure talent acquisition efforts within the region are in alignment with organizational standards and goals

Site Team/Learning Community Member

• Serve as a coach/mentor for a small number of current students
• Join and sometimes facilitate weekly group sessions with students
• Participate in staff meetings and trainings

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 2-3 years of work experience; 2+ years' experience in recruiting preferred
• Exceptional networking and relationship-building skill-set and orientation
• Experience with leveraging social media for talent acquisition
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion with the skillsets needed to build, manage, & engage diverse pipelines of talent
• Proven ability to think analytically about requested projects
• Outstanding time management skills, with proven ability to multi-task, accomplishing numerous tasks and changing priorities in an effective and timely manner
• Demonstrated ability to execute on short-term, deadline-driven tasks daily, as well as important, long-term projects requiring collaboration with external constituencies
• Very strong detail orientation required
• Sound judgment and the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion
• Superb interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time as needed
• A passion for working with young adults, an unshakable belief in their potential, and a strong commitment to the mission of Year Up
• Understanding of the Opportunity Divide and its drivers

Year Up is a national 501(c)3 workforce development organization committed to ensuring equitable access to economic opportunity, education, and justice for all young adults-no matter their background, income, or zip code. Employers face a growing need for talent while millions of talented young adults lack access to meaningful careers. These inequities only further perpetuate the opportunity gap that exists in our country-a gap that Year Up is determined and positioned to close through three interconnected strategies: providing targeted skills training and connections to livable-wage employment for students and alumni; empowering others to serve and support young adults; and changing systems that perpetuate the opportunity gap. Year Up's intensive training program utilizes a high expectations, high support model where students learn in-demand technical and professional skills and apply them during a corporate internship. Year Up has directly served more than 35,000 young adults since its founding in 2000. Year Up's nationwide presence includes Arizona, Bay Area, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Greater Atlanta, Greater Boston, Greater Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, the National Capital Region, New York City/Jersey City, Pittsburgh, Puget Sound, Rhode Island, South Florida, Tampa Bay, and Wilmington.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY:

Year Up actively engages individuals from all backgrounds. We are committed to embracing diversity within our organization because we firmly believe that diverse employee teams help us to achieve our best organizational outcomes and provide the most effective support to our young adults as we work to close the Opportunity Divide. We are deeply dedicated to creating and maintaining an inclusive and supportive work environment. Learn more about our commitment to diversity: http://www.yearup.org/about-us/careers/commitment-to-diversity/

As an equal opportunity employer, Year Up is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information or characteristics, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

TO APPLY:

Please submit a thoughtful cover letter and resume through our website.

Note that applications without a cover letter will not be considered. We respectfully request no phone calls.