Recruiting Specialist - Expression of Interest

About CEA

The Centre for Effective Altruism’s mission is to build and nurture a global community of people who are thinking carefully about the world’s biggest problems and taking impactful action to solve them.
To foster this community, we run conferences, support hundreds of local groups, and provide online resources and forums for discussion.

About this role

Please note, this role is an expression of interest so we may be slow to process submissions.
The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is looking to hire a Recruiting Specialist to expand our in-house recruiting function and help us attract top talent.
The team is entering a new era as we take on a new CEO and begin the process of spinning out from Effective Ventures to become an independent organisation. We’re arguably the largest and primary organisation working on meta-level effective altruism; with around 40 staff, a budget over $30 million, and an established track record of delivering highly impactful programs. In addition to our pre-existing recruiting needs, our spin out will create increased demand as we move various operations functions in-house (such as finance, payroll, and legal).
This role and title (“specialist”) are targeted to someone with a moderate amount of professional experience in relevant domains, but we’re also open to hiring for a more junior version of this role, who would likely take on an associate title.

What would you do?

This role would involve supporting our recruiting efforts, with the potential to eventually build an in-house recruiting team to support us as we streamline and professionalise our organisation.
Your high-level responsibilities would include:
  • Managing hiring rounds: helping to launch and publicise various open roles, project managing the rounds themselves, and supporting hiring managers in evaluating candidates.
  • Outreach: help us source leads for roles, track talent, and do the necessary relationship building to help us find excellent candidates for hiring rounds.
  • Maintaining and improving our recruiting systems: we want to maintain and build world-class systems to track candidates and push forward hiring rounds as efficiently as possible.
They might also eventually include:
  • Strategic planning: you’ll be responsible for giving input to leadership to decide which hiring rounds to prioritise, and helping to enforce high quality hiring standards across the organisation.
As we build capacity, we can also imagine pivoting to support headhunting and recruiting more widely across high-impact roles in other organisations as well as our own.

About you

You might be a good fit for this role if you:
  • Are organised and excited by operational excellence: you enjoy managing projects in a fast-paced environment, and are comfortable in making tough decisions and trade-offs under tight time pressure.
  • Have strong people skills: you excel at building and maintaining professional relationships, and feel equipped to get candidates excited about working at CEA.
  • Enjoy designing and implementing systems: you feel excited about setting up and improving our recruiting flows, and have a knack for making systems robust, efficient, and intuitive.
  • Are able to take on a user focus: you will be working on a core function that services the rest of our staff and their recruiting needs, and you should feel ready to instill high standards and bring a customer service-focused attitude.
  • Have strong interpersonal skills and judgement: you feel comfortable talking to different types of people and feel able to judge when people are and aren’t good fits for certain roles.
We prefer candidates who also have:
  • An understanding of effective altruism and associated ideas: we expect the strongest candidates to be motivated by increasing their impact and helping others increase their impact.
Experience with recruiting or HR isn’t strictly required, though it’s certainly a plus. We’d be excited to take on a talented generalist who’s eager to get up to speed on our culture and learn on the job.

Other information

  • This is a full-time, remote position. We prefer applicants who are able to work in time zones between US Pacific Time and CET.
  • If candidates would prefer to work from the UK, we welcome applicants from overseas and we’ll sponsor visas where possible.
  • We’d ideally have you start as soon as possible, though we’re happy to negotiate on later start dates.
  • Our application process may include: one or more trial tasks, interviews, a reference check, and a multi-day work trial for the top candidates.
  • Salary range for candidates (depending on experience) for candidates willing to work from the Oxford office is £48,800–£66,300. Salary ranges for remote employees will vary by location. A high cost of living city in the US, for example, has a range of $88,700–$122,500 and a low cost of living city in the US has a range of $74,900–$103,400.
  • In the UK, benefits include private insurance, flexible work hours, a £5,000 annual professional development allowance, a £5,000 mental health support allowance, extended parental leave, ergonomic equipment, 10% pension contribution, 25 days of paid vacation, and more. US staff benefits are equivalent.
  • We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. We especially encourage applications from self-identified women and people of colour who are excited about contributing to our mission. The Centre for Effective Altruism is an equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact jobs@centreforeffectivealtruism.org.
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