Recruitment Specialist

Recruiting Specialist – International Non-Profit (Remote)

We're hiring a Recruiting Specialist to join our client's recruiting team. This is a senior individual contributor role. You'll own full-cycle hiring rounds end to end, take on team-wide recruiting projects with a lot of autonomy, and help coach and develop other members of the recruiting team. You'll report to the Recruiting Manager and work closely with hiring managers across the organisation.

Our client is a growing international non-profit. It builds and supports a global community of people who use evidence and careful reasoning to work out where they can do the most good, and then act on it. Its work covers a range of major global challenges.

The organisation is in a strong growth phase. Programme participation is growing year on year, and it recently expanded its grantmaking and fundraising capacity significantly. It is now laying the foundations for a further step-change in growth from 2027 onwards.

Headcount has grown substantially over the past year, and dozens more roles are planned through 2026 and into 2027.

To support this growth, the organisation set up a dedicated recruiting function over the last year. The aim was to professionalise hiring and build the capacity to attract exceptional talent. It's a small team that runs full-cycle hiring rounds across the organisation.

The current focus is on hiring efficiently at scale while keeping standards high. Longer term, the team wants to expand how it supports hiring across the organisation’s wider network of partner organisations.

You'll report to the Recruiting Manager and work alongside a small team of recruiters, each running their own full-cycle hiring rounds. You'll also partner with hiring managers across the organisation.

You'll own hiring rounds from start to finish and work with hiring managers at every step to attract and hire high-quality candidates across a variety of roles. You'll also lead internal work: team-wide process improvement projects, coaching hiring managers and newer recruiters, and possibly owning a specific area of recruiting operations over time, such as sourcing or employer brand.

This role suits someone who knows recruiting well enough to hit the ground running on hiring rounds and is ready to take on broader ownership without close oversight. The organisation’s hiring plans are ambitious and currently outstrip its recruiting capacity. Joining the team will directly speed up hiring and help the organisation grow.

• Understanding hiring managers' needs and calibrating with them throughout the process, acting as a thought partner and resource on recruiting best practice

• Writing compelling job descriptions and launching open roles

• Sourcing and attracting candidates through proactive outreach and network building

• Screening applications and conducting initial interviews

• Helping hiring managers develop and grade test tasks

• Coordinating interview schedules between candidates and hiring teams

• Conducting reference checks and managing offer processes

• Keeping standards high and the candidate experience excellent throughout, with communications that reflect the organisation's values

• Project-managing hiring rounds, keeping them on time to meet recruiting targets and adapting as priorities change

• Tracking and maintaining candidate pipeline data

• Project-manage team-wide recruiting projects, in line with the team’s goals and principles

• Spot opportunities to improve and make recommendations in line with the organisation's strategy and values

• Train and coach hiring managers on running effective interviews

• Support the onboarding and training of new recruiters, and…