Associate Director, Talent Acquisition

American Jewish Committee (AJC) is the global advocacy organization for the Jewish people. We create trusted partnerships with leaders around the world to ensure Jews and Israel are safe and thriving. With an unparalleled reach spanning six continents, AJC engages leaders in more than 110 countries through 40 offices and dozens of partnerships with Jewish communities worldwide.

Wherever the Jewish people and Israel need us, AJC is there—empowering leaders in government, education, partner communities, and the private sector to counter antisemitism and act as allies.

The challenges we face are global. AJC is leading the global response. Join us.

AJC’s Human Resources team plays a pivotal role in driving AJC’s multi-year People Strategy, focused in four key areas:
Building Manager Capability, Culture, Professional & Career Development and Total Rewards in support of AJC’s mission and strategy. Our work includes organizational design, critical partnerships with key leaders to drive organizational performance as well as the full employee life cycle from recruitment, onboarding, talent management, performance, employee relations and engagement, total rewards, workplace policies, compliance, and other strategic and operational functions.

The Associate Director of Talent Acquisition will lead and evolve the AJC’s recruiting strategy, ensuring we attract high performing and mission- aligned- talent across functions and geographies. This role balances strategic framing and leadership with hands on recruiting, partnering closely with the Chief People Officer, senior leaders, hiring managers, and other Human Resource colleagues.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in full
-cycle recruiting, best practices in leveraging technology, a strong understanding of nonprofit or mission driven- environments, and a commitment to AJC values.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy aligned with AJC’s People Strategy & Long-Term Strategic Plan.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on hiring strategy, market trends, and talent availability.
• Build scalable and consistent recruiting practices across regions and departments.
• Lead and manage contract recruiters, and partner with members of the HR team engaged in parts of the recruitment process (posting & screening)

• Manage full cycle recruitment from sourcing through acceptance and onboarding– with focus on senior level, specialized, and hard to fill roles
• Partner with hiring managers to define the most critical role requirements, success profiles, and reinforce hiring processes.
• Ensure an exceptional candidate experience that reflects AJC’s values and culture.

• Strengthen AJC’s employer brand, particularly within Jewish, diplomatic, and nonprofit talent markets by leveraging the branding work of the Marketing and Communications team.
• Develop partnerships with peer organizations, professional networks, universities, and identify other talent pipelines.
• Represent the organization at networking events, conferences, and community gatherings as appropriate.
• Reassess AJC’s new applicant tracking system (ATS) and own and optimize an ATS and recruiting workflows.
• Track, analyze, and report on recruiting metrics (time to fill, quality of hire, candidate experience and related).
• Continuously improve processes to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, hiring manager and candidate experience.
• Leverage where appropriate new technologies including AI.

• Actively engage in moving the newly established People Strategy forward with its four pillars:
  Total Rewards Strategy, Professional and Career Development, Intentional Focus on Culture…