Temporary Sourcing and Recruiting Specialist; Remote

HHMI is focused on supporting and moving science forward in a variety of different ways ranging from conducting basic biomedical research, empowering educators, inspiring students, developing the next generation of scientists - even stretching into film and media production. Our Headquarters is in the greater Washington, DC metro area and is home to over 300 employees with expertise in investments, communications, digital production, biomedical sciences, and everything in between.

The work housed here supports and augments the groundbreaking research conducted in HHMI labs across the nation. As HHMI scientists continue to push boundaries in laboratories and classrooms, you can be sure that your contributions while working here are making a difference.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is a pioneering research center in Ashburn, Virginia, where scientists pursue fundamental questions in the life sciences. Our integrated teams of biologists, computational scientists, and tool-builders innovate research practices and technologies to solve biology’s deepest mysteries. HHMI launched Janelia in 2006, establishing an intellectually enriching environment for scientists to do creative, collaborative, hands-on work.

We share our methods, results, and tools with the scientific community.

This is a role for someone who treats candidate discovery as a craft, not a volume exercise. The ideal candidate moves fluidly between a search for a finance manager and a search for a molecular biologist, and does both well.

The People & Culture team at HHMI supports a genuinely varied hiring portfolio: corporate and administrative hiring at headquarters, highly specialized scientific and operational roles at Janelia Research Campus, and scientific hiring across HHMI’s distributed Host Site network. HHMI funds science at the frontier, and the researchers and staff who make that work possible are not always easy to find.

For the next six months, this role will work across the full recruiting lifecycle, from sourcing passive candidates through offer stage. This includes building pipelines in channels most recruiters overlook, conducting initial screens, and carrying searches through to close. The portfolio is high-variety and fast-moving. A defensible sourcing methodology and a full-cycle track record are required.

This role sits on the People Strategies team and works closely with full-cycle recruiters and hiring managers across Janelia, HQ, and host sites. This person will be a visible contributor from day one.

• Source across multiple talent segments simultaneously. This includes building active candidate pipelines for corporate, scientific, and operational roles at the same time, adapting methods to each. No two searches will look alike.
• Go well beyond Linked In. This includes deploying research-specific channels such as preprint servers, publication databases, academic conference outreach, society member directories, lab alumni networks, Git Hub, and niche boards relevant to each talent segment.
• Find people who aren't looking. This includes identifying and engaging passive candidates before a need is formally open, building genuine pipeline interest and relationship before the clock starts.
• Own searches end to end. This includes carrying selected requisitions through the full recruiting lifecycle: sourcing, outreach, screening, coordination, and offer stage, with no handing off and moving on.
• Conduct initial screens. This includes assessing candidate interest, qualifications, and mission alignment before introducing candidates to the broader recruiting team and hiring managers.
• Keep the pipeline clean and documented. This includes maintaining accurate stage…