The Natural Resources Defense Council, the nation’s most effective environmental action organization, is looking for a Senior Manager of Recruitment Strategy and Operations to be based in our San Francisco office. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to partner with NRDC’s staff of administrative professionals, lawyers, scientists, and policy analysts who protect the environment and public health through advocacy, action, and education.
We are looking for a well-rounded HR professional with strong relationship-building and management skills to join NRDC’s Human Resources team. The Senior Manager of Recruitment Strategy and Operations will work closely with HR Partners and hiring managers to build a comprehensive candidate pipeline and ensure adherence with our recruitment processes, including monitoring tasks and processes to streamline and maximize the efficiency of sourcing and hiring candidates. The Senior Manager of Recruitment Strategy and Operations is the primary point of contact for talent acquisition inquiries and manages the process for sourcing candidates across the organization. The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience and a track-record of success in building solid pipelines of candidates to meet organizational goals, has extensively cultivated relationships with a deep and diverse pool of well-qualified potential candidates in the environmental and advocacy fields, can leverage multiple recruiting sources and internet sourcing techniques to identify candidates, executes effectively on outreach and referral generation, and will create custom outreach and meaningful candidate engagement. The incumbent must have the ability to perform productively in a fast-paced work environment; be able to multi-task and juggle competing priorities and ability to maintain confidentiality.
The position reports to the Associate Director of Partner Relationship in Human Resources.
- Manage full-cycle recruiting process ensuring a seamless, uniform and incredibly positive candidate experience.
- Design, implement and monitor internal and external recruiting and selection processes and programs to attract, select and retain a qualified, diverse workforce in support of the organization’s strategic growth
- Drive strategies through collaboration with the HR Partners and Hiring Managers to ensure the timely selection, placement, and onboarding of high quality and diverse candidates.
- Identify new diversity recruitment tools and envision regular events and initiatives to increase the diversity of our candidate pipeline. Oversee the achievement of the diversity recruiting goals.
- Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and ongoing relationship management anticipating role fit and future openings.
- Generate new approaches and strategies to identifying high-quality sources for top talent.
- Partner with HR Analyst to track talent acquisition metrics (e.g. sourcing, funnel and conversion measurements) and provide regular reports and updates that closely monitor our progress, evaluate our investments, and uncover opportunities where we have room for improvement.
- Lead/manage recruiting team consisting of Recruiter/Coordinator. The team will be on-site as well as remote.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of full-life cycle recruiting experience.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience designing and executing diversity recruitment plans.
- Minimum of five (5) years program management and project management experience.
- Deep experience building and managing diversity recruitment programs.
- Excellent communication, networking and negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated a track record of meeting recruitment expectations and timelines with sustained results.
- Strong demonstrable experience in developing talent sourcing strategies.
- Ability to understand organizational needs and develop into talent and recruitment strategy.
- Established proficiency to coach and influence hiring managers throughout the recruitment
- Demonstrated passion for using data to inform decisions and drive execution.
- Strong change management and organizational/influencing skills.
- Excellent customer service skills.
NRDC is committed to workplace diversity and inclusion. We are equal opportunity employers and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a pleasant working environment. Salary is based on a nonprofit scale and commensurate with experience.