Manager, Talent Acquisition

GiveWell is a research organization that identifies and funds cost-effective giving opportunities, focusing on global health and well-being. Our work is funded by thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We've grown from raising $1.5 million annually in 2010 to raising over $300 million in 2023.

We're hiring a Manager of Talent Acquisition to develop and manage our recruiting team. You'll work closely with GiveWell's Head of People and other senior leaders to hire world-class talent.

This opportunity is unique:

• Take our recruiting to the next level. You'll help develop GiveWell's recruiting function from our scrappy start-up stage to stable maturity. This will require you to engage with challenges like maximizing the value of our new ATS, Greenhouse, building sourcing muscle within the team, and improving our job design and talent assessment.
• Direct impact. GiveWell's work saves and improves lives around the world. Your work will support the expansion of our research and fundraising teams, which will likely result in additional lives saved.
• You'll have the resources to build a world-class recruiting function. We're fortunate to be an unusually well-funded nonprofit, and we want our recruiting team focused on providing A+ service to hiring managers and candidates rather than navigating hard trade-offs under restrictive budgets.
• High pay, high expectations, high performance. We maintain a high-performing, collegial culture, and our salaries are competitive with nonprofit peers.

Responsibilities

• Manage the recruiting team. Your primary responsibilities will be managing two direct reports and being hands-on in recruiting. You'll maintain a high talent bar for current and future staff, coach your team to deliver outstanding results, and develop a strong recruiting team culture.
• Build full-cycle recruiting practice. You'll improve our sourcing efforts, develop consistent candidate evaluation processes, leverage our ATS to the greatest extent possible, and use data to make continuous improvements to our processes.
• Improve our employer brand. You'll assess and build our employer brand to ensure that top candidates know who we are and want to work for us.
• Work with senior leaders. You'll make sure that important hiring rounds run smoothly, and you'll also advise hiring managers on complicated questions like how to find strong talent pools, how to use performance data to improve our selection processes, and how to develop strong prospect and referral networks.
• Do anything else that helps us achieve our mission. We hope you'll come with ideas.

Who we're looking for

You might be a good fit for this work if you:

• Have at least five years, and ideally seven or more years, of professional experience. Specifically, you:
• Are a strong, experienced recruiter who has managed other recruiters. You've built and led exceptional full-cycle recruiting teams, and you have a particular talent for developing and motivating high performers.
• Have prior experience in an organization going through a high growth phase.
• Are excited to roll up your sleeves in a growing environment where you will need to do some things yourself.
• Are aligned with GiveWell's values. We'll expect you to model high levels of truth-seeking and transparency. Specifically, you:
• Admit mistakes openly and debrief them honestly with others.
• Enjoy working with people who ask lots of questions and challenge conventional wisdom.
• Have confident, well-reasoned opinions, but take new ideas seriously.
• Have great interpersonal skills. You'll need to interface effectively with people across GiveWell and externally.
• Have a solid understanding of GiveWell's work and are excited to support our mission.

This role might not be the right fit for you if you see yourself primarily as an individual contributor, or if you're not interested in the nuts and bolts of recruiting work. For this role, we need someone who's willing to personally sweat the details of practical issues like optimizing our project management systems, nitpicking the wording of application questions, and making sure we're quickly and accurately responding to candidates.
Details

• Compensation:
  • Tier 1 (NYC or the San Francisco Bay Area): $157,900
  • Tier 2 (all other U.S. locations): $143,200
• Reports to: Araceli Steger, Head of People
• Manages: Two recruiters, with possibility of growing the team by one.
• Team: You'll be a member of the broader People team.
• Location: You must be based in the United States (or a time zone shared by the US), but we have no preference for in-person or fully remote work.
  • Offices: You are welcome but not required to work from our offices in Oakland, California, or Brooklyn, New York.
• Visa sponsorship: If you're willing to work in the United States and need a work visa, we'll do our best to sponsor it (and also cover up to 100% of relocation expenses on a case-by-case basis). Please note that government entities ultimately dictate our ability to sponsor visas.
• Flexibility: We support and encourage flexible working, including flexible hours, working remotely, and working from the office when you choose. The majority of our staff, including senior management, work flexibly in one way or another.
• Benefits: Our benefits include:
  • Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents)
  • Four weeks of paid time off per year
  • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships
  • 403(b) retirement plan
• Start date: We'd like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer.

About GiveWell

GiveWell makes grants to support cost-effective programs that save and improve lives. We focus on global health and poverty alleviation in the lowest-income parts of the world because that is where we've found we can have the greatest impact.

Since 2007, we've directed over $2 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions. In 2022, we made over $400 million in grants. GiveWell is one of the world's largest private funders of global development efforts, and we estimate that the funding we've directed has saved more than 200,000 lives.

GiveWell is most well-known for recommending a small number of top charities, which currently support seasonal malaria chemoprevention, antimalarial nets, vaccine incentivization, and vitamin A supplementation. However, most of our research capacity is devoted to finding cost-effective opportunities outside of those programs.

Recent grants have:

• Helped governments to implement high-impact health programs, like in-line chlorination of drinking water in India and HIV/syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant people in Zambia and Cameroon.
• Funded program delivery alongside strengthened monitoring and evaluation, as in our recent grants to support treatment of clubfoot and to evaluate the program.
• Sought to scope and scale promising interventions that don't have clear existing implementers. We are supporting the Clinton Health Access Initiative's Incubator and Evidence Action's Accelerator to identify potentially cost-effective interventions and create programs that we would be excited to support in the future. For example, we recently funded a program to provide diarrhea treatment to children in Nigeria that we co-designed with CHAI through the Incubator program.
• Tested our assumptions through further research, including studies on the effect of water chlorination on mortality, the impact of a tree-planting program on farmers' income, and the effects of combining the RTS,S malaria vaccine and perennial malaria chemoprevention.

We never take for granted that GiveWell's work is good for the world. We make our reasoning public and transparent so others can challenge it (sometimes we even pay people to point out our errors). We go to unusual lengths to check our assumptions and assess our impact, including funding research and external analysis to uncover our own mistakes and insisting that our grantees conduct rigorous monitoring and evaluation. We change our minds when the evidence demands it.
Additional information

We don't want to miss candidates that could do great things at GiveWell. Practically, that means a human reads all components of every application carefully and considers the whole picture of your background and potential. If you're on the fence about applying because you're not sure you meet every qualification (some studies suggest this hesitation is especially common for women and people of color), we encourage you to apply anyway. We respond to everyone, and we'll be happy to review your application.

GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. At minimum, this means that we comply with all federal, state, and local EEO and employment laws. Beyond the requirements of those laws, we value our team's diversity in all respects, and we desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination-we want our team members to thrive at GiveWell. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at [redacted]. We will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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