Life cycle recruitment for proposal positions:

•  Assessing Hiring Needs. Review and assess each proposal opportunity to identify and develop specific recruitment action steps to ensure that all donor and organizational staffing requirements are successfully completed for each funding opportunity within established deadlines. Develops and executes recruiting strategies for each job profile.
•  Job Postings. Develop and implement electronic requisitions for open positions, posts position openings to Pathfinder employment webpage as well as external websites. Ensures postings are current and up to date.
•  Candidate Sourcing. Employs a variety of standard and specialized sourcing techniques to identify a high quality, diverse candidate pool in an efficient, cost-effective manner (i.e. online investigating, database and ATS searches, cold calling, user groups, referrals, networking, and the like.).
•  Proactively builds Pathfinder’s talent pipeline by identifying, screening, interviewing, and assessing candidates for open positions.
•  Interviewing and Selecting Candidates. Assists proposal teams in evaluating applicant qualifications and selecting the most qualified candidates. Makes employment recommendations based on information obtained through interviews, reference checks and assessment tools. Screens and presents qualified candidates for interviews. Performs detailed reference checking on selected candidates and reviews results with hiring managers. Initiates and ensures background check, drug testing, and any immigration processing requirements are satisfactorily completed when necessary.
•  Advertising Management. Manages advertising in various media (print, internet, social media). Research appropriate advertising venues, analyzes advertising sources for cost effectiveness and makes recommendations on where to spend advertising dollars.
•  Interview Coordination. Coaches interview team members on developing job- specific behavioral and competency-based interview questions as well as interviewing and candidate assessment techniques. Organizes, leads, and documents post-interview debrief with interview teams.
•  Selecting Candidates. Works with HR Managers and Hiring Managers to develop and extend offers of employment to selected candidates within the guidelines of Pathfinder’s compensation. Negotiates proposal candidate salaries and establishes benefits within budget constraints.