Recruitment Associate
Key Skills for This Role
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Key Responsibilities
- Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Support
- Assist the Recruitment Manager with end-to-end hiring processes, including drafting job descriptions, posting openings, sourcing candidates, and screening applications.
- Coordinate interviews, meetings, and calls between candidates and hiring managers, ensuring schedules, agendas, and follow-ups are well organised.
- Support candidate communications throughout the recruitment lifecycle, providing a positive and professional candidate experience.
- Ensure that all interactions reflect LEEP’s values and mission.
- Assist with reference checks, offer letters, and other recruitment documentation.
- Track recruitment metrics and maintain accurate records in applicant tracking systems to inform reporting and decision-making.
- Proactively source candidates for priority and hard-to-fill roles using a range of channels, including LinkedIn, Boolean and advanced search techniques, professional networks, referrals, talent communities, and targeted outreach.
- Build and maintain talent pools and pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
- Build relationships with prospective candidates and maintain talent networks over time.
- Track and evaluate sourcing channels to understand what is generating strong candidates and where additional investment or experimentation is needed.
- Recruitment Systems, Data & Automation
- Maintain accurate and well organised recruitment data in the ATS, including candidate records, talent pools, recruitment activity, and pipeline information.
- Use the ATS to support effective workflows, reporting, talent pooling, and candidate management.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive recruitment activities and use AI and other digital tools to improve efficiency and candidate experience.
- Track and analyse recruitment data, including source effectiveness, pipeline health, bottlenecks, time-to-hire, and other relevant recruitment metrics.
- Turn recruitment data into practical insights that help improve hiring decisions, processes, and sourcing strategies.
- Operations, Coordination, and Process Improvement
- Maintain organised and accessible documentation related to recruitment processes, ensuring all information is up to date.
- Experiment with different approaches to candidate attraction, including social media, professional communities, events, referrals, partnerships, and other relevant talent channels.
- Contribute to building structured, scalable hiring practices (e.g. interview frameworks, scorecards)
- Act as a liaison between the recruitment team and other departments, helping manage hiring requests and ensuring timely responses.
- Undertake other reasonable tasks as delegated by the Recruitment Manager to help LEEP achieve its goals.
What We’re Looking For
A successful applicant will possess or be most of the following:
Passion for LEEP’s mission and for driving excellent recruitment
At least 1-5 years of professional experience
Experience conducting interviews, assessments, or structured evaluations is a strong advantage
Demonstrated ability or strong interest in proactive candidate sourcing, including Boolean and advanced search techniques, LinkedIn sourcing, talent mapping, referrals, and network-based recruitment.
Curious and eager to learn, especially when navigating new or ambiguous situations
Strong judgement and the ability to quickly understand role requirements and ideal candidate profiles
Critical thinker and problem-solver who can ask the right questions, spot gaps, and make logical connections
Systems thinker who understands how different parts of the hiring process connect and impact outcomes
Strong organisation and planning skills, with excellent attention to detail
High standards of accuracy and quality in day-to-day work
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly summarise insights and engage stakeholders professionally
Strong digital literacy, including confidence using tools such as Google Workspace and applicant tracking systems
Fluency in English. (Fluency in other languages, such as French, Hindi, Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish, or Portuguese, is a bonus, but not required.)
Commitment to LEEP’s values
Work Environment
Our culture is one of genuine care for each other and passion for our work and its impact. We are a team that values collaboration, openness, and mutual support, which creates an environment where everyone can thrive while contributing to meaningful work.
Though we are a remote team, we are supportive and close-knit. We stay connected through weekly team calls and 1:1 calls, where we have conversations about both non-work and work topics; we regularly share photos and celebrate milestones and successes in our Slack; and we come together annually for an in-person retreat to strengthen relationships and reflect on our mission.
Our team of 60+ people is based across five continents and speaks over 10 languages. We have diverse expertise, from medicine to environmental health to international law.
Our work schedule is flexible. Some of the team work 9-5:30, and some adjust their daily schedule around school pick-up. We value work-life balance and rarely contact team members outside their work hours.
LEEP offers:
A chance to have a very large positive impact on the world
33 days of paid leave
Generous sick leave and parental leave policies
4% pension contribution or equivalent
Professional development opportunities
Life Insurance
Health Insurance in places where government healthcare is limited
Annual team retreat
About Lead Exposure Elimination Project
A nonprofit NGO helping governments and paint manufacturers eliminate lead paint and childhood lead poisoning worldwide.
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