Recruitment and Training Specialist Job at University Research Co., LLC - Center for Human Services
University Research Co., LLC - Center for Human Services Remote
Hours: 40 hours per week, non-exempt
Department: Human Resources
Salary: Commensurate with required experience and qualifications
Reports to: Director of Recruitment and Training
Location: Remote; in-person operations based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, US
University Research Co., LLC (URC)
Guided by a strong vision of equitable and resilient systems that respond to people’s needs and emerging threats, URC helps countries and local actors to build, implement, and sustain science-driven, scalable solutions. Established in 1965, URC offers a range of technical expertise to empower governments, communities, and service providers toward strengthening their own health and social systems and improve service quality. We aim to expand access to and improve the quality of services, addressing maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; global health security and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; nutrition and water, sanitation, and hygiene. In our interactions with each other and our clients, we stay true to our values for transformative change by focusing on:
- Creativity: by unleashing our creativity, we enhance engagement and interaction to improve problem-solving.
- Collaboration: not only our work towards the same vision and mission instill staff with a strong sense of purpose, but also enables us to complement each other’s skills and allocate work to maximize everyone’s strengths.
- Accountability: we hold ourselves responsible for accomplishing goals, completing assignments, and making decisions.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion: we embrace the importance of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, where our leadership and staff model behavior that enriches our organization, demonstrates respect for all people, and supports opportunities for all staff.
- Transparency: we understand that when employees deeply trust one another and their leaders, they will be more engaged in their roles because they will not be worried about unfair treatment.
Responsibilities:
Reporting to the Director of Recruitment and Training, the Recruitment and Training Specialist will source, identify and qualify candidates for headquarters positions at URC and support URC’s training function.
Working with the Director of Recruitment, the successful candidate will partner with URC hiring managers to source, recruit and hire international development professionals experienced in working on USAID and other donor funded health related projects and will support the development and delivery of internal URC training programs
Recruitment:
Specific responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Participate in recruitment intake meetings with hiring managers
- Recruit candidates for URC headquarters positions including positions in programming, business development, technical support, compliance, operations, contracts finance and other areas as needed.
- Identify, approach and recruit passive candidates.
- Screen candidates and manage interviews.
- Negotiate salaries and close candidates.
- Write and post job descriptions.
- Work with the Director of Compensation on offers and pay scales.
- Represent URC at career fairs, professional conferences, and networking events.
- In collaboration with the Director, support the hiring of interns
- Manage external recruitment accounts of DevexLinkedIn, and others as added.
Training:
Specific responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Work with the Director to support presenters of internal training in design of training programs, PowerPoint slides, activities etc.
- Support ongoing training series for international managers, international human resource professionals, program management training, diversity and inclusion training as well as other programs, as needed.
- Coordinate internship training including registration and support for presenters
- process in compliance with URC corporate policies and procedures and federal guidelines.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Self-starter, creative and enthusiastic
- Excellent writing, organizational, teamwork, and communication skills.
- General awareness of the scope, progress and business of international development work funded by U.S. donors, mostly based in the Washington, DC area
Qualifications:
Required and Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher.
- Minimum three years of work experience.
- Some recruiting experience required.
- Some recruiting experience with one of the following is preferred:
- Recruiting for a government contractor
- Recruiting for donor funded international development organization.
- Recruiting for an outside search agency or retained search company
Physical Demands
- This assignment involves prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- This position operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, etc.
- This position may require frequent travel to domestic and international locations with varying distances, duration, and modes of transport.
- This position may require vision, hearing, talking, standing, sitting, walking, lifting.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. CVs submitted for this opportunity may be retained in our database for other/future opportunities, unless we are directed otherwise.
URC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
We value and seek diversity in our workforce.
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