Early Career - Emerging Talent Programs and Recruiting Coordinator (Contract)

About the Role

We are seeking a high-potential, creative, and enthusiastic Recruiting and Programs Coordinator to join our Emerging Talent team. In this dual-impact role, you will help shape the early-career candidate journey—from finding top talent to delivering an unforgettable program experience. You will combine event execution with recruiting support by proactively sourcing talent, managing candidate pipelines, and coordinating engaging early-career experiences for our interns, co-ops, and rotational program participants. If you love creative event planning, talent strategy, and are eager to kickstart and grow your career in talent acquisition and program management, this role is for you!

Responsibilities

• Source emerging talent across campus networks, student organizations, and professional networking platforms and learn to manage full life-cycle recruiting tasks.
• Manage candidate pipelines within the applicant tracking system, moving prospects smoothly from initial outreach through the interview process.
• Coordinate logistics for campus and intern program events, including orientation, executive Q&As, workshops, and final presentations.
• Manage vendor communications, swag orders, venue bookings, and virtual event setups.
• Maintain the master calendar for recruiting cycles, interview schedules, and cohort program events.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for candidate and program participant inquiries across email and team channels.
• Drive engagement initiatives, social activities, and peer mentorship networks for active cohorts.
• Update and distribute recruiting materials, onboarding guides, program handbooks, and FAQs.
• Track program metrics and pipeline analytics, including sourcing conversion rates, event attendance, and survey feedback.
• Partner with Recruiters, HR Ops, IT, and Hiring Managers to streamline onboarding, equipment setup, and expense tracking.

Qualifications

• 0–2 years of professional, internship, or campus leadership experience in recruiting support, event coordination, marketing, or project management—we are ready to train and invest in the right candidate!
• Strong curiosity about talent acquisition, with an eager interest in learning how to proactively source candidates and build healthy pipelines.
• Passion for brainstorming fresh outreach strategies, eye-catching event concepts, and creative ways to engage early-career candidates.
• Natural talent for hospitality and event execution, with a strong eye for detail whether planning a campus event, an in-person social, or a virtual workshop.
• High learning agility with a proactive, "can-do" attitude and a genuine hunger to build a career in talent management or recruiting operations.
• Dynamic, approachable, and articulate, with an ability to connect authentically with candidates, early-career talent, and internal leaders alike.
• Comfortable learning new systems quickly and familiar with basic productivity and virtual collaboration software.
• Ability to travel to campus recruiting events, conferences and onsite to our Atlanta Headquarters, required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with sourcing platforms, applicant tracking systems, or survey or event software.
• Prior involvement in campus leadership, student organizations, or university event planning.
• Experience or interest in hybrid event concepts and creative social content for talent branding.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $25.00-$27.00/hr for Atlanta, GA based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.