Senior Recruiter

Position Summary

The Senior Recruiter is responsible for Insight Housing's talent acquisition strategy and operations — implementing recruiting workflows end to end, disseminating requisitions, anticipating roadblocks, and managing velocity across a full portfolio of open searches.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Partner with the Senior Director, People Team to develop and improve recruitment strategy that is aligned with organizational goals and employer branding.
• Partner with HR and leadership on workforce planning for program expansion and new site launches.
• Advise leadership on labor market trends, talent availability, and hiring risks.
• Refine the recruiting process from requisition intake through onboarding handoff.
• Implement standard processes for internal transfers, promotions, and temporary support assignments.
• Own requisition prioritization, routing roles for approval and keeping hiring managers and programs informed.
• Resolve recruiting roadblocks and lead complex and/or time-critical searches, including executive and hard-to-fill roles.
• Maintain ATS (JobVite) optimization — configuring workflows, automations, and reporting to support scale.
• Stay current on recruiting tools and hiring trends in the sector and recommend changes that help Insight Housing stay competitive with peer organizations.
• Lead full-cycle recruitment for roles across the organization, from requisition intake through offer acceptance and reference/background checks.
• Partner with hiring managers to define job requirements, timelines, and selection criteria.
• Review applications, conduct phone screens, coordinate interviews, and assess candidate fit.
• Facilitate interview logistics — scheduling, testing, and collecting feedback.
• Guide and train hiring managers and panelists on interview design, candidate evaluation, and equitable hiring practices.
• Prepare, extend, and negotiate competitive, equitable job offers with HR leadership.
• Develop proactive sourcing strategies to build strong, diverse candidate pipelines.
• Manage recruitment channels and relationships — job boards, social media, staffing agencies, RPO partners, and community organizations.
• Maintain talent pools for frequently recruited and hard-to-fill roles.
• Represent Insight Housing at job fairs and recruiting events.
• Ensure a consistent, high-quality candidate experience from initial contact with applicants through new employee onboarding.
• Apply objective practices to support fair selection decisions.
• Partner with the onboarding team for a seamless new-hire transition.
• Ensure recruiting practices comply with employment law and agency policy, maintaining professionalism and confidentiality.
• Track recruitment metrics (time-to-fill, source effectiveness) to guide hiring decisions and the long-term recruiting needs.
• Participate in agency meetings, trainings, and cross-functional initiatives.

Qualifications, Skills And Abilities

• BA/BS in Business Administration, Human Resources, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including recruiting strategy, workflow design, or process improvement.
• Experience managing recruiting velocity and prioritization across a high-volume, multi-program requisition portfolio.
• Experience owning and optimizing an ATS (JobVite preferred), including configuration, automation, and reporting.
• Nonprofit or social service recruiting experience strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting organizational growth or scaling, including workforce planning.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local employment laws.
• Strong analytical skills, translating recruiting data into actionable insights and strategy.
• Attention to detail and comfort designing new processes amid ambiguity.
• Experience with Indeed, LinkedIn, Zoom, and MS Office, preferred.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, multitask, and meet deadlines with minimal supervision, while maintaining confidentiality.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a professional, can-do, flexible attitude.
• Commitment to serving people experiencing homelessness and ending the crisis of homelessness in the counties served.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.