Senior Recruiter

About the role

Are you mission-driven and passionate about helping others succeed? Do you strive to lead, follow, and act with integrity? Are you the one who honors your commitments? Is building trusting relationships an integral part of why you do what you do? Do you push limits and challenge the status quo? If you answered YES, keep reading to discover how you can significantly contribute to Team USA's success!

The Senior Recruiter is responsible for leading full-cycle recruiting efforts across the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), partnering closely with leaders to attract, assess, and hire exceptional talent across all U.S. locations and organizational levels. This role serves as a strategic talent advisor, providing expertise in workforce planning, talent market trends, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, and recruitment best practices. The Senior Recruiter develops and executes innovative sourcing strategies with a strong focus on diversity, inclusion, and candidate experience while building proactive talent pipelines for current and future organizational needs. As a steward of the Team USA employer brand, this role leverages social, digital, and relationship-based recruiting techniques to identify top talent and strengthen awareness of the USOPC as an employer of choice. This position collaborates across People & Culture and business leadership teams to support talent planning, internal mobility, and continuous improvement of recruiting programs, processes, technology, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary talent advisor to hiring managers and leaders, providing consultative guidance throughout the recruiting lifecycle, including workforce planning, position design, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, selection, offer development, and onboarding.
• Partner with business leaders to understand current and future talent needs, identifying opportunities to proactively build talent pipelines and reduce time-to-fill for critical roles.
• Provide data-driven recommendations and market insights related to talent availability, compensation trends, competitive landscape, and recruiting strategies.

• Lead full-cycle recruitment efforts for professional, leadership, and highly specialized positions across the organization.
• Develop and execute comprehensive sourcing strategies utilizing direct sourcing, networking, social recruiting, employee referrals, industry partnerships, and digital recruitment channels.
• Proactively engage and build relationships with passive candidates to establish diverse talent pipelines for anticipated and future hiring needs.
• Conduct candidate assessments, behavioral screening interviews, and selection consultations to ensure alignment with role requirements, organizational culture, and USOPC core values.
• Present highly qualified candidate slates and facilitate calibration discussions with hiring teams.
• Manage offer development and negotiation processes, ensuring competitive and equitable hiring decisions while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
• Lead and coordinate all pre-employment activities, including reference verification, background screening, and onboarding transitions.

• Develop and implement innovative strategies to attract, engage, and hire talent from historically underrepresented communities.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with professional associations, educational institutions, military and veteran organizations, diversity-focused networks, and community organizations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on inclusive recruiting practices and partner with hiring managers to reduce bias throughout the hiring process.

• Utilize recruiting technologies and talent systems to maintain accurate candidate and recruiting data, ensuring compliance and data integrity.
• Partner with People Systems and People Analytics teams to optimize recruiting workflows, reporting, automation, and user experience.
• Analyze recruiting metrics and trends, including time-to-fill, pipeline health, source effectiveness, candidate experience, and diversity outcomes, providing recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Contribute to Talent Acquisition