What are the responsibilities and job description for the Employee Engagement & Recruiting Specialist position at Obran Cooperative?
About the Role
Obran Health is seeking a high-ownership, early-career Employee Engagement & Recruiting Specialist to help us build an exceptional employee experience for our distributed clinical team.
We’re looking for someone who learns fast, takes initiative to improve systems, and loves integrating technology to make processes smoother and smarter. Just as importantly, you’re someone who naturally builds relationships — proactively checking in with our clinicians, anticipating their needs, and helping create a welcoming, responsive, and supportive culture across our offices and field teams.
If you’re energized by building, fixing, improving, and owning outcomes, and by being the person who makes employees feel seen, supported, and connected, this role is for you.
About Obran Health
Obran Health is building the largest worker-owned home-based healthcare company in the U.S. We operate worker-owned home healthcare agencies in California, with clinicians serving patients across multiple regions. Our mission is to empower caregivers by giving them voice, ownership, and meaningful participation in the organizations where they work.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Talent Acquisition: Manage full-cycle recruiting for clinical and office roles, optimizing job postings and sourcing strategies and ensuring a high-touch, responsive candidate experience. Track recruiting metrics and continuously improve speed and quality of hire
- Onboarding: Lead thorough, welcoming, and efficient new hire onboarding and orientations, improving workflows to reduce friction and increase engagement
- Employee Lifecycle Management: Maintain accurate, compliant employee files and documentation. Manage offboarding, conduct exit interviews, and identify trends
- Employee Engagement & Experience: Serve as a trusted, approachable point of contact for employees. Lead engagement initiatives, surveys, and recognition programs. Partner with leadership to improve retention and morale.
- Office Operations: Ensure a professional, organized office environment by managing mail, supplies, and general administrative needs to support our clinical field team and office operations. You will be based in the office 5 days/week
This role requires
- 2 years of HR, recruiting, people operations, or similar experience
The following are preferred but not required
- Experience in California-based healthcare employment environment
- Experience supporting multi-site field-based teams
- Tech fluency, including building automations and integrating systems
- Experience in home healthcare and/or as a home health clinician
This role will be a good fit for you if you are
- High ownership: You proactively share with a diagnosis of the problem and a recommended solution. You don’t wait to be told what to fix or how to fix it. You are constantly improving how things work.
- Customer-service oriented: Responsive, empathetic, professional.
- Tech-savvy: Excited about integrating automation and improving how our tech systems work together to better serve our employees and allocate your time wisely.
- Curious: Eager to learn the home healthcare workforce
- Mission-driven: We are building toward becoming the employer of choice in home healthcare. You are passionate about that mission and your role empowering caregivers.
We recognize that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often hesitate to apply unless they meet 100% of the qualifications. If you’re excited about this role and believe you could be a strong contributor, we encourage you to apply — even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement listed.
Salary: $65,000–$80,000 base compensation; strong performers with relevant experience may be considered up to $90,000 depending on skills and fit.
As a full-time employee, this role is eligible for:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with generous employer contributions
- HSA/FSA for healthcare and dependent care
- 401(k) plan
- Life insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Short- and long-term disability
- Membership in Obran Cooperative, including participation in profit sharing, access to cooperative governance and committees, and financial and personal enrichment resources
Salary : $65 - $80