What are the responsibilities and job description for the Recruiter / Campus Recruiter position at Sharp Decisions?
Job Title : Recruiter / Campus Recruiter
Pay Rate : $57/hr on W2
Location : New York, NY (Hybrid)
Duration : 9 Months contract role with a possible extension
Key Responsibilities
Early Careers Recruiting Strategy
- Own and execute the early careers recruiting strategy for assigned businesses, aligned to workforce plans, hiring priorities, and long term talent needs
- Develop annual hiring plans and forecasts for Analyst and Intern hiring
- Advise business leaders on talent availability, market dynamics, and candidate quality
- Define and continuously refine school strategy, sourcing channels, and attraction approaches based on outcomes and market trends
School Strategy & University Partnerships
- Own and manage relationships with designated priority schools and universities, including career services, faculty, student organizations, and affinity clubs
- Develop and execute school specific recruiting strategies aligned to business hiring needs and diversity goals
- Lead internal school teams and partner closely with School Team Captains, often Managing Directors, to set strategy and priorities for each recruiting season
- Identify opportunities to strengthen campus presence, improve engagement quality, and maximize return on key school investments
- Ensure consistent and coordinated outreach across events, interviews, and business engagement for assigned schools
Stakeholder Advisory & Business Partnership
- Serve as the primary recruiting advisor to senior business leaders and HR Business Partners within supported groups
- Set clear expectations and ensure active participation from business leaders and interview teams throughout the recruiting process
Intern Program Ownership & Conversion
- Own the intern program experience for aligned businesses, in partnership with business leaders and the Early Careers Program Manager
- Partner with the business to support intern onboarding, engagement, and day?to?day experience throughout the internship tenure
- Surface performance, readiness, and development trends from the intern population to inform future hiring and program decisions
Data, Analytics & Outcomes
- Own recruiting metrics and reporting for aligned early careers programs, including hiring progress, yield, conversion, and retention trends
- Use data and insights to evaluate recruiting effectiveness, school return, and sourcing strategies
- Provide clear updates and recommendations to business leaders and HR partners
Qualifications
- Proven experience in Early Careers Talent Acquisition, including significant campus or early careers recruiting exposure in a complex or regulated environment
- Demonstrated ability to advise senior stakeholders and influence hiring decisions
- Strong understanding of early careers talent markets, campus recruiting cycles, and intern?to?analyst pipelines
- Strong stakeholder management skills including the ability operate effectively within a matrix structure across all levels, internally and externally.
- Proven ability to manage multiple hiring programs, school strategies, and stakeholder groups simultaneously
- Strong analytical capability and comfort using data to guide decisions
- Excellent project management skills
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage credibly with students, business leaders, and HR partners
- Able to build trust, be credible and ‘hold their own’ at different levels, within and outside the organization.
- Consultative style along with the determination and patience to achieve results.
- Constructively critical with the desire to drive continuous improvement.
- Experience with applicant tracking systems and early careers recruiting platforms such as Yello and Handshake preferred
- Demonstrated judgment, discretion, and integrity when managing confidential information and senior?level hiring discussions
- Strong understanding of inclusion principles and ability to integrate them into recruitment strategies.
- Willingness to travel as required and a solid understanding of the current recruitment landscape.
- Most importantly, you are a team player with the ability to support the team at all levels when required.
Salary : $57