Entry Level Recruiter

About Us:

VOALA

Helping Our Most Vulnerable Change Their Life Stories

Volunteers of America is a non-profit human services organization committed to serving people in need, strengthening families, and building communities. VOALA provides a variety of social services to Los Angeles area communities such as Head Start programs, Upward Bound college prep programs, veterans’ services, homeless shelters, low-income housing program as well as drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Learn more at www.voala.org.

PAY RATE: $26.56 - $27.96 Per Hour

BENEFITS: VOALA offers competitive medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits

JOB SUMMARY AND PURPOSE

The Entry Level Recruiter will work closely with Adult and Veteran’s Services programs for proactive hiring for identified positions, while organizing, modifying, and confirming system candidate data to ensure recruiting is well resourced. Regularly assists in sourcing efforts, engages in collecting candidate information from a variety of platforms and ensuring a successful applicant experience in a fast-paced recruiting organization.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Recruits for identified positions for Adult and Veteran’s Services, including screening, coordinating interviews with Program Management Staff, and ensuring steady pool of active candidates for new grant start up programs
• Updates candidate records and job postings in ATS system
• Coordinates interview schedules with applicants and hiring managers
• Uses detailed screening and selection criteria to identify qualified candidates and to determine the relevant strength of the candidates in the pool
• Actively sources candidates, assisting pipeline creation for fast paced recruitment to organization needs
• Builds a strong candidate pipelines for identified positions, including attending job fairs, schools, college services as identified including identifying user groups and professional associations which could lead to qualified candidates
• Other duties as assigned

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• An essential function of this position requires incumbents to report to the office.
• Work collaboratively across multiple office locations and programs to ensure staffing of high quality employees, through best recruiting practices and screening candidates to determine the relevant strength of applicants in the pool.
• Participate in the applicant interview process, insuring interviewers from the supported programs are prepared with appropriate and guides, interview questions, and scoring templates.
• Assist candidate sourcing and in the development of a candidate pipeline, in order to timely staff existing and new programs.
• Input job requisitions and job postings.
• Attend job fairs, schools, college services as identified including identifying user groups and professional associations which could lead to qualified candidates
• Maintain ATS,
• Review employment documentation to ensure it is complete and organized, complete employment and education verification of applicants.
• Other duties as required and is subject to change at any time.

MANDATED REPORTER

As service providers to the underprivileged and vulnerable in our community, all employees are considered Mandated Reporters, and must report any instance of physical or sexual abuse to proper authorities.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to pass a fingerprint clearance, background check, including criminal history, personal references, employment and education verifications
• Ability to perform under circumstances of possible emotional stress and conflicts dealing with difficult, uncooperative, and potentially aggressive clients as VOALA serves the neediest of the needy in our programs which may include clients with homelessness, mental-illness, substance abuse, recently released from incarceration and other challenges.

EDUCATION:

• High School or GED and some college coursework in Human Resources, Business, or related field

EXPERIENCE:

• Exposure to the HR field, including recruiting

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience in recruiting or recruitment function support.
• Related experience in a large complex organization.
• Knowledge of Recruiting for Education and related fields
• Experience with ATS preferred.

Volunteers of America is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This employer participates in E-Verify as required by the federal government and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment.

Salary : $27 - $28