Talent Acquisition Manager

About the Position

Namati helps people understand, use, and shape the law to support and defend their communities. Since 2011, Namati has worked to build a movement of grassroots advocates worldwide, growing from a small group of big-hearted justice seekers to a global staff of more than 150 people across 6 countries. Our people – our staff, community partners, and the justice seekers we work with on the ground every day – are everything to us.

Over the next year, Namati will be growing significantly. We’re looking for someone who can own this next phase of growth – everything from sourcing and interviewing candidates, to project-managing all our hiring processes, to partnering with hiring managers to put the right candidates in the right roles, and building our internal capacity along the way. We’re a busy, growing team, and you’ll have plenty of roles to fill, but fit with our culture and mission-focus is paramount.

To be a successful in this role, you’ll need to deeply understand our mission, our culture, and our international organization to discern which candidates are not only the right match for our work, but also for our team. We’re always open to re-examining requirements or creating new roles for people who are exceptional matches for our organization but not a particular open role. This role, with a high-level view of our global organization, will be a key partner in managing these complexities.

This Talent Acquisition role will be a part of the global People team and will support team-wide efforts as appropriate to bring culturally-aligned people into roles designed to tap into their superpowers, help them to continually grow and develop, and bring them together in a vibrant, values-driven culture.

While we’re open to hiring this role at a variety of levels, we’re looking for someone with significant related professional experience and strong professional networks. The Talent Acquisition manager will focus on the following areas:

1. Sourcing candidates: You’ll do all the sleuthing you’d expect a recruiter might do, as well as constantly searching for new networks that might be full of incredible candidates who have never heard of us. Your calendar will be full of screening interviews, “get to know you” calls, and follow-ups, building a candidate pipeline for Namati now and into the future.
2. Managing hiring processes: You’ll manage all of the processes of hiring at Namati, from developing job descriptions to onboarding. You’ll conduct interviews, plan hiring timelines for new roles, develop candidate evaluation resources, set up all of the systems we use for hiring, and coordinate onboarding (and help us continue to strengthen our systems and capacity in these areas). You’ll work with hiring managers and the rest of the People Operations team to drive hiring processes forward, and you’ll own the candidate experience at Namati, ensuring that candidates are treated respectfully and communicated with in a timely manner.

Here’s what you might have tackled last week –

• Scheduled, planned, and conducted a call with the Kenyan citizenship team to help them develop a role they plan to hire for.
• Held a check-in with a hiring manager to share updates on a recruitment process; after discussing eligible candidates, quickly reacted to make adjustments to the job description and recruitment strategy.
• Finalized a new evaluation template for hiring managers to review written exercises.
• Had coffee with a senior-level candidate who might be a great match for our growing US Environmental Justice program when she’s available next year.
• Had a long call with our Network manager, learning about how to navigate our Legal Empowerment Network platform and strategizing about how to find promising candidates who are already very engaged in our issues.
• Did phone screen interviews with about 18,000 candidates (you might be exaggerating that number, but that’s how it felt).
• Finalized job descriptions for 2 upcoming roles, providing both content and light copy-editing on the documents to prepare for posting.
• Spent some time cruising around Twitter, exploring a rabbit-hole of environmental justice networks around the world.

About You

• Excellent communication and matchmaking skills: You love to connect with people and understand how their perspectives and unique qualities could be elevated. You’re great at articulating mission, achievements, and culture in a way that helps people understand how they could thrive with us. You enjoy people – working with them, learning from them – and you’re typically energized by a good conversation.
• Nimble, creative, skilled project manager: You’re extremely thorough and will follow through on complicated, multi-step processes. While careful planning and execution define your work, you are positive and graceful when unexpected challenges arise. You quickly reorient and identify the best new course of action. You are able to multitask using sound judgment while remaining detail-oriented.
• Collaborative and service-oriented: You greet everyone you encounter with a collaborative spirit, kindness, and empathy. You are known as a team-player who brings an “all hands on deck” mindset to all projects — you’re happy to contribute however you can to advance Namati’s mission. You manage collaborative processes confidently and efficiently: you know how to incorporate input from a variety of stakeholders.
• Growth oriented: You’re always seeking to better yourself and your work, and you will push yourself to the peak of performance to help fulfill our mission. In service of that growth, you welcome and delight in feedback from supervisors, peers, and anyone else.
• Maturity and discernment: You have several years of experience – perhaps at several workplaces – and have seen a lot of people thrive (and not) in a variety of ways. You trust your instincts, but also understand your biases, and have an expansive and inclusive idea of what it means to “belong” at an organization.

Location

This can be a remote position, open to any location. Preference will be given to candidates based in one of Namati’s global offices in Washington DC, USA or Nairobi, Kenya (please note you must already be legally eligible to work in one of these countries to be considered for the position; Namati is unable to sponsor work permits).

The person hired for this role will be asked to have a flexible schedule to accommodate candidate outreach across global time zones.

Compensation

We base our compensation on the markets where our staff operate. We work to communicate transparently with candidates (including talking about compensation very early in the process). Throughout the hiring process we will seek to understand your specific skills, experience, and abilities as they will fit into our team and our job levels. We will finalize pay and responsibilities based on the qualifications, experience, and country location of the person joining.

We also offer excellent benefits: while the exact terms vary somewhat based on location, they always include health coverage, generous paid time off, retirement or old-age plan contributions, sick leave, and parental leave— or compensation for the same. All staff also have access to funds for professional development opportunities.

How to apply

Please complete our online application form, including a resume/CV as well as answering one of the application questions that will help give us insight into your approach and experiences in hiring.

Applications will be accepted and reviewed from now until November 11, 2022. No phone calls please.

Namati is an Equal Opportunity Employer.