Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) — a world-renowned education and poverty-fighting organization based in New York — seeks a dynamic, strategic, and mission-aligned Recruiter to join our Human Resources department.
The Recruiter will bring a passion for the mission of Harlem Children’s Zone: break the cycle of intergenerational poverty with comprehensive, on-the-ground programming that builds up opportunities for children and families to thrive in school, work, and life.
The Recruiter plays a critical role in driving full-cycle recruitment efforts across HCZ and Promise Academy. This role partners closely with hiring managers to attract, assess, and hire top talent while delivering a high-quality, inclusive candidate experience. The Recruiter owns the recruitment lifecycle—from sourcing strategy through offer negotiation—while ensuring alignment with organizational goals, hiring timelines, and employer brand standards.
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Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of progressive full-cycle recruitment experience
- Experience working in a high-volume or fast-paced hiring environment
- Experience using an applicant tracking system (ATS); Workable experience a plus
Who You Are
- A strategic partner who can influence and advise hiring managers while delivering effective hiring solutions
- Experienced in developing and executing sourcing strategies across multiple channels
- Skilled at managing multiple requisitions and priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communicator with excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication and relationship building skills
- Highly organized with strong time-management and follow-through
- Comfortable handling sensitive and confidential information with professionalism
- A proactive problem solver with a customer-service mindset
- Adaptable, collaborative, and mission‑driven
What You’ll Do
Full-Cycle Recruitment & Hiring Strategy
- Manage full-cycle recruitment for an assigned client group across Promise Academy
- Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with hiring managers and school leadership, partnering closely to define hiring needs, job descriptions, and candidate profiles
- Develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies to attract diverse, high-quality talent
- Advise hiring managers on market trends, candidate expectations, and hiring best practices
- Facilitate regular check-in meetings with school leadership to track progress, address hiring challenges, and adjust strategies as needed
Sourcing & Talent Pipeline Development
- Source candidates through multiple channels, including job boards, social media, professional networks, referrals, and recruitment events
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for high-volume and hard-to-fill roles, including engaging passive candidates and nurturing long-term talent pools within the ATS
- Represent HCZ at hiring fairs, networking events, and school-based recruitment initiatives to attract high-quality, mission-aligned candidates
Candidate Experience & Interview Process
- Screen and assess candidates to ensure alignment with role requirements and organizational values
- Guide candidates through the interview process, ensuring clear communication and a high-quality, “white glove” experience
- Partner with the Talent Acquisition Coordinator to facilitate seamless interview logistics
- Prepare hiring teams with interview frameworks, rubrics, scorecards, and best practices
Offer Management & Stakeholder Partnership
- Partner closely with school leadership to draft, review, and finalize offer letters and secure necessary approvals prior to extending offers
- Lead offer processes, including compensation discussions, negotiations, and closing candidates
- Conduct reference checks in partnership with HR and ensure all pre-employment requirements are completed
- Maintain consistent, proactive communication with candidates, stakeholders, and hiring managers throughout the hiring process to align on staffing needs and timelines
- Serve as an ambassador of HCZ, strengthening employer brand and external partnerships
Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Track and manage recruitment activity within the ATS (Workable or similar) and monitor hiring metrics, pipeline health, and time-to-fill goals
- Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, workflows, and candidate experience
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop and distribute recruitment communications and marketing materials that support hiring initiatives
- Support hiring events such as career fairs, information sessions, and interview days
Schedule
- Monday-Friday
- 3/2 Hybrid Schedule
Benefits
As a member of the Harlem Children's Zone team, you will join a supportive and inclusive community dedicated to helping children, families — and our staff — thrive. We offer highly competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for growth.
Our exceptional full-time benefits include:
- Highly competitive base salaries
- Paid time off
- Career advancement
- No-cost health insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-and long-term disability
- Additional voluntary benefits
- Wellness discounts
- Commuter benefits
- Financial wellness perks
- Additional Benefits (Discounts on flights, hotels, theme parks, concert tickets, and more.)
The salary range for this position is $75,000-$80,000 per year. To be considered, interested applicants should apply directly through the posting. No telephone inquiries or recruiters, please. Replies will only be sent to qualified applicants. Harlem Children's Zone and Promise Academy Charter Schools will not provide work visas for candidates who require employer sponsorship to ensure work authorization in the United States. Harlem Children’s Zone is an EOE.
