Recruiter (Temporary) (Hybrid in Pleasanton)

Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are

Hively’s mission is to build meaningful connections with families and communities, ensuring access to resources every child in Alameda County needs to thrive. Our vision is to transform the lives of children and families to benefit all communities and ensure a promising future for generations to come. We believe that through subsidized child care, mental health support, and community services centered in families of all types and backgrounds, we can profoundly impact the communities we serve. If this resonates with you, we invite you to apply to join our team.

Our Team & Culture

Our Team at Hively is a passionate and diverse group of individuals from a wide range of different lived experiences, backgrounds and professional expertise. We strive every day to create an environment for families and staff that is inclusive and welcoming of different experiences and perspectives. We prioritize learning, listening, and growing together and to foster a culture of respect.

About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic, adaptable, and data-minded Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to join us for an initial 4-month term temporary contract.

You will lead full-cycle recruiting across a varied portfolio, from launching strategic intakes for complex roles to collaborating with external agency partners. Your focus will span high-volume talent pipelines as well as unique, specialized positions within the nonprofit space. If you excel at establishing immediate rapport, mastering new sectors rapidly, and solving problems creatively amid ambiguity, we would love to have you on our team.

This is a temporary role, through Jan 3, 2027.

What You Will Do:

• Full-Cycle Ownership: Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for a mix of high-volume positions and niche nonprofit roles, including interview coordination and scheduling.

• Coordination: Review resumes and coordinate interviews with the hiring manager, and team.

• Resume Screening: Screen resumes in alignment with the job posting, and present to hiring managers.

  Expert Intakes: Lead strategic kickoff/intake meetings with hiring managers to deeply understand technical requirements and cultural add.

• Sourcing & Partner Management: Utilize creative sourcing strategies to uncover passive talent, while effectively managing relationships and candidates from external recruiting agencies.

• Data-Driven Recruiting: Use recruiting metrics and data to track pipeline health, inform hiring managers, and pivot strategies when necessary.

• Rapid Support: Seamlessly build trust and rapport across the organization from day one. 

• Customer Service: Manage relationships with hiring manager and candidates- providing exceptional customer support internally, and to our awesome candidates.

What You Should Bring:

• Experience: 3+ years of proven full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally across a wide variety of roles.

• Tech Stack: Deep, hands-on expertise with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), in particular Lever, sourcing tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, and Google Suite. 

• Adaptability: Prior experience in the nonprofit sector is not required, but you must possess the agility to learn unique, specialized roles at lightning speed.

• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; a natural ability to build instant rapport with candidates and internal stakeholders alike.

• Flexibility: Comfortable working in a hybrid environment, with the ability to be onsite as frequently as business and hiring needs dictate.

• In-Office; Must be able to work in our Pleasanton Office 2-3 days per week.

Salary ranges are based on industry data, and final employment offer will be determined based upon factors including but not limited to an applicant's experience, specialized skills, and internal alignment.

Welcoming Candidates from All Backgrounds

Hively is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.

Please note that applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.