Senior Recruiting Associate (Hybrid)

  • Entry-level, Full-time staff position
  • Posted on 28 November 2025
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Job Description

About Talent

The Talent Team oversees the employee lifecycle across seven countries in eight cities. Our employee value proposition is focused on equity, transparency, representation, and working across lines of difference. Our hiring processes may be perceived as unconventional. For example, we share Total Rewards in the first screen and agree on compensation right up front. We have found that it is better for candidates to have that information from the start and it’s better for Acumen as we have fewer failed searches where candidates decline our offers. The Talent Team is also responsible for Acumen’s People strategy and culture, performance management, compensation, benefits, learning and development.

About the role
The Senior Recruiting Associate will

  • Lead recruitment processes: Manage full-cycle recruitment, including sourcing, interviewing, and closing candidates, often for mid-to-senior level roles.
  • Develop and implement sourcing strategies: Create and execute innovative methods to find and attract top talent, utilizing various channels.
  • Partner with stakeholders: Collaborate closely with hiring managers and other leaders to understand hiring needs and define job requirements.
  • Build and maintain relationships: Develop strong relationships with candidates and clients, and provide market insights.
  • Negotiate and manage offers: Handle the negotiation of terms, making verbal and written offers and the managing the pre-onboarding process.
  • Ensure compliance: Maintain compliance with hiring policies and processes.
  • Contribute to employer branding: Participate in efforts to enhance the company’s reputation.
  • Available to fill in on other Talent duties when necessary.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for posting jobs, setting up the interview plan, reviewing applications, screening candidates, explaining our total rewards, scheduling interviews with the hiring panel, making verbal offers, followed by written offers, and setting newly hired people up for day one.

Qualifications & Characteristics

  • Three to five (3 - 5) years of work experience
  • An ability to be candid and transparent
  • An ability to get and stay relatively well organized
  • A curiosity about people, skills and experiences… looking for key skills and being open to people who can surprise you and deliver on the role even if they don’t “fit” your initial ideas
  • Healthy interpersonal skills: an ability to truly listen, an ability to stay focused on finding solutions, an ability to speak directly and communicate needs and barriers, an ability to treat everyone with dignity.
  • Can take initiative independently, can follow through, can communicate with stakeholders, can deliver on a deadline
  • Someone who generally enjoys making other people feel successful and find work that suits them
  • An ability to learn software
  • An ability to manage confidential information with discretion
  • Self reflective and aligned with Acumen values
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States

Deadline
Candidates are encouraged to apply as early as possible as applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis.

About the Organization

Supports enterprises that increase income, increase assets and create jobs for the four billion people on earth who earn a few dollars a day. Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. We seek to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor. Our investments focus on delivering affordable, critical goods and services ? like health, water and housing ? through innovative, market-oriented approaches. Our History Acumen Fund was incorporated on April 1, 2001, with seed capital from the Rockefeller Foundation, Cisco Systems Foundation and three individual philanthropists. Since then our network of investors and advisors has grown to include a wide range of individuals and organizations who share our belief in using entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.

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