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Talent Associate, New Profit
Position: Talent Associate
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Organization: New Profit
Location: Cambridge, MA
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Overview:
New Profit is a nonprofit venture philanthropy fund that exists to help innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations bring about widespread and transformative impact on critical social problems. We work to fulfill this mission with two approaches: 1) providing multi-year financial and strategic support to help a portfolio of innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations realize their full potential for social impact; and 2) helping to build an environment in which all innovative social entrepreneurs and their organizations may realize their full potential for social impact. New Profit believes that just as entrepreneurship and invention have driven our nation’s progress, so too can we harness America’s spirit of innovation, vision, and optimism to help solve our most pressing social problems.
With the support of individual investors and our signature partner, Monitor Group, New Profit works with social entrepreneur-led organizations tackling persistent social problems in education, workforce development, public health, and other areas. In addition, we bring together social innovators from across sectors at the annual Gathering of Leaders, and also drive other initiatives to release the potential of social entrepreneurship. Included among these is America Forward, a nonpartisan initiative that connects social sector innovators and their partners with policymakers, legislators, and thought leaders to advance an infrastructure for innovators and government to act together to scale the impact of proven and promising solutions.
Position:
New Profit is currently seeking a highly organized, flexible, and customer-service oriented Talent Associate to leverage and support a high functioning talent team and enable New Profit to successfully develop employees and grow the organization. Working closely with the Chief Talent Officer and other members of the team, the Talent Associate will play a critical role in supporting a wide variety of talent-related projects, from recruitment to orientation to professional development. The Talent Associate will also be responsible for helping build and refine tools and systems that will enable New Profit to achieve its talent goals and build its team during a period of significant growth.
Responsibilities:
Search support - 65%
- Manage and support the logistics for several searches at a time including launching searches, tracking and reporting candidate status, scheduling interviews and meetings, communicating with candidates, and managing staff involvement and timelines
- Coordinate candidate inflow and respond to questions, requests, and general inquiries
- Support the Chief Talent Officer and hiring managers across the organization with all aspects of the hiring process, including drafting job descriptions and core competencies charts, participating in hiring team debriefs, capturing relevant data, coordinating with search vendors as necessary, and driving the overall hiring process forward
- Support the creation, maintenance, use, and refinement of search tools and processes
- Support posting and networking for open positions, research pipeline sources, and coordinate outreach to critical and targeted New Profit constituents
Orientation and Onboarding support - 20%
- Coordinate new hire transitions including designing effective orientation and training plans and schedules
- Support Chief Talent Officer and hiring managers in coordination of new employee’s first two weeks
- Support full staff meetings led by New Profit leadership on major functional and priority areas of the organization
- Coordinate and drive other onboarding initiatives including Buddy and Mentor System, 101 Guide, etc.
Talent team support – 15%
- Support Talent team scheduling and administrative needs
- Coordinate staff meetings and gatherings, manage meeting minutes and ensure prompt action on follow up items
- Serve as a thought partner to the Talent team
- Serve as the face of New Profit with potential candidates and broader external network, respond to networking requests and offer informational interviews, and assist in hosting potential groups of talent including undergraduate and graduate students
- Lead and/or participate in a variety of special projects identified on an ongoing basis to achieve Talent goals and to drive the mission of New Profit
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, 1+ years of professional experience in roles requiring organizational and customer service skills, and a demonstrated commitment to and interest in supporting the talent function in an organization
- Superior organizational skills and detail-orientation, with the ability to juggle multiple projects and drive toward deadlines
- Unwavering commitment to service and customer orientation with superior relationship-building skills
- Superb written and verbal communication skills
- Quick learner and hard worker with the ability to thrive under pressure and deadlines
- Ability to maintain a high level of tact, discretion, and diplomacy while dealing with confidential and sensitive information
- High level of interpersonal maturity, poise, and judgment
- Demonstrated passion for and commitment to New Profit’s mission and vision
- Ability to work independently and cooperatively as part of a growing, entrepreneurial, mission-driven team
- High comfort level with ambiguity and entrepreneurship
- Minimum two-year commitment strongly preferred
To Apply:
Please upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and stating how you heard about this opportunity, both in Word format, to Jennifer Anderson at http://jobs.cgcareers.org/application.aspx?id=1786. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
