Recruiting Coordinator (Part-Time, Contract)

Acumen is seeking a Recruiting coordinator with 2 years of experience to support full-cycle hiring across global teams and coordinate a high-volume candidate pipeline. You’ll drive interview scheduling, candidate communications, and recruiting operations projects while ensuring a seamless, positive experience for both candidates and hiring teams. This is a one month part time contract role based in New York with an anticipated 15-20 hours of work per week.

About Acumen
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.

About Talent
The Talent Team supports the employee lifecycle across seven countries and eight cities. The team’s work is grounded in an employee value proposition that is centered on equity, transparency, representation, and cross-functional collaboration. Our Recruiting team consists of two full-cycle recruiters and two HRBPs that prioritizes a seamless candidate-to-employee experience, ensuring every step of the hiring process is handled with dignity, clarity, and transparency. In this role, you will partner with them to support a period of high-volume hiring across the organization this year.

About the role
The Recruiting Coordinator will support a high-volume recruiting function that is managing 35+ open roles concurrently and a pipeline of 200+ candidates. The ideal candidate has prior experience managing high-volume interview scheduling and candidate communications in a fast-paced environment and brings a high level of ownership,and proactive problem-solving to support both candidates and our hiring teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate interview logistics for 35+ concurrent searches, supporting a pipeline of 200+ candidates across timezones, including proctively adapting to last-minute changes and rescheduling.


• Serve as primary point of contact for candidates as they move through our hiring process. 


• Maintain consistent, professional candidate communications and engagement throughout the hiring process.


• Communicate interview details, preparation materials, and updates to candidate


• Manage ATS workflows (Greenhouse), including interview plans, scorecards, and candidate updates.


• Support exeution of offer letters and preboarding logistics 


• Drive recruiting operations projects, including evaluating and implementing tools (e.g., Calendly) to optimize scheduling and workflow efficiency.

Skills & Qualifications 

• Minimum 2 years of recruiting coordination experience, including high-volume interview scheduling and candidate communications.


• Must have prior experience using Greenhouse


• Prior experience with global interview coordination preferred.


• Familiarity with tools like Calendly or AI-enabled scheduling solutions is preferred.


• Highly organized, detail-oriented, with strong project management skills.


• Excellent written and verbal communication; committed to delivering a positive candidate experience.


• Able to work autonomously 


• Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment with a strong bias for action.


• Strong interpersonal skills: active listening, solution-oriented thinking, and professional handling of confidential information


• Self reflective and aligned with Acumen values


• Must be authorized to work in the United States

Deadline
Please submit applications by March 16 

Compensation
$29/hour

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