Co-Chief Talent Officer

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Volunteer Role: Co-Chief Talent Officer
Location: Remote within the US

About Us

WeVote is a nonpartisan get-out-the-vote nonprofit startup and a celebrated Fast Forward nonprofit technology grantee. WeVote is a movement of over 100 passionate volunteers (starting with the founders) who are building open-source mobile technologies that touch and mobilize millions of voters on Election Day. We observe that many voters are busy, distracted, and impatient. We have a goal of providing a complete voting experience in 8 minutes, including the download of our app ("WeVote Ballot Guide, @WeVote"). More information is at See Twitter @WeVote. We are a 100% volunteer and remote organization.

WeVote Co-Chief Talent Officer, Job Definition

Job overview

The Co-Chief Talent Officer at WeVote focuses on the full employee lifecycle, which includes sourcing, recruitment, onboarding, professional development, engagement, and retention.

The Co-Chief Talent Officer works closely with the company’s executive director and other leadership. They contribute to policy changes to ensure talent development initiatives stay aligned with business goals. They also offer strategic advice that considers other important factors like open roles, skills gaps, employee engagement, and the company’s current stage of development.

Role and responsibilities

Volunteer Team Management :

• Hire/manage/encourage team of early career stage recruiters
• Coach current team of 7 recruiters in talent acquisition best practices
• Workforce planning with other team leads and hiring managers (engineering, analytics, business development, marketing, etc.)

Strategic/Leadership :

• Create recruitment strategies and processes to support the organization
• Write and execute HR policies that affect employee life cycle: recruitment, training, and career development
• Develop executive talent management and retention strategies
• Provide best practices to improve the whole talent acquisition cycle
• Assess leadership gaps across the organization and use different approaches to promote diversity in senior teams
• Develop and execute multi-year talent strategy aligned with organizational growth goals, including workforce planning and competitive intelligence
• Define talent acquisition roadmap for scaling from current 200+ contributors

Partnerships and External Relations:

• Build and manage strategic partnerships with universities, coding bootcamps, civic tech organizations, and diversity-focused recruiting networks
• Manage vendor relationships (ATS, recruiting tools, background checks) and represent WeVote at industry events and career fairs
• Expand university partnerships - especially for internships

Recruitment :

• Evaluate company’s hiring needs to build long-term recruitment plans
• Supervise the creation, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of the different facets of recruitment and talent acquisition for top/high-potential talent for the company’s key roles
• Recruitment marketing
• Optimize current JazzHR implementation and build scalable talent acquisition stack to support 2-3x growth
• Develop metrics dashboard to track recruitment deliverables
• Standardize processes for team efficiency
• Co-Chief Talent Officer working with other senior leader(s)
• Lead talent acquisition for an organization of 200+ contributors
• Manage 7+ person recruiting team (remote, US based)
• Reports to Executive Director
• Partner cross-functionally with Marketing (employer brand), Finance (compensation), IT (systems), and department heads (organizational design)

Required knowledge and skills :

• 5-7 years of talent acquisition experience with 3+ years of managing a TA team; proven track record of building/scaling TA teams
• Experience with distributed/remote teams; high growth environments and non-profit/mission driven organizations strongly preferred
• Full cycle recruitment processes – sourcing, screening, selecting, hiring, onboarding
• ATS (Applicant Tracking System) experience
• Candidate pooling and pipeline management
• Familiarity with social media and resume database management
• Networking and relationship building
• Recruitment marketing
• Employer branding
• Learning and development
• Performance management and improvement
• Analysis and critical thinking
• Leadership skills
• Communications and networking skills
• Strategic management and implementation

WeVote Branding

• Brand Pillars: Credibility, Connection, Choices
• Vision: A future where Americans are confident and energized to make choices in every election that champion their needs, hopes, and values 
• Mission: Strengthen Democracy one-friend-at-a-time by providing tools that connect voters with their preferences and inspire voting in every election  
• Brand Promise: WeVote connects you to elections. We give you confidence to make choices that support your needs, hopes, and values across the ballot
• Positioning Statement: WeVote creates the connection between voters, what they value, and their ballot through the power of technology and camaraderie
• Tagline: Energizing Every Election

Join Us

Submit your resume and include a brief note/cover letter as to why you are interested in WeVote and our mission. Please include information about yourself and let us know what questions you have. If it makes sense, we’ll set up an initial video meeting. Remote applicants are welcome within 3 time zones of US Pacific Time, and WeVote's Co-Founders live in Oakland California. We will read every application and attempt to respond within 5 business days. Our apologies in advance if we aren’t able to personally respond to everyone who applies, or if it takes longer to respond.