Recruiting Manager

JOB SUMMARY:

Public Rights Project (PRP) is a national nonprofit organization that helps local government officials fight for civil rights. We build their capacity to protect and advance civil rights, convene and connect them on key issues, and provide legal representation to help them win in court for residents. Since 2017, we've recovered over $46 million in relief for marginalized people; built a network of over 1,300 government offices, elected officials, and community-based organizations in 50 states; trained 130 prosecutors and government lawyers in 24 states; and secured court victories on abortion, immigrant, workers’, and voting rights. Learn more about our work.

Public Rights Project seeks to hire a Recruiting Manager to join our team. This is a remote, regular, full-time and exempt position. The Recruiting Manager will lead PRP’s end-to-end recruiting strategy and operations, manage external recruiting partners and oversee recruiting systems and processes for scalability.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Recruitment Strategy & Execution

• Manage full-cycle recruitment across all departments, from job scoping to candidate sourcing, screening, selection, and offer.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand role priorities and timelines, ensuring recruitment plans are aligned with organizational needs.
• Manage relationships with external recruitment partners, ensuring alignment with PRP’s hiring needs, equity standards, and timelines.
• Build strong, diverse candidate pipelines through proactive sourcing, networking, and partnerships with external recruitment firms as needed.
• Ensure recruiting processes are consistent, legally compliant, and reflect PRP’s DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging) values.
• Track and report recruitment metrics, providing insights to the Director of People and leadership team on trends, challenges, and opportunities.

Hiring Operations

• Lead the coordination of consistent and well-structured hiring processes for candidates and hiring managers.
• Support hiring managers by drafting and refining job descriptions and evaluation guides that align with role requirements.
• Equip hiring managers with standardized templates, tools, training and guidance to conduct inclusive and effective interviews.
• Oversee recruitment technology and platforms, ensuring systems are maintained and optimized; introduce and implement new tools or system as needed.
• Partner with People Operations Manager to ensure smooth and consistent onboarding for all new hires.
• Work in close collaboration with the People Operations team to align recruitment and HR systems with DEIB commitments and culture building efforts.

Workforce Planning

• Partner with the Director of People and Executive Leadership Team to to align workforce and succession planning with organizational priorities, identifying critical roles and hiring timelines.
• Develop and maintain candidate pools and talent pipelines for anticipated future needs.
• Contribute to career pathway and development planning by aligning recruitment practices with PRP’s performance management and succession strategy.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• 6-8 years of experience in recruiting or talent acquisition experience, with at least 2-3 years in a lead or management role.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated success managing full-cycle recruitment for a variety of roles, including legal, programmatic, and operational functions.
• Experience drafting job descriptions, interview guides, and assessment rubrics that ensure clarity, equity, and consistency.
• Strong knowledge of equitable and inclusive hiring practices; experience embedding DEIB principles throughout the recruitment process.
• Familiarity with workforce planning, talent pipeline and succession planning
• Experience collaborating with leadership teams to meet staffing goals
• Prior experience managing external search firms and/or internal recruiting staff.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong project management skills; ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously and deliver results on a deadline.
• Proficiency in sourcing strategies and recruitment tools
• Ability and willingness both to complete and to oversee administrative tasks in support of team goals.
• Ability to conduct research and provide analysis.
• Experience or ability to learn the following systems: Google Suite, Office 365, Salesforce, Cornerstone, and Asana.
• Ability to work well with others and diverse groups.
• A belief in the power of state and local government to make positive, progressive change in the world.
• A passionate commitment to economic, racial, gender, and environmental justice.

OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Other duties as assigned.

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIP:

Reports to the Director of People.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Requires sitting, talking and listening for up to 8 hours per day. Certain situations may require lifting items up to 20 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Fully remote organization and team. This role may require travel a few times a year to PRP events or meetings. We currently have remote staff in Oakland, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland (Oregon), and Washington, DC, as well as other cities.

COMPENSATION

The determined salary range for this level 4 role is set at $102,176 - $153,264. For internal equity, PRP can not engage in salary negotiations outside of this range.

PRP HIRING COMMITMENT:

PRP is committed to the principles and practices of equal employment opportunity. A diverse and inclusive workplace, both at PRP and within the government offices we serve, is a key ingredient for achieving our mission of building equitable enforcement capacity within state and local government.

We aim to assemble a team that reflects the world we live in and the communities we serve with respect to race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and immigration status. People with personal or family experience with the type of harms we seek to combat, including wage theft, predatory lending, fraud, discrimination, and environmental degradation are particularly encouraged to apply.