Recruiting Coordinator - 9 month contract
SamaAbout the role
About the Role:
The Sama General and Administrative (G&A) organization keeps the company running smoothly. Around the clock, we work to ensure that all global locations and employees have what they need to be able to do their best work. From managing our business through Legal and Finance, to enabling our people with Employee Success, we support all areas of the company. We equip employees with the guidance, processes, environment, and infrastructure to better collaborate with partners and serve current and future customers.
Sama is looking for a Recruiting Coordinator to join our energetic and fast-paced People team! You’ll guide candidates through our application process, ensuring that best practices are followed in order to provide a first-class experience to our candidates and quality support to our internal teams. If you are keen on growing your career at a meaningful tech startup and obsessed with creating a seamless candidate experience, this is the role for you!
Key Responsibilities:
- Scheduling and coordinating phone screens and interview loops, working directly with the candidates and hiring teams to ensure that the interview experience is both positive and enjoyable for all
- Maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times both internally and externally
- Maintain applicant tracking system (ATS) information to ensure data accuracy, workflow status, etc.
- Assist in the creation of posting jobs to the company website and job boards
- Coordinate and calendar virtual interviews for candidates
- Working collaboratively with recruiters to maintain accuracy and data integrity
- Preparing offer letters
- Initiate and track candidate background checks and references
- Assist with ad hoc HR administrative duties and reporting, as needed
- Support TA projects such as Revamping recruiting process, Pre-onboarding process etc
- Create spreadsheets, presentations and metrics for reporting
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years experience in a Recruiting Coordinator, HR Administration, or similar role
- Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple functions effectively
- Experience building relationships with external and internal clients
- Proven track record of working well within a team environment
- Strong sense of urgency and attention to detail, excel at prioritizing when given multiple projects
- Creative problem solver, tackling the most difficult challenges, knowing how to get to the best solution
- At home in a fast-paced environment with unsolved challenges, where versatility is key
- Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written. You have the ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of audiences and all levels of an organization
- Strong tech-savvy
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior administrative support experience, preferably for a Recruiting/HR department
- Project management skills or experience
- Familiarity with G-suite, Microsoft Word, Excel, and various calendar applications, ATS (Greenhouse), Slack
- Prior experience supporting fast-paced recruitment and activity
- Obsession with candidate experience
- Ability to gracefully handle change
- A true-team player
About Sama
Sama provides high-quality training data that powers AI technology for Fortune 2000 companies such as Google, Walmart, Ford, Microsoft, and Marriott. We’re experts in data curation and data annotation for 2D and 3D image, video, and sensor data for machine learning algorithms.. Sama offers the highest quality SLAs in the industry, along with cutting-edge ML-assisted annotation tools, QA processes, and security and compliance standards.
Founded in 2008 on the belief that “talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not”, Sama is driven by the mission to expand opportunities for those who are underprivileged. As a certified B-corp, Sama has provided worker training programs to increase economic opportunity for more than 13,000 people from underserved communities. By connecting our customers with amazing talent in East Africa, we've impacted more than 59,000 workers and their dependents.
Today, our vision is to provide data scientists, ML engineers, and data operations teams with an indispensable, integrated platform for AI data preparation, labeling, and collection.
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