Recruitment Associate/Specialist
Employer: Impact Ops
Location: Remote-First' organisation. We prefer candidates who can overlap with European timezones, but we’re open to other arrangements for exceptional candidates.
Working hours: Full time
Salary: £40,000–£50,000 (associate level) and £55,000–£65,000 (specialist level)
Closing date: March 7th , 2026
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Impact Ops is looking for a Recruitment Associate or Recruitment Specialist (UK) to join our team. The starting salary range is £40,000–£50,000 (associate level) and £55,000–£65,000 (specialist level), depending on prior experience and location. There may be flexibility in salary for exceptional candidates with significant experience.
If you’re looking for a role where you can learn quickly, take ownership of core recruitment tasks, and make a meaningful impact supporting high-impact nonprofits, particularly in AI safety, alignment, and governance, we’d love to hear from you.
The deadline to apply is March 7th , 2026, although we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis.
About Impact Ops
Impact Ops is an independent organization that provides operational support to high-impact nonprofits, many of our clients work on AI safety, alignment, and governance challenges. Our services include finance, recruitment, entity setup, due diligence, ops audit, and systems implementation. We’re a “remote-first” organization with team members and clients based across the world.
We’re looking for motivated, altruistic, and optimistic people from diverse backgrounds to join us in this impactful work by providing excellent operational support to our clients.
You can read more about how the first two years went at Impact Ops here.
Key responsibilities
As a Recruitment Associate/Specialist you will be part of a team responsible for recruitment operations for both Impact Ops and our clients. Your key responsibilities will include:
Designing, documenting, and continuously improving recruitment processes and templates across multiple clients, working closely with hiring managers and internal stakeholders
Conducting candidate sourcing and outreach, including identifying relevant talent pools and helping build and maintain candidate pipelines
Conducting early-stage candidate evaluation, including application reviews and screening calls, to identify high-potential candidates early in the hiring process
Managing candidate communications throughout hiring processes to ensure a professional, timely, and positive candidate experience
Tracking candidates, roles, and hiring progress accurately across applicant tracking systems and internal tools
Assisting with recruitment coordination tasks, including interview scheduling and managing process logistics
Proactively identifying gaps, inefficiencies, or failure points in recruiting systems and proposing improvements
Maintaining and improving scoring rubrics and assessment frameworks to ensure fair, consistent evaluation
Supporting the recruitment team with day-to-day operational and administrative tasks to ensure hiring processes run smoothly
Additional responsibilities for Recruitment Specialists:
Owning client relationships end-to-end for assigned roles, acting as a trusted partner to hiring managers and stakeholders
Project managing multiple hiring rounds simultaneously, including aligning on role requirements, driving timelines, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring delivery against hiring goals
About you
You’ll need to have:
2+ years (associate) or 4+ years (specialist) of experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, or a related role
Experience supporting end-to-end recruitment processes, including sourcing, screening, and coordination
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Comfort working with recruitment tools, ATS platforms, and documentation systems
You’ll also likely have:
Enthusiasm for adopting cutting-edge recruitment technologies and AI tools, with willingness to innovate
An operations mindset: you enjoy improving processes and making systems run smoothly
Ambitious growth mindset with excitement about scaling recruitment operations
Positive, optimistic approach with strong interpersonal skills
Experience in nonprofit, social impact, or mission-driven recruitment is a plus
Experience recruiting for technical research roles, particularly in AI/ML or adjacent fields
Interest in the unique challenges of recruiting for emerging, specialized cause areas
Understanding of or an interest in the AI safety landscape
Benefits and salary
Your starting salary range is £40,000 to £50,000 (for associate level) and £55,000 to £65,000 (for specialist level), depending on prior experience and location. There may be flexibility in salary for exceptional candidates with significant experience.
Our benefits include:
Prioritized health & wellbeing: We provide private medical, vision, and dental insurance, and up to 2 weeks’ paid sick leave. We also offer a generous allowance for you to spend on your mental health.
Flexible working: You’re generally free to set your own schedule (with some overlapping hours with colleagues as needed). We’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one.
Generous vacation: 25 days’ holiday each year, plus public holidays. We encourage you to use the full allowance.
Professional development opportunities: We offer a generous allowance each year for professional development. We build in opportunities for career growth through on-the-job learning, increasing responsibility, and role progression pathways.
Pension: We offer a 10% employer pension contribution or equivalent salary increase (if we’re unable to offer this in your country).
Parental leave and support: New parents have up to 14 weeks of fully-paid leave and up to 52 weeks of leave in total. We can also provide financial support to help parents balance childcare needs.
Equipment to help your productivity: We’ll pay for high-quality and ergonomic equipment (laptop, monitors, chair, etc.) for your remote work set up.
Global team retreats: As a remote team we hold in-person staff retreats twice a year, to work on our plans and build strong working relationships.
This is a full-time role, but part-time would also be possible for particularly strong candidates. We prefer candidates who can overlap with European timezones, but we’re open to other arrangements for exceptional candidates.
We’re able to sponsor visas in the UK, so let us know if you require work authorization.
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