A global education consulting firm has an immediate opening for a contract Recruiter. This position will be through August, but has a high possibility of extending beyond that for several additional months. This is a high volume recruitment team and we are ideally looking for someone that has 1 to 2 years of recruiting experience to source, screen and interview candidates for positions on their team. We need someone process oriented and very organized!

The opportunity will be full-time, remote. Schedule will be Monday-Friday 9am to 5 pm.

Key Role and Responsibilities:

• Staffing and Recruitment – proactively source and manage phone screen. This person will also be involved in the interview, and assist with placing qualified candidates.
• Source and recruit candidates through direct recruiting efforts – specifically for specialized and highly skilled job positions
• Organized and effective management and use of online applicant tracking system
• Build strong relationships with hiring managers to ensure a smooth recruiting process
• Other projects/duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 1 – 2 years’ experience in staffing, recruiting or career placement. Previous experience in a high-volume staffing setting a plus. Focus in the education/university industry recruiting sales and customer service roles preferred
• Knowledge of basic employment law relative to hiring and interviewing preferred
• Previous experience using an applicant tracking system preferred
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, etc.)

Equal Opportunity Employer

Our client, a non-profit that oversees certification in the maternal wellness field, has an immediate opening for an Accounting Coordinator. This is a direct hire opportunity.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Handles financial information with a high level of confidentiality.
• Provides the Bookkeeper and the CPA firm with all necessary income reports, bank and credit card statements for reconciliation.
• Assists the CPA Firm with compiling and preparing property tax documents, forms, and insurance filings for Chief Administrative Officer to review.
• Supports the Chief Administrative Officer with annual financial audit fieldwork.
• Manages online payments for exam candidates, records examination fee payments from Authorized.net to PCM system, and generates reports for the Bookkeeper.
• Manages bill paying duties using QuickBooks.
• Maintains and manages paper and digital filing systems for financial, audit, tax, insurance, etc. per organizational policies.
• Manages the short and long term CERP provider payments.
• Works with the Executive Coordinator with Board meeting per diem, expense reports, and travel reimbursements, etc.
• Works in conjunction with the CAO in planning and accomplishing long term organizational projects.
• Supports Director of Promotion & Advancement with setting up shipments for conferences, Works on special projects as assigned.

Business Objectives:

• Performs work that affects financial operations to a substantial degree.
• Implements, monitors management policies and operating practices.
• Ensures all accounting/financial transaction are carried out with accuracy and in a timely manner according to the financial policies.
• Performs other duties, as assigned.

COMPUTER SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with the Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint; and Quickbooks.
• Experience with Adobe Acrobat.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree.
• A minimum of three years' work experience in an office setting.
• Excellent project management, customer service and problem solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail, with excellent organizational skills.
• Works professionally and diplomatically with individuals from broad geographical and cultural backgrounds.
• Works flexibly and reprioritizes as needed.
• Works effectively both individually and as part of a team.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential materials with complete discretion.
• Accepts ownership and accountability for job responsibilities.
• Tact and diplomatic skills.
• Exemplary customer satisfaction skills, including dealing effectively with the public, Board members and staff, in person, online and over the telephone.
• Proper English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation; business correspondence formatting.
• Some early morning, evening and weekend work required.
• Local travel less than 10% of time.

Our client, a DC based environmental protection nonprofit, is seeking a temporary to hire grants management associate. This position will support the organization in grants management and administration as well as supporting users within the program team, across the organization, and external users. 

Job Duties: 

• Support day to day operations of Fluxx database including updating and maintaining a variety of forms (applications, reports, grant agreements, external reviews, etc.), maintaining and updating workflows, fields, profiles, settings, permissions, and dashboards. 

• Monitor and troubleshoot errors in Fluxx and responsible for entering and tracking help desk tickets. 

• Support maintenance of funding sources and program hierarchy within Fluxx and continued enhancement to effectively manage copious funding sources, programs, and projects. 

• Help manage built integrations including Concur and Docusign and support future API integrations with other relational databases and software platforms. 

• Ensure integrity of data, in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements, as well as processes and requirements. 

• Assist with quarterly and annual grants reconciliation process and support overall grants budgeting, reforecasting, and tracking to quarterly and annual grants budget. 

• Aid with onboarding of new users and developing continued education and training for staff and external users. 

• Utilize data in Fluxx to create impact dashboards, ad hoc reports, mapping, graphs, and other visualizations and reports for a variety of internal and external stakeholders. 

• Undertake special projects as assigned or needed. 

 Preferred education and experience: 

• College Degree or equivalent professional experience. 

•  A minimum of three years of experience in a nonprofit setting with two to three years of experience working in an admin capacity with a grant management system (Fluxx GMS preferred). 

• Familiarity with APIs and middleware integration tools and/or front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, Liquid code), bonus. 

• Knowledge of budgeting and tracking of complex fund sources (both private and federal funding). 

This position will begin remotely due to COVID-19 but eventually this employee would be expected to work on-site in their Washington, DC office.

Our client, a Trade Association in Alexandria VA, is seeking a temporary to hire membership coordinator. This position would be ideal for someone with a previous internship or 1-2 years of membership experience or working at an association.

The Membership Specialist is responsible for generating new members, increasing member retention rates and developing and executing programs that serve members and meet their needs. 

Job Duties:

• Work with the Membership Manager and communications department to develop and execute member retention programs. 
• Manage the membership reinstatement part of the wire audit process, contacting all members who drop their wire service to reinstate them as members, and keeping track of and analyzing drop reasons. 
• Develop and implement a plan for managing daily drop requests with the goal of retaining as many as possible and analyze drop reasons. 
• Assist with identifying, developing, and implementing products and services that meet the needs of members. 
• In coordination with the Membership Manager, analyze member trends to identify at-risk member groups and create strategies to retain them. 
• Pitch membership to prospective members through LiveChat, email communications, coverage in publications, and social media. 
• Implement recruitment campaigns from internal and purchased prospect lists. 
• Plan and organize presence at key industry trade shows in collaboration with other departments, to include setting goals and developing a follow-up plan for communicating with members and prospective members. 
• Identify ways to effectively use our website as a vehicle for recruitment. 
• Develop onboarding campaigns for new members in conjunction with membership and communications teams.
• Accurately add new records (Individual and Organization). 
• Accurately add new memberships (including payment). 
• Accurately add payment to an existing membership (annual and installment). 
• Accurately update renewing and rejoining memberships. 
• Accurately update stored credit card information for declined cards after contacting members whose payment methods become invalid. 
• Accurately add and update contact information. 
• Accurately add and update relationship information. 
• Manage the Store product lineup and create new products when necessary. 
• Clean out duplicate records and perform other regular data integrity maintenance. 
• Expand breadth of member data through helping to implement data collection campaigns and daily member interaction. 
• Field membership inquiries from current and prospective members, fulfill requests (including product orders), and follow-up with members and prospects as necessary. 
• Respond to member and nonmember emails, phone calls and LiveChats. 
• Act as the lead person for LiveChat, ensuring there is proper coverage, adequate training and deliberate analysis and evaluation of the types of information being requested. 
• Ensure answers to frequently asked questions and requested resources are easily accessible via canned responses in LiveChatand that the full staff is kept up to date on changing needs of members. 
• Update the website to ensure information relating to member services is current and as user-friendly as needed. 
• Attend industry trade shows and other events and follow-up with contacts made as needed. 
• Provide customer service and assist with other duties as assigned related to events. 
• Serve as back-up to mailroom (posting and sorting mail) and phones. 
• Monitor LiveChat on holidays and days when staff is light. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 1-2 years of office administrative experience.
• Experience working at an Association either through an internship or a paid position.
• Previous experience using an Association Management System (AMS) strongly preferred.
• Ability to start out remotely but once it’s safe to go back to in-person work commute reliably to Alexandria Virginia.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Our client, a major public health association, has an immediate need for an Account Operations Associate. We are looking for a detail-oriented, process-focused and methodical person who can think critically and work independently, as well as with a team.

Our client, a scientific non-profit has an immediate need for a publications assistant to join their team for approximately 3 months. This position does have the possibility to be extended.

·        Monitor and manage the peer review process.

·        Respond to stakeholder inquires and request via e-mail and telephone communications in a timely and efficient manner.

·        Resolve problems related to manuscript processing and communicate resolutions to stakeholders.

·        Work with team to delegate journal tasks especially during times of high volumes.

·        Ensure stakeholder adherence to deadlines and standards.

Qualifications:

·        Bachelor's degree

·        1 year of publications or editorial experience in a non-profit setting preferred.

·        Excellent attention to detail

This position is remote due to Covid-19 to start, but when office reopens the person will need report to Washington, DC office building.

Our client, a highly respected law firm specializing in affordable housing, is seeking a temporary to hire Legal Assistant to work in their new Bethesda office.

Primary responsibilities beyond standard legal office activities will be to assist in document production and revision, and legal transcript preparation and delivery. Candidate must be reliable and have the capability to handle multiple tasks, meet deadlines, and work well in a team environment. Excellent organizational skills, writing ability, and attention to detail is essential. Microsoft Office (proficient in Word and Excel) experience is a plus. Candidates with real estate finance experience is also a definite plus. This position provides an excellent opportunity for someone seeking a challenging career and who has an interest in real estate finance. 

This position will start out remotely but we are seeking candidates who are able to commute to Bethesda once they go back to working in office.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are excited to add an additional member to our recruitment team! We are experiencing strong growth in our business and have a need for an additional recruiting team member. The Choice Inc. has a reputation in Washington, DC for finding high caliber candidates for a wide range of staffing needs. Our clients are highly-regarded and prestigious nonprofits, think tanks, and associations. We place over 100 associates in full-time jobs every year-we have helped many people get their foot in the door and obtain their dream job. We are very team-oriented and work collaboratively across the board. We need someone who is a self-starter and who can learn quickly and be flexible with our fast-paced and ever-changing priorities.

This is an exciting entry-level opportunity that will provide wide-ranging exposure to talent acquisition, onboarding, candidate vetting, and client relations.

This Entry- level Recruiter will take responsibility in managing our general candidate pool. This will entail:

• Daily review of new candidate applications
• Phone screening candidates and setting up interviews with team accordingly
• Taking ownership of some of The Choice’s key accounts that require consistent temporary coverage
• Working on important temporary and temporary to hire requests. This will include drafting and sending candidate submissions to clients and scheduling on-site interviews accordingly.

Additional key job duties:

• Posting job advertisements on preferred job boards
• Interviewing candidates
• Checking in on recent placements (candidate and client)
• Reaching out to associates on their last day of assignment to help manage wrap up
• Assisting with reference checks, as needed
• Assisting with creation of marketing materials for client distribution and posting on LinkedIn

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• An interest in business
• 1 to 2 years of work experience- either through an internship or paid position
• Highly organized with strong follow up skills
• Strong writing skills
• A people person!

This position is an immediate opening and will start remote, but we are looking for someone local to DC area for when we return to in person in the coming months. Position is full time, Monday-Friday. We are ideally looking for candidates that are open to a temporary to hire.

Our client, an environmental non-profit has an immediate opening for a temporary Database Assistant to support for the Database Specialist. This person will be dedicated to working through the data project backlog as well as maintain and assist with data hygiene and entry into Raiser’s Edge.

Temporary Support Responsibilities

Specific tasks include:

• data cleanup in Raiser’s Edge,
• linking gifts to memberships
• updating records from constituents asking to be removed from mail and email lists, and working within Excel to modify, clean, and prepare for upload into Raiser’s Edge large quantities of data.

Ideal Qualifications:

The ideal Database Temp has a background in databases, specifically data hygiene, and Excel. Experience in Raiser’s Edge or a similar non-profit relational databases. Required professional skills for this position description include:

• Ability to follow processes precisely
• Strong attention to detail
• Good instincts to identify/recognize when data needs attention
• Work well within a team
• Comfortable in Excel
• Knowledge of relational databases

This is a full-time, 5 month (May-October) temporary need. Work will start remote, but maybe in person in DC later in 2021.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Our recruitment team is assisting a search for a temporary opening at a prominent environmental advocacy organization. We are looking for candidates that are **open to temporary positions **and would be able to complete the timeframe of the position.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to be involved with domestic and international programs regarding conservation, agriculture, and food policy. An interest in environmental advocacy is preferred for the opportunity, but not required.

The ideal candidate has at least a year or two of administrative experience and is eager to learn.

Key Responsibilities

·        Composes and sends emails on behalf of department. Arranges meetings and makes appointments for supervisor(s) and staff. Answers complex inquiries requiring detailed knowledge of departmental procedures.

·        Document review and preparation - Composes complex documents for others such presentations using PowerPoint, Google Slides or Prezi, and ensures they are correct and accurate. Takes minutes at meetings. May help prepare proposals and other written materials.

·        Coordinates organization of virtual and in-person meetings/conferences/ special events, including attendee coordination, space and equipment rental, AV needs, catering, and material preparation.

·        Financial support - Reviews and processes payments for credit cards transactions and invoices, inputs proper coding into the financial system, prepares check and/or wire requests, handles reclasses and serves as the liaison with accounting to track payments. Monitors expense reports against budget, seeking explanations for significant variations; compiles and reviews financial reports submitted by others. Assists supervisor with budget monitoring. Prepares and tracks contracts.

·        Information management - Collects information and maintains logs, records and lists on a regular or ad-hoc basis using Google Docs, Google Sheets, and other Google applications, or specialized databases. Reviews, validates and inputs data collected or provided by others. Identifies any problems with the data and coordinates with others to resolve problems as needed.

·        Report preparation - Prepares reports for internal staff, as well as members, donors and others by creating tables and charts, calculating statistics, interpreting data and assisting in writing results. May assist with compiling input for proposals and preparing for presentations.

·        General office duties - Makes travel arrangements; handles administrative aspect of new employee set-up; orders office supplies, coordinates production and distribution of documents, reports and other materials. Manages Practice email lists. Performs miscellaneous office tasks.

·        Performs other duties as assigned.

The position will likely remain remote for the duration of the position due to COVID safety precautions.