The Role

As a key player on the People Team, the Recruiting Coordinator will support interview scheduling for candidates in both our NYC and Mountain View offices. You will be responsible for creating a high-quality interview experience for all candidates and hiring managers, and will manage candidate workflow through Greenhouse (our Applicant Tracking System) to ensure timely updates and data integrity. In addition to making sure our various hiring and employment processes conform to compliance guidelines and industry best practices, you will create and maintain reports to capture various hiring and employment metrics. You will be the point of contact for various recruiting and HR questions, and will effectively resolve or escalate them as appropriate.

Why You’ll Love This Role

Our team is growing aggressively over the next year. You will play a pivotal role in building out our People organization by ensuring a top notch experience for new hires and employees. You will get to broaden your experience and take ownership of a range of recruiting responsibilities, in addition to assisting the Chief People Officer with various administrative, HR, and ad-hoc projects (like executing on our employer brand strategy to highlight our company culture and enhance employee experience). You’ll sharpen your project management and communication skills, all while helping build a company that is shaping the future of K-12 education.

Why We’ll Love You

You have 6+ months of experience in human resources and/or recruiting, and have mastered Google Suite and Applicant Tracking Systems or HR Management Systems. An excellent written and verbal communicator, you handle confidential information with complete discretion and professionalism. You are a problem solver, with an eye towards continuous process improvements. Bonus points if you have knowledge of various employment laws and HR industry best practices.

About Newsela 

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that combines engaging, leveled content with integrated formative assessments and insights to supercharge engagement and learning in every subject. Students and teachers use Newsela to find digital content from 100+ of the best sources—from National Geographic to NASA, Biography.com to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Washington Post to the Wichita Eagle. Content is instructionalized to meet students where they are, with interactive tools and analytics to take them where they want to go. Newsela has become an essential solution for schools and districts, with a presence in over 90% of U.S. K-12 schools. Newsela is the content platform for the connected classroom.