Recruiting Specialist

We're hiring a Recruiting Specialist to join the recruiting team at the Centre for Effective Altruism. This is a senior individual contributor role: you'll own full-cycle hiring rounds end-to-end, take on team-wide recruiting projects with significant autonomy, and help coach and develop other members of the recruiting team. You'll report to the Recruiting Manager and work closely with hiring managers across the organization. ABOUT CEA The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world's most pressing problems. We’re working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks. Our work centers on growing and supporting a global community of people who rigorously analyze where they can do the most good – and take action on those insights. Current strategic priorities include increasing understanding of effective altruism and its principles, growing the number of people who are motivated by EA principles to take significant action to address pressing problems, and diversifying funding sources for high-impact work. We had significant success in 2025, building momentum within CEA. Program participation (e.g., events, courses, groups) grew https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NKrpEdg7wAgcoHNRG/cea-is-growing-again-25-more-people-engaged-with-our-1 by 20-25% year over year. We merged https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BLvTcMMEQGFYsh6Jw/ea-funds-and-cea-are-merging with EA Funds https://funds.effectivealtruism.org and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and associated fundraising. In 2026, we’ve maintained ambitious momentum https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Dy4iGHbAkKAQ4t2Dw/building-sustainable-momentum-progress-report-on-cea-s-2025 while building the foundations for a step-change in the wider EA ecosystem’s growth trajectory from 2027 onwards. ABOUT THE RECRUITING TEAM CEA continues to grow. Since 2025, our headcount has grown from 42 to 72 core staff, with plans to add dozens more roles in 2026 and into 2027. To support this growth, we built out a dedicated recruiting function over the last year – professionalizing our hiring and building the capacity to attract exceptional talent to CEA and the EA movement. We're a small team running full-cycle hiring rounds across the organization. Our current focus is on hiring efficiently at scale while maintaining the high standards CEA's mission demands. Longer term, we're interested in expanding the ways our team can support hiring across the broader EA ecosystem. Reporting to the Recruiting Manager, you'll work alongside a small team of recruiters each independently running full-cycle hiring rounds, and will partner with hiring managers across the organization. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a Recruiting Specialist to join our growing Recruitment Team. You'll own hiring rounds from start to finish, working alongside hiring managers each step of the way, helping us attract and hire high-quality candidates across a variety of roles. You'll also take on internally-focused work leading team-wide process improvement projects, coaching hiring managers and newer recruiters, and potentially owning a specific area of recruiting operations (e.g., sourcing, employer brand) over time. This role is ideal for someone who has enough recruiting fluency to hit the ground running on hiring rounds, and who's ready to take on broader ownership without close oversight. We have ambitious hiring plans that we currently don’t have the recruiting capacity to achieve - by joining our team you will counterfactually increase our pace of hiring, and thus our ability to grow an