We are open to hiring either a Head of Recruitment (HoR) or a Recruiter. This role will oversee our growth from 15 to 30+ people over the next two years. They will collaborate with senior leaders and managers across the organisation to identify and recruit top talent while developing robust and scalable systems. This role is unusually high leverage and will be pivotal in shaping Longview’s future impact.

Head of Recruitment

• Strong track record in recruitment
• Extremely self-directed and able to work independently. The HoR is expected to autonomously define and execute all workstreams within their remit
• Experience drafting hiring materials e.g. job descriptions to work tasks
• Experience assessing candidates
• Existing knowledge of hiring best practices
• At least 1 year of experience in an operations type role
• Ability to project manage multiple concurrent hiring rounds with effective prioritisation and high attention to detail
• Strong ability to manage up
• We expect to partner the Recruiter with an experienced recruitment consultant 2+ hours/week to provide guidance & help them skill up on hiring best practices

Key Information

Role: Recruiter / Head of Recruitment

Location: London (preferred) or remote US

• We are able to sponsor visas for both the UK and the US

Recruiter: Starting from £55,000 / $70,000

Head of Recruitment: Starting from £75,000 / $95,000

UK: 10% employer pension, private healthcare including vision and dental, 25 days holiday minimum; 4 months fully paid family leave; £5,000/year wellbeing budget, £2,400/year professional development budget, and a well-stocked office fridge.

US: 10% 401(k) contribution; 100% employer-paid private health insurance with UHC; dental & vision with Guardian; 25 days vacation + 8 federal holidays; 4 months fully paid family leave; $3,000 annual professional development budget; Wellbeing budget that can be used for gym memberships and fitness classes up to $100 per month

The Recruiter / Head of Recruitment will report to the COO, Katie Hearsum

Areas of Responsibility:

• Manage ~5 live hiring rounds concurrently
  • Managing hiring rounds includes:
    • Providing a first draft (from templates) of job descriptions and assessment materials
    • Advertising the role & sourcing referrals
    • Communicating with candidates
    • Tracking uncertainties regarding advanced candidates and designing the final interview and work trial around this
    • Meeting with senior leaders & hiring managers regularly to ensure the hiring rounds are progressed in a timely manner
    • Maintaining our hiring bases in Airtable to accurately record all relevant information and the status of each candidate
    • Ensure all steps are completed for each round, and adjusting the steps as required
  • Additional responsibilities for the Head of Recruitment:
    • Interviewing the hiring manager to understand & interrogate requirements before launching a round
    • Recommending candidates for live rounds from our applicant tracking system and your network
    • Producing final drafts of assessment materials
    • Conducting screening interviews
    • Collaborating with the hiring manager to assess candidates
  • We expect the Recruiter or HoR to delegate administrative tasks to contractors, our virtual assistant, or junior operations staff as appropriate.
• Build our inhouse recruitment function, this includes:
  • Owning our applicant tracking system and database of referrals
  • Creating scalable systems to manage hiring rounds
  • Reviewing and improving our hiring materials
  • Syncing with other orgs and experts to ensure Longview has a world-class recruitment function
• Improve our employer brand to ensure that top candidates know who we are and want to work for us.

For both the HoR and Recruiter, we’re looking for someone who:

• Has exceptional project management to oversee and efficiently prioritise 5+ concurrent live hiring rounds with different senior hiring managers
• Is a strong communicator, committed to delivering a seamless experience both for hiring managers and candidates.
• Has a systems mindset to build scalable, efficient processes. If you see a problem you think about how to solve it for the long-term, not just for today
  • Proficiency in Airtable is a bonus but not required
• Thinks creatively about sources of talent & identifies candidates in non-obvious places

Additional attributes of the Head of Recruitment:

• Can quickly understand the attributes which make someone successful at Longview and can build a hiring process to test that
• Is confident challenging senior team members if they disagree with their assessment
• Can hold the quality bar for hiring; if we don’t have a strong enough pipeline you’ll take us back to the drawing board and restart the search

If you’re on the fence about applying because you’re not sure you meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway; we’ll be happy to review your application.

We expect to reach our ‘terminal’ size of ~30 in the next 18 - 24 months. It’s plausible that after this point there is not work for a full-time HoR / Recruiter. Depending on the candidate it may be appropriate to use an 18-month fixed term contract, or we are also happy to discuss how this role could evolve into a mixed operations/recruitment role in the future. We also think we could be wrong and may continue growing past ~30.

• Second stage: First interview (30 minutes)
• Third stage: Paid work task(s) - 2h-4h
  • We will pay candidates £50/hr for completing this stage.
  • Anyone doing a paid work task must have the relevant right to work in the place where they are doing the work.
• Fourth stage: Second interview (1 hour) and reference checks
  • More information on Longview’s referencing process can be found here.
• Fifth stage: in-person 2-5 day work trial
  • We recognise an in-person trial is a significant commitment. An honorarium will be provided to all candidates who complete a work trial and travel and accommodation costs will be reimbursed.
    • For those with the right to work in the UK, this will be an in-person work trial. For those without the right to work, this will be a remote work trial, but we might request you to travel to our London office to meet the team.
  • We are keen to work with the final candidate(s) to ensure they are able to complete a work trial, and aim to be flexible and accommodating. Please reach out if you are interested in applying but think you’d be unable to complete a work trial.

The starting date for the position will be determined together with the successful applicant.

About Longview Philanthropy

Longview Philanthropy’s mission and activities

Longview Philanthropy is a non-profit based in the UK and US. We design and execute bespoke giving strategies for major donors. Our grant recommendations are driven by the conviction that we can use evidence and reason to find the highest-impact donation opportunities. We focus on global challenges that could transform our future for many generations to come, including AI safety and governance, biosecurity, and nuclear weapons policy. Everything we offer is free-of-charge, independent, and often reviewed by external experts. We currently advise donors worldwide. We have directly influenced or moved nearly $100m since our founding, and are scaling up to move $100m+/year.

Longview Philanthropy’s team culture

We are a collaborative, dedicated and positive team. We are all deeply motivated by the work that we do and the impact we can have. We are an ambitious organisation with a culture of clear communication, commitment to excellence and professional development, direct feedback, ownership over our work and a strong focus on outcomes. ~⅔ of our team works from our office in London, with the other ⅓ remote in the US.

Longview Philanthropy is an equal opportunity employer and we aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds who share our passion and believe in our mission. We do not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. We are happy to make any reasonable accommodations necessary to welcome all to our workplace. Please contact us to discuss adjustments to the application process.