Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Who We Are:

The Atlanta Community Food Bank is committed to ending hunger in our community by leveraging food, dedicated people, and innovative solutions to ensure that no one has to worry about their next meal. Since 1979, we’ve provided vital resources to a growing network of nonprofit partners, including food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters, and senior centers. Today, we proudly serve over 700 partners across 29 counties in metro Atlanta and north Georgia, working together to create a hunger-free future.

Our Promise:

Becoming a Food Banker means more than just a title—it’s an invitation to turn your passion and skills into meaningful action. Here, your work will further our mission to engage, educate, and empower our community in the fight against hunger. Our Food Bankers brings boldness, compassion, and accountability to our shared mission, creating real change in the lives of our neighbors. We value dedication, and in return, we foster an inclusive, supportive environment that will encourage our Food Bankers to grow, innovate, and make a lasting impact. Bring your whole heart to the Atlanta Community Food Bank, and join us in making a difference every day.

Where You’ll Work:

People Experience Team

About the Role:

This role is a unique opportunity for someone who’s excited to own, improve, and reimagine how we hire and grow talent through a Skills Based Approach at our organization. While the day-to-day focus will include coordinating and supporting the Food Bank’s Skills Based Hiring Program, this role is much more than a recruiter — it’s about building strong partnerships, improving processes, and helping shape our overall candidate and employee experience.

You’ll report to the Recruiting Manager. It’s ideal for someone who’s thoughtful about processes and passionate about people.

What You’ll Do:

Recruiting Execution & Partnership:?

• Execute full-cycle recruiting across departments, ensuring a smooth and equitable process.?

• Partner with hiring managers to guide them through best practices, set expectations, and provide thoughtful pushback when needed.?

• Write and update job descriptions in collaboration with teams.?

• Collaborate with managers and stakeholders to support compensation discussions with candidates.

• Coordinating with the marketing department to leverage social media platforms to promote job openings and enhance employer brand visibility.

Process Ownership & Improvement:?

• Maintain and continuously improve recruiting workflows, tools, and systems.?

• Own and evolve recruiting-related SOPs and documentation.?

• Identify pain points and lead process improvement initiatives.?

• Build and monitor recruiting metrics to evaluate performance and make data-driven decisions.?

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Talent Programs Coordination and Process Improvement:?

• Lead and continuously improve key talent programs such as recruiting processes, internship program, and development assignments.

• Support development of new talent programs (e.g. structured interviews, onboarding enhancements, internship program, job fairs).?

• Stay on top of talent trends and bring innovative ideas to improve how we attract, assess, and grow talent.?

• Contribute to other organization wide talent programs and projects.

Our Inclusive Hiring Process:

At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building an inclusive workplace. We understand that skills can be gained through a variety of experiences – educational, work, and life. Towards that end, our Inclusive Hiring process is grounded in a skills based hiring approach. That means, we are looking for resumes that demonstrate key transferrable skills that can be applied to our job roles to support both our mission and culture.

Key Competencies we look for in All our Food Bankers are:

• Customer Focus

• Decision Making

• Accountability

• The Ability to Navigate Change

If you’re excited about this role and can clearly demonstrate these and the other skills named below, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

What You’ll Need: Skills your resume should demonstrate:

• Strong communicator — able to clearly express ideas, ask thoughtful questions, and build trust with a wide range of people?

• Strong Technical skills - the ability to use PowerPoint and Excel to organize and present information concisely; leverage social media platforms to connect and engage

• Comfortable working with processes — you like organizing things, finding what’s unclear, and making improvements?

• Confident collaborator who can speak up, offer a different perspective, and help teams move toward a shared goal?

• Strong writer with the ability to create clear, professional content (emails, templates, guides, etc.)?

• Detail-oriented and organized — you keep track of moving pieces and follow through reliably?

• Able to maintain sensitive information or conversations (like pay, role clarity, or expectations) with fairness and care?

• Takes initiative — sees what needs to be done and jumps in without waiting to be asked?

• Believes in transparency and consistency when working with people and systems?

Even Better if You Have:

• Comfortable using basic systems or tools (e.g. spreadsheets, databases, or platforms to track work or people)?

• Enjoys improving documents, templates, or workflows to make them easier for others to use?

• Interested in how people grow in their careers and how roles fit into larger org structures?

• Curious and observant — notices patterns or opportunities that others might miss?

• Likes designing experiences (like processes, programs, or events) that make people feel supported and included?

• Adaptable and flexible — able to stay grounded when things change or when there’s no clear path forward?

• Excited to learn and grow into a role with more leadership or strategic responsibility over time?

There may be some Physical Demands and Travel:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Employee is?routinely required to lift 25 lbs.

• This position works a hybrid schedule.

Expectation:

We are committed to providing employees with an environment of mutual respect in which the values of Diversity, Safety, Continuous Improvement, and Hard work are supported and encouraged. We work diligently to engender fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness and teamwork to advance our mission: To fight hunger by engaging, educating, and empowering our community.