Recruitment Lead, El Salvador

Supervisor: Talent Manager 
Location: Antiguo Cuscatlán, La Libertad, El Salvador 
Start Date: ASAP 
Contract: Full-time Employee 
Travel: 30% of time 

About Acceso 
Acceso (www.acceso.org) is an award-winning social enterprise that is revolutionizing food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to put smallholder farmers first. Acceso’s mission is to create fundamental and lasting positive economic change in the lives of rural smallholder farming families. Acceso’s seed-to-market model provides smallholder farmers with a sustainable way to participate in formalized markets, enabling them to work themselves out of poverty with dignity and to prosper. Acceso is currently a team of over 600 determined and driven change-makers supporting over 35,000 smallholder farmers across Colombia, Haiti, El Salvador and Guatemala.  

About this Role 
The El Salvador Recruitment Lead will play a significant role in shaping Acceso El Salvador’s growth and culture. You will lead recruitment efforts for the Acceso El Salvador team and build a long-term strategy to attract and inspire top talent to join Acceso’s mission. This role will report the Talent Manager on the Global HR team and work closely with Acceso El Salvador’s General Manager. As you grow in your role, you will become responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating HR policies and programs that support employee experience, training, and development. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Recruitment & Selection 
  • Lead the development and implementation of Acceso El Salvador’s candidate sourcing strategy. 
    • Develop partnerships with local universities, alumni networks, recruitment agencies, youth organizations, and other relevant candidate pools to build a long-term candidate pipeline. 
    • Represent Acceso at career fairs and relevant networking events. 
    • Manage online job postings for open roles in El Salvador. 
    • Partner with hiring managers to identify hiring needs, design and execute effective interview plans, develop their hiring abilities, and advise on hiring decisions and best practices.   
  • Conduct the early stages of candidate evaluation like application review and first-round interviews, and you will provide guidance to hiring managers on candidate evaluation best practices throughout the remainder of the interview process.   
  • Serve as the primary contact for candidates throughout their experience with Acceso, and you will be responsible for keeping them informed, engaged, and moving quickly through their interview processes.  
  • Deliver exceptional customer service to candidates and ensure that all applicants experience hiring processes that are efficient, equitable, and reflect Acceso’s values.  
• Performance Management, Training & Development 
  • Provide support to managers to leadership team with performance management policies and procedures.  
  • Work closely with department heads and Global HR to identify training and development needs, and design tailored staff development plans.  
• HR Team Support 
  • The listed responsibilities reflect the most likely duties to be performed. As a member of a small team, you will also be responsible for ad hoc assignments to support and collaborate with our Global HR team and the Acceso El Salvador team. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. Master’s degree would be a plus. 
• Prior experience in HR and recruitment required. 
• Ability to attract, inspire, and align candidates with Acceso’s mission and values.   
• Business acumen to effectively represent the work of hiring teams across the organization.   
• Fluency in relevant labor law and unbiased hiring.   
• Expertise in workplace psychology and prior experience leading employee experience initiatives.  
• Demonstrated aptitude for customer service and relationship management.   
• Excellent organizational skills, detail-orientation and ability to maintain high quality and accuracy at scale. 
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills. 
• Proven leadership skills and experience. 
• Systems and data savvy, experience with HR systems, proficiency in Microsoft Office, and expertise in core HR KPIs.  
• Oral and written fluency in Spanish and English. 

Application Instructions:  
To apply, please submit your CV/Resume and Cover Letter via the form below. For your application to be considered, please submit all materials in English.  

For more information about Acceso and careers with us, please visit Acceso.org/careers.  

Acceso is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, HIV/AIDS status, protected veteran status, disability and all other protected classes.