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Hiring Strategy

Help Common Ground Healing Arts build a team of talented and passionate people to help their organization meet its goals with a comprehensive recruitment strategy.
Common Ground Healing Arts
Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Charlottesville, VA, USA

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Posted April 17th

Hiring Strategy

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What we need
  • Recommendations on active and passive recruiting and proper channels to pursue candidates
  • Guidelines for hiring process, including order and number of interview rounds, reference checks, and general best practices for an inclusive interview
  • Effective interviewing techniques and clear, consistent standards for evaluating candidates
  • Tips for negotiating details such as compensation package and title
Additional details

Common Ground is looking for an Executive Director to lead us into a new, post-Covid phase that prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion both within the organization and in the services we provide our community. We are in the process of updating our by-laws, and also rebuilding our board after the pandemic prompted major turnover; we're looking for guidance in how to recruit and select the best possible candidate.

What we have in place
  • We currently have two board members dedicated to this process, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have a written job description and partial funding for salary,, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,806 , allowing us to fund operations!

Common Ground is currently being led by a small board of directors comprised of practitioners and supporters of CGHA's work, but none of us has expertise in nonprofit management. We need a leader who can manage operations, supervise the organization, and center our mission of addressing health inequity. A qualified ED will insure that Common Ground can continue, and free up board members to focus on fundraising, outreach, and other priorities.

Project plan

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Prep: Information Sharing
  • Volunteer Manager shares current or past job descriptions used in the Organization, as well as relevant materials such as existing internal policies and procedures
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Milestone 1: Audit of Existing Processes & Policies
  • Professional and Volunteer Manager meet to discuss current hiring processes and policies, including how candidates are sourced, interview questions and principles, hiring procedures, and overall hiring philosophy
  • Volunteer Manager identifies 1-2 key challenges or focus areas for hiring within their organization, which could include retention, equitable and transparent compensation, building a staff that reflects the communities served by the Organization, etc.
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Milestone 2: Analysis & Recommendations
  • Professional identifies existing strengths and suggests key areas of improvement, particularly around the identified key challenges or focus areas for hiring
  • Volunteer Manager provides feedback to Professional
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Milestone 3: Hiring Strategy Document
  • Professional drafts a new or revised hiring strategy for the Organization which outlines each aspect of recruitment and includes recommendations with actionable implementation
  • Professional incorporates feedback from Volunteer Manager into final draft
  • Optional: Professional creates a template job description or role visualization for the Organization
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About the org

Common Ground Healing Arts
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Health & nutrition Diversity & inclusion LGBTQ+
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Victoria C
Victoria C.

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Our mission

To provide complementary healthcare services--yoga, acupuncture, meditation, massage--on a pay-what-you-can basis to the entire community; to promote, through outreach, access to these services for underserved populations including the Black, Latinx, and immigrant communities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled and nontraditional yoga bodies, and a diversity of backgrounds and experiences.