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Hiring Strategy

Help WORDS BEATS & LIFE build a team of talented and passionate people to help their organization meet its goals with a comprehensive recruitment strategy.
WORDS BEATS & LIFE
Washington, DC, USA
WORDS BEATS & LIFE
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Posted October 28th

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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

We are preparing to hire multiple kinds of contractors, fellows and interns without an HR department. Our Executive Director has performed this task for all of our 20 year history. As we move into this next phase, just learning more about best practices, and where our processes measure up or fall short would be helpful.

What we have in place
  • We currently have onboarding videos, staff manual and interview questions, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have executive leadership team, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,806 , allowing us to We could hire an hr function.

We are growing to a point where our ED will need to hand over this responsibility to someone else and he wants to give them an established process, not hire someone to build it from scratch.

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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WORDS BEATS & LIFE
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Arts & culture Education Youth development
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Mazi A. E. M
Mazi A. E. M.

Executive Director

Our mission

The mission of Words Beats & Life (WBL) is to transform individual lives and communities through Hip-Hop culture in all its forms. As a set of cultural practices and art forms with a global reach, Hip-Hop has demonstrated its power to transform the lives of young people around the world and right here in the nation's capital.

What we do

WBL is an unapologetic advocate for the transformative power of Hip-Hop culture in all its forms, empowering young artists to relentlessly create and refine systems that demonstrate positive change through our individual and collective brilliance. We embrace the sacred nature of our work and our roles as keepers and innovators of our culture. We create arts-based educational experiences that equip youth, arts managers, teaching artists, and scholars to move from theory to practice. We harness the power of the imagination to reshape the lives and communities we serve.

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Lisa has a ton of experience in management and multiple tools to approach hiring, strategic plan management and more.
Mazi A. E. M.
Mazi A. E. M.

Executive Director

Hiring Strategy Project

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