Department: Human Resources Location: Washington, D.C. FLSA Status: Exempt Travel: up to 10% Report To: Senior Director, Talent Acquisition Version Date: October 2026 Summary: AIPAC is seeking a strategic, collaborative, and mission-driven Talent Acquisition Manager to help attract, assess, and hire exceptional talent across the organization. This role will serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior leaders, leading full-cycle recruitment for a diverse range of positions while strengthening hiring practices, candidate experience, and talent pipelines. This individual will manage full lifecycle searches from intake meetings through offer acceptance and onboarding handoff. The successful candidate will bring strong judgment, a consultative approach to partnering with leaders, excellent project-management skills, and a commitment to delivering equitable, efficient, and high-quality experience for candidates and hiring teams. This is an excellent opportunity for a recruiting professional who is passionate about AIPAC’s mission and interested in helping build the teams that advance a strong U.S.–Israel relationship. Key Responsibilities FULL LIFECYCLE RECRUITING • Lead full-cycle recruiting for assigned positions across multiple functions, levels, and geographies. • Create a positive, responsive, and professional candidate experience throughout the hiring process. • Maintain accurate and complete candidate records, interview feedback, recruiter notes, source data, and disposition reasons in the ATS. HIRING MANAGER PARTNERSHIP • Serve as a strategic talent advisor to hiring managers and senior leaders, providing market intelligence, recruiting data, candidate insights, and guidance on effective hiring practices. • Establish clear expectations with hiring teams regarding interview participation, feedback deadlines, decision-making, candidate communication, and confidentiality. SOURCING • Develop proactive sourcing strategies for active and anticipated hiring needs using a mix of online sourcing, employee referrals, professional networks, industry associations, alumni networks, online platforms, and other relevant channels. • Build and maintain high-quality talent pipelines for frequently hired, hard-to-fill, and strategic roles. • Identify and engage passive candidates through personalized outreach that effectively communicates AIPAC’s mission, culture, impact, and career opportunities. INTERVIEW PROCESS AND CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE • Manage structured interview processes that are efficient, consistent, and aligned with the role’s required competencies. • Coordinate interview logistics, including scheduling, calendar management, interview confirmations, video-conference links, candidate travel where applicable, interviewer briefings, and follow-up communication. Qualifications • Five+ years of full-cycle recruiting, executive recruiting, or agency recruiting. • Demonstrated experience partnering directly with hiring managers and senior stakeholders to define hiring needs, build recruitment strategies, and make sound selection decisions. • Experience managing multiple concurrent requisitions while maintaining a high level of organization, responsiveness, candidate care, and attention to detail. • Strong sourcing skills and demonstrated ability to identify, engage, and assess both active and passive candidates. • Experience using applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, and recruiting analytics. • Strong knowledge of structured interviewing, candidate assessment, interview scorecards, and job-related selection practices. • Strong judgment, discretion, professionalism, and ability to handle confidential information appropriately. • Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to diagnose issues and influence recruiting strategy. • Ability to communicate effectively and professionally. • Experience recruiting within a mission-driven, nonprofit, advocacy, political, government, policy, membership, or public-affairs organization preferred. AIPAC is offering a competitive market base salary between $125,000.00 and $140,000.00 for the position. A job offer within the range will depend on how closely a candidate’s skills and experience match the role’s requirements. AIPAC also offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that contributes to employees’ overall total compensation package. Note that we currently follow a hybrid schedule. Application Requirements: • To be considered, please provide a cover letter with a resume. • We ask that you use your legal name when completing the employment application (no nicknames). This job description is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and AIPAC reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as deemed appropriate.