[Remote] Recruiting Content Specialist (Volunteer)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WhoWhatWhy is an independent nonprofit investigative news organization producing deep-dive journalism on important issues. They are seeking a Recruiting Content Specialist to review and standardize job descriptions, ensuring clarity and consistency across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Review existing job descriptions across departments
• Bring job descriptions into a more consistent structure and format
• Standardize shared language such as organization overviews, commitment sections, and application instructions
• Refine wording to improve clarity, tone, readability, and candidate understanding
• Preserve role-specific responsibilities and qualifications while improving surrounding language
• Reach out to HR and department leads to clarify outdated, missing, or unclear information
• Identify inconsistencies across roles and follow up with the appropriate stakeholders to resolve them
• Help prepare and update roles for posting across recruiting platforms as needed
• Suggest improvements that make postings more accurate, more consistent, and more useful to applicants

Skills

• Experience writing, editing, revising, or organizing structured written materials such as job descriptions, documents, articles, or similar content
• A strong eye for wording, consistency, and how information is presented to different audiences
• Comfort working across multiple documents while maintaining alignment in tone, structure, and formatting
• Good judgment about what language is unclear, repetitive, outdated, or inconsistent
• Comfort reaching out to team members, asking questions, and following up to keep a project moving
• The ability to balance detail-oriented work with the bigger goal of making roles more useful and effective
• Reliability in managing multiple tasks and following through to completion
• Familiarity with Google Docs or similar collaborative document tools
• Experience in HR, recruiting, talent acquisition, or people operations
• Experience working with job descriptions, hiring materials, or candidate-facing content
• Experience standardizing language or formatting across multiple documents, teams, or departments
• Experience maintaining templates, shared documentation, or organizational content systems
• Experience posting roles across job boards, recruiting platforms, or volunteer-matching sites
• Experience in nonprofit, volunteer-based, or mission-driven organizations

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