Department: Human Resources/Talent Acquisition
Classification: GMU Worker
Job Category: Part-Time / Hourly Wage
Work Schedule: 28 hours/week
Location: Fairfax, VA
Workplace Type: On Site Required
Sponsorship Eligibility: Not eligible for visa sponsorship
Salary: Salary commensurate with education and experience
Criminal Background Check: Yes
About the Department:
George Mason University is Virginia's largest public research university, designated an R1 institution by the Carnegie Classification in 2016 and recognized as an Opportunity University in 2025. Located in Fairfax, Virginia in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Mason serves more than 40,000 students across 200+ degree programs and is on a trajectory toward AAU membership.
Colleges & Schools at Mason
Mason Executive Search Group (MESG) is George Mason University's newly established in-house executive search function, built to run cabinet, dean, and senior administrator searches with the rigor of a retained search firm and the accountability of an internal team. MESG is seeking a Recruiter / Search Coordinator to join at a foundational moment: the first dedicated support hire inside the function, working directly with MESG's Executive Search Leader across every active search.
This is a part-time position (28 hours per week). It is not a back-office logistics role. The person in this seat will read market intelligence on peer institutions, help build target lists for national searches, make first contact with sitting deans and vice presidents, and manage the scheduling and data discipline that lets a small team run searches at the standard of a national search firm.
The ideal candidate has spent time inside a search firm environment, whether as a research associate, coordinator, or recruiter, and understands the rhythm of confidential, high-stakes searches: the discipline of a tracker that has to be right, the judgment required in a first outreach message to a sitting executive, and the reality that priorities shift by the hour. They are comfortable being the person who knows where every search stands at any given moment, and equally comfortable digging into a candidate's career history to understand why a move might make sense. They want to build something, not just maintain it.
Responsibilities:
This is a ground-floor seat inside a search function GMU is building from scratch. You will help shape how MESG researches, engages, and tracks candidates for some of the university's most consequential hires. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Research & Sourcing
Classification: GMU Worker
Job Category: Part-Time / Hourly Wage
Work Schedule: 28 hours/week
Location: Fairfax, VA
Workplace Type: On Site Required
Sponsorship Eligibility: Not eligible for visa sponsorship
Salary: Salary commensurate with education and experience
Criminal Background Check: Yes
About the Department:
George Mason University is Virginia's largest public research university, designated an R1 institution by the Carnegie Classification in 2016 and recognized as an Opportunity University in 2025. Located in Fairfax, Virginia in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Mason serves more than 40,000 students across 200+ degree programs and is on a trajectory toward AAU membership.
Colleges & Schools at Mason
- Antonin Scalia Law School
- Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution
- College of Education and Human Development
- College of Engineering and Computing
- College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- College of Public Health
- College of Science
- College of Visual and Performing Arts
- Costello College of Business
- Schar School of Policy and Government
- Honors College
Mason Executive Search Group (MESG) is George Mason University's newly established in-house executive search function, built to run cabinet, dean, and senior administrator searches with the rigor of a retained search firm and the accountability of an internal team. MESG is seeking a Recruiter / Search Coordinator to join at a foundational moment: the first dedicated support hire inside the function, working directly with MESG's Executive Search Leader across every active search.
This is a part-time position (28 hours per week). It is not a back-office logistics role. The person in this seat will read market intelligence on peer institutions, help build target lists for national searches, make first contact with sitting deans and vice presidents, and manage the scheduling and data discipline that lets a small team run searches at the standard of a national search firm.
The ideal candidate has spent time inside a search firm environment, whether as a research associate, coordinator, or recruiter, and understands the rhythm of confidential, high-stakes searches: the discipline of a tracker that has to be right, the judgment required in a first outreach message to a sitting executive, and the reality that priorities shift by the hour. They are comfortable being the person who knows where every search stands at any given moment, and equally comfortable digging into a candidate's career history to understand why a move might make sense. They want to build something, not just maintain it.
Responsibilities:
This is a ground-floor seat inside a search function GMU is building from scratch. You will help shape how MESG researches, engages, and tracks candidates for some of the university's most consequential hires. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Research & Sourcing
- Build and maintain target lists of prospective candidates for cabinet, dean, and senior administrator searches, drawing on peer institution mapping, professional associations, and market intelligence;