Interview Toolkit for a Key Role

We are seeking a volunteer with experience in recruiting or HR management to help us design a structured, skills-first interview process for one open role.

Our goal is to move beyond credential-based screening questions and build an interview approach that helps us assess candidates based on their skills, behaviors, and decision-making in real-world situations. This will help us identify strong candidates who are well-equipped to contribute to our work.

The volunteer will work with our team to: help us hire a chief of staff.

- Review our current job description and interview materials for one role
- Identify 4-6 core responsibilities and the skills needed for success
- Develop behavioral and situational interview questions aligned to those responsibilities
- Create realistic workplace scenarios to assess how candidates think and respond
- Develop follow-up questions to evaluate depth, judgment, and proficiency
- Build a simple, consistent interview scorecard to support fair, skills-based evaluation across candidates

Final deliverable: A ready-to-use interview toolkit for one role, including structured interview questions, job scenarios, a scorecard, and brief written guidance our team can use to run consistent, skills-first interviews going forward.

This project will help our organziation continue to grow and retain qualified hires by making better hiring decisoin and askig the right questions.

To support this work, we will:

- Assign a dedicated point of contact for the volunteer
- Share our current job description and any existing interview materials
- Provide context on our organization, team, and hiring goals
- Be available for regular check-ins and timely feedback
- Ensure team members involved in hiring are available for input, and that decision-makers are aligned and supportive of the project goals

We are committed to being responsive and prepared, so the volunteer can focus on delivering a practical, high-quality final product.