Climate Policy Radar

Climate Policy Radar is on a mission to organise, analyse and democratise the world’s climate law and policy data.
Their data and tools help governments, researchers, international organisations, civil society, and the private sector to understand and advance effective climate policies and deploy climate finance. They are open data, open source, and not-for-profit.

The Requirement

After receiving £6.8m in philanthropic funding, they were looking to make 6 new full-time hires to join the business:

1 x Product Manager
2 x Full Stack Software Engineers
1 x Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
1 x Senior Data & MLOps Engineer
1 x Product Data Scientist

They wanted a Recruitment Partner that shared their values and had worked in the Climate Tech and start-up space extensively. They also wanted a Recruitment partner that could manage the end to end process for them, as they didn’t have a dedicated Talent Acquisition Team.

Additionally, diversity & inclusion was very important to them, they wanted to increase the diversity of their team, they wanted to work with a Recruitment Agency that was able to understand their needs in this area, work sensitively to present diverse shortlists and focus on helping them to attract more diverse candidates.

How we worked with them

We assigned two dedicated Account Managers to ensure a seamless process.

Each role was worked on by niche sector specialist Consultants across Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science and Product Management.

A co-branded talent attraction ad campaign across a range of channels generated high volumes of applications, resulting in closing the ads after a week. Headhunting and proactive LinkedIn outreach added passive candidates to the diverse candidate pool.

Additionally, we managed inbound applications from their website and branded LinkedIn ads, with access to their ATS (Personio) for a seamless and consistent workflow across all sources. We maintained a 48-hour SLA for accepting or rejecting candidates to ensure a positive experience for all applicants.

Different hiring managers had varying preferences for CV review and interview scheduling. ADLIB carried out first stage technical screening on behalf of Climate Policy Radar. These were 45 minute calls with a combination of technical and values based questions from Climate Policy Radar, in addition to ADLIB’s standard qualification questions. We managed the interview and offer process, concluding with meet-and-greet sessions.

ADLIB used Slack for quick communication with the hiring team, responding within four hours, which helped streamline the process and enhance candidate experience. We provided bi-weekly Slack updates on candidate progress.

ADLIB provided a D & I report following the completion of this recruitment round. This highlighted the number of applicants, the number of candidates that were contacted as well as details of the number of interviews. We also provided a breakdown of male and female candidates and the number of candidates from underrepresented groups in the process.

The outcome

ADLIB successfully filled all of the roles that were managed:

1 x Product Manager
2 x Full Stack Software Engineers
1 x Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
1 x Senior Data & MLOps Engineer
1 x Product Data Scientist

3 out of the 6 candidates placed were women, this was in line with Climate Policy Radar’s objective to make their team more gender diverse.