Consultant I, Recruiting

The Southern Company Talent Acquisition – Campus Recruiting team is looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented, and service-minded Recruiting Coordinator to join a high-impact team that supports the execution of campus recruiting operations. In this role, you will provide essential administrative and coordination support that helps keep recruiting activity organized, compliant, timely, and candidate-focused. At Southern Company, energy is opportunity—and this role plays an important part in helping candidates and hiring teams move smoothly through the recruiting process.

As a member of the Campus Recruiting team, you will support recruiters, hiring managers, business partners, and candidates through strong administrative follow-through, accurate data entry, timely scheduling, clear communication, and consistent process support. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys coordinating behind the scenes, managing details, maintaining organized records, and helping ensure a positive and professional recruiting experience from initial engagement through hire.

Why Southern Company? You will join a campus recruiting team that is focused on building strong early-career talent pipelines and delivering a consistent, professional candidate experience. This is an opportunity to contribute to recruiting operations that reflect Southern Company’s values, support business priorities, and help students and emerging professionals navigate opportunities in the energy industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain ownership and support of the campus recruitment process and hiring expectations for assigned customer groups
• Provide administrative and coordination support for key components of the campus recruitment process, helping deliver an efficient, organized, compliant, and candidate-focused hiring experience for assigned customer groups.
• Maintain accurate recruiting records, candidate documentation, requisition details, interview schedules, event logistics, and other tracking tools to support timely reporting and follow-through.
• Partner closely with Campus Recruiting Consultants to support requisition creation, candidate communication, interview coordination, screening candidates, offer and hire processing, and other tasks that help move candidates through the recruiting lifecycle.
• Provide support for campus recruiting events, which may include assisting with preparation, materials, logistics, attendance tracking, follow-up communication.
• Occasionally participate in career awareness events such as career fairs, informational sessions, and interview preparation programs with local community groups, colleges/universities
• Lead and participate in various projects associated with campus recruiting process, resources, tools and technologies.
• Coordinate interview schedules, candidate travel or meeting details when applicable, calendar holds, room reservations, virtual meeting links, and communications with candidates, recruiters, hiring managers, and interview teams.
• Support data entry, spreadsheet updates, status tracking, candidate dispositioning, onboarding handoffs, and routine reporting to help ensure recruiting information remains current, accurate, and complete.
• Perform all work in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local employment regulations, equal employment opportunity requirements, immigration guidelines, company policy, and management direction.
• Communicate with warmth, professionalism, and accuracy when engaging candidates, human resources partners, hiring managers, and business leaders.
• Conduct telephone screening of candidates in support of recruiters, supervisors, and hiring managers.
• Participate periodically as an objective representative during interviews in support of recruiters, supervisors, and hiring managers.

Job Qualifications:

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Communications, Marketing, Business, or a related discipline preferred.

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of experience providing support in an HR environment.
• Experience supporting the full-cycle recruitment process for high-volume, non-exempt, and exempt level positions (preferred).
• Strong consultative, strategic thinking, problem-solving, influencing, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to engage, consult, and partner with both external and internal clients.
• Previous experience supporting managing projects, recruiting coordination, HR administration, scheduling, candidate communication, data tracking, or process documentation preferred.
• Advanced skills with Applicant Tracking Systems, Oracle HCM, Microsoft Word, and Excel preferred.

About Southern Company

Southern Company (NYSE: SO ) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy solutions provider with national capabilities, a fiber optics network and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience and sustainability, we are taking action to meet customers' and communities' needs while advancing our goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture has been recognized by a variety of organizations, earning the company awards and recognitions that reflect Our Values and dedication to service. To learn more, visit www.southerncompany.com .

Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being. This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an incentive program, with the amount of any bonus/awards subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan(s). A summary of the benefits offered for this position can be found here https://seo.nlx.org/southernco/pdf/SOCO-Benefits.pdf . Additional and specific details about total compensation and benefits will also be provided during the hiring process.

Southern Company is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Job Identification: 21476

Job Category: Human Resources

Job Schedule: Full time

Company: Southern Company Services