Grant Application - Core Contributor Talent Acquisition (Recruiter) Q2 - Q3

CoW Grants Program Core-Contributor-Grant
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Author: @tsmahdy
LinkedIn: @tsmahdy

Role: Talent Acquisition – Independent Recruiter
Start Date: 1 March 2025
End Date: Aug 31, 2025 (subject to DAO needs)
Commitment: Up to 30 hours per week
Fee: €25/hour, capped at €3,000/month
Wallet: 0x0cb1Cc1F6C332Ab11f71166BdECB111D8bf45d8b

Experience and Qualifications

I’ve been supporting CoW DAO’s recruitment efforts since August 2024, (indirectly via Talenced), helping with all the tech and non-tech roles, implementing our new ATS, Ashby, and contributing to improving hiring processes and candidate experience. This proposal is a continuation of that work. This time as a direct contributor to CoW DAO Grants. Since we can no longer continue with the current contract via Talenced due to some internal obstacles on their side, for the current being, it’s optimal to get started contributing directly though CoW DAO Grants.

I have been working in Recruitment for a total of 9 years, and I consider myself an all-round recruiter with a very diversified background. My strong suit lies in sourcing and stakeholder management. I have shared my LinkedIn resume for a deeper, more detailed overview of my previous qualifications and experiences.

Grant Description

I propose a time-based grant to provide part-time recruiting services to CoW DAO, during Q2 and Q3 for the year 2025 with the potential for renewal. I will serve as an independent recruiter directly under the DAO, offering sourcing, screening, pipeline management, and support closing multiple roles throughout the grant period, aiming for up to two hires per month depending on active priorities and hiring volume.

This work will include:

  • Source candidates proactively, with a focus on technical and DAO-aligned profiles

  • Screen and evaluate applicants to ensure quality and culture alignment

  • Coordinate with hiring stakeholders and support interview flow

  • Maintain candidate tracking hygiene in Ashby

  • Support employer branding, community hiring strategies, and hiring operations

  • Share weekly updates with the CoW DAO team or post async updates in relevant channels

Type of Grant

Time-Based Grant (monthly commitment)

Scope of Work (Time-Based) - Time Commitment & Availability

  • Up to 30 hours per week

  • Available across EU time zones.

  • Open to async collaboration and scheduled syncs when needed

Length

  • Start Date: This Grant should cover the invoices starting from 1st March 2025

  • End Date: 31st of Aug 2025 (With the possibility to stop before that date based on the need with proper notice)

  • I will request renewal with a new grant post if continuation is needed

Compensation & Invoicing

  • €25/hour, capped at €3,000/month

  • Paid in USDC, USDT or Eth, depending on DAO preference, preferably received on Ethereum Mainnet.

  • Monthly invoices are to be submitted via the forum thread (as per CoW Grants payout structure)

Wallet Address

0x0cb1Cc1F6C332Ab11f71166BdECB111D8bf45d8b

Terms and Conditions

By submitting this grant application, I acknowledge and agree to be bound by the CoW DAO Participation Agreement and the CoW DAO Grant Agreement Terms.

NOTE TO COMMITTEE:
I am currently working with this along with Mariia Yatskovska.

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Hey Tarek -
Could you make sure you follow this process guide, including the application template.

Here you will see that:
- All payments are done on Gnosis Chain (in xDAI only, even if you put a € amount, this will be converted)

  • “should cover invoices” - we don’t (yet) have an invoicing mechanism
  • → Your section “Compensation & Invoicing” does not really apply.
  • Can you give some more context to the retrospective application for March and what that means in funding?
  • Please link the Terms as per the newest links I added. We don’t have the distinction of “core contributor” any more.
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Hi Tarek,
In addition to @c3rnst’s points above, I’d like to highlight that this function appears to be core to Nomev’s functioning (acting as a subset of functions performed by Nomev), but not Core to CoW DAO. HR processes / general maintenance and activities seem to fall within the remit of Nomev (e.g. CIP-58) (IMO).

We do fund contributors that operate in close co-ordination with Nomev, but these contributors perform functionalities that are not dependent on Nomev and have clear deliverables that are additive to the functions performed by Nomev (e.g. technical members pushing their respective areas forward for the benefit of CoW DAO). It seems like if the Grants Committee were to entertain this, it opens up basically just continually taking on more and more of the general operations of Nomev of which CIP-58 seems to be have designed to do in the first place.

For these reasons, I don’t think that this seems like a suitable grant.