Doesn't that just mean she was on the staff? I wouldn't understand staffer to mean recruiter. Is it different in the US?
Staffer means member of staff. For example, engineers are staffers.
That just means a member of staff.
Ok sorry. Then it was a misunderstanding of my side as non native speaker. I always assumed it means recruiter since I’ve so far never seen the word used in another context
No worries :-). To be fair, it does sound, "staff-er", like someone who produces "staff". I've never it used as a reference to recruitment, but perhaps in some contexts it is used that way.
This may also mean "someone who finds staff" aka a sourcer. The person in the article seems to be talking about the placement of others that were sourced through the program they were in.