HR​/Recruitment, Talent Manager, HR Manager

Summary

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, is responsible for the strategic talent acquisition and workforce

planning initiatives for West Coast University and American Career College. He/she will manage a team

of full-time recruiters and will be responsible for implementing and optimizing selection processes

focused on meeting the growing needs of the organization. This includes management of the complete

lifecycle recruitment process for all levels of hiring, candidate sourcing and assessment, employment

branding, candidate experience, standardization of recruitment policies & procedures, and recruiting

metrics/analytics.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Acts as a strong partner to business leaders to understand needs and provide consultation on

talent acquisition strategies and challenges.

• Develops effective working relationships with leaders at all levels of the organization and builds

confidence in the function.

• Provides oversight and leadership to Talent Acquisition staff ensuring proper alignment to support

organization-wide recruitment initiatives and programs.

• Lead and oversee executive recruitment processes, while also supporting the recruitment of

senior and executive positions. I=

• Initiates coaching and provides support to subordinates on staffing issues; establishes

standardized recruitment processes to be used across the team to ensure consistency in

assessment of candidates; provides development opportunities to Talent Acquisition team for

exposure to special projects and cross training.

• Ensures overall team provides a proactive approach to recruitment by building talent pipelines

through innovative outreach strategies.

• Ensures consistency of recruitment process ensuring requisitions and offers receive formal

approval, and that all elements of the process are executed in a consistent manner.

• Manages vendor relationships with employment advertising agency, and background check vendors,

assessment vendors and job boards.

• Effectively manages advertising budget to optimize results.

• Develops metrics to identify recruiting efficiencies and priorities.

• Leverages the Applicant Tracking System in conjunction with the life-cycle recruitment process

including candidate sourcing, job posting, requisition tracking and reporting.

• Ensures the timely and cost-effective fulfillment of all open requisitions with quality talent, leading to

proactive approach to updating hiring managers and key leadership regarding open positions.

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• Manages the Talent Acquisition team in a way that optimizes performance, including training and

guidance to the team on strategies, best practices and actions related to initiates and priorities.

• Conducts job responsibilities in accordance with the standards set out in the Company’s Code of

Ethical Conduct, Compliance Agreement, Sexual Harassment Policy or any of its policies and

procedures, applicable federal and states laws, and applicable professional standards.

• Maintains regular and timely attendance, reports to work as scheduled and assures time worked

and/or time-off is recorded properly.

• Maintains established department policies, procedures and attends in-services and other required

meetings.

• Maintains confidentiality of all student, associate, and/or company information as required.

• Exercises care, proper use and maintenance of department equipment and supplies and identifies

unsafe conditions and makes appropriate adjustments.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum and Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or other related field required.

Experience & Skills

• Minimum of ten years’ experience in full life-cycle recruiting and/or talent acquisition, to include

five years in a supervisory capacity.

• Demonstrated experience in applying leading recruiting practices and competency/behavioural

based assessment techniques and adept with using a variety of recruiting technologies to source

talent, including experience in designing and executing social media, and employment branding

strategies.

• Demonstrated experience as a change agent.

• Proven track record of…