Director of Talent Acquisition

Description

What if I told you it is possible to find a Company that lived to educate, inspire and empower others while creating a family atmosphere that truly appreciates and respects their team? Would you apply? What if I threw in strong Company values, outstanding benefits, and the opportunity for you to make a tangible impact and feel appreciated?

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At Westcliff, we are constantly striving to be the best while valuing each of our team members as human beings and succeeding together!

Westcliff is a leader in innovative global education. We are respected for our transformative, technologically advanced programs and initiatives with a focus on excellence, social responsibility, and diversity. Our tagline – “Educate. Inspire, Empower.” – is a summary of our Mission Statement. As it suggests, the main focus of our University is to strive to enhance the opportunities of our students and employees to enjoy success through empowerment, as a result of their education and hard work.

By joining the Westcliff team, you’ll be playing a significant role in our growth, having an opportunity to put your personal touch on Westcliff’s progress as we grow and succeed together!

The Director of Talent Acquisition provides strategic and hands-on leadership for Westcliff University’s talent acquisition function. Reporting to the Vice President of Human Resources, this role leads and develops a team of Talent Acquisition Partners while directly managing searches for leadership and other high-impact positions and providing interim support for other roles as needed. The Director builds scalable, innovative, and data-informed recruiting practices that strengthen candidate quality, improve speed and efficiency, and support University growth.

A key focus is advancing recruitment automation, modern sourcing strategies, reporting and analytics, and the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) throughout the talent acquisition lifecycle.

Essential Job Functions

• Lead the University’s talent acquisition strategy and day-to-day recruiting operations in alignment with institutional growth, workforce planning, and talent priorities.
• Manage, coach, and develop two Talent Acquisition Partners; establish clear performance expectations, workload allocation, service standards, and accountability for recruiting outcomes.
• Personally lead full-cycle recruitment for executive, leadership, and other critical or difficult-to-fill positions, including intake, market mapping, sourcing, assessment, candidate management, offer development, and closing.
• Partner with the Vice President of Human Resources, senior leaders, deans, hiring managers, and HR colleagues to define talent needs, role requirements, selection strategies, and competitive recruiting approaches.
• Design and implement innovative sourcing strategies that expand qualified talent pipelines through direct sourcing, passive- candidate outreach, professional networks, referrals, events, social platforms, and targeted market research.
• Advance automation across recruiting workflows to reduce administrative burden, improve response times, strengthen candidate communication, and create a more consistent hiring-manager and candidate experience.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement responsible uses of AI in recruiting, including sourcing support, market intelligence, job-content optimization, workflow automation, candidate engagement, and recruiting analytics, with appropriate human oversight and compliance controls.
• Develop recruiting dashboards and metrics that provide actionable insight into time-to-fill, time-to-hire, source effectiveness, pipeline conversion, candidate quality, offer acceptance,…