Deputy Chief Human Resources - Talent Acquisition & Strategic Organizational Alignment

Move Forward with us! At NJ TRANSIT

you’ll join us in transforming the third-largest transportation agency in North America. We are committed to delivering safe, reliable service that gets our customers to their destinations on time and we’re looking to hire talented folks with a commitment to excellence.

We are looking to hire a Deputy Chief Human Resources - Talent Acquisition & Strategic Organizational Alignment!

• Executive Talent Acquisition Leadership (Primary Responsibility)
• Lead NJ TRANSIT’s enterprise-wide talent acquisition strategy to ensure the organization brings in the right talent, at the right time, with the capabilities needed to support strong organizational design and long-term workforce planning.
• Leverage modern recruitment practices that integrate workforce forecasting, labor market intelligence, and capability requirements to align hiring decisions with business priorities.
• Partner closely with operational and executive leadership to anticipate staffing needs driven by service demands, structural changes, retirements, and future workforce requirements.
• Expand sourcing innovation, strengthen employer brand, and continuously elevate the candidate experience to attract diverse, high-quality talent that aligns with NJ TRANSIT’s organizational and operational goals.
• Use data, workforce analytics, and performance metrics to drive decision-making, optimize recruitment processes, and improve workforce alignment and readiness.
• Partner with General Counsel and Labor Relations to ensure all hiring practices comply with legal, regulatory, and labor requirements while supporting talent strategies needed for organizational effectiveness.
• Strategic Oversight of Organizational Effectiveness & Change Management
• Serve as the senior HR Business Partner for Surface Transit and Rail Operations, ensuring workforce planning, organizational structure, and talent needs are aligned with business and operational strategies.
• Partner with executive leadership to translate enterprise priorities into integrated workforce, organizational design, and talent strategies.
• Provide executive oversight to the Organizational Effectiveness (OE) and Change Management leader, ensuring OE and change initiatives advance NJ TRANSIT’s workforce planning and organizational alignment goals.
• Ensure OE frameworks, organizational design methodologies, and change management approaches support efficient organizational structures, clear decision rights, and long term workforce readiness.
• Sponsor OE and change initiatives that enable major workforce planning priorities, including technology adoption, service expansion, and operational modernization.
• Guide organizational alignment decisions, such as structure, capability requirements, spans of control, and workforce optimization, to ensure NJ TRANSIT is appropriately staffed and structured for current and future needs.
• Provide senior level HR strategic counsel across the agency to ensure workforce, organizational design, and talent considerations are embedded in major initiatives and operational decisions.
• Translate business strategy into actionable workforce requirements, organizational structure recommendations, and capability planning.
• Identify and mitigate complex organizational risks, including capability gaps, structural misalignment, succession vulnerabilities, and change readiness challenges, and recommend strategic solutions.
• HRIS/Data Analytics Leadership
• Oversee HRIS operations, data governance, records management, and workforce dashboards.
• Ensure HR data integrity to support evidence-based decision-making.
• Contingent Workforce & Compliance Oversight
• Provide executive oversight of unemployment compliance and contingent workforce programs.
• Ensure alignment with agency needs and risk mitigation.

• Senior Director, Candidate Outreach
• Senior Director, Talent Acquisition
• Director, HRIS & Records Admin
• Director Strategic HR Analysis/HRIS

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business/Public Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field;
  Master’s degree strongly preferred.
• Ten plus years (10+)…