Senior Director of Talent and Human Resources

Apr 15, 2024

• Academic SY:2024-25 School Year
• Report to
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  Chief Executive Officer; supervises Manager of Talent and Human Resources
• Location:Seattle, WA. The position regularly spends time at all four Impact school sites (Tukwila, Seattle, Renton and Tacoma) for a minimum of half a day at each site each week.
• Job Type:Full-Time

You are fiercely passionate about staffing, both recruitment and retention. You believe that there is nothing more important in a school than the quality of the educator in the classroom. You have experience leading HR and are comfortable navigating complicated situations and policies. You are innovative, solutions oriented, and excited to roll up your sleeves and continue making Impact a great place to work for all employees.

Below are some of the skills, experiences, and dispositions that we’re looking for in an applicant. We don’t expect strong candidates to excel in every one of these.

• You are passionate about Human Resources and implementing HR policies
• You have an eye for innovation and love to improve systems and processes
• You are passionate about the full recruitment life cycle and
• You enjoy collaborating across teams

IPS seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for this position. We believe that educator diversity is critically important and are striving to recruit a team that reflects our communities.

Our model is grounded insocial emotional learning, personalized instruction, project based learning, and a culture of positivity. We prepare a diverse student body to succeed in college and impact communities as the next generation of equity-driven leaders. Students at Impact’s flagship school performed in the top 2% in ELA and Math, statewide, as compared to other schools serving 60% or more low income children.

• Lead on talent recruitment processes to attract mission-driven, qualified, and diverse candidates for both school site and home office positions. This applies to both recruitment for future and immediate needs.
• Implement and monitor systems to track progress toward hiring goals that can be shared with Lead Team and school leaders.
• Lead on candidate engagement strategies to support new hires from their interview through start date.
• Partner with leaders throughout the organization to ensure selection processes are consistent, aligned to core values, rigorous, and competency based. Ensure hiring managers are fully prepared to execute interview tasks and utilize hiring rubrics.
• Collaborate with IPS leadership to evaluate the employee experience and identify strategies to continually improve Impact’s Employee Value Proposition.
• Lead partnerships with external organizations that support Impact’s talent pipelines and form new partnerships to proactively solve for emerging talent needs.
• Work in partnership with organization leaders on communications plans for topics related to talent, HR, and the employee experience.

The Director of Talent supervises a Manager of Human Resources and Talent. Many of the tasks below may be accomplished through effectively managing this individual on key HR operations.

• Ensure employee onboarding is welcoming for new hires, aligns to Impact core values, and satisfies key compliance requirements.
• Manage and update faculty handbook, ensuring HR policies are current, aligned to best practices, and legally sound.
• Build leader capacity through ensuring processes are user friendly, critical paths are up to date, and leading training on key HR (and talent) processes.
• Facilitate complaint processes, procedures, and…