HR Specialist, Talent Acquisition & Development

This exempt position serves as a strategic recruiting partner and human resources professional. The Human Resources Specialist is responsible for full-cycle recruitment for professional staff positions, primarily supporting business services departments. In addition, this role partners with the Human Resources team on learning and development initiatives, reporting, process improvement, and other HR projects designed to develop broad HR Generalist competencies.

The position provides an opportunity to gain progressively increasing exposure to employee relations, performance management, succession planning, organizational development, and other strategic human resources functions while serving as a trusted resource to hiring managers and employees.

• Manage full-cycle recruitment for professional staff positions across assigned business services departments.
• Partner with hiring managers to define position requirements, develop job descriptions, and establish recruiting strategies.
• Source qualified candidates through direct sourcing, networking, referrals, database searches, professional associations, social media, and other recruiting channels.
• Screen candidates, assess qualifications, and present recommendations to hiring managers.
• Coordinate interviews, facilitate candidate communications, gather feedback, and manage the hiring process through offer acceptance.
• Maintain accurate candidate data, status changes, and recruitment activity within Workday and other recruiting systems.
• Develop and maintain proactive candidate pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill roles.
• Analyze recruiting metrics and hiring trends, providing recommendations to improve sourcing effectiveness, candidate quality, and time-to-fill.
• Facilitate preboarding and onboarding activities and support successful integration of new hires into the Firm.

• Partner with HR Generalists, HR leadership and department managers to support talent development and career progression initiatives.
• Support performance management processes, including evaluations, goal-setting initiatives, and employee development planning.
• Collaborate on talent review processes.
• Assist with the development, implementation, and maintenance of HR policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Participate in compensation and employee engagement projects.
• Submit employee status changes and assist with testing, implementation, and optimization of HR systems, including Workday.

• Assist in planning, coordinating, and executing learning and development programs for staff.
• Support staff curriculum development, training logistics, communication plans, and program evaluations.
• Collaborate with the Manager of Staff Learning and Development on firmwide training initiatives and special projects.
• Track participation, analyze learning outcomes, and prepare reports related to training and development activities.
• Help identify opportunities to improve employee development programs and learning experiences.

• Participate in HR and recruiting process improvement initiatives.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, workflows, and procedural guides.
• Serve as a liaison between Human Resources and other departments on projects and special requests.
• Assist with compliance audits and reporting to ensure adherence to Firm policies and applicable employment laws.

Perform other related duties as assigned.

Reports directly to the Manager of Staff Learning & Development

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• Minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience in recruiting, human resources, talent acquisition, learning and…