Associate Director, Talent Acquisition - Rush Team

Position Summary:

The Associate Director will be responsible for all aspects of building a successful sourcing team - from designing recruiting strategy, effectively building and managing relationships with senior stakeholders across the National University System (NUS), leading and inspiring a team, and achieving headcount targets and all KPIs. Under direct supervision of the Director, Talent Acquisition, the Associate Director will collaborate closely with executive leadership, hiring managers, and HR Business Partners to successfully deploy strategic talent acquisition solutions across the National University System (NUS) and its affiliates. As a Subject Matter Expert (SME), the Associate Director will engage and partner with executive level stakeholders on market trends, sourcing metrics, operational processes, systems, and tools ensuring alignment with key business priorities and objectives, while driving a culture of diversity and inclusion. This role will manage and partner with TA, hiring managers, and HRBPs against headcount plans and progress to hiring goals while recommending strategies and standards for attracting top talent with pro-active sourcing strategies and successful use of technology tools.

Essential Functions:

• Drive talent sourcing and recruitment across National University System and affiliates
• Engage and partner with executive level stakeholders as the recruiting SME on market trends, sourcing metrics, operational processes, systems and tools
• Lead, develop and manage a team of recruiters to deliver and hire high quality candidates
• Manage and partner with TA and Business leaders against headcount plans, progress to hiring goals, and all operational metrics
• Utilize analytical thinking to diagnose business challenges, recommend solutions and action plans, and identify hiring trends
• Manage, leverage, and challenge existing recruiting strategies, methods, and systems to generate a proactive and efficient approach to sourcing, screening, assessing and on-boarding qualified top talent.
• Cultivate and maintain ongoing partnership with HR Business Partners and business leadership in order to understand business unit dynamics, workforce planning strategies, internal mobility and recruitment needs to support a seamless hiring process.
• Leads the development of a successful pipeline of diverse, quality talent and establish processes for HRBPs and hiring managers on applicable sourcing techniques.
• Connects with local and national diversity & inclusion organizations to reach out and collaborate in the development of impactful programs to increase our pipeline of diverse candidates for targeted groups.
• Build out diversity and inclusion best practices throughout the hiring process (i.e., train interviewers on bias, report on D&I goals and more)
• Partner with hiring managers during each stage of the process
• Train team members, interviewers, and hiring managers on best-in-class hiring practices

Essential Functions (continued):

• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Hire, train and develop up to 3 staff team members

Requirements:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field, required; and seven (7) years’ experience in full-cycle recruitment, to include:
  • Two (2) years in a supervisory role within a higher education environment, a plus; or, equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong knowledge of current trends, innovations and best practices within talent acquisition
• Proactive contributor, eager to further enhance individual and department goals
• Organized creative strategic thinker with a process-oriented approach to recruitment, candidate management and onboarding
• Experience consulting, presenting, and communicating with executives and all levels of key stakeholder partnerships
• Skilled negotiator with ability to influence internal and external client base
• Effective oral, written & interpersonal communication skills
• Highest level of integrity regarding confidential information

Competencies/Technical/Functional Skills:

• Acts as a role model. Anticipates and plans for change. Communicates vision to the team. Ability to lead, direct and/or influence others to obtain results using a wide degree of creativity and latitude. Working knowledge in building teams.
• Aptitude to drive towards achieving measurable and challenging goals to support organizational success. Demonstrate the ability to focus on achieving results consistent with the organization’s objectives. As a leader, develops goals based on the organization’s vision, mission and strategic goals and objectives.
• Ability to participate as an active team member of the Business Unit, Department and University to work toward a common goal.
• Actively seeks opportunities to influence and build effective relationships as well as gain alignment with peers, functional partners and/or external partners to accomplish business objectives.
• Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs and processes. Ability to generate and/or recognize imaginative or creative solutions that generate successful outcomes.
• Excellent knowledge of recruitment methodologies including program and/or process design, execution, streamlining technology and ability to make business decision by using data analytics
• Advanced use of computers and Microsoft Office Suite Applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software application such as Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
• Ability to make decisions, sound judgment, integrity, and objectivity with actions taken.
• Ability to hire, train, develop, evaluate, lead and direct work and discipline staff, taking corrective action as necessary on a timely basis and in accordance with company policies and Federal, State and local regulations.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, independent thinker, planning and organizational skills and follow through with an ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines and frequently changing priorities. Good follow-up and follow-through to ensure deliverables.
• Solid interpersonal skills and the ability to appropriately communicate with a wide range of individual of constituencies in a diverse community, including building relationships with internal and external customers/vendors. Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, including translating technical language to a non-technical nature, including
• Ability to use empathetic listening skills, communicate with clarity and maintain an attitude that conveys respect, assistance, honest and resourcefulness.
• Ability to maintain and build strong positive working relationships with colleagues, faculty, staff, administrators, students and the general public.
• Work independently and foster a cooperative spirit within a large and/or small team of diverse cultures, while working in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines and frequently changing priorities.