Executive Physician Recruiter

University of Rochester•Town of Brighton, NY

11d•$77,600 - $116,400•Onsite

About The Position

The Executive Physician Recruiter develops and executes proactive recruitment strategies to attract highly qualified physicians and other executive-level clinical talent to the University Medical Center. The role serves as a strategic recruiting partner to physician leaders, executive search chairs, and search committees, helping identify current and future workforce needs and build sustainable talent pipelines. It manages the full recruitment lifecycle, with a strong focus on talent mapping, passive candidate sourcing, relationship development, and long-term pipeline management. The recruiter uses a consultative approach and identifies and engages physicians who may not be actively seeking new opportunities. The position manages complex, high-touch searches and supports candidates throughout the recruitment process, while collaborating with senior leaders and internal stakeholders. It also maintains knowledge of human resources trends, best practices, regulatory changes, recruitment strategies, and employment law, and works with HR leadership to communicate relevant changes in policy, practice, and resources.

Requirements

At least 5–7 years of progressive recruitment experience, including significant experience recruiting physicians, advanced clinical professionals, healthcare executives, or similarly specialized professional talent.
Demonstrated experience with talent mapping, passive candidate sourcing, and proactive pipeline development and management.
Proven ability to identify and engage candidates who are not actively seeking new employment.
Experience managing complex, high-touch, full-cycle searches involving multiple senior-level stakeholders.
Experience using applicant tracking systems, CRM platforms, sourcing databases, and professional networking tools.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop compelling candidate outreach.
Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex searches and long recruitment cycles simultaneously.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage full-cycle recruitment for executive physicians and designated executive-level clinical positions, from workforce planning and sourcing through offer acceptance and transition to onboarding.
Build strong working relationships with search committees and leaders across the University Medical Center, including conducting search progress meetings with senior leaders and providing strategic guidance.
Develop recruitment strategies tailored to specialty, market conditions, organizational priorities, and candidate availability.
Provide a high-touch executive candidate experience and support equitable, competitive positioning through consistent presentation and quality of experience.
Develop and maintain talent maps for key physician specialties and priority markets, identifying candidates across health systems, academic medical centers, fellowship programs, professional associations, and other relevant talent pools.
Develop and execute passive sourcing strategies and personalized outreach to engage physicians who are not actively applying for positions.
Build and maintain long-term physician talent pipelines for priority specialties and anticipated organizational needs.
Partner with Talent Acquisition leadership, the executive search committee, and Communications & Marketing to develop marketing collateral for executive searches.
Consult directly with candidates about the recruitment process, the University Medical Center's value proposition and mission, and the Greater Rochester area.
Coordinate interviews, site visits, leadership meetings, offer discussions, and other recruitment activities with internal stakeholders.
Maintain knowledge of HR trends, best practices, regulatory changes, recruitment strategies, and employment law; collaborate with HR leadership to communicate necessary changes in policy, practice, and resources.
Perform other duties as assigned.