Recruiting Program Manager

Power Construction • Chicago, IL

11h • $75,000 - $95,000

About The Position

Power Construction is consistently regarded as one of Chicago's largest and most respected General Contractors according to Crain's Chicago. But beyond that, you can find us on the golf course, competing in beach volleyball or softball in Grant Park, brewing beer, attending neighborhood festivals, giving back to the community, and spending time together during a range of company-sponsored events. Our culture is one of the reasons we’ve been selected by our employees as a top workplace year after year and it’s reflected in our current 91% employee retention rate. We are builders. We crave being in the field and share an appetite for innovation. We believe that bringing diverse perspectives together helps foster stronger outcomes. We are driven to wow our clients and business partners, improve our processes, hire the right people, and help them grow. POSITION SUMMARY: The Recruiting Program Manager (RPM) works closely with Power's recruiting team and Power's executive team to help assure all aspects of Power's professional and collegiate recruiting efforts are optimally organized and managed, with clear dashboarding of overall program status available real-time. This brand-new role is seen as critical to the company's success by hiring the best possible people for long-term careers at Power Construction.

Requirements

• Four-year college degree is preferred; equivalent professional experience will be considered.
• 12+ year track record of enabling teams and key staff to stay focused on accomplishing their objectives, inclusive of maintaining an enjoyable, personalized, and rewarding sense of camaraderie.
• Demonstrated ability to write and communicate at the highest levels of organizational excellence.
• Candidate must be able to show: history of successful career management,palpable can-do attitude,pattern of being able to build long lasting professional relationships,genuine passion for managing their own details and those of a busy team of high performing individuals, including getting programs and projects completed on schedule, aptitude for analyzing ever-changing technology and the potential benefits for Power,ability to blend hard work with ample fun in and out of the workplace.
• Corporate experience with a general contractor, construction manager, subcontractor, or an adjacent professional services organization is preferred, along with strong technical proficiency across modern databases, dashboards, research platforms, and analytical toolsets.
• Advanced proficiency across the Microsoft Suite is essential
• The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience in client relations, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, business communications, and presentation development, with exposure to executive leadership.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting business development, marketing initiatives, and social media efforts is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Work long term with Power's recruiting and executive teams to maintain a sense of urgency and a track record of hiring the best people that fit Power culture and its operational expectations.
• Become the recruiting team's subject matter expert for all-things software, technology, and process related.
• Upon hiring, analyze current and available recruiting tools and processes for purposes of determining what to keep, discard, improve, and/or purchase and implement; then execute the work necessary to quickly put in place an enhanced set of tools and processes.
• Build a simple but effective dashboarding process to keep stakeholders aware of the team's annual recruiting progress in real-time.
• Monitor and help manage our college relationship development program and our external agency recruiter program.
• Manage the process of writing compelling job posts and recruiting-related website copy and video content, including continually enhancing Power's library of recruiting-specific social media content as well as tracking key recruiting-related digital analytics.
• Manage key recruiting elements such as the candidate offer program, employee referral program, all candidate and recruiting team travel, recruiting budgets including candidate expense reimbursements, external agency agreements, intern/co-op housing contracts and move-in/out, scheduling of internal recruiter training, process of updating Power's library of recruiting and teaching presentations and e-book content, process of annual updating of collegiate campus materials, and scheduling of spring and fall on-campus events and student group site visits.
• Lead by example while supporting team growth through mentoring and training
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Compensation for this role includes a base salary plus an annual discretionary bonus.
• Details on our benefits can be found on the Benefits tab within the Careers section of the website.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager