Talent Acquisition Specialist / HR Recruiter

Childrens Rescue Fund•New York, NY

11h•$60,000 - $70,000

About The Position

The Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for strategically and proactively managing Children’s Rescue Fund’s full-cycle recruiting needs and employer branding. The role sources, identifies, screens, and hires candidates across the organization; meets recruitment metrics; creates reports and forecasts; administers new-hire surveys; and works with management and leadership to implement effective recruitment methods. The Specialist develops and oversees recruitment and sourcing strategies, builds relationships with hiring managers and agency leaders, grows talent pipelines, and supports staffing needs now and in the future. The role manages the end-to-end candidate experience, improves selection processes, updates job descriptions and recruitment documents, coordinates college recruiting and career events, and maintains compliance with applicable policies and regulations. The position also supports retention by gathering feedback from new hires and staff, producing employee engagement survey reports and recommendations, building employee feedback networks, and developing initiatives to retain diverse talent. It requires sound judgment, analytical problem-solving, adaptability, strong communication and relationship-management skills, and the ability to manage shifting priorities. The position may require long hours and a varied schedule, travel among locations in the New York City area, and lifting and moving objects weighing up to 30 pounds several times a week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in human resources management, business management, or a related field, with direct work experience in recruitment and/or human resources.
At least four years of solid full-cycle recruiting experience as a primary responsibility or lead recruiter.
Experience with end-to-end recruiting, including interview techniques, evaluation methods, clearance, and onboarding processes.
General knowledge of HR best practices and employment law.
Ability to devise sourcing strategies for potential applicants.
Experience documenting processes and keeping up with industry trends.
Experience developing and executing recruiting marketing and branding strategies in an environment undergoing change and restructuring.
Commitment to professional ethics, discretion, and confidentiality.
Ability to communicate effectively and establish credibility with senior management, department heads, colleagues, and potential hires.
Ability to represent the organization professionally, exercise sound judgment, and take a proactive, solution-oriented approach.
Ability to act as a liaison among internal customers and manage through influence, using strong communication and relationship-management skills.
Adaptability, resilience, tolerance for ambiguity, and comfort with change.
Ability to work independently and as part of a multifunctional team, take initiative, work under pressure, manage multiple shifting priorities, and complete complex projects with minimal direction.
Ability to collaborate with a wide range of colleagues to deliver results.
Analytical, creative problem-solving, evaluative, and mathematical skills, with attention to detail.
Project-management, follow-up, time-management, presentation, oral communication, written communication, and interpersonal skills.
Experience and proficiency with an HRIS system or a non-applicant-tracking environment, including workflow development.
Proficiency in MS Office, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe, with a high degree of proficiency in Excel.
Ability to travel among locations in the New York City area.
Ability to lift and move objects weighing up to 30 pounds several times a week, with reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a nonprofit environment, particularly an understanding of recruitment within budgetary constraints.

Responsibilities

Develop and deploy agency-wide recruiting and sourcing strategies, in collaboration with external organizations, to attract a diverse workforce and support organizational growth.
Oversee recruitment and employer-branding strategies using social media, the agency website, employee referrals, job boards, email, cold calling, third-party resources, print media, flyers, and other relevant channels.
Partner with hiring managers to clarify staffing needs and candidate and interviewer expectations; analyze and develop sourcing, resume-screening, interviewing, and candidate-evaluation strategies.
Provide tracking and hands-on mentoring to managers and new hires to support cultural assimilation, colleague receptivity, career planning, and overall success.
Partner with agency leaders and management to understand and grow talent pipelines and recruit for current and future key positions.
Manage an engaging, positive end-to-end candidate experience across sourcing, screening, interviewing, selection, and onboarding, reflecting the organization’s brand and employment value proposition.
Improve the selection process through tools, interview guides, testing, and interview training.
Develop, revise, and update job descriptions and other recruitment and human resources documents.
Build relationships with external talent sources, including local colleges and universities, particularly those with social service programs.
Coordinate internal resources for campus visits, career fairs, college recruiting, and networking events.
Maintain compliance with company policies and applicable federal, state, local government, and funding-agency policies, procedures, and regulations.
Build rapport with staff and monitor initial new-hire onboarding.
Develop, maintain, and distribute new-hire engagement survey reports, with recommendations for agency- and department-level action planning.
Build employee networks, task forces, and committees to gather feedback and support retention goals.
Work with managers and leaders to help the organization become an employer of choice and implement initiatives and processes to retain diverse talent.
Perform other assigned duties and adapt to changing priorities and responsibilities.
Travel among various locations in the New York City area; may work long hours and a varied schedule.
Lift and move objects weighing up to 30 pounds several times a week.