Director of Talent Acquisition

Reports to: Executive Director of Human Resources

Purpose: Leads RSS’s talent acquisition function and staff to recruit top talent in support of the district’s strategic initiatives focused on talent.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Leads the talent acquisition process for positions at all levels within the district.
• Creates and implements initiatives and sourcing strategies to attract and retain engaged and effective staff. Targets both passive and active job seekers.
• Develops and maintains strong working relationships with school-based and department-level functional leaders to understand and support their staffing needs and objectives.

• Partners with others in the district to attract, retain and promote a diverse work force.

• Manages, coaches and develops staffing and administrative support staff to provide the highest level of staffing expertise.

• Establishes priorities, goals and action plans for talent acquisition staff.
• Recommends and seeks support for new approaches, policies, and procedures for continuous improvement of staffing function.
• Partners with other HR leaders to establish and maintain relationships with local colleges and universities in order to develop and/or recruit talent for the organization.
• Ensures that staffing team is well preparing new employees, and those transitioning internally, for new roles. Manages a portion of the district’s onboarding/orientation process.
• Maintains and analyzes recruitment statistics to measure timeliness of the recruitment, selection and onboarding processes, as well as retention metrics.

• Ensures compliance with Board policy, as well as appropriate federal and state policy and regulations.

• Manages relationships with staffing partners and recruiting firms, as needed, to support the talent acquisition efforts of the district.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience leading the talent acquisition/recruitment function for a progressive organization.
• 5 years talent acquisition/recruitment experience.
• 5 years of experience managing others.
• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Strong ability to coach, mentor and develop staff.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong analytical, planning and organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Proven presentation and facilitation skills.

• Strong Microsoft Office skills.
• Experience working with a comprehensive applicant tracking system strongly preferred. 
• HR certification a plus

• Ability to function independently in a multi-task environment, as well as part of a team.

• Ability to travel within district up to 30% of time.
• Ability to travel out of district up to 10% of time.

Term of Employment: 12 months in accordance with the Rowan-Salisbury School Board calendar

Salary Grade: Director II Salary Scale