Talent Acquisition Specialist

Summary: The Talent Acquisition Specialist is a multi-faceted role. This position will build and enhance the College’s reputation as an employer of choice by designing and implementing effective employer branding initiatives, creating content for various media channels and job boards, and collaborating with internal stakeholders to ensure consistent promotion of the College’s values, culture, and employment opportunities. The role also supports TA by developing marketing materials and communication plans that attract, engage, and retain high-quality candidates, as well as actively sourcing and recruiting candidates for open positions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Employer Branding & Marketing

• Develops and promotes the Employee Value Proposition (EVP).
• Creates and executes branding strategies that align with the College’s mission, values, and culture.
• Conducts market research to assess perceptions and improve the EVP.
• Plans and manages employer branding and recruitment campaigns internally and across social media, email, blogs, and other channels.
• Collaborates with HR, marketing, and communications to align messaging.
• Builds partnerships with job boards and employment agencies.
• Produces and publishes employee stories, videos, blogs, and testimonials.
• Manages the Careers page and employer review platforms, responding to feedback as needed.
• Build and manage an alumni network to support talent pipelines, referrals, and rehire opportunities.
• Tracks and reports key metrics (e.g., impressions, conversion rates, ROI) to refine strategies.
• Organizes and participates in recruitment events, job fairs, and conferences.
• Serves as a brand champion and ambassador internally and externally.

Recruitment & Selection

• Partners with the Talent Acquisition team to align hiring priorities.
• Sources, screens, and selects candidates to match job profiles and organizational culture.
• Reviews applications, conducts interviews, and refers qualified candidates to hiring managers.
• Evaluates candidates’ skills and experience as predictors of job success.
• Maintains applicant records, correspondence, and databases.
• Coordinates reference checks and background investigations.
• Communicates with candidates throughout the process, including notifications of non-selection.
• Extends offers of employment and coordinates with HR to complete new hire documentation.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Core Competencies

– Responds to change with a willingness and ability to learn new ways of working. Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.

– Develops and delivers communication that conveys a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Listens to others and allows them to make their point.

– Demonstrates personal integrity; serves as a positive example of why others should trust the motives of the organization; views self as a reflection of the organization by following through on commitments and accepting ownership of mistakes; treats people with respect; keeps commitments; inspires the trust of others and upholds organizational values.

– Supports organization’s goals and values. Is keenly aware of the time frame in which tasks or projects needs to be done; accepts and mirrors the level of urgency conveyed by the manager or customer being served; puts priority on the needs of the organization or the needs of its customers. Fosters collaboration and teamwork across the institution.

– Approaches other in a tactful manner; reacts well under pressure; treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; accepts responsibility for own actions; follow through on commitments.

Job Competencies

• Builds rapport and develops alliances with a broad range of people. Effectively builds formal and informal networks inside and outside of the organization.

• Grasps demands and threats created by conditions and trends in the environment and responds by focusing on the critical improvements in performance and capability needed for long-term success. Considers the needs and objectives of the organization and defines critical priorities of the business.

• Consistently achieves results within established timelines and shows resilience when faced with obstacles.

• Develops strategies to achieve organizational goals; understands organization’s strengths and weaknesses; analyzes market and competition; identifies external threats and opportunities; adapts strategy to changing conditions.

• Develops project plans; coordinates projects; communicates changes and progress; completes projects on time and budget; manages project team activities.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Associate degree required; Bachelor’s preferred. Degree(s) must be from institutions accredited by recognized U.S. accrediting agencies and or degrees from non-U.S. institutions are recognized only if equivalence has been established and provided. Minimum of 3 years of recruiting/talent acquisition, marketing/communications, human resources, or comparable experience, preferably in an educational institution and utilizing multiple media.

– Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, and policy and procedure handbooks; ability to write routine reports and correspondence; ability to speak effectively before groups of employees or students of the campus.

– Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measurement, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

– Ability to use common sense in all situations; ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

– Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and experience with Student Information Systems and LMS.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk; and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Experience

• 3 year(s): Three years of relevant experience

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