Talent Acquisition Director

Salary Range: $122,958 - $161,382
This is an exempt position. Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity.

Follow Your Calling, Find Your CareerAt Mecklenburg County, we believe great people power great communities. We're searching for an innovative Talent Acquisition Director to take our recruitment strategy to the next level - someone experienced in creating enterprise-wide strategies, executive recruitment, talent management, and systems and processes. The position requires a thought leader who has the managerial courage to drive exceptional metrics and impact that deliver value to our hiring partners. The ideal candidate understands that the future of hiring and talent acquisition is evolving and wants to lead us there with vision and purpose. The position is instrumental in helping to build the department in concert with senior leadership, centers of excellence and broader collaboration with our stakeholders. Join our team and help us find, grow, and support the County's most valuable assets, our employees.

POSITION SUMMARY
The Talent Acquisition Director is responsible for developing and executing Talent Acquisition strategy in sourcing, attracting, and hiring talent for Mecklenburg County. Responsible for measuring and reporting on key staffing performance indicators, creating action plans to increase overall effectiveness, leading the Talent Acquisition processes, and providing input and leadership on the use of staffing technologies and recruiting platforms.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Improve organizational capabilities through effective execution of the Talent Acquisition strategy
• Lead a team of talent acquisition consultants, managers and supervisors to effectively fill open positions while improving overall staffing metrics, collaboration and building partnerships to successfully align our operations
• Oversees onboarding and orientation processes to ensure new employees are successfully integrated into the organization and engaged in the pre- onboarding phase
• Designing, implementing, and managing an executive recruitment strategy
• Partner with hiring managers and HR leaders to analyze organizational headcount requirements and formulate creative and effective sourcing and recruiting strategies
• Partner with HRIS to determine and lead the technology strategy for the recruiting and onboarding platform(s); drive greater efficiencies across the organization and ensure downstream value to other platforms (i.e. performance management, internal talent marketplaces)
• Ensure talent acquisition implements diverse sourcing strategies to increase the level of diversity hiring across all levels and develop sourcing strategies in tandem to identify hard to fill positions
• Design and implement new employee orientation and onboarding to improve the overall candidate experience and ensure retention of new employees
• Create, evaluate, and analyze data and metrics to measure the effectiveness of Talent Acquisition
• Serve as the subject matter expert for emerging sourcing strategies to increase the speed and efficiency of finding, attracting and hiring top talent. Build these recommendations into a longer-term TA strategy and roadmap
• Create value through the contracting and RFP process to evaluate and identify temporary staffing solutions or 3rd party external agencies, including background check vendors and ATS vendor partners.
• Oversee the recruitment functions for the organization

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Experience: At least seven years of professional level experience in Human Resources, with four years focused on Talent Acquisition; five years of supervisory experience
Education: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Public Administration, Finance, or a related field.
Combination of relevant education and relevant experience accepted: Yes

Licenses and Certifications
HR Certification (e.g., PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, CCP, etc.)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Extensive experience creating and delivering presentations to executives
• Skilled at establishing and maintaining relationships with community leaders, including non-profits, colleges and universities, and other specialized groups
• Strategy-minded with an ability to create a roadmap, execute, and adjust based on current market trends
• Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field
• Project Management
• Experience with talent acquisition applicant tracking systems or ERP implementations
• Experience with compensation, employee relations, succession planning, executive search, performance management

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Knowledge of
• Managerial principles
• Strategy development principles and procedures
• Applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, and regulations
• Reliability and validity of human resource techniques
• Needs assessment principles
• Project re-engineering principles and project management practices
• Research and statistical techniques and principles
• Mediation and conflict resolution principles
• Complex human resource program management principles, practices, methods, and procedures
• Budgetary principles

Skills
• Monitoring and evaluating employees
• Prioritizing and assigning work
• Developing and implementing organizational policies and procedures
• Evaluating human resources programs
• Interpreting and applying applicable laws, rules, and regulations
• Managing change and sensitive topics
• Assessing needs
• Preparing complex documents or statements

Abilities
• Build Partnerships: Identify opportunities and take action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals
• Facilitate Change: Encourage others to seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches to addressing problems and opportunities; facilitate the implementation and acceptance of change within the workplace
• Gain Commitment: Use appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans
• Drive for results: Set high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals

COMPUTER SKILLS
Proficient in various computer applications including Microsoft Office Suite

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT
This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, requirements or working conditions. Other duties may be assigned based on business need and the supervisor's request. Mecklenburg County reserves the right to revise the job description at any time. Designated positions may be required to assist in emergency and/or disaster situations.

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