Talent Acquisition Partner

About Us
The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe.

Exciting Opportunity at MSK: Talent Acquisition Partner (Contract Role)
We're hiring a curious, proactive, and creative Talent Acquisition Partner to join our team and help advance MSK's mission to end cancer for life. Every role we fill contributes to that mission — supporting the people, teams, and programs that make world-class cancer care, research, and innovation possible.

Our Talent Acquisition team is evolving how MSK hires — combining strategy, creativity, and technology to strengthen how we attract and engage talent. We recently transitioned to Workday Recruiting (ATS) and launched our AI Hiring Assistant, designed to reduce administrative burden so recruiters can focus on what matters most: people, relationships, and quality hiring decisions. And we're not slowing down

We're a collaborative team that flexes across all areas of recruiting to meet evolving needs. We're looking for someone who's adaptable, practical, and comfortable moving between priorities. Someone who connects the dots, asks good questions, and is always looking for ways to make the process better and more impactful.

Role Overview

• Flexibility to recruit across a variety of roles — clinical, corporate, volume, niche and everything in between — pivot based on team and organizational needs.
• Partner with hiring managers as a trusted advisor, using data and storytelling to help them make well informed hiring decisions.
• Proactively build pipelines and stay ahead of hiring needs, prioritizing opportunities before they become gaps.
• Support internal mobility by helping connect the right people to the right opportunities and removing barriers along the way including coaching and actionable feedback on upskilling.
• Collaborate closely with teammates — flexibility, cross-coverage, and shared accountability are key
• Leverage AI and recruiting/data tools to streamline sourcing and reduce administrative tasks, giving you more time to focus on people and impact.
• Use insights and market data to drive conversations around hiring strategy, efficiency, and process improvement.
• Keep candidate experience at the center of your work — from first conversation to offer.
• Bring a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset to challenges, always looking for ways to improve how we work and strengthen results.

Key Qualifications

• Full-cycle recruiting experience in a complex, matrixed, or high-growth organization. Warning - this isn't transactional recruiting
• Proven ability to manage multiple searches across varied role types while hitting KPIs and SLAs.
• Experience influencing and advising hiring leaders with confidence and credibility.
• Familiarity with applicant tracking systems (Workday experience is a bonus - not required).
• Strong comfort using metrics to inform decision-making and show progress. This is critical for success
• Success in this role means building strong hiring manager trust, driving consistent process alignment, and delivering great candidate experiences that strengthen MSK's employer brand.

Core Skills

• Solid communicator and storyteller — able to translate data and insights into action.
• Authentically inquisitive and forward-thinking; inquires about the reasoning behind actions and links various aspects of people, processes, and outcomes.
• Highly organized and thorough - you notice the small things that make a big difference.
• Collaborative, flexible teammate who thrives in a high-performing environment.
• Focused on processes, continually looking for ways to improve efficiency, consistency, and prioritize financial stewardship.
• Passionate about candidate experience and equity in hiring. Thoughtful about hiring manager needs and what they need to be set up for success.
• Tech-curious and open to learning — comfortable with AI recruiting tools and change. Additionally, demonstrated experience leveraging AI and various tools as a recruiter. *We use Microsoft office suite including MS Teams, LinkedIn Recruiter/Insights, Lightcast, Textio & more

Additional Information

• Assignment: Full-time (37.5 hours per week), 6-month contract with the potential to extend up to one year based on performance and departmental needs.
• Location: Hybrid — must be local to NY Metro area with flexibility to be onsite a few times per week based on client meetings and recruiting events (633 Third Ave, 1275 York Ave, and other MSK locations).
• Pay Range: $40–$41/hr.

Pay Range: $75, $116,900.00

FSLA Status: Exempt

Closing
At MSK, we believe in fair, competitive pay that reflects your job, experience, and skills.

MSK is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran status or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision.

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