Reporting to the Associate Administrator of Talent Acquisition, the Director of Talent Acquisition oversees the recruitment program and operations, staff, service delivery, and continuous improvement of the Talent Acquisition team supporting the Keck Medical Center (Keck Hospital and Norris Hospital), including other assigned entities or growing service lines. The Director is responsible for managing the full cycle of talent acquisition including, vendor management, talent sourcing, recruitment social media presence, targeted advertising, and marketing campaigns, including the updates to career websites. The Director also maintains contacts with outside resources to aid with talent acquisition, remains current on laws and regulations governing the employment process, and ensures that the organization's policies and programs conform to laws and are competitive. The Director partners closely with other HR teams to deliver accurate and meaningful recruitment metrics, KPI's and analytics to monitor performance and guide strategic decision-making and continuous improvement.

Essential Duties:

• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with hiring managers, directors, and executives to stay abreast of current and future hiring and business needs. Acts as strategic advisor to leaders to collectively devise and deploy diverse talent strategies.
• Ensures an effective full cycle talent acquisition process, including requisition management, job advertisement, candidate assessment and selection, offer negotiation and acceptance, and finally a smooth transition to the HR Business Center team for pre-hire onboarding.
• Develops and implements recruiting plans to staff hard to fill vacancies while minimizing cost per hire.
• Manages contractual relationships with placement agencies, contract recruiters, job boards, job fairs and various internet job search websites for posting requisitions and surfacing and sourcing the most qualified candidates available.
• Develops, maintains and communicates the recruitment requisition process and provides dashboards to measure, track, and report open/closed requisitions and time to fill reports to senior leadership.
• Ensures consistent corporate image throughout recruiting campaigns.
• Oversees website content updates for Keck Medical Center staffing & recruitment.
• Partners closely with the HR Business Center to ensure a smooth transition of new hires to the pre-hire onboarding team as well as the HRIS and Data Analytics Teams to deliver accurate and meaningful recruitment metrics, KPIs and analytics to monitor performance and guide strategic decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Assures proper maintenance of files and records concerning employment, including promotions, transfers, and terminations.
• Assures compliance with EEO regulations and internal affirmative action.
• Establishes and implements policies and procedures for recruitment, selection, and placement.
• May be required to support other HR related projects and duties as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Req Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Business or a related field

• Req 5 years Experience in Talent Acquisition/Recruitment/HR.
• Req Previous experience in full life cycle recruiting (from creation to hire) and experience in managing/driving the recruitment process for a mid to large size organization
• Req Previous management experience.

• Req Demonstrates ability to utilize effective, appropriate and diplomatic oral and written communication skills.
• Req Excellent analytical, problem-solving, planning and evaluation skills.
• Req Strong organizational and time management skills, proficient computer and project management skills
• Req Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal direction and supervision.
• Req Computer literacy, including proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Pref 7 years Experience in Talent Acquisition/Recruitment/HR.
• Pref Previous experience managing executive search, direct sourcing, recruitment marketing, vendors.
• Pref Previous experience leading process evaluation and improvement initiatives.
• Pref Healthcare experience.
• Pref Thinks creatively about unconventional approaches to building and engaging candidate pipelines.
• Pref Skilled at use of data-based storytelling to build and present and strong presentations and recommendations.
• Pref HR/Recruitment certification preferred

Required Licenses/Certifications:

• Req Fire Life Safety Training (LA City) If no card upon hire, one must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained by renewal before expiration date. (Required within LA City only)

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