Talent Acquisition Specialist / HR Recruiter

Lead the full-cycle hiring process while supporting recruiting strategy, candidate experience, and talent pipeline growth onsite in the Bronx.

Responsibilities

• Partner with external organizations to design and implement agency-wide recruiting and sourcing strategies to attract and secure a highly diversified workforce and support continued agency growth.
• Use analysis and needs assessments to manage recruitment strategies across channels such as social media, online marketing and branding (including the agency website), employee referrals, job boards, email outreach, cold calling, third-party resources, print media, flyers, and other recruitment advertising.
• Build long-term relationships with hiring managers to ensure staffing needs are met through clear expectations for candidates and interviewers; analyze outcomes and develop new sourcing, resume screening, and interviewing approaches across both HR and business line levels.
• Set and manage risk parameters related to experience versus credentials.
• Provide tracking and hands-on mentoring for managers and hired candidates to support cultural assimilation, colleague receptivity, career planning, and overall success.
• Collaborate with agency leadership and the management team to understand and grow talent pipelines, including recruiting for key roles now and in the future.
• Own an end-to-end candidate experience (sourcing, screening, interviewing, selection, onboarding) and ensure it follows best-in-class practices while communicating the employment value proposition and reflecting the brand.
• Continuously improve the selection process using tools, interview guides, testing, and interview training to improve selection outcomes.
• Develop, revise, and update job descriptions and other recruitment and HR documents.
• Maintain strong relationships with external talent sources to attract top students from local colleges and universities, particularly those with social service programs.
• Coordinate campus visits, career fairs, college recruiting, and networking social events.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and Federal, State, and Local government and funding agency policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Support organization-wide success by performing assigned duties and adapting to changing priorities, new responsibilities, and evolving business needs.
• Build two-way rapport with staff to monitor initial New Hire Onboarding.
• Develop, maintain, and distribute New Hire employee engagement survey reports and recommendations for action planning at both agency and departmental levels.
• Build employee networks, task forces, and/or committees to capture feedback and support retention goals.
• Partner with managers and leaders across the organization to strengthen employer-of-choice efforts.
• Develop and implement strategic initiatives and processes aimed at retaining diverse talent.
• Contribute to service delivery for customer satisfaction, improving positive productivity between Recruitment and operations, and ensuring accurate and timely responses to issues or concerns.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources management, business management, or related field with direct work experience in Recruitment and/or Human Resources.
• At least 4 years of full-cycle recruiting experience (as a primary responsibility or lead Recruiter).
• Ability to devise sourcing strategies for potential applicants.
• Experience with end-to-end full-cycle recruiting, including various interview techniques, evaluation methods, clearance, and onboarding processes.
• General knowledge of HR best practices and employment law.
• Ability to document processes and stay current with industry trends.
• Non-profit environment experience is a strong plus, including ability to work within recruitment budgetary constraints.
• Experience developing and executing recruiting marketing and branding strategies during periods of change and restructure.
• Demonstrated commitment to professional ethics, discretion, and confidentiality in internal and external interactions.
• Effective communication and credibility building with senior management, department heads, and colleagues as a solutions developer for business staffing challenges.
• Ability to speak knowledgeably about the organization and answer questions from potential hires.
• Capacity to act as a liaison among internal customers, managing by influence with strong communication and relationship management.
• High tolerance for ambiguity, adaptability, and resilience; comfortable shifting priorities.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a multi-functional team with strong initiative, strong performance under pressure, and successful completion of complex projects with minimal direction.
• Frequent collaboration across colleagues to deliver expected results.
• Ethics-driven, results-oriented, creative problem-solving approach with positive, respectful proactiveness.
• Ability to understand and work with analytical tools, reports, and technology.
• Highly detail oriented with excellent evaluative and mathematical skills.
• Strong project management, follow-up, time management, and presentation skills.
• Superior oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• High level of experience and proficiency working within an HRIS system or non-applicant tracking environment, including developing workflows.
• Proficiency in MS Office, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe, with advanced Excel proficiency.

Technologies

• HRIS system
• Non-applicant tracking environment
• MS Office
• Outlook
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Adobe

Position Parameters

• Decision-making: May make limited challenging decisions that impact program operations; influences key and operational management through well-articulated strategies.
• Problem solving: Exercises creativity and analytical thinking to solve with limited information.
• Working relationships: Fosters positive relationships across the organization, including senior leaders, management, employees in other departments, and direct reports; interacts with current and potential business partners.
• Impact/importance: Accountable for service delivery for customer satisfaction and improving productivity between Recruitment and operations, including accurate and timely responses to issues or concerns.

Other

• May be required to work long hours and a varied schedule.
• Travel throughout various locations in the New York City area.
• Lifting and moving objects up to 30 pounds several times a week.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Location: Bronx, NY (onsite)

Salary: USD 60,000 - 70,000 per year