ProPublica
Talent Acquisition Director
New York City, United States · Director · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$160k-$175kDetected 1 day ago
SparkRecruitingHRLeadershipCommunicationOrganizational Skills
About the role
- The talent acquisition director will direct our recruiting and hiring process to ensure that ProPublica attracts and hires the people we need to achieve our goals.
- Our newsroom has experienced significant growth over the past five years, and we expect to continue to do so in the near future.
- You'll oversee the development and management of a talent pipeline to help us meet our growth goals by attending hiring conferences and awards ceremonies
Responsibilities
- With support from the talent acquisition team, you will conduct full life-cycle recruitment for hires across the company.
- Build relationships with hiring managers and serve as a trusted adviser through their hiring process and decisions, including suggesting candidates for other current, future or temporary roles.
- Develop and oversee process and technology training for hiring managers and interview panelists.
- Manage staff workload and other resources to best support forecasted hiring demands and programs.
- Create a system to ensure talented individuals flagged by staff or through other recruitment efforts are identified, cultivated and converted into candidates.
- Develop and manage external talent pipeline strategy and strategic partnerships.
- Manage and develop the talent acquisition team.
Requirements
- Ability to think strategically and operationally.
- Expert ability to use an applicant tracking system (ATS) such as Greenhouse and prior experience deploying it to serve the hiring needs of an organization.
- Comfort juggling multiple projects and responsibilities at once.
- Ability to meet deadlines and handle pressure while remaining calm and keeping the larger picture in focus.
- Ability to travel, as needed, for events, team meetings, conferences and training.
- Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S.
- At least seven years experience overseeing recruitment, preferably in a media or nonprofit organization.
- At least five years prior supervisory or people management experience required, including overseeing hybrid or remote employees.
- Prior experience and success building and nurturing competitive and diverse talent pools, preferably in a media or nonprofit organization.
- Familiarity with best practices for using metrics to create a fair hiring experience.
- Ability to think strategically and operationally. You'll be on the ground managing individual hires, but you'll also need to identify and implement ways to improve our hiring and recruitment processes overall.
- Knowledge of Google Workspace tools, including Drive and Sheets, as well as Microsoft Excel.
- Comfort juggling multiple projects and responsibilities at once. You build systems to track the nuances of different projects so you can quickly switch between them. Strong organizational skills are a must.
- Strong communication skills
- you'll need to effectively communicate with leadership across the organization and set the tone for how candidates experience ProPublica.
- Mission alignment. You believe in the importance of nonprofit investigative journalism and can communicate as a credible representative of our organization. You also have a keen understanding of the challenges and opportunities that come with recruiting and hiring a mission-driven staff.
Skills
- ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
- About ProPublica
- ProPublica is an award-winning independent nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force.
- About the Talent Team
Compensation
- The expected salary range for this position is $160,000-$175,000.
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