Human Resources Recruiter

Job Description

Job Description

POSITION TITLE: Human Resources Recruiter

DEPARTMENT: Human Resources

REPORTS TO: Director of Human Resources

Position Summary

Supports the police department by managing full-cycle recruitment for sworn officers and civilian staff. This role develops and implements recruitment strategies, ensures compliance with employment laws and promotes the department as an employer of choice.  The Recruiter partners closely with HR colleagues to attract, assess, and hire qualified candidates who reflect the department’s mission and values.

FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB

Essential Functions

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for all commission and civilian applicants.
• Develop recruitment strategies to attract diverse and qualified candidates.
• Represent the department at job fairs, career expos, schools, military bases and community events.
• Maintain recruitment data and provide regular hiring metrics to the Director of Human Resources.
• Build and maintain pipelines of potential candidates for future vacancies.
• Partner with public information staff to develop recruiting materials, social media campaigns, and outreach programs.
• Ensure all hiring practices comply with EEO and local/state/federal employment laws.
• Support onboarding and orientation of new hires.
• Support HR Staff with applications, testing, backgrounds checks, psychological exams and medical exams, ensuring compliance with state and department requirements.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Public Administration, Criminal Justice or a related field.
• Knowledge of police hiring standards and EEO regulations
• Two to four years of experience in recruitment.
• Public sector preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple recruitment cycles simultaneously.
• Ability to work in a team environment and meet deadlines.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to influence, train and monitor other clerical staff in favor of a desired outcome. Requires the ability to act as a lead person or train others in the use of computer operations and software applications.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a telephone, typewriter, personal computer, computer terminal, calculator, copier, fax, and scanner and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as ordinances, codes, requisitions, receipts, invoices, billing statements, transaction forms, worksheets, waivers, forms and purchase orders. 
• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; calculate decimals and percentages.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as leading, training, and coordinating. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
• Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.
• Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to exert light physical effort, typically involving some combination of lifting and carrying objects of light weight, five (5) to ten (10) pounds, such as file boxes, mail crates and packages. Requires the ability to stoop, kneel and bend in order to perform filing duties. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
• Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify individual characteristics of sounds such as that associated with answering the telephone.
• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.

Working Environment:

• Normal office environment with attending outside functions when required.

Machines, Tools, Equipment and Work Aids:  

• Personal Computer
• Telephone
• Cell Phone
• Copier/Fax Machine
• Vehicle

PHYSICAL/VISUAL ACTIVITIES OR DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, reach, grasp, talk, and hear.

This position requires clarity of vision at 20 inches or less and the ability to bring objects into sharp focus, while reading from a computer screen.

The job has light physical demand (primarily sedentary) requiring the employee to exert negligible force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects in the normal course of routine office activities.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The job description does not necessarily contain all of the actual or essential duties of this position.  All job offers are contingent upon passing a medical evaluation/drug screen and criminal background check.

Certain job functions described herein may be subject to possible modification in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.  

“Commonly associated” is not intended to mean always or only. There are different experiences that suggest other ways or circumstances where reasonable changes or accommodations are appropriate.

Company Description

Welcome to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the home to some of the nation’s finest police officers and civilian employees. Established in 1808, our Department has a rich history and many traditions. We strive to provide the city of St. Louis with the highest level of police service.

Our department is dedicated to diversity and inclusion and we are committed to community policing. Our workforce is made up of over 400 civilian employees and 1,100 sworn officers. Our police officers interact daily with citizens and they have the opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of St. Louisans. We believe policing is one of the most rewarding and noble professions.

Company Description

Welcome to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the home to some of the nation’s finest police officers and civilian employees. Established in 1808, our Department has a rich history and many traditions. We strive to provide the city of St. Louis with the highest level of police service.\r\n\r\nOur department is dedicated to diversity and inclusion and we are committed to community policing. Our workforce is made up of over 400 civilian employees and 1,100 sworn officers. Our police officers interact daily with citizens and they have the opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of St. Louisans. We believe policing is one of the most rewarding and noble professions.