Director of Talent Acquisition

Description

Job Title: Director, Talent Acquisition

Location: New Albany, Ohio

Compensation: Salary + 20% Management Incentive Plan

Make a Difference—And Own Your Future

Join Wallick Communities, a 100% employee-owned company with over 55 years of experience in providing affordable housing and assisted living for families and seniors across the Midwest. With 1,000+ associates and a mission to open doors to homes, opportunity, and hope, we take pride in fostering a supportive and collaborative work environment where every employee-owner plays a vital role.

  A Career with Wallick Means. . .

• Creating Homes for People Who Need It Most :Providingnew beginnings for residents seeking affordable, safe and high-quality housing where they can thrive.
• Pay-on-Demand: access your money as you earn it.
• Exceptional Benefit Package: Health, dental, vision insurance effective within 2 weeks of starting your new job, paid time off, gym membership reimbursement, paid parental leave, 401K, and more!
• Work-Life Balance: Paid time off, including paid parental leave.
• Learning & Support : A supportive team that cares about your continued development, well-being and professional growth.
• Resident Stories That Stay with You : From Henry, who moved into his first-ever home, to Jaci, whose stay at a Wallick community allowed her to achieve homeownership and graduate college, to Evelyn who recently celebrated her 105th birthday with us.
• Work-Life Balance: Generous paid time off, including paid parental leave.
• Career Growth: Tuition reimbursement, training, professional development, and advancement opportunities within a company that invests in its people.
• Employee Owned, Resident Focused : As a 100% employee-owned company, your daily work (supporting our residents) also contributes to your financial future by sharing in our profitability.

  The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

In this versatile and highly impactful role, you are the head of the Talent Acquisition department. Your responsibilities include leading a high-volume recruiting team, optimizing recruiting technology and process management, and the creation and execution of effective recruiting strategies and tactics to fill openings in a fast-paced environment. Collaborating with peers, executives, and hiring leaders, this role makes an immediate impact by ensuring communities are adequately staffed with our Care Force to support resident needs. Our Care Force includes front-line hourly workers and salaried leaders within our over 150 Communities across 5 states.

 Our Talent Acquisition team thrives in a fast-paced environment, and we demonstrate agility in guiding our candidates and hiring managers through the hiring process. Most importantly, we work hard and have a lot of fun! This will be your chance to lead a winning team and be a part of building something great!

Where is this role located?

This role is in our New Albany office. Some travel will be required to attend hiring events at various communities in and out of Ohio.

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, and skills will you be performing on a regular basis? 

• Develop overall recruitment strategy to enable organizational growth required to deliver on long-term business goals and objectives with an emphasis on high-volume recruiring, utlizing technology and recruiting events (or other strategies) to meet these goals.
• Manage daily, monthly, and annual recruitment goals, metrics, and process frameworks for the Talent Acquisition team. The ability to consistently report out on those metrics to company leadership is critical.
• Optimize recruitment technology and marketing strategy to promote the Wallick associate value proposition
• Ensure metrics and benchmarks are met and consistently assess and measure the effectiveness of recruitment programs to ensure they are relevant to the needs of the organization.
• Oversee the candidate experience ensuring a positive outcome at each interaction.
• Work with internal business units and hiring managers to build strong relationships and recruiting partnerships.
• Manage relationship with Recruitment Marketing Agency to refine recruitment marketing strategy based on evolving business needs. This may include job posting optimization, channel development, job board procurement, digital and non-digital employment marketing, comprehensive recruitment campaign planning, talent planning, etc.
• Develop talent pool and social media engagement/employment brand strategy to build a talent pipeline.
• Manage the recruitment process and life cycle, including pre-employment assessments, candidate experience, and recruitment technology (ATS and CRM).
• Provide leadership and direct supervision of Talent Acquisition team members (COE) through effective coaching and performance management.
• Provide recruitment counsel and guidance to hiring managers and COE team members with hiring and employment data. May develop specialized or competitive intelligence and research regarding talent development or retention.
• Develop new and expand existing college and trade school recruiting programs.
• Stay current on AI recruiting trends, methods, and research in talent acquisition, business strategy, leadership, and organizational development through participation and presentation at workshops and conferences.

Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 12 months?

• Learn and be curious – your onboarding at Wallick will include meeting and shadowing with stakeholders and visits to our communities to learn our culture, our business, and interact with our care-force staff. You will also shadow your peers and learn about the positions we fill.
• Leadership: Your team is your biggest priority. Establish performance expectations with recruiters and coordinators and ensure the team is set up for success with the skills, tools, and support needed.
• Relationship Building: Create and foster strong, strategic partnerships with the existing Talent Acquisition team, Senior Leadership business partners, Regional Leadership business partners, and front-line hiring managers.
• Technology and Vendor Management: Learn our ATS and CRM systems and meet with vendor partners; meet with our recruitment marketing vendors to understand existing strategies and tactics.
• Deliverables: Meet hiring goals while innovating technology and recruitment marketing strategies .
• Adaptability: You are agile in a fast-paced service-oriented role.

  About you:

• Minimum of 10 years previous experience in human resources/recruiting, with 5 or more years as a Recruiting Manager or HR Manager with people leadership responsibilities.
• Experience working in a fast paced and demanding environment while delivering a standard of excellence is essential.
• Proven experience creating and exectuting recruiting strategies and driving best practices.
• Skilled in administration and optimization of Applicant Tracking Systems and Candidate Relationship Management Systems.
• Bachelor's degree with an emphasis in business, human resource management, or related discipline required. Master's degree is preferred.
• 2 or more years of experience leveraging complex data in decision making through data tools like Power BI or Tableau.
• Experience with, or strong knowledge of AI Recruiting tools and strategies, and scale in a rapidly changing environment.
• Must be good in judgement; approachable and professional; solid problem-solving skills; ability to handle multiple tasks and projects; self-motivated; well organized.