Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Specialist

National Jewish Health is seeking a relationship-focused Talent Acquisition Specialist to recruit clinical professionals who help deliver exceptional patient care. This role serves as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders, leading full-cycle recruitment for a variety of clinical and healthcare positions while developing innovative sourcing strategies and building strong talent pipelines. The ideal candidate is energized by connecting top healthcare talent with meaningful opportunities and influencing hiring decisions across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads full-cycle recruitment for clinical and healthcare-related positions, from sourcing to offer and onboarding coordination.
• Partners with hiring managers to develop recruitment strategies, interview plans and selection processes.
• Builds talent pipelines through sourcing, networking, community outreach and professional partnerships
• Utilizes recruiting data, market insights and hiring trends to support workforce planning and continuous improvement

National Jewish Health is the nation's leading respiratory hospital, recognized for excellence in patient care, research and education. The Talent Acquisition Specialist plays a key role in attracting the clinical talent that supports the institution's mission while partnering with leaders across the organization to build high-performing teams and meet critical workforce needs.

Position Summary: The Talent Acquisition Specialist is a strategic talent advisor to hiring leaders and is responsible for full-cycle recruitment for exempt and non-exempt positions in the institution. This role partners with hiring managers to develop effective recruitment strategies, attract and assess qualified talent and provide guidance throughout the hiring process.

Essential Duties

• Manages full-cycle recruitment for assigned exempt and non-exempt positions, partnering with hiring managers to attract, assess and hire qualified talent while ensuring efficient and positive candidate experience.
• Manages candidate post-selection activities, including offer delivery and negotiation, reviewing background checks, pre-employment requirements, onboarding coordination and candidate communication. Partners with hiring managers and stakeholders to develop and execute recruitment strategies aligned with organizational goals. Evaluates recruiting outcomes and recommends process improvements based on hiring trends, market conditions and recruitment metrics.
• Evaluates candidate qualifications against position requirements. Conduct skills-based and behavioral interviews and partners with hiring managers to develop interview guides, evaluation tools and selection strategies to support consistent hiring practices and informed hiring decisions.
• Develops and maintains proactive talent pipelines through sourcing strategies, networking, community outreach, professional associations and educational partnerships, employee referrals, and engagement of active and passive candidates.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to hiring managers throughout the recruitment life cycle, providing guidance on recruitment strategies, talent availability, sourcing approaches and hiring decisions to support organizational goals.
• Maintains accurate recruitment records in ATS and HRIS. Leverages recruitment data and metrics to monitor hiring activity, identify trends and support informed decision-making.
• Promotes National Jewish Health as an employer of choice through professional networking, recruitment marketing initiatives and participation in industry, educational and hiring events. Maintains awareness of labor market conditions and industry trends.

Other Duties

• Supports onboarding activities and new hire transition processes, ensuring completion of required documentation and compliance requirements.

Competencies

• Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.
• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
• Building Strategic Relationships: Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.
• Customer Focus: Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers' and own organization's needs.
• Business Acumen: Using economic, financial, market, and industry data to understand and improve business results; using one's understanding of major business functions, industry trends, and own organization's position to contribute to effective business strategies and tactics.
• Drive for Results: Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.
• Impact and Influence: Using appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one's own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved. The ability to generate support from others to achieve desired business outcomes. It also involves taking advantage of opportunities to make a difference and have an impact. When used well, the intended outcome of this competency is the creation of goodwill, trust, and respect while motivating people to want to follow you even when they don't have to.
• Informing and Communicating: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Initiative: Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; taking action to achieve goals beyond what is required; being proactive.

Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility: None

Travel: Up to 10%

Core Values

• Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.
• Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
• Be well groomed, appropriately for your role and wear ID Badge visibly.
• Be in compliance with all departmental and institutional policies, the Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and completes NetLearning by due date annually.
• Promotes a workplace culture based on mutual respect and merit, where all individuals are treated fairly and provided with equal opportunity to contribute to the mission and goals of the institution.
• Adheres to safe working practices and at all times follows all institutional and departmental safety policies and procedures.
• Wears appropriate PPE as outlined by the infection control policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates compliance with all state, federal and all other regulatory agency requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree required.
• Work Experience: Minimum of 4 years of full-cycle recruiting or talent acquisition experience required. Experience in a healthcare or academic setting preferred.
• Special Training, Certification or Licensure: None

Salary Range: $77,572.56 - $102,583.71

Benefits At National Jewish Health, we recognize that our outstanding faculty and staff are the essence of our organization. For every aspect of health care, our employees are our greatest asset. With that in mind, we have designed a valuable, comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and their families.

• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Multiple Cigna health plans for Colorado, regional office and remote employees. Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) available to pair with some plans.
• Paid Time Off: Generous PTO accruals to use for vacation and sick days, and six paid holidays, all compliant with Colorado state sick leave regulations.
• Dental & Vision Plans: Coverage effective the first of the month after hire.
• Retirement Savings: 403(b) plan with employer contributions after two years.
• Wellness Incentives: Earn up to $200 annually for preventive health activities.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Up to $5,250 annually for full-time and part-time employees.
• Child Care Assistance: Childcare Flex Spending Account (FSA) with annual employer contribution.
• Loan Forgiveness: Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer.
• Disability & Life Insurance: Employer-paid plans and optional buy-up choices.
• Voluntary Benefits: Full suite of coverage options such as Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Legal Plan
• Exclusive Discounts: Savings on local services, insurance, and RTD bus passes.