Talent Acquisition Specialist at CrossBoundary

Who You Are

•  Self-starter who is passionate about creating lasting change in underserved markets
•  Willing to take on new types of work, even without prior experience or direct supervision
•  High tolerance for ambiguity; able to operate effectively in a changing context
•  Ability to build strong relationships with partners and colleagues
•  Outstanding presentation skills: ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
•  Excellent organizational skills and follow-through
•  Sense of ownership and ability to lead projects
•  Familiarity and comfort with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
•  Proficiency in JazzHR preferred
•  Humble
•  3+ years of experience in talent acquisition, recruitment, or similar
•  Bachelor's degree required
•  Experience working in emerging markets; experience in a relevant market where applying or the broader region is particularly relevant
•  Measurable results recruiting top-tier talent from junior to executive-level roles
•  Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruitment using various interview techniques and evaluation methods
•  Experience with multiple outreach sourcing strategies to proactively source candidates

Primary Responsibilities

•  Working with the Chief People Officer (CPO) to ensure we have a Talent Acquisition Strategy in place
•  Ensuring our firm's commitment to diversity and inclusion in our entire recruitment process
•  Partnering closely with our CPO and Communications team to ensure we have a strong employer brand and then sharing that brand on our website, social media, etc.
  •  Mission, values, benefits, sharing stories of team members online, highlighting our culture through storytelling, etc.

 Supporting our teams in the planning phase

•  Reviewing job descriptions for inclusivity
•  Uploading final job descriptions to JazzHR
•  Reviewing hiring plan forms
•  Developing application questionnaires and posting them to JazzHR
•  Designing the interview process and ensuring the hiring team is diverse
•  Creating evaluation scorecards and uploading them to JazzHR
•  Brainstorming and finalizing sourcing lists
•  Provide hiring managers with current data on diversity metrics within their team and across the firm

Ensuring the hiring team has any needed templates for their personal outreachSourcing candidates

•  Posting jobs to JazzHR; LinkedIn
•  Diversifying our outreach and sourcing strategies
•  Targeting passive candidates through networking, tailored outreach, our strong employer brand, and more
•  Hosting networking events, relevant industry affinity groups, MBA (Master of Business Administration) information sessions, career fairs, etc.
•  Managing and owning relationships with industry-relevant groups and posting jobs to relevant job boards
•  Managing MBA school relationships and posting jobs to relevant schools
•  Growing and nurturing a diverse talent pipeline for all business units

 Screening and delivering hiring team's top-tier candidates to interview

•  Assessing, evaluating, and pre-screening candidates via CV reviews, calls, or emails
•  Producing a short-list of diverse, top-tier applicants for teams to interview

Interviewing support

•  Strengthening our unbiased hiring practices and educating our teams further
•  Building upon our current interview process
•  Ensuring every part of the application process is consistent across teams and platforms, from the job description to the offer or rejection
•  Streamlining a process to reject candidates who are not selected to move forward, and owning that process
•  Organizing and scheduling all technical interviews (e.g., case and financial models)
•  Training new team members who join our technical interview teams
•  Working closely with the Administration team to coordinate champagne or another congratulatory gift upon offer
•  Maintaining a standard and relevant template for reference calls; ensuring team members are trained in best practices for conducting calls
•  Drafting and sharing offer letters with hiring managers

Tracking centrally

•  Ensuring teams are moving candidates through the process quickly
•  Tracking referrals and incentivizing team members

 Other

•  Working with our People team to ensure all data in JazzHR is accurate and feeds centrally into our People Dashboard
•  Owning and managing relationships with external recruiters, as needed
•  Running our MBA Associate program
•  Consistently auditing and improving our interview processes, templates, screening, and sourcing strategies
•  Ad hoc projects, as assigned by CPO