San Francisco Bay University - Fremont, CA
posted about 2 months ago
San Francisco Bay University (SFBU), a nonprofit, WASC-accredited university situated in the heart of Silicon Valley in Fremont, California, seeks an innovative and experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist. SFBU's mission is to offer inclusive, innovative, and inspirational education for lifelong careers and our vision is to set the standard as a national model of higher education in service of the common good. At SFBU, students come first. We prioritize students' needs by fostering personal engagement among students, faculty, and staff. We are committed to providing affordable quality education with a deep commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. We encourage you to learn more about SFBU by reviewing our strategic plan at https://www.sfbu.edu/strategic-plan. The Talent Acquisition (TA) Specialist plays a key role in the day-to-day recruiting process at all levels, including the identification, attraction, and selection of top talent for San Francisco Bay University through the orientation process. Reporting to the Director of Human Resources, the TA Specialist has functional knowledge and acts as an advisor to hiring managers and search committees to ensure the attraction and selection of a broad and diverse pool of qualified candidates for staff, faculty, and management positions. The TA Specialist will support campus recruitment-related initiatives such as campus outreach conferences, intern/graduate recruitment, talent mapping and sourcing, assessment, and interview coordination. They will coordinate the end-to-end recruiting process by embracing new technologies to ensure that the sourcing, recruiting, assessment, offer, and communication processes run smoothly, contributing to a positive candidate experience. The role requires influencing, communicating, and supporting outcomes with hiring managers by driving effective recruiting strategies, setting expectations, and helping identify the skills or characteristics that lead to success in a role. Additionally, the TA Specialist will demonstrate an agile mindset by embracing new technologies in the end-to-end recruiting process to develop and execute sourcing strategies, build sustainable candidate pipelines, accurately assess candidates, increase the effectiveness of services while improving the customer experience, driving increased quality of hire, decreasing time to fill, enabling process excellence, and fostering a talent advisor mindset with customers and teams. They will also build capability in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility strategy through partnerships and outreach, participation in job fairs, conferences, and working groups. The role includes tracking candidates from the interviewing phase through the offer and onboarding phase, ensuring all stages are completed in an accurate and timely manner, and tracking recruiting expenses to provide input to the management team to prepare the recruiting budget. Miscellaneous talent projects may include early engagement programs, job fairs, community partnerships, marketing, and other ad-hoc needs. Other duties may be assigned as necessary.