Title\: Deputy Chief, Talent Acquisition

Department\: Office of Talent

Reports To\: Chief Talent Officer

Salary Range\: 132,823.- 208,125

The School District of Philadelphia is committed to becoming the fastest improving District in the country and transforming the educational opportunities it offers to our city’s more than 198,000 students. The District seeks leaders who have a passion for working with schools and communities who are committed to ensuring all students achieve. Serving a population as diverse as ours requires creativity, commitment and vision. Will you join us?

Job Summary

The Deputy Chief of Talent Acquisition serves as the executive leader responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive, District-wide talent acquisition strategy that ensures the School District of Philadelphia attracts, hires, onboards, and retains a highly qualified, diverse workforce capable of advancing student achievement. Reporting to the Chief Talent Officer, the Deputy Chief provides executive leadership over recruitment, staffing, onboarding, talent operations, workforce planning, employer branding, sourcing strategies, HR technology, and candidate experience. The Deputy Chief develops innovative recruitment pipelines, strategic partnerships, and workforce initiatives that support hiring for approximately 20,000 employees across instructional, school-based, operational, and central office positions while ensuring compliance with federal, state, District, and collective bargaining requirements. The Deputy Chief serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on workforce planning, labor market trends, staffing analytics, organizational capacity, and long-term talent strategy.

Essential Functions

• Develops District-wide recruitment strategy for instructional, school-based, operational, and central office position.

• Leads workforce planning initiatives and forecasts staffing needs.

• Develops annual hiring plan; establishes recruitment priorities aligned to District goals.

• Provide executive oversight of teacher recruitment, school leader recruitment, central office recruitment, operations recruitment, hard-to-fill positions, executive searches, and internal mobility. • Establishes recruitment priorities aligned to District goals.

• Develops Talent pipelines and strategic partnerships with universities, alternative certification providers, community organizations, professional associations, national recruitment organizations, Historically Black Colleges and Universities and diverse educator networks.

• Strengthens SDP's employment brand and increases visibility.

• Improves candidate experience during recruitment and onboarding.

• Leads recruitment marketing and expands digital recruitment strategies.

• Provides executive oversight for Taleo, Oracle HCM, recruitment analytics, candidate relationship management, automation initiatives and workforce dashboards.

• Oversees District-wide onboarding strategy ensuring successful transition from candidate to employee.

• Directly oversees the Executive Director of Recruitment; Director of Talent Support Services and HRIS; Director of Onboarding and Employee Experience and additional managers and operational staff as assigned.

• Monitors data and performance for vacancy rates, fill rates, time-to-fill, time-to-hire, offer acceptance, candidate diversity, retention, recruitment return on investment and customer satisfaction.

• Provides regular reports to the Superintendent, Chief Talent Officer, Cabinet, and Board of Education.