(Hybrid) Part-Time Talent Acquisition Recruiter - Talent and Culture

Talent and Culture at West Virginia University is currently accepting applications for a Part-Time Talent Acquisition Recruiter.

About the Opportunity

The Talent Acquisition Recruiter will execute talent acquisition strategy while delivering innovative recruitment and souring solutions aligned with hiring leader goals and the university’s strategic plan. Providing full lifecycle recruitment and hiring support, this role will serve assigned client areas through partnership with hiring leaders to develop a deep understanding of the unit, positions, and hiring needs. As the Talent Acquisition Recruiter, you will be part of a team focused on delivering the highest quality service to our internal and external customers, with professionalism and integrity.

We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including\:

• 13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
• Annual leave (vacation) days per year (employee leave)
• Sick days per year (for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6% employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ’s.
• Wellness programs

What You'll Do

• Develop, collaborate, and maintain strong working relationships with leaders to ensure understanding of business needs while proactively working to support assigned client areas.
• Deliver talent acquisition solutions, sourcing, recruitment, and full lifecycle hiring process for positions across WVU’s campus(es).
• Utilize proven sourcing and recruitment techniques, passive candidate strategies, and social technologies to proactively build talent networks and pipelines.
• Leverage external market data, vendors, sourcing channels and the latest technology available to quickly build and maintain external talent pipelines.
• Maintains and identifies in-depth and up to date knowledge of social media, sourcing strategies, search techniques and tools.
• Provide guidance and support to leaders regarding all matters pertaining to the recruitment and hiring process.
• Manage the hiring process from initiation through final offer, ensuring a high touch positive leader and candidate experience.
  • Conduct consultative intake meetings for all new positions (in person and virtually)
  • Assist with training client groups on search, recruiting processes, and best practices.
  • Provide weekly search status reports, assess risks/challenges, and drive solution-oriented results.
  • Perform initial candidate screening, validation of qualifications, and salary expectations.
  • Manage the interview process - ensure qualified candidates are thoroughly vetted before presenting, ensure quick turn around on requests to schedule interviews, develops interview guides, debrief with interview panelists, and provide timely feedback to candidates.
  • Assist leaders to determine appropriate salary offer, with collaboration from Classification & Compensation as necessary.
  • Maintain accurate, compliant, and up-to-date records in our Applicant Tracking System
• Champion the WVU employee benefit and compensation package to candidates and ensure understanding of offerings.
• Work in a performance-metric driven environment where hiring manager/candidate experience, quality/quantity of hires, time to fill, are measured.
• Influence, build relationships, and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Develop and maintain business relationships with key colleges, universities, technical school, student, alumni, and professional associations to build and sustain a pipeline of applicants.
• Coordinate/host and attend recruitment networking events.
• Engage in regular in person and virtual meetings.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Hours\: 20 per week