Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Reporting to the Sr. Human Resources Director, the Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist is a key member of the HR team with primary responsibility for Talent Acquisition and Compensation. This role is responsible for both the day-to-day execution and continuous improvement of Fenway's recruiting, compensation, and position classification programs. The position serves as a trusted resource to managers and leaders while directly managing recruiting activities, compensation analyses, system administration, and workforce initiatives. This is a hybrid position, requiring working at our Boston office at least two (2) days per week.

Representative Duties:

Talent Acquisition: Partner closely with the HR team and hiring managers to identify workforce needs, explore creative and innovative recruitment strategies, build talent pipelines, and deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.

Recruiting & Talent Sourcing:

• Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing refinement of recruitment programs, practices, and workflows to improve hiring outcomes, efficiency, and candidate experience.
• Evaluate recruitment challenges, identify root causes of hiring delays or candidate pipeline issues, and implement practical solutions to improve results.
• Manage the full-cycle recruiting process across a broad range of disciplines and functional areas.
• Manage a portfolio of up to 40-50 active job requisitions simultaneously.
• Proactively source, identify, and engage qualified candidates through a variety of channels, including professional networks, job boards, social media platforms, industry associations, employee referrals, and direct outreach.
• Build and maintain diverse talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs, with particular focus on hard-to-fill clinical, nursing, and provider positions.
• Conduct inclusive and equitable job searches that attract, assess, and hire high-performing, diverse, resilient and innovative talent.
• Monitor recruiting metrics and labor market trends to continuously improve sourcing effectiveness and hiring outcomes.
• Ensure robust, clear, responsive ongoing communication with candidates at every step of the hiring process.
• Represent Fenway Health at career fairs, networking events, and community outreach activities to strengthen Fenway’s brand and visibility as an employer of choice.

Hiring Manager Training & Partnership

• Serve as the primary talent acquisition consultant to hiring managers, providing guidance on position design, candidate assessment, compensation considerations, market conditions, and hiring decisions.
• Partner with department leaders to anticipate hiring needs, recommend sourcing approaches, and support workforce planning efforts.
• Influence hiring practices by recommending process improvements, selection methodologies, and recruitment approaches that improve hiring quality and consistency.
• Design, facilitate, and continuously improve training programs for hiring managers on recruitment best practices, interviewing techniques, employment law, unconscious bias, candidate evaluation, and selection processes.
• Develop and maintain recruiting guides, interview resources, toolkits, job aids, and process documentation to support effective and compliant hiring practices.
• Provide ongoing coaching and consultation to hiring managers to improve hiring quality, consistency, and efficiency.

Recruitment Operations, Vendor Management & Compliance

• Manage the day-to-day administration, configuration, optimization and oversight of the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
• Serve as the primary relationship manager for ATS providers and other recruiting-related vendors, including staffing agencies, job board partners, and recruitment marketing providers.
• Evaluate system performance and vendor effectiveness, recommend enhancements, manage system updates, and ensure recruiting technologies meet evolving business needs.
• Maintain ATS data integrity, generate recruitment reporting, troubleshoot user issues, and ensure consistent system utilization across the organization.
• Develop and maintain talent acquisition dashboards and reports, including key performance indicators, time-to-fill, source effectiveness, turnover, diversity hiring metrics, and other workforce analytics.
• Partner with HR leadership to leverage recruitment data for strategic workforce planning and decision-making.
• Prepare and support the organization's Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) and related compliance reporting requirements.
• Ensure recruiting practices comply with applicable federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations.
• Work collaboratively with HR team members to ensure an exceptional candidate experience from application through onboarding and first-year integration.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for staffing agencies and recruiting firms, managing vendor relationships, contracts, performance expectations, and service delivery.

Position Classification & Compensation Administration

• Administer and continuously improve Fenway's compensation and position classification programs to support equitable, competitive, and sustainable pay practices.
• Conduct compensation analyses, market pricing reviews, salary benchmarking, and internal equity assessments; develop recommendations for management review and decision-making, and maintain a resource library of compensation surveys.
• Maintain and update job descriptions to accurately reflect organizational structure and position responsibilities.
• Assess jobs and their respective duties to determine classification as exempt or nonexempt, appropriate salary range, and career level
• Maintain job classifications and salary scales in HRIS (Paylocity)
• Gather, analyze, and interpret compensation data and market trends using spreadsheet and data analysis techniques.
• Prepare and present summary reports of job analysis and compensation analysis information.
• Conduct data and cost analyses to support compensation decisions, salary negotiations and collective bargaining activities.
• Advise managers on applicable state and federal employment regulations, compensation policies, human resource procedures, and collective bargaining agreements.

HR Projects, Reporting & Administrative Support

• Lead and execute assigned HR projects and cross-functional initiatives, including planning, implementation, stakeholder coordination, communication, and outcome measurement.
• Partner with HR Team members and Fenway’s Benefits Broker to enhance and communicate Fenway’s Total Rewards Compensation communication strategy.
• Build trusting relationships with staff members and leaders at all levels of Fenway Health; serve as a credible resource on all areas of accountability.
• Assist in reviewing, updating, revising, and interpreting HR policies and procedures.
• Develop and maintains reports and dashboards on a variety of topics pertaining to areas of responsibility.
• Respond to department phone calls, emails, and tickets, providing excellent customer service to internal and external stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement efforts across HR processes, systems, and employee experience initiatives.

Meet agency participatory expectations

• Adheres to all agency and departmental policies and procedures
• Participates in quality assessment and improvement activities as requested
• Adheres to the highest principles of confidentiality
• Adheres to established safety policies, procedures and precautions; identifies potential or actual unsafe situations in the environment and takes measures to rectify the situation
• Attends all required meetings, in-services and professional trainings
• Maintains professional competence necessary to perform job responsibilities; maintains and provides agency with records of continuing education activities
• Serves on agency committees and in professional organizations when requested

Perform other duties as assigned