Assistant VP-New Talent Strategies

Position is On-Site at Duke Health System, Durham, NC

Overview 

The AVP, New Talent Strategies will lead the highly critical recruitment function across Duke University Health System, (DUHS), designed to strategically attract, hire, and retain top talent in a rapidly growing organization situated in a competitive market. As the recruiting leader for the health system, the AVP will develop, drive, and execute on talent acquisition strategies across all of DUHS, from entry-level hires to finding strategic leaders across all departments. 

S/he will serve as the primary advisor to senior leadership on talent acquisition initiatives, delivering a strategic consultative approach to the organization by providing relevant best practices and market insights to meet a high volume of diverse requirements across the organization.   

Beyond leading the talent acquisition team for the health system, this leader will be adept at building high-trust partnerships with management and internal customers, in addition to having a passion for building world-class candidate experience in a fast-paced, high-growth market. This leader will partner, onboard and assimilate new hires as well as develop key strategies to retain key talent. 

The AVP, New Talent Strategies will be a natural people leader, skilled in building great teams and defining strategy, developing processes and managing by fact, and leveraging data and analytics to ensure DUHS’ recruiting engine is running efficiently. This position reports to the Vice President of Human Resources Operations to advance the mission of the health system.  Also critical to this role is to maintain a strong partnership with Duke University Talent Acquisition, Administrative Systems Management and HR colleagues. 

Key Responsibilities

• Establishes and delivers strategic goals and priorities for DUHS Talent Acquisition and in alignment with DUHS’s strategic objectives. 

• Builds and maintains strategic relationships with key leaders and internal customers across the business as a trusted talent strategist and advisor.  

• Provides expertise and thought leadership in outreach programming, marketing and communications that ensures the development of a diverse talent force. 

• Delivers talent acquisition excellence including the development and implementation of strategies to source recruit and select a diverse and highly qualified workforce. 

• Elevates the hiring manager and candidate experience in all decision making, processes and programs. 

• Coaches, develops, empowers and motivates a high-performing team of enthusiastic recruiting professionals. 

• Leads a data-driven recruiting department, leveraging analytics and metrics to support efficiencies and decision-making. 

• Provides strategic vision and guidance around continuous improvement initiatives with an eye for streamlining system-wide processes within talent acquisition. 

• Communicates and influences talent decisions across a complex, matrixed, fast-paced organization. 

• Leads talent acquisition marketing in partnership with DUHS marketing and communications. 

• Drives and leads relationships with search firms and all recruitment service providers and operational vendors. 

Key Skills & Attributes 

• Passionate about talent acquisition and inspiring teams to successfully deliver.   

• Result-oriented and self-starter who enjoys a challenge and is dedicated to getting things done.   

• Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and project management skills with ability to perform at all levels in area of responsibility. 

• Effective communicator with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills who inspires confidence and builds relationships with all levels in the organization. 

• Strong leadership orientation with the keen ability to influence, build partnerships/relationships and development teams. 

• Highly collaborative leader that navigates and activates alignment across the health system. 

• Expert working knowledge of ATS and other talent acquisition platforms, applications, and employment administration / HR systems and excellent knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel. 

• Strong working knowledge of OFCCP and recruiting and employment compliance. 

• Ability to multi-task and work independently. 

• Innovative and progressive orientation with high sense of urgency and follow through. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in Human Resources Management, Business Administration or other related discipline required. Advanced degree preferred. 

• Minimum 8 - 10 years’ experience in talent acquisition and/or human resources roles at a high-growth, high-volume organization, with five of those in a leadership role. 

• Proven track record of achieving business goals and delivering a best-in-class hiring experience for candidates and hiring managers. 

• Strategic, high-energy leader with high emotional intelligence and deep experience managing a large and diverse recruitment team. 

• Healthcare experience preferred. 

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