Senior Recruiter

Be You.

The Duke University Central Human Resource is seeking a resourceful Senior Recruiter to join our talented team. In this crucial role, you'll have the opportunity to directly impact the university's success by attracting and hiring top-notch executive talent across various departments. You'll partner closely with hiring managers to deeply understand their unique needs and develop tailored recruitment strategies on an executive level.

Daily, you'll get to flex your consultative skills, providing expertise on recruitment best practices, interviewing techniques, and HR policies. From developing targeted recruitment plans for executive level roles to actively sourcing and assessing candidates, you'll drive the entire hiring process. Additionally, you'll promote the university at career fairs and events, building our brand and pipeline of diverse applicants.

This is an exciting chance to make your mark by shaping the future workforce of the university. You'll collaborate cross-functionally, captain strategic projects like workforce planning and diversity initiatives. Your efforts will be pivotal in ensuring we have the right people in the right roles to drive our mission forward.

Minimum Requirements:

A Bachelor's Degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration or related field required.

Work requires three years of experience working closely with hiring managers on recruiting and other human resource issues in a dynamic and diverse environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrating the ability to influence and attract executive level talent, while holding themselves and others accountable to meet commitments.

Demonstrating project management and strategic planning experience with the ability to conduct research and analysis.

Understanding of employment law that influence policy and conflict resolution skills.

Be Bold.

Position Description:

Provide a high level of customer service in consulting with and guiding hiring managers in comprehensive recruitment and staffing issues, policies, and processes.

Establish, cultivate, and maintain ongoing relationships with hiring managers in order to understand the business unit and its recruitment needs within the context of their mission; develop and maintain a strong rapport and expectations with key leaders in the department; attend departmental staff and other meetings as requested to acquire substantial knowledge about the departments business objectives, goals, operations and work culture.

Develop recruitment plan based on department needs that clearly define and commit to service and performance criteria; develop and review diversity plan with focused recruitment strategies; influence strategic staffing decisions such as succession planning, training, and career development.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified.

Choose Duke.

Join our award-winning team as identified by Forbes magazine as America’s Best Large Employer 2024 and be part of an inclusive culture that values excellence, innovation, and discovery. As an organization, we have exciting opportunities to be forward-thinking leaders in our field. We want talented individuals to join us, examine our current operations, and create innovative solutions that will revolutionize and enhance the way we approach our work.

Duke University is consistently ranked among the top universities worldwide and is renowned for its cutting-edge research across disciplines.

Beyond the engaging work, you'll also benefit from Duke's competitive benefits package including health insurance plans, generous paid time off, retirement programs with employer contributions, tuition assistance for employees and their children, and more.

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.