Energy Providers - Experienced Recruiter

Job Family:

Talent Acquisition

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Clearance Required:

None

What You Will Do:

This role will be an integral part of Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure recruiting team and will serve as a critical enabler of Guidehouse’s on-going successful growth and expansion. This individual will work closely with business managers, practice leaders and the broader Human Capital group to support practice hiring managers with their talent management needs.

• Serve as Experienced Hire subject matter expert (SME) in the recruiting process; from sourcing and screening candidates, interviewing, negotiating compensation and restrictive covenants, closing, and working with Human Capital colleagues to ensure the successful on-boarding of candidates in the ES&I segment.
• Actively work with Energy Providers, Cross Practice Solutions hiring teams to source passive Director candidates for United States and Canada markets.
• Leverage Experienced Hire SME expertise to assess candidate skills in the areas of Transmission Strategy Design, Utility Strategy Development, Regulatory Support Services, Wholesale Market Analysis, Energy System Modernization, Grid Modernization, Smart Grid, Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Renewable Integration, Protection Systems & Relays, Power Systems Engineering, Critical Infrastructure Protection Standards (CIP), Building Simulations Modeling, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Battery Storage, Blue & Green Hydrogen Technologies, and Building Automation.
• Partner with segment & horizontal practice leaders to support and deliver upon Guidehouse’s recruiting strategy (e.g., providing regulatory compliance guidance as needed).
• Agility in leveraging technical recruiting expertise in ES&I.
• Provide briefings and reports to senior leadership as requested.
• Participate in ES&I weekly Talent Acquisition (TA) meetings.
• Partner with the Compensation and Hiring teams in developing offer structures for all levels of candidates.
• Coordinate and secure compensation pre-approvals from Human Capital Business Partner & Compensation teams.
• Create and regularly maintain Compensation & Geo Zone Excel tool for ES&I team, and ES&I Blank Screen Template form.
• Facilitate TA Recruiting updates with Cross Practice Solutions practice leader.
• Maintain ES&I Recruiting Team SharePoint folder and ES&I Portal.
• Maintain legacy ES&I Job Descriptions and collaborate with ES&I hiring teams in developing and or recommending job description changes in accordance with Guidehouse Leveling Guidelines.
• Manage use of external search vendors or provide guidance on selecting vendors for direct hire, temporary labor, and contract to hire.
• Proactively engage in segment discussions to identify opportunities or needs for improvement, across all areas of recruitment.
• Provide TA updates and address escalations as needed for Energy Providers, Cross Practice Solutions, Federal Civilian Agencies during Weekly Calls.
• Provide TA updates during Bi-weekly Energy Providers Market Team Pipeline calls.
• Provide training, coaching, and mentoring for contract recruiters in ES&I.
• Leverage expert knowledge of Affirmative Action Plans, OFCCP and EEO requirements in multiple industries.
• Monitor New Hire Services Action Required emails for ES&I compliance and advise ES&I TA Lead accordingly.
• Work with Guidehouse Legal department to resolve Conflicts of Interest (COI) and Restrictive Covenants for all staff level candidates.
• Represent ES&I TA Lead in respective meetings as requested.
• Other duties as assigned.

Keys to Success in This Role Include:

• Superior intelligence as evidenced by analytical and critical thinking; must be able to interact effectively with and perform as an intellectual peer to consulting leaders who are highly credentialed, who possess advance academic degrees, and who apply intellectual rigor and critical analyses to all aspects of the business.
• Deep expertise across all key areas of recruiting, including technical competence in legal and compliance requirements and an ability to approach recruiting issues in a strategic, conceptual and solutions-oriented manner.
• An acute sense of urgency with demonstrable experience delivering results.
• Excellent grasp of the specialty consulting market and Guidehouse’s place within the competitive landscape.
• Strong business acumen: keen insight into those business issues which are most common to the consulting industry.
• Thorough understanding of the various consulting business operating models and their key financial metrics/drivers.
• Collaboration within Human Capital and client