Senior Director of Talent Acquisitions

At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.

*This position is primarily remote but is required to come on-site at least once a month.

 

Must reside in one of the following states:

Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington (State), Washington, DC, Wisconsin.

 

Job Description

The Senior Director of Talent Acquisition is responsible for defining, developing, delivering, and measuring the recruitment strategy across Duke University Health System. This strategy involves addressing the existing organizational demand while proactively collaborating on workforce planning and future health system growth. This position will directly lead and develop a team of Assistant Directors while supporting a large-scale team of recruiters and sourcers. This role will collaborate with senior level stakeholders across DUHS to develop new strategies to attract and retain key talent.

Work Performed

• Strategic planning design, develop, and implement tactical direction, methodology and resources to implement competitive internal and external recruitment strategies to attract and retain key talent across DUHS.
• Proactively collaborate and lead workforce planning strategies with key stakeholders to achieve having the right talent, in the right place, at the right time to meet key business objectives.
• Develop and execute strategic recruitment plans that align with DUHS's growth objectives and timelines.
• Lead system-wide process improvement projects to drive effectiveness and efficiencies within the full-cycle recruitment process.   
• Identify and implement, in partnership with AVP, team structure/alignments to support DUHS current and future business demand focusing on creative and forward-thinking approaches.
• Leads a data-driven recruiting department, leveraging analytics, benchmarks and metrics to support efficiencies and decision-making.
• Elevates the hiring manager and candidate experience in all decision making, processes and programs by identifying and partnering with operational leaders to deliver improvements.
• Delivers talent acquisition excellence including the development and implementation of strategies to source recruit and select a diverse and highly qualified workforce.
• Maintain a consistent recruitment process throughout all supported DUHS areas, addressing any concerns and securing support from senior leadership.
• Builds and maintains strategic relationships with key leaders and internal customers across the business as a trusted talent strategist and advisor.
• Coaches, develops, empowers and motivates a high-performing team of enthusiastic recruiting professionals.
• Drive Culture Pulse improvement in partnership with greater New Talent Strategies leadership team.
• Support day-to-day recruitment escalations across high priority and hard to fill areas, removing barriers and providing additional guidance for recruiters/sourcers across the team.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to toggle between strategy development & tactical execution.
• Exceptional organizational and administrative skills, at ease with abundance of details and complexity, yet mindful of big picture, ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize them, and carry them out independently.
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous, complex and fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities effectively.
• Ability to build and maintain strong, trusting relationships with colleagues, clients and team members.
• Demonstrated self-motivation, energy and tenacity in achieving results; optimistic yet realistic; upbeat attitude.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, growing environment required.
• Flexibility to travel both locally, regionally and nationally to represent Duke University Health System is required.

Minimum Qualifications

 

Education

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business, or related field required. Master's degree preferred.

Experience

• Seven or more years of work experience in talent acquisition or human r