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Job type full-time
Full job description
Known for providing expert practitioners and specialized business solutions to some of the world’s leading financial institutions, banks, and commercial mortgage originators and servicers, the oakleaf group is seeking a director talent acquisition; recruitment operations who is passionate about finding the best talent and driven to build up a successful and strategic recruiting functionThis is a key “hands-on” position reporting to the chief executive officer.
Primary responsibilities
As the talent acquisition and recruitment operations leader, you will:
Lead the talent acquisition and recruiting function for the firm and be responsible for its success.
Build up a world-class recruitment operation and core team to ensure the firm is able to hire top experts and technical professionals to help the firm achieve its goals.
Partner with sme/team managers and business development executives to understand and anticipate their upcoming needs and priorities.
Improve existing recruiting processes and programs to ensure a high-quality experience for all candidates.
Proactively develop pipelines of potential candidates to reduce time-to-hire and ensure the firm is able to attract and hire the best professionals.
This is a virtual position that can be located anywhere in the usBut has the ability to occasionally visit (when appropriate) the maryland-based head office.
Who we`re looking for
We`re looking for someone who has the interest and the ability to create a pro-active, high-impact recruitment function that drives rapid, high-quality hiring across the organizationWe need someone with prior experience building up a full-cycle recruiting effortYou must be a natural people leader who is passionate about building great teams and able to define strategy, develop processes and create metrics and reporting to make sure the recruiting engine is running efficiently.
Our ideal candidate will bring considerable recruiting and mortgage/banking knowledge to help inform recruiting best practices, screening, and candidate managementWe need someone with enough experience to be a highly reliable recruiting partner able to work closely with executives and develop strong relationships with subject matter expertsYou must be able to create alignment with internal business development partners and ensure a great hiring experience for all candidates.
Our ideal candidate will not be afraid to roll up their sleeves to source, screen, and interviewWe need someone to be a `hands-on` leader who is able to lead and work alongside our team to recruit highly skilled technical rolesWhile there is a small team currently in place, initially, you must be willing and able to manage your own small set of technical searches, while working to build up the talent acquisition and recruitment operation.
For the successful candidate, this is a great opportunity to make an impact, build up an already existing recruiting function, and scale a talent acquisition and recruitment practice within a growing multi-industry consulting firm.
Essential functions:
Implement the recruitment strategy and overall recruiting process to ensure the company achieves its hiring goals.
Lead innovative sourcing and talent pool strategies to attract top talent for high-priority technical requisitions.
Partner with stakeholders to determine recruiting priorities and capacity.
Partner with the ceo to continuously evolve organizational effectiveness and design.
Build out a recruiting services team to operate as a support and empowerment function to the rest of the organization.
Build up the ability to continuously develop strong candidate pipelines, utilizing a variety of sourcing methods and recruitment channels, and leveraging technology to maximize productivity and candidate quality.
Hold the team accountable for tracking, analyzing, and reporting talent acquisition metrics to monitor and continuously improve performance, efficiency, and capability.
Drive a culture of constant improvement, identifying and implementing strategies and processes to increase business-wide recruiting effectiveness and efficiency.
Develop the team through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and sharing performance feedback to grow the team members in the department.
Plus (of course!) you`ll have a hands-on opportunity to shape a key business function within a growing consultancy.
We`re looking for someone with the following skills and experience:
You have prior experience being the accountable owner of recruiting delivery for a 100+ person firm.
You have at least 5 years of experience as a full cycle technical recruiter across financial services, mortgage, and banking; this includes financial services recruiting and mortgage banking recruiting.
You have prior experience managing a high-volume requisition load with competing demands from various internal/external business groups.
You have the proven ability to act as a single point of escalation for split-desk issue resolution between business developers and recruiters.
You have experience with multiple sourcing techniques (e.gSocial media recruiting, ai solutions, and boolean search) and have experience using sourcing platforms (linkedin) and other sourcing/ai platforms.
You thrive on partnering with technical sme/hiring teams to drive all facets of the recruiting life-cycle in a fast-paced consulting environment.
You are able to use data to optimize the recruiting processes, develop innovative strategies, increase applicant pipelines, and present findings to the executive team.
You are able to build working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and be recognized as a trusted advisor in all recruitment matters.
You have experience working in a business with highly ambitious growth plans and can demonstrate how you added value.
You have proven experience building pipelines of talented people for hard-to-fill roles across financial services, mortgage, and banking.
You are passionate about building teams and company culture.
You are capable of managing immediate priorities while anticipating future needs.
You are a strong team player who emphasizes team success over individual success.
You have a minimum of a bachelor`s degree or equivalent and are legally able to work in the u.s.
What we offer:
Competitive compensation based on experience.
Full medical and dental benefits.
Casual work environment (virtual/work-from-home)
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our companyWe do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
The oakleaf group is a leading bethesda, md-based advisory firm providing a diverse set of services, solutions, and outsourced business processes to all mortgage industry segmentsFounded in 2007 by mortgage industry veterans, clients include originators, servicers, trustees, investors, aggregators and securitization sponsors, government entities and agencies, mortgage insurers, law firms, capital markets firms, banks, fintech firms, and industry service providersOakleaf’s passion is to enhance the mortgage finance industry with data-driven, model-informed, analytics-enabled, and operationally rigorous services and solutions.
