Senior Recruiter

Full Job Description

Why Travis County?
Mission: Building a Travis County where ALL people can thrive with dignity and respect.
Vision: Travis County will be recognized as the best county in the US for all racial, ethnic, and economic groups.

Travis County’s Human Resources Management Department is seeking a Senior Recruiter to join their dynamic team.

The Human Resources Management Department works to position Travis County as an employer of choice through balanced, efficient and collaborative strategic partnerships.

This role is all about connection, precision, and customer service.

You’ll serve as the go-to operational partner for recruiters and hiring managers, driving scheduling excellence, workflow optimization, and interview process.

You’ll set the bar for how we deliver a world-class recruiting experience - where hiring managers feel supported, informed, and able to provide the highest quality candidate experience possible.

The ideal candidate:

• Collaborates strategically with hiring managers, vendors, and other stakeholders to attract the best candidates to county positions

• Is comfortable working with all levels of staff, from HR Liaisons to County Executives and Elected Officials

• Communicates effectively to guide departments through the recruitment process

• Is proactive in seeking out talent, building pipelines, and using creativity to source the best candidates

• Ensures a seamless and positive candidate experience

• Utilizes recruitment data and analytics to support recruitment initiatives and process improvement
  
  

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:

This is a job classification within the Human Resources job family. This is the senior level Recruiter position working at the corporate level.

Performs advanced level of sourcing and recruiting duties for the Travis County. This position works under direction with increasing latitude for independent judgment.

Link to Job Description: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/traviscounty/classspecs/1418316

Why Travis County Human Resources Management Department?Mission: To support the County’s mission of providing services effectively, and equitably for justice, health, and safety to improve the quality of like for the people of Travis County.

Through strategic partnerships and collaboration, the Human Resources Management Department recruits, develops, and retains a high-performing and diverse workforce and fosters a healthy, safe, and productive work environment for employees, departments, and the public to maximize the individual and organizational potential to position Travis County as an employer of choice.

Values:

• Promote Honesty, Integrity, and Trust
• Celebrate Teamwork
• Encourage Communicate
• Promote Honesty, Integrity, and Trust
• Focus on Internal and External Customers
• Embrace Change and Innovation
• Champion Employee Development
• Model Leadership
• Produce Quality Results

Requirements

• Manages full cycle recruiting process for candidates, delivering a seamless and positive candidate experience.
• Advanced knowledge of modern applicant tracking systems (ATS) that attract top talent.
• Consults with hiring managers to understand their recruitment needs, develops creative sourcing strategies to leverage diverse high caliber candidates, and prescreens candidates to assess their qualifications.
• Develops recruiting metrics to measure recruiting success and develops strategies to exceed deliverables.
• Develops a working knowledge of departments to quickly identify hiring needs at the department level, as well as how that aligns with the broader organizational culture.
• Develops pipeline of talent, utilizing social media, decreasing time to fill.
• As a Senior level employee, may be asked to perform other tasks or projects designed to drive the advancement of our recruiting strategy.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Personnel Management, Human Resources Management, Public Administration, Business Administration or a directly related field AND five (5) years of experience in sourcing and/or recruiting candidates or related field;

OR,

Any combination of education and experience that has been achieved and is equivalent to the stated education and experience and required knowledge, skills, and abilities sufficient to successfully perform the duties and responsibilities of this job.

Licenses, Registrations, Certifications, or Special Requirements:

• Valid Texas Driver’s License.

Preferred:

Professional in Human Resources Certification (PHR) OR, Society of Human Resources Management Certified Professional (SHRM-CP).

Knowledge of:

• State and local government budget, planning, systems, documents, issues, and trends.
• ATS and HRIS systems.
• Service oriented and hands on practitioner that is a strategic resource and partner for organizational talent needs.
• Computer equipment to include: word processing, spreadsheets, databases and a variety of software packages.
• Outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written.

Skill in:

• Online or social media sourcing and recruiting techniques.
• Developing sourcing and recruiting polices, metrics, and reports.
• Explaining complicated technical problems in simple non-technical language.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with departmental clientele, representatives of outside agencies and providers, other County employees and officials, and the general public.
• Serve as the organizations subject matter expert on best practices in recruitment strategies.

Additional Information

If you are looking for a career that provides top-notch benefits including paid leave, outstanding health, vision, and dental insurance, on-site health clinic for you and your dependents, a generous retirement plan, educational opportunities, and much more? Then bring your talents to Travis County!

Physical requirements include the ability to lift/carry up to 20-50 pounds occasionally, visual acuity, speech and hearing, hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer and office equipment. Subject to standing, walking, sitting, repetitive motion, reaching, climbing stairs, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, pushing, pulling, balancing, client/customer contact, squatting to perform the essential functions.

Travis County employees play an important role in business continuity. As such, employees can be assigned to business continuity efforts outside of normal job functions.

The negotiating salary range for this role is: $85,000.00 - $91,000.00

Work Hours: 8 am - 5 pm, Monday-Friday. This position is eligible for a hybrid work schedule based on business need with some mandatory in office scheduling.
Location: 700 Lavaca St, Austin, Texas.
Department: Human Resource Management
Criminal, Driving, Education, and Employment Background Checks Required.

This job description is intended to be generic in nature. It is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. The essential duties, functions and responsibilities and overtime eligibility may vary based on the specific tasks assigned to the position.