Lifespark- Talent Acquisition Manager

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we've been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That's where our people come in - from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace - earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 11 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare - but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark's full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South - this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you - let's get you hired.

We are seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager

Pay: $80,000-$90,000 annually, depending on experience

Shift Schedule: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

Develop and execute recruitment strategies for corporate, professional, and skilled workforce with an emphasis on culture, position fit, and creativity. Accountable for ensuring revenue targets and capacity needs are met by proactively recruiting talent to meet the needs of all business verticals. Manage, supervise, and coach recruitment team on recruiting techniques and protocol to support the company's rapid growth. Proactively work with business leaders to identify talent gaps; build and lead the execution of a plan to address these needs. Specific responsibilities include: sourcing candidates, driving recruitment activities, filling the pipeline with qualified candidates, establishing partnership network, selling the Lifespark culture and model to prospective candidates, and courting bench candidates. Drive initiatives for a creative candidate generation to ensure a diverse pipeline is available to meet the needs of the business. Report on KPIs (key performance indicators) to ensure optimum time to feel and quality hire metrics.

Position Functions and Responsibilities

• Drive and manage the development and execution of business line specific workforce staffing plans that are aligned to the strategic objective of Lifespark and the needs of the business line with consideration of census growth
• Must have a deep understanding of the requirements and key attributes of each professional position (i.e Nurse) to attract the most qualified candidate to be consistent with each vertical line's needs.
• Develop, track, and report on the effectiveness of recruitment strategies in order to continuously improve the quality, time and cost to hire for the Talent Acquisition team
• Collaborates with the hiring manager and/or other human resource staff during the offer process, identifying and recommending salary ranges, incentives, start dates, and other pertinent details.
• Develop and maintain the architecture for talent acquisition activities including non-traditional recruitment efforts
• Manage all advertising activities including online postings, career websites, trade association notification, and more while maintaing an approved budget
• Manage relationships with existing referral sources, develop new referral sources in partnership with growth team and increase community awareness of Lifespark Career opportunities
• Facilitate continuous improvement of processes related to profiling, sourcing, screening, interviews, reference checks, shadow/second interview, and offer letters.
• Continuously aiding in the acquisition of quality candidates. These duties include: sourcing candidates, driving recruitment activities, filling the pipeline with qualified candidates, and courting bench candidates.
• Facilitate selling the "Spark" to all applicants and ensuring all new hires have the Lifespark culture fit
• Advocate for candidates with interviewers seeking objective reasons for proceeding with or denying a candidate.
• Facilitate process with existing employees to provide strong word of mouth referrals immediately after hire and ongoing.
• Lead a team of recruiters to successful fill open positions with quality candidates in a timely matter and according to KPIs.
• Monitor team's effectiveness in time to fill and recruiting of quality candidates
• Continuously aids in the development and growth of a talent acquisition recruiter by continuous conversations to aid in the career path of the recruiter.
• Tracks Talent Acquisition team results and ensures activity is productive in either a hire or a bench candidate action
• Tracks the return on investment & time spent including but not limited to, number of reach outs, applicants, phone screens, interviews, acceptance, accept and denial reasons, for all talent acquisition team members.
• Tracks the terminations of newly hired employees in first year, continue to communicate these to the Talent Acquisition team to determine any talent adjustments.
• Participate in after hour employee engagement events and candidate outreach
• Plan Talent Acquisition team outings and team building quarterly
• Plan weekly touch base with team members to ensure communication is open and honest

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Etc. preferred
• Minimum of 5 years' experience working as a recruiter in an agency or corporate setting
• Minimum of 3 years' experience managing people and teams
• At least 2 years of experience recruiting clinical candidates in a healthcare vertical. Home Health, Hospice, Private Pay or Assisted Living staffing experience preferred.
• Proven experience building strong relationships with candidates and client/company stakeholders.
• Must be proficient with technology and technological applications: Windows Laptop, Microsoft Office, Smart Phone, Calendaring, Wi-Fi, HRIS, Internet Browsing, Printing
• Must possess:
  
  
  
  • ability to positively influence candidates to respond to outreach and interview with Lifespark managers
  • ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization, verbally and in writing
  • ability to maintain composure and stay positive in stressful situations
  • ability to be organized and prioritize multiple demands in a fast-paced environment
  • ability to build strong relationships with hiring managers and actively understand position needs
  • ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information
  • ability to implement recruiting strategies and be accountable to results with little direction
  • ability to analyze results of activities and continuously improve processes
  
  
  
  
• Must adapt well to changing priorities, instant deadlines, and frequent interruptions

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer's premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.