Talent Acquisition Specialist

The Talent Acquisition Specialist is a direct staffing partner with Community Behavioral Health's (CBH) Leadership and hiring teams to anticipate and meet the evolving staffing needs of CBH by aggressively recruiting qualified candidates. The Talent Acquisition Specialist leads the full-cycle recruitment process for CBH, and ensures a positive candidate experience.

Essential Functions

• Lead full-cycle recruitment for CBH, from job intake and description development through offer negotiation and onboarding, ensuring a seamless hiring process.
• Develop and execute proactive and equitable recruiting and sourcing strategies to build and maintain strong talent pipelines aligned with CBH hiring needs.
• Serve as a strategic partner to hiring managers, providing guidance on talent market trends, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions.
• Conduct candidate screenings and manage end-to-end interview processes, ensuring an efficient and positive candidate experience.
• Coordinate and deliver competitive offers, supporting successful candidate conversion and onboarding.
• Track, analyze, and report recruiting metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, pipeline health, candidate conversion rates) to inform hiring strategies and improve outcomes.

Position Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Human Resources or related field
• Relevant Work Experience: Minimum 3 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably in a human services, healthcare, or information technology setting.

Skills

• Proficient with social media and talent management products and tools
• Full-cycle recruiting
• Equitable talent sourcing & pipeline development
• Candidate screening & interviewing
• CBH stakeholder and hiring manager partnership
• Offer negotiation & closing
• Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Leadership Competencies

• **Strategic Thinking:** Understand and integrate the long-term vision of CBH and focus current activities on what is critical to achieve future success including formulating objectives/priorities and developing and implementing breakthrough ideas.
• **Leadership:** Effectively manage and guide efforts to address challenges and drive continuous improvement for CBH's programs, services and processes. Develop and implement effective strategies and appropriate interpersonal styles to influence and guide others.
• **Employee Development:** Recognize and promote the necessity to hire, assess, develop and retain high quality talent. Acknowledge strengths and weaknesses in team members through an ongoing performance management process that provides timely feedback in order to help them develop and enhance performance.

Philadelphia Residency Requirement

• The successful candidate must be a current Philadelphia resident or become a resident within six months of hire.

U.S. Authorization Requirement

• CBH does not provide sponsorship for applicants requiring future work authorization. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Equal Employment Opportunity

• We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CBH is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on all qualified individuals. This is without regard to race, ethnicity, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex/gender, marital status, gender identity, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected individual genetic information, or non-disqualifying physical or mental handicap or disability in each aspect of the human resources function by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Requesting An Accommodation

• CBH is committed to pr viding equal employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities or religious observance, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by CBH and require an accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodation once hired.
• If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with CBH and have accommodation needs for a disability or religious observance, please send us an email at [email protected]