Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Date: 24 Aug 2024

Location: Miami, US

Job ID: 3149

School: Regional Office (Americas)

Company: Nord Anglia Education

Nord Anglia Education is the world's leading premium international schools organization. Our over 80 international schools are located in the Americas, Europe, China, South East Asia and the Middle East. Together, they educate more than 80,000 students from kindergarten through to the end of secondary education.

Although each Nord Anglia Education school is unique in character and tailored to meet the needs of their specific location, all our over 14,000 employees around the world engage in the common vision and mission.

• Our vision is to shape a generation of creative and resilient global citizens that will change our world for the better.
• Our mission is to be the most forward-thinking, technology-enabled educators in the world, using our global reach and world-class teachers to create a learning experience like no other.

Most of the Nord Anglia schools benefit from our performing arts collaboration with The Juilliard School as well as our Global Campus, which offers unique global experiences for students at every age. Many of our schools will also benefit from our new approach to teaching STEAM subjects (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) through our collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Our goal as the leading international schools organization is to provide an education so that students can succeed academically, socially and personally.

Our schools educate students from preschool to the end of secondary education. Curricula taught in our schools include the English National Curriculum, International Baccalaureate, American Curriculum, Swiss Curriculum, French Curriculum and Shanghai National Curriculum.

KEY RESULTS AREA

TALENT ACQUISITION

• Support the Avenues team when required by the school on difficult to hire roles (Math/Science teachers) as well as on middle level leadership roles.
• Responsible to align Avenues Campuses Employer branding elements to attract best candidates.
• Ensure the most effective and efficient systems for high quality recruitment are implemented.
• Manage relationships and budget for commonly aligned recruiting systems - ensure consolidation/alignment and training of systems and tools used to enhance the Avenues schools recruiting process (Sparkhire, LinkedIn etc.).
• Follow Avenues talent acquisition methodology and process and ensure high quality documentation.
• Support drive cross campus recruitment.

Regional Team

• Establish and align job descriptions, scorecards and processes (marketing of position and branding, investments, interviewers and alignment on job req and postings).
• Post all positions in Success Factors.
• Follow up with candidates throughout the process and ensure adequate documentation in Success Factors.
• Perform first screening against scorecard and coordinate interviews.
• Follow up with candidates.
• Support in establishing and coordinating feedback of individual or panel interviews to drive high quality process for candidates and organization - attracting best candidate for position at the end.
• Negotiate final offer and coordinate with HR regional team to submit offer and start onboarding.

The Americas Schools

• Serve as the point of contact for any fairs and recruiting event OTOS (Outstanding Teachers for Outstanding Schools) and expanding fairs into US.
• Build with the schools a high quality pipeline and processes to ensure high quality recruitment in SLT.
• For SLT positions only establish a common approach to SLT evaluation and hiring processes including: Director of HR, Finance, Admissions and Marketing and other academic positions at SLT.
• Create scorecards for equitable documentation and assessment of candidates.
• Support global recruiting team in establishing principal recruitment panels and process.
• Drive recruitment process for SLT positions.

DATA AND SYSTEMS

• Review useful and up to date reports using the ATS weekly to Head of HR Americas and propose improvement actions to impact time to fill and quality of hire process.
• Ensure all data and compliance information is properly documented in the system to be able to make analytical decisions.
• Support newly acquired schools to be incorporated into our Talent acquisition ATS processes and data overview.
• Consolidate data for recruitment to present to Regional HRD on a weekly basis.
• Support integration of new schools into Success Factors recruiting tools (after Success Factors HRIS integration).

OTHER

• Manage recruiting agreements and performance of such vendors.
• Oversight of recruitment budget and ensure expenses are aligned with budget.
• Support with adequate employee branding strategies including ensuring proper follow up of candidate feedback tools, i.e., Glassdoor - in alignment with marketing and Head of HR Americas.
• Align with global HR to drive an amazing candidate experience for every role and support improvements in processes and systems.

Personal Specifications

• Highly organized and proactive.
• Experienced with a high volume of highly qualified roles - showing creativity.
• Experience and ability to close difficult to hire positions in a short period of time.
• Genuine interest in recruitment and talent acquisition (with some experience).
• Confident working at pace.
• Good stakeholder management skills.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint for producing reports and presentations.
• Good cross-cultural, interpersonal and communication skills to interact with diverse nationalities and cultures.
• Excellent analytical skills – with the passion and drive to demonstrate and quantify success.
• Results-oriented with the ability to consistently map efforts against identified KPIs.
• Excellent time management skills and flexibility in dealing with multi-functional tasks.
• You’d like to work in a purpose-led sector.
• Preferred bilingual English/Spanish (preferred Portuguese).

At Nord Anglia Education we are committed to providing a world class, safe, happy environment in which children and young people can thrive and learn. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our pupils where we embrace all races, abilities, religions, genders, and cultures.

All post holders in regulated activity (having regular unsupervised contact with children) are subject to appropriate national and international vetting procedures including satisfactory criminal record checks from both your country of residence/birth and any country of residence within the last 10 years.

We welcome applications from suitably qualified persons from all diverse backgrounds. Please note, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.