Talent Acquisition Partner

General Purpose

The Talent Acquisition Partner (TAP) is responsible for leading full-cycle recruitment for clinical, administrative and operational positions across STRIDE Community Health Center. This role serves as a strategic business partner to hiring leaders by developing recruitment strategies that attract, engage, and hire highly qualified individuals who are committed to STRIDE’s mission.

Essential Duties/Position Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruitment for clinical, behavioral health, dental, administrative, leadership and support roles.
• Manage a high-volume requisition portfolio, typically consisting of 30 or more active positions across multiple departments and clinic locations, while meeting established recruitment service level expectations.
• Partner and serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers by conducting recruitment strategy meetings to define staffing needs, recruitment timelines, interview plans, and candidate profiles.
• Create and facilitate relevant talent acquisition leadership training as needed.
• Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to attract top talent in a competitive healthcare market.
• Manage job postings and candidate pipelines, and ensure recruitment activity is updated in an accurate, compliant, and timely manner within the applicant's tracking system.
• Screens applications, conduct interviews, and coordinate hiring team interviews.
• Ensure a positive and professional candidate experience from application through onboarding.
• Prepare and extend employment offers, including compensation calculations and negotiations in alignment with internal guidelines.
• Maintain effective communication and good working relationships with employees at all levels of the organization.

Candidate Attraction & Recruitment Operations

• Develop innovative sourcing strategies utilizing job boards, social media, professional associations, networking events, educational institutions, and passive candidate outreach.
• Manage recruitment activity within the Applicant Tracking System (Paylocity) while ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant documentation.
• Screens applicants, conduct phone interviews, coordinate interview schedules, and facilitate the selection process.
• Prepare and extend employment offers consistent with organizational compensation practices.
• Provide an exceptional candidate experience through consistent communication, professionalism, and timely follow-up throughout the recruitment process.
• Partner with HR staff to ensure a seamless transition from recruitment through onboarding.

Recruitment Analytics & Continuous Improvement

• Develop, monitor, and report recruitment Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including but not limited to: Time-to-fill, Time-to-hire, Source effectiveness, Candidate pipeline activity, Offer acceptance rate, Hiring manager satisfaction, Candidate experience, Recruitment costs.
• Analyze recruitment data to identify vacancy trends, barriers, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Recommend and implement process enhancements that improve efficiency, reduce hiring timelines, and strengthen recruitment outcomes.

Compliance & Documentation

• Maintain complete and accurate recruitment records and interview documentation.
• Ensure hiring practices comply with FQHC regulations, HRSA guidelines, company policies, and federal and state employment laws.
• Protect confidential employee and applicant information.

Partnership & Outreach

• Represent STRIDE at job fairs, career events, workforce development initiatives, colleges, universities, community organizations and any applicable event(s).
• Build relationships with healthcare schools, residency programs, professional organizations, licensing boards, and workforce agencies to strengthen long-term recruitment efforts.
• Support employer branding initiatives that promote STRIDE as an employer of choice.
• Participate in community outreach activities aligned with STRIDE's mission.

Human Resources Department Support

• Provide backup support for onboarding activities during periods of high volume, such as administration and New Employee Orientations (NEO)
• Support HR Initiatives Including Employee engagement, Workforce development, Apprenticeship programs, Internship coordination, Process improvement, HR audits, Special projects

Requirements

• STRIDE Values: Community, Trust, Value, Compassion
• Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities: Knowledge of healthcare recruitment practices for clinical and non-clinical positions, demonstrated ability to successfully manage 30 or more concurrent requisitions, experience with HRIS/Applicant Tracking Systems and a variety of computer systems, knowledge and experience with full cycle recruiting, strong sourcing skills utilizing social media, professional networking platforms, and CV databases, familiarity with laws, regulations, and procedures related to hiring practices, ability to work independently and organize work in a manner that ensures accuracy, efficiency and timely completion of deadlines, excellent interpersonal, organizational, negotiation, and communication skills, ability to protect the confidentiality of employees and business information ethically and responsibly.
• Education And Experience: Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or related field preferred, minimum three (3) years of full-cycle recruitment experience required, minimum two (2) years of healthcare recruitment experience required, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), hospital, community health, or multi-site healthcare recruitment experience is strongly preferred, understanding of HRSA, FQHC, and healthcare workforce recruitment preferred.