Foundation Academies Promise: To Equip all scholars to Excel in learning and Empower them to Lead purpose-filled lives.
Purpose: Foundation Academies exists to close the opportunity gap for youth in our community of Trenton, NJ.. Dismantling systemic injustice requires a strong team of highly talented people who have the skills, capacity and passion our scholars deserve. The Talent Experience Manager is someone who is creative and has a passion for creating positive, unrivaled experiences to engage FA employees and candidates in every stage of the employee life cycle.
What is in it for you:
You have autonomy and get to be your authentic, creative, whole self. You will gain a sense of purpose and pride knowing you are fostering an employee and candidate experience that shows value to the dedicated professionals committed to empowering opportunities for scholars society too often overlooks due to the color of their skin or their zip code. You also will join a community that values wellness and receive a competitive salary, comprehensive medical benefits. Learn more here!
Reports to: Director of Talent Acquisition
Salary: $64,750-$92,000
Accountable: (What you are accountable for. What you are accountable for does not change, you are the decider on these things)
- Effectively develop and execute a plan for an exceptional experience that creates and maintains an org-wide culture of belonging and excellence (i.e. implementation of rewards and recognition systems, affinity groups, org-wide engagement events). Thus achieving:
- 90% Retention of high-quality staff
- 85% Employee Satisfaction Rate
- Effectively develop and execute a plan for an exceptional experience that creates and maintains a consistent and positive candidate experience. Thus achieving:
- 90% Candidate acceptance rate
- 100% backfill hire rate within 30 days (ability to hire a candidate in the event of s a mid-year vacancy)
Responsible: (Tasks you are responsible for. Tasks are subject to change)
Demonstrate data driven decision making and execution
- Develop the framework for the candidate and employee experience.
- Develop and execute opportunities to get a pulse check on the employee and candidate experience (ie. engagement, wellness, exit surveys)
- Execute a plan to respond to the data collected.
- Identifies and executes opportunities to improve employee and candidate experience
- Tracks the impact of the candidate and employee’s experience and provides recommendations for improvement.
- Tenacity to challenge the way we do things, especially in the face of opposition or rejection of viewpoint
- Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of event tactics and apply learnings to future events
Ensure equitable experiences:
- Creatively curates the framework for the candidate onsite experience executed by the recruiter
- Track and monitor the consistency of the candidate and employee experiences and ensure consistency in its execution
Serves as a FA brand ambassador:
- Develops strong trust and relationships with employees, candidates and community partners
- Host brand aligned events and/or programs (ie. immersion days, recent college grad events, community day for internal staff)
- include, but not limited to décor, giveaways, signage, etc.
- Ensure candidates who are on the bench remain engaged
- Consistently demonstrates the characteristics of a FA employee with high levels of emotional intelligence, strong, listening, communication and interpersonal skills to foster synergy in diverse internal and external audiences
Consulted: (You should be deeply knowledgeable about the following. As a result, your input will be considered when overlapping decisions are made due to your expertise and brilliant perspective)
- Succession Planning
- Retention of high-quality staff
- Total Rewards and Recognition
- Marketing and Brand Awareness
Informed: (Ensure you are abreast on the influence of these systems on what you are accountable for)
- Candidate and Employee Market Analysis
- Where are the candidates we need
- What do the candidates need to thrive in our organization
- Employee offerings of similar organizations
- Industry trends and best practices to continually up level experiences
- Performance Management
Qualifications and Experience:
- Experience in Talent Management preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources preferred or related fields
- Proven successful event planning and execution experience
- Highly organized self-starter who can think creatively and strategically to manage (pre, during and post) on multiple projects simultaneously at a high level
- Tenacity to challenge the way we do things
Want to join our FAmily?
We are Foundation Academies: Trenton, New Jersey’s largest and highest-ranking K-12 free public charter school. Our mission is to ensure that all of our students secure the academic knowledge and skills to prepare them for the nation’s finest colleges, and to instill in them the core values of caring, respect, responsibility, and honesty. We serve more than 1,000 of the city’s K-12 population across four schools on two campuses. We admit students by lottery, irrespective of gender, race, household income, or academic ability.
Our team of experienced and mission-driven urban educators values growth mindsets, lifelong learners, and individuals who believe that every child deserves an excellent education. We hold ourselves, our students, and our city to high standards because that’s what our families deserve.
We are conveniently located a quick car ride to downtown Princeton, a 45-minute SEPTA ride to Philly’s Center City, and a hop on the NJ Transit Express to New York City.
