UFCU Hiring for Talent Acquisition Specialist Job at Austin, TX Full Time

Job Summary

The Talent Acquisition Specialist (TAS) performs full-cycle recruiting, process improvement, position management, and data analytics. The TAS engages in collaborative team work and thrives in a strong service-oriented culture. Responsible for recruiting staff for all business units (BU), the TAS must partner with hiring managers and provide consultative services to meet talent acquisition needs while providing a superior service experience for our candidates and hiring managers.

About UFCU

As Austin’s largest locally-owned financial institution, University Federal Credit Union is a financial institution owned by, dedicated to, and always working for our Members. Our mission at UFCU is simple: to provide for the well-being of our Members. We’re proud to focus on people — not profits. We deliver fair and honest products and outstanding service, and we work collaboratively within our organization as well as our community to help Members achieve their personal and financial goals.

Consistently receiving awards as the Top Credit Union and Top Mortgage Company, Healthiest Employer, Gallup’s Exceptional Workplaces, and Best Places for Working Parents, UFCU is proud of its people-first culture. We value our employees as much as our Members. We offer an environment where people care about each other – like family. If you want to love what you do, make an impact in your community, and have the power to help people change their lives – then we’re glad you’re here.

Essential Functions (What you do)

• Support the Talent Acquisition (TA) process for corporate positions across all departments and disciplines, including sourcing, reviewing resumes, screening candidates, scheduling interviews, running background checks, placing candidates, making job offers, and negotiating compensation.
• Support key recruiting initiatives, including position management and employee branding.
• Enter data into and analyze TA dashboards to manage positions and report on key metrics.
• Draft job postings and interview questions.
• Continuously learn how to recruit active and passive candidates, attract highly qualified candidates, and move them through our talent acquisition process resulting in hires of the highest caliber.
• Build and manage candidate pipelines for line-level and managerial positions and assess priority levels of current and future positions in order to appropriately focus recruiting efforts.
• Identify potential candidates and use cost-effective techniques to attract applicants.
• Guide candidates and hiring managers through the hiring process.
• Effectively use of grass roots tools, such as job boards, social media, job fairs, networking meetings, employee referral programs, and staffing agencies.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with business leaders and hiring managers to deliver superior customer service to all internal and external customers.
• Collaborate with other HR team members to accomplish program goals and objectives.
• Manage ATS, respond to user inquires, train new users, and collaborate with HRIS Application Specialist and IT to resolve problems.
• Deliver recruitment training to hiring managers on a one-on one basis or in group settings and collaborate with Organizational Development to design training.
• Communicate recruiting successes and challenges to internal stakeholders regularly.
• Manage offer letter preparation through new hire onboarding.
• Facilitate background screening process.
• Mentor and train TA Associate and interns.

• Adhere to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes.
• Complete required regulatory Training as assigned.
• Maintain strict adherence and compliance to all laws, rules, regulations and internal controls specific to your role, including but not limited to Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering, USA Patriot Act, OFAC and Fair Lending regulations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities (What you bring)

• Excellent professional spoken, written, and intrapersonal communication skills
• Ability to utilize a consultative approach, possess a sense of urgency, act proactively, and understand the value of providing exceptional customer service
• Strong computer skills including proficiency in database software and Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong, creative problem-solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrated success in project management and excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong knowledge of equal employment opportunity law and best practices for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Competencies (How you behave)

• Adaptability
• Building Member Loyalty
• Communication
• Emotional Intelligence
• Focus on Results

Experience (What you have done before)

Minimum Requirements:

• Associate’s Degree in a related business field (may be substituted with equivalent years of relevant experience)
• 3 years of recruiting experience
• Demonstrated track record of effectively managing multiple competing priorities and 15+ open positions at any time
• Experience using advanced recruiting platforms, social media, and other relevant tools such as ZoomInfo/LinkedIn Recruiter for candidate sourcing and lead generation
• Experience with interviewing and applying behavioral assessment techniques
• Track record of delivering extraordinary customer service
• Workflow and process-oriented experience, preferably with hiring, selection, and on-boarding
• Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems
• Ability to pass pre-employment background screening, including FBI fingerprint search, credit check, and education and employment verification
• Must be bondable

Preferred Requirements:

• PHR or recruiting certification
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field
• Experience using Ultipro ATS
• Experience within high tech and/ or financial services
• Bilingual (Spanish-English)
• Six Sigma certification

Things You Need to Know Before You Apply

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee in order to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.
• The employee is frequently required to stand and walk.
• Employee will make extensive use of the telephone requiring the ability to effectively and accurately explain complex information.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position requires frequently working onsite at UFCU Plaza in Austin, Texas.
• This position requires working in an in-person office environment. Note: While applying COVID-19 risk mitigation protocol, this position may work remotely 100% of the time. Starting in September, UFCU will be phasing in in-person work with the goal that this position will be 100% in-person by September 2021. This schedule may change at UFCU’s discretion and as safety needs dictate.
• This position may involve periodic stressful conditions.
• May occasionally require an adjusted work schedule, overtime, and evening/weekend hours.
• Public contact position, requiring appropriate professional appearance.
• Frequent computer use at a workstation up to two hours at a time.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Employee will make extensive use of the telephone requiring the ability to effectively and accurately explain complex information.

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