Talent Acquisition Specialist

Vancity; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 64,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Talent Acquisition Specialist, where your expertise will shape a diverse workforce. This role involves collaborating with hiring managers, managing recruitment cycles, and promoting inclusive hiring practices. You will be instrumental in building strong partnerships with community groups and implementing innovative recruitment strategies. With a commitment to social justice and diversity, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the community while enjoying a hybrid work environment and comprehensive benefits package. Be part of a movement that values your contributions and empowers you to thrive.

Benefits

Flexible vacation allowance

Comprehensive benefits package

Defined benefits pension plan

Care days for personal illness

Additional statutory holidays

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in talent acquisition, in-house or agency.
• Proven ability to manage high-volume recruitment projects.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to understand recruitment needs and manage the hiring process.
• Lead recruitment projects and create a positive candidate experience.

Skills

Talent Acquisition

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Coaching Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources

Tools

Applicant Tracking Systems

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

Vancity is a member-owned credit union built on the principles of inclusion and social justice. A relentless commitment to their values has helped them challenge the status quo and break down barriers since day one in 1946. They have bold commitments to make Vancity net-zero by 2040 across all mortgages and loans and are pursuing strategies on Indigenous banking and to improve the financial resilience of their members.

Vancity is the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and has been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada. If you’re interested in joining their team of 2,700 diverse individuals and accessing competitive rewards and benefits, all while knowing you are part of a greater movement, then apply today!

About the workplace

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will partner with our hiring managers to understand and plan for the recruitment needs of our largest client group, Member Services. You will develop a sourcing and attraction plan and manage the complete recruitment cycle to support hiring managers and candidates through the recruitment journey. You are the subject matter expert and collaborate with the workforce planning and regional leadership teams to proactively understand existing and future hiring needs, to deliver the right talent at the right time.

You are a brand ambassador for Vancity and its inclusive and anti-racist recruitment practices. You actively support our goal of building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. You promote the Vancity employer brand by building and maintaining strong partnerships with our external diversity and indigenous partners and manage our special evergreen programs.

This is a permanent, full-time role that will enjoy hybrid working arrangements which can be fulfilled primarily from the Vancity head office location and your Lower Mainland based home office. This role will require you to work on-site at least once a week.

A typical day would involve:

• Partner with all internal teams to proactively understand and plan for recruitment needs, including business leaders, workforce planning teams and HR Consultants.
• Lead high volume, high profile recruitment projects for Member Services teams.
• Develop and incorporate an effective recruitment plan to fulfill assigned client group hiring needs.
• Produce and update marketable job postings to attract the right talent for the roles.
• Promote positions on the company’s website, social media channels, and relevant job boards.
• Actively seek new ways to proactively attract and pipeline candidates for current and future hiring needs.
• Perform full prescreens, interviews and evaluate the candidates’ skills, knowledge, and experience to recommend the right candidates for consideration.
• Create exceptional internal and external candidate experience and support candidates through the recruitment hiring and selection process.
• Effectively prioritize and manage multiple recruitment projects and provide timely updates to clients and candidates as required.
• Proactively anticipate problems and concerns, and provide well thought-out solutions and recommendations, independently or collaboratively as required.
• Appropriately escalate concerns to the Manager, Talent Acquisition as required.
• Provide coaching and advice to managers throughout the recruitment & selection process, including: sourcing options, interviewing, offer negotiations, overall interpretation of related policies & procedures.
• Proactively leverage market trends and internal talent data (e.g. attrition rates, etc.) to inform talent decisions and provide talent related advice to clients.
• Provide recommendations to optimize tools, systems to enable the efficiency and effectiveness of talent acquisition.
• Resolve problems and provide direction to managers on recruitment related matters concerning internal and external candidates.
• Be proactive in own learning of Special Programs to deliver on our BC Special Programs hiring commitments.
• Coach hiring managers on DEIR hiring practices and requirements to prioritize special program candidates.
• Promote special programs to support Indigenous, trans and black evergreen hiring program through community groups, career fairs and job boards.
• Build partnerships with community groups, with high awareness of challenges and sensitivities to support diverse talent.
• Proactively build and maintain candidate talent pool to identify talent for job opportunities through activities such as attending events and LinkedIn sourcing.
• Track DEIR hiring metrics to measure and improve growth of diverse talent at Vancity.
• Raise awareness about the special programs initiatives across the organization.

You have:

• Three to five years of recent work experience in talent acquisition, in-house, agency or a combination of both.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing or Human Resources or a related field.
• Proven ability to manage multiple high-volume, high-profile recruitment projects at the same time.
• Demonstrated expertise in candidate management.
• Proven ability to create relationships to support and coach leaders about hiring best practices.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good level of business acumen and decision-making.
• Previous experience with leading recruitment projects for senior level roles.
• Extensive understanding of HR databases, applicant tracking systems, and candidate management systems.
• Active user of LinkedIn recruiter, building recruitment projects and candidate pipelines.
• Positive self-awareness and openness to learn.
• Work experience in coaching hiring managers about inclusive hiring practices.

You are:

• Effective and empathetic communicator – you have exceptional communication and listening skills to act as a resource for your specialized area, provide advice and coaching.
• Analytical – You utilize market trends, internal talent data, and recruitment tools to inform hiring strategies, optimize processes, and build strong talent pipelines.
• Attuned to micro details while seeing the big picture - You understand the big picture objective and can dive deep into data and details to ensure quality and accuracy of deliverables are met.

We value lived experience, so if you are interested in this role, we encourage you to apply even if you feel your skills don't perfectly align with those listed.

The salary range for this role is $64,500 to $96,500 annually. Base pay offered may vary depending on factors such as relevant qualifications, skills, previous experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards package, employees may also be eligible for our annual incentive program, subject to program eligibility requirements.

A career at Vancity is more than just a job, you’re joining a tradition of change-makers who are creating lasting change for our communities. Beyond base pay, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package to ensure our employees are empowered to thrive:

• Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs.
• New employees receive between three to four weeks of vacation allowance per calendar year, and the number of vacation days grows.
• In addition to the 10 statutory holidays in British Columbia, Vancity provides an additional three statutory holidays. We offer care days for periods of short-term personal illness or emergency family illness.
• We have flex credits for our health care & dental benefits offer three levels of coverage for you to select from. These benefits will also be effective immediately based on your hire date.
• We understand that retirement means different things to different people and at Vancity we will offer you a Defined benefits pension plan that pays you a retirement income for life.

At Vancity we’re committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace to help our people and communities thrive and prosper. Diversity in our workforce is integral so that we can truly represent, understand and respond to our community needs and deliver on our member experience.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require any accommodations at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail] for confidential support. In-person assistance is also available. We will collaborate with you to ensure your needs are met promptly and effectively.