Academic Physician Recruiter

Renown Health; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Renown Health located in Reno, NV is looking for an Academic Provider Recruiter to lead full-cycle recruitment for physician faculty. The role involves attracting top-tier talent to enhance clinical care, education, and research in partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine.

The ideal candidate will have experience in recruitment, particularly within healthcare, and should embody strong relationship-building skills with a focus on the organization's strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Minimum of one to three years of sourcing and/or recruiting experience.
• Experience in the healthcare industry preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle physician recruitment efforts.
• Collaborate with clinical and academic leadership.
• Develop and implement recruitment strategies.

Skills

Sourcing and recruitment

Relationship building

Knowledge of healthcare industry

Data tracking

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

CPRP Certification (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Join our team as an Academic Provider Recruiter supporting physician recruitment in partnership with the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. In this role, you will lead full‑cycle recruitment for physician faculty, attracting top‑tier talent dedicated to advancing clinical care, education, and research. You will collaborate closely with clinical and academic leadership to support the growth of our academic programs and build strong physician pipelines. This position focuses on engaging physicians who are passionate about teaching, innovation, and shaping the future of healthcare in our community. As a strategic partner, you will work across the organization and with the School of Medicine to identify and secure high‑caliber candidates. Your work will directly contribute to excellence in patient care, education, and research.

Position Purpose

The Provider Recruiter is responsible for all provider recruitment activities and functions to ensure a continual pipeline of high quality, excellently qualified provider candidates. Activities associated in full‑cycle recruitment process include relationship building, consulting and collaboration with hiring leaders to understand staffing needs, developing and executing recruitment strategies, sourcing, conference and career fair attendance, initial candidate contact and vetting, preliminary verification and references, offer preparation, management of interview process, contract negotiations, and ensuring a smooth onboarding process for new hires. The incumbent plays a crucial role in building a talented and diverse healthcare workforce to meet the organization’s staffing requirements while working in close collaboration with all Provider Recruitment team members, hiring leaders, and Renown Medical Group Executive Leadership Team members as well as other applicable Renown Health departments involved in the hiring and onboarding process.

Nature and Scope

The Provider Recruiter performs all duties in a manner that promotes the organization’s mission, values and philosophies. The incumbent must maintain and exhibit, at all times, high standards of courtesy, performance, human relation skills and personal and professional appearance. This position requires a flexible schedule and ability to meet deadlines and accommodate concurrent recruitment priorities.

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with Renown Medical Group Leadership and physicians, understand all provider recruitment activities to meet the organization’s strategic goals as well as the needs of our community.
• Maintain a general working knowledge of Renown Health as an organization and relevant specialty departments, community relationships, affiliations, and strategic goals.
• In collaboration with Renown Medical Group and service‑line leadership, develop and implement strategic provider recruitment planning based upon established short‑term and longer‑term staffing needs identified.
• Maintain and exhibit comprehensive knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of Physicians and APCs within Renown Medical Group specialty areas.
• Be responsible for or direct sourcing and vetting functions in assigned specialty areas, including outreach visits, advertising/marketing, cold/warm prospect calling, initial contact, reference checks, and preliminary verification of candidates.
• Work closely with Senior Management to support, identify and execute specialized recruitment strategies for high‑demand, hard‑to‑fill specialties.
• Generate leads, potential prospects, and eventual candidates for warm pass to Recruiter by utilizing various sourcing channels and research methodologies from social media, databases, print materials, phone, and online sources.
• Maintain close ties and relationships with residency training programs (local and regional) as a recruitment source.
• Orchestrate phone interviews, video conferences and site visits for candidates and families.
• Maintain working knowledge of provider compensation and fair market value methodologies.
• Partner with RMG Leadership to prepare and extend offers and facilitate contractual negotiations.
• Guide all provider recruitment activities in a manner that complies with applicable laws and regulations.
• Foster and preserve relationships with providers to ensure quality onboarding experience.
• In conjunction with Provider Recruitment Coordinator, ensure the completion of all necessary aspects of onboarding including state licensure, credentialing and privileging, and human resource requirements.
• Maintain timely data tracking and CMS tools for all prospects and candidates identified throughout the recruitment process to foster accuracy of tracking and reporting.
• Maintain and manage pertinent physician recruitment expense management as required.
• Continuously identify, improve on processes, procedures, policies and techniques to recruit providers and better serve department customers.
• In collaboration with Provider Relations and Retention, maintain physician and APC retention strategies, including surveying providers regarding the recruitment process, onboarding process, and their experience at regular intervals during their first year of practice, and providing feedback to leadership.

This position does not provide patient care.

Disclaimer

The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills and efforts or work conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature and level of the job.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree preferred. Must have working‑level knowledge of English language, including reading, writing, and speaking English.
• Experience: Minimum of one to three years of sourcing and/or recruiting experience in a corporate or search firm environment required. Experience in healthcare industry or direct experience with physician recruitment, specialized technical or executive recruitment, or provider relations highly preferred.
• License(s): None.
• Certification(s): CPRP Certification through the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR) preferred. Comparable recruitment certification may be considered in lieu of AAPPR.
• Computer / Typing: Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word and have the ability to use the computer to complete online learning requirements for job‑specific competencies, access online forms and policies, complete online benefits enrollment, etc.