Senior Director, Talent Management

Covista; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k match

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

Annual incentive

Job summary

Covista, a leading healthcare education provider, seeks a Senior Director of Talent Management to shape workforce strategy and execution. You will lead performance, succession, career architecture and workforce planning at scale, partnering with finance, analytics, and AI teams to drive impactful outcomes.

The role oversees a director and three talent partners, with responsibilities spanning leadership development, talent reviews, and program design in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, psychology, or communications required.
• Master’s degree preferred for senior leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise talent review processes and leadership succession planning at scale.
• Own Connected Performance strategy and align it with the business plan and HR processes.
• Develop and maintain career architecture and skills frameworks for internal mobility.
• Oversee strategic workforce planning with finance to align talent with business strategy.
• Manage a team including a Director of Talent Management and up to three Talent Partners.

Skills

Leadership

Talent management

Succession planning

Performance management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR/psychology/communications

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

About Covista

Covista (NYSE: CVSA) is America's largest healthcare educator, serving 100,000 students and supported by a community of 400,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at scale. Covista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University. Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development. Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But what makes working at Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers. We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday-Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment. For more information, visit covista.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Job Description

Opportunity at a Glance

The Senior Director, Talent Management sets the strategic direction for how Covista develops its workforce for the future. This role oversees performance, succession, career and skills development, and workforce planning. This person will also lead a team of directors and talent partners who bring talent strategy to life, in close partnership with teams focused on execution, analytics, and workforce insight. The Senior Director will design and execute Covista's future of work strategy, ensuring the organization has the workforce plans, succession depth, and skills architecture to meet the business's evolving needs at scale.

Responsibilities

• Leads the enterprise talent review process, creating a Covista leadership profile, identifying individuals with potential, and facilitating leadership selection strategies. Owns critical role succession planning, ensuring succession plans and strategies are developed and maintained at scale.
• Owns the Connected Performance strategy, developing and implementing a performance management process that is integrated with the overall business strategy and other HR processes. Continually evaluates the quality of the process and makes recommendations for improvement, training and/or communication, where applicable.
• Builds and maintains career architecture and skills frameworks, including career path progressions, rotational programs, and knowledge/skill progression programs, to enable skills-based talent decisions and internal mobility at scale.
• Owns the strategic workforce planning process, partnering with business and finance leaders to align talent supply and demand with business strategy. Develops metrics and tracking systems to measure the effectiveness of the talent review process, performance management, career architecture, and development programs, and regularly evaluates program impact to make adjustments as necessary.
• Leads a team consisting of a Director of Talent Management and up to three Talent Partners. Partners with the Talent Strategy Deployment team on tactical execution of talent strategy, the Analytics & Insights Talent team on dashboards and reporting, and the AI Integration team on workflow analysis and line of sight into AI's impact on the workforce.
• Designs and leads the organization's "future of work" strategy, defining how work, roles, and skills will evolve and translating that vision into actionable talent and organizational plans.
• Facilitates team building and team effectiveness sessions.
• Participates in the internal assessment for executive level positions.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a human resource, psychology required or communications discipline. Required and master's degree preferred
• At least 15 years of experience as a human resources generalist with exposure to talent management processes, training, and HR program design and managemen required
• Strong training and facilitation skills.
• Excellent writing, verbal communications and listening skills.

Additional Information

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $250,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista's Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays For more information related to our benefits please visit: https://careers.covista.com/benefits You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Equal Opportunity - Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation