Talent Acquisition & Retention Specialist

Boys and Girls Club of Greater Detroit; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Boys and Girls Club of Greater Detroit is seeking a salaried full-time HR professional to manage recruiting, candidate communications, and pre-hire onboarding. The role ensures smooth handoffs to Payroll & HR Generalist and coordinates 30-, 60-, and 90-day retention reviews.

Responsibilities include posting roles, screening applications, coordinating interviews, and handling background checks and offers. Extensive collaboration with HR, payroll, and managers is essential.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in recruiting or HR-related roles.
• Experience with onboarding, employee records, and pre-employment requirements.
• Ability to coordinate with payroll, HRIS, and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers to confirm openings, job descriptions, qualifications, recruiting plans, and hiring timelines.
• Post positions, source candidates, screen applications, coordinate interviews, document selection activity, and maintain applicant-tracking records.
• Coordinate background checks, references, offer letters, pre-employment requirements, and candidate communications using approved criteria and compensation.
• Manage recruiting and prehire onboarding, including candidate forms, orientation scheduling, policy-acknowledgment coordination, pre-employment requirement tracking, and stakeholder notifications.
• After the hire is approved, transfer the completed prehire file and onboarding checklist to the Payroll & HR Generalist for personnel-file completion, HRIS/HR-system setup, payroll processing, benefit-related coordination, required training assignments, equipment requests, and approved access requests.
• Maintain recruiting and onboarding checklists; confirm completion of required prehire documentation before the employee begins work; and ensure all records are accurate, complete, and ready for transfer to the Payroll & HR Generalist for payroll and personnel-file processing.
• Support department leaders in recruiting and onboarding volunteers by assisting with volunteer opportunity postings, outreach, applicant communications, interview scheduling, required forms, orientation coordination, onboarding checklists, and status follow-up. Department leaders retain responsibility for volunteer selection, placement, supervision, and confirmation of role-specific readiness.

Skills

Recruiting coordination

Onboarding workflow management

Confidentiality

Communication

Organization

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Associate or bachelor's degree in HR/Business/Nonprofit Admin

Job description

Boys and Girls Club of Greater Detroit is seeking a salaried full-time HR professional to manage recruiting, candidate communications, and pre-hire onboarding. The role ensures smooth handoffs to Payroll & HR Generalist and coordinates 30-, 60-, and 90-day retention reviews.

Responsibilities include posting roles, screening applications, coordinating interviews, and handling background checks and offers. Extensive collaboration with HR, payroll, and managers is essential.