Remote Director, Talent Experience at Catalight

We are seeking a creative talent leader who’s excited to move from best practice to next practice and reimagine our talent experience at our mission driven nonprofit. At Catalight, we are building the future of work for nonprofits. We strive to build an engaging employee experience through a culture of wellbeing and justice. One that creates a healthy and high-performing team by supporting our humans with the learnings, capabilities, and opportunities to do their best work.

Our Wellbeing + Experiences function is committed to designing employee experiences that allow each human to experience wellness, equity, and spaces that allow them to grow and thrive. We are in search of a head of talent to best support our employees, managers, and leaders on their team building journeys, in developing new skills + ultimately Learning + Doing in different ways that evolve as our business will.

As our Director, Talent Experience, you are passionate about expanding our talent ecosystem, leveraging AI and modern tech to facilitate talent attraction, fostering a culture of continuous learning, and driving organizational success. This role will partner closely across 4 nonprofits to design and execute an ecosystem strategy. A leader with strong human centered design, engaging communication, tech forward thinking, and an understanding of AI integrations in talent spaces will be helpful for this role.

We are looking for a changemaker who will help build an inclusive and equity-informed function that can adapt and scale to support the multi-faceted needs of our employees and customers within our dynamic and growing family of companies - the Catalight Foundation and its family of companies including Catalight Care Services, Easterseals Hawaii, Easterseals Northern California.

The ideal candidate is bold in their approach, is solution oriented, welcomes ever changing environments, and approaches work with a growth mindset. You are excited for an opportunity to lead and innovate our people welcome strategy, operations, and coach our recruiting team to operate as a high performing and creative team. You welcome dialogue and debates to surface the most optimal solutions, while building relationships with care. You create safe and welcoming spaces as a baseline.

This is a fully remote position; must be able to work core hours on Pacific/Hawaiian time zones; occasional travel may be required; reports into our Wellbeing + Experience Team; you will be a manager of a team.

Responsibilities: Designing the Future of Talent. We welcome a…

• Team Architect: Leading and develop a team of recruiters, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment that emphasizes wellbeing, creativity, growth, and team effectiveness.

• Strategic Partnership Curator: Cultivating strong partnerships with diverse stakeholders across our nonprofits, including hiring managers and senior leadership, to understand and address talent needs.

• Technology & Process Innovator: Serving as the functional owner and subject matter expert for our talent acquisition technology platforms (e.g., Workday, AI integrations), driving continuous improvement and innovation in our recruitment processes.

• Talent Strategy Designer: Collaborating with hiring managers to develop and execute comprehensive recruitment plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategic priorities.

• Data-Driven Storyteller: Utilizing insights and data analysis to inform decision-making, optimize resource allocation, and improve recruitment effectiveness.

• Inclusion & Equity Strategist: Championing and implementing recruitment strategies that promote inclusive, and justice aligned hiring, ensuring fair and equitable hiring practices.

• Candidate Experience Engineer: Developing and executing innovative sourcing strategies to attract and engage top talent, including passive candidates, through various channels and networks.

• Enhancing the Employee Journey: Strategically plan and execute online and live career fairs, conferences, and other recruitment events to promote the organization and attract top talent, while also managing external agency relationships for cost-effective, high-quality solutions.

• Interview Experience Designer: Developing and maintaining next (v best) practices for hiring managers and interview teams, creating and updating interview guidelines, feedback forms, and manual and automated tools.

• Compliance & Regulatory Steward: Ensure all recruitment and onboarding practices comply with company policies and relevant local, state, and federal regulations.

• Strategic Alignment Collaborator: Partner with People Operations team to align talent acquisition strategies with the organization's overall mission and objectives.

• Operational Efficiency Optimizer: Drive initiatives to optimize operational efficiency, enhance productivity, and implement forward-

• thinking strategies to address future talent acquisition challenges.

• Experiential Engagement Lead: Strategically plan for online and live career fairs, conferences, and other recruitment events to promote the organization and attract talent.

• Project Design & Execution: Managing and performing special projects and duties as assigned, demonstrating adaptability and strategic foresight.

• Growth Mindset Operator: Regularly assessing and enhancing processes, tools, and methodologies to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. Drive change, ensuring smooth transitions and adoption of innovative learning practices across the organization.

• Active Coach: Engaging in the design, development, and delivery of key learning initiatives while providing guidance, support, and mentorship to the team.

Our Commitment: Building an Inclusive Talent Ecosystem

We are dedicated to building a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We believe that diverse perspectives and experiences are essential to our success, and we are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees. Join us in shaping the future of talent acquisition and building healthy and high performing teams.

Qualifications

We believe humans with a diverse range of experiences may be suited for the work at hand. We are avoiding education and experience minimums with an acknowledgment that these can be barriers for historically excluded groups. This role will be best suited for someone who has experience with talent life cycles, learning tech systems design, and people experience design.

• Knowledge in designing, developing, and delivering impactful talent approaches

• Experience recruiting for a broad range of job types and levels, including direct service, management, and executive.

• Experience in that comply with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards.

• Capacity to effectively leading teams, building engaging environments and coaching for career growth.

Requests:

• Sensitivity to working with an ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and economically diverse population.

• A commitment to the values of the organization while demonstrating good judgment, flexibility, patience
  and discretion when dealing with confidential and sensitive matters.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Workday, basic AI tools.

• Frequent visual or auditory communication and listening.

• Strong understanding of AI ecosystems for learning design and development.

• Capacity to utilize computers and telephones to communicate. 

• Frequent visual or auditory communication and listening (50-75%).

• Capacity to utilize computers and phones to communicate.

• Can communicate effectively within the work environment, read and write in English.

• Visual and auditory ability to work with candidates, staff and others in the workplace continuously.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (organized by our company values): 

Community oriented: 

• Seeks to understand the underlying needs, desires, and values of colleagues. 

• Proactively builds spaces for others to engage in learning and community.

• Appreciates and demonstrates collaboration across teams. 

• Serves as a role model, bringing our core values to life in your work. 

• Works well with employees at any level of employment. 

Equity informed:

• Knowledge of multiple historically excluded groups with subject matter knowledge in I/DD (intellectual and developmental disability) communities.

• Interest in working with and elevating employee needs. 

• Approaches work with a growth mindset, welcome feedback, and understand that humans all have biases and are imperfect as a baseline. 

Bold:

• Challenges the status quo in service of creating advocacy informed systems and external partnerships. 

• Experience coaching, facilitating, or working in advocacy spaces. 

• Navigates ambiguity with an excitement for problem solving. 

• Effectively manages programs from visioning to implementation + impact measure.

• Commitment to meet agreed upon deadlines on time or ahead of schedule. 

• Transparent on action, pursuits, and outcomes.

Wellbeing driven: 

• Willingness and commitment to self-reflection and re-thinking.  

• Ability to understand your physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing needs with a willingness to co-create boundaries that allow you to sustainably show up and honor your humanity.

• Capacity to lead and guide a team towards effective + sustainable wellbeing driven spaces.

Conditions of Employment

• Ability to obtain and maintain criminal record clearance through the Department of Justice (DOJ). The People & Performance Department must analyze DOJ/FBI live scan reports in accordance with applicable Federal, State, and Local laws, as well as fitness for the position.

• Ability to obtain and maintain clearance through the Office of Inspector General.

• Must attend any required training.

Time Type:

Full time

Compensation:

$166,000 - $258,000 Annually

The statements contained in this job description reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job. It should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned, including work in other functional areas as deemed fit for the organization.

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