Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

TRS is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist with a strong background in finance recruitment to lead full-cycle recruiting efforts for highly specialized roles, including investment, quantitative, and other hard-to-fill financial positions.

This role is ideal for a recruiter who thrives in complex, relationship-driven environments and has experience sourcing and engaging top talent across financial services, asset management, or institutional investment organizations.

You will partner closely with hiring leaders to design targeted strategies, elevate the candidate experience, and position TRS as an employer of choice within the competitive finance talent market.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Talent Acquisition and Recruiting

• Designs, implements, and manages strategic sourcing and talent acquisition programs, such as university relations, intern programs, employee referrals, and career fairs.
• Works collaboratively with management to ensure employment brand, candidate experience, college, and outreach and engagement programs are being utilized for building a talent pipeline and providing TRS with high-caliber job candidates.
• Collaborates with hiring managers to define their talent needs, develop targeted recruitment plans, and set expectations for the recruitment process and timing.
• Collaborates to coordinate the TRS' internship program and builds long-term relationships with colleges, universities, professional organizations, and functional leaders within the community.
• Represents TRS at career fairs, networking events, and manages the agency's recruitment calendar.
• Establishes and fosters relationships with active and passive candidates including creating strategic targeted recruitment campaigns to passive candidates.
• May conduct formal presentations or represent TRS as an employer at industry conferences or networking events.

Hiring and Selection

• Provides advice, counsel, and technical assistance on the hiring process, interviews, employment laws relevant to hiring, and other human resource related issues.
• Creates job campaigns on external job posting sites that utilizes job description language to create compelling narratives that appeal to potential applicants.
• Screens applicants for minimum qualifications, responds to applicant questions, coordinates background checks, and conducts pre-employment testing.
• Manages the onboarding process, conducts new employee orientation, assists in preparing new employee files, and coordinates exit/separation process.
• Evaluates hiring and selection process to ensure best practices and legal compliance in all areas.

Employer Branding

• Coordinates recruiting events to attract candidates and build the TRS brand presence in target markets (pension funds, public sector, and private sector).
• Serves as a brand ambassador of TRS, conveying the agency's core values, mission, culture, work environment, total rewards components (compensation, health and retirement benefits, leave, recognition, etc.), and other areas of interest.
• Develops employer branding strategies to further talent acquisition strategies, establish TRS as a recognizable employer of choice, and engage talent to explore opportunities within the organization.
• Develops and maintains recruitment marketing and branding materials to articulate TRS' employment value proposition (EVP).
• Assists in developing videos, blogs, and social media strategies to enhance the candidate experience.
• Leads and participates on special projects and workgroups.
• Performs related work as assigned.