Make a diﬀerence in the community you live in! As a Community Builder—an employee with the City of Gainesville— you will have a direct hand in building and improving your community and making a visible impact on the lives of your neighbors. Working for local government is more than a job, it’s a chance to contribute to community success and to help enhance the Gainesville way of life.

Job Description:

SUMMARY

This is highly responsible professional human resources work engaged in sourcing for under-represented groups and hard-to-fill positions, as well as building and maintaining relationships with key organizations.

The single position allocated to this classification reports to a designated supervisor and works under general supervision. Work in this class is distinguished from other classes by its extensive human resources (HR) and recruiting knowledge used to develop organizational diversity recruitment strategies and strategies to address hard-to-fill positions to improve and maintain the City of Gainesville’s (City) recruitment and hiring efforts.

EXAMPLES OF WORK

This section of the job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities of the position. The omission of a specific job function does not absolve an employee from being required to perform additional tasks incidental to or inherent in the job. Performance of lower-level duties may be required.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Partners with managers and supervisors to develop innovative, short- and long-term organizational diversity recruitment strategies and strategies to address hard-to-fill positions to establish pools of highly qualified and diverse applicants.

Identifies and implements sourcing strategies based upon the job classification of the vacant position by creatively conducting research and/or utilizing a myriad of resources to include national organizations that support established recruiting strategies and student groups and student communities on target campuses.

Establishes comprehensive metrics and utilizes the applicant tracking system to effectively monitor, analyze and benchmark the City’s progress in workforce initiatives.

Collects, analyzes and interpolates statistical data; prepares varied reports, including quarterly summaries, forecasts, trend and workforce analyses. Presents findings and recommendations to management and assists management in interpreting data for effective results.

Studies actual, perceived and/or potential barriers to recruiting highly qualified and diverse candidates; and presents findings and recommendations to managers and/or officials using charts, slides, and other visual aids.

Identifies barriers and proposes solutions in such areas as policies, guidelines and/or procedures.

Takes a lead role in developing and managing relationships with the Office of Equal Opportunity, community groups, non-profit organizations and other institutions in an effort to further the City’s recruitment initiatives.

Represents the City at various local or state level recruitment events to include job fairs, conferences and other engagements.

Develops an on-going pipeline for addressing under-represented groups and hard-to-fill positions using research, networking, database mining, etc. for prospective applicants.

Sources highly qualified female and minority candidates based on the provided job description.

Coordinates recruiting, selection and processing of applicants for internal and external selection processes.

Works with community and business partners to identify representatives to serve as speakers, panelists and interviewers, and coordinates the Department of Human Resources participation at events to address under-represented groups and hard-to-fill positions.

Keeps abreast of current trends in recruiting.

Attends work on a continuous and regular basis.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in human resources, organizational development, business administration, public relations or related field and five (5) years of progressively responsible professional level recruiting experience in a high volume, fast-paced environment.

Or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

Experience in diversity and hard-to-fill position sourcing and recruiting is preferred.

An MBA or a Master's degree in human resources, organizational development, business administration, public relations or related field may substitute for experience on a year-for-year basis.

CERTIFICATIONS OR LICENSES

Licenses

Valid driver license required upon start date. Florida Driver License required within 30 days of start date.

Certifications

Certification as Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) or Professional in Human Resources (PHR) is preferred.

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