Talent Acquisition Partner (Recruiter)

Come join our CNLV Human Resources Team!

Serve your community. Make a difference. Grow your career.  Meaningful work awaits you here at the City of North Las Vegas. We serve one of the largest culturally diverse cities in the nation and our community continues to grow! If you value Accountability, Communication, and Teamwork then you are just the person we are looking for! 

The Talent Acquisition Partner (Recruiter) in Human Resources is an essential member of our team, we invite you to apply and help contribute to CNLV’S growing success! Please thoroughly review the information and selection process outlined below this announcement.

THE ROLE

As a Talent Acquisition Partner (Recruiter) assigned to the Police Department, you will be responsible for implementing a wide range of full-cycle recruitment activities for the City. This includes evaluating vacant positions, creating hiring/exam plans, sourcing candidates, screening applications, developing and administering exams and interviews, processing offers, oversight of background checks, providing quality customer service, collaboratively working with hiring managers, and creating an overall positive hiring manager and candidate experience. This position’s initial assignment will be in the Police Department and will be crucial in developing and implementing hiring strategies for the recruitment of hard to fill, high volume, and union positions such as police officers, corrections officers, police communications dispatchers and call takers, law enforcement support technicians (L.E.S.T.s), records specialists, and accompanying supervisor positions. Recruiters will also assist in commissioned and non-commissioned promotional processes for vertical advancement, new hire processes, and new hire onboarding within the police department, in areas such as administration, animal protection services, communications, community engagement, crime analysis, detention command, identification, investigations, records, training, and all area commands. 

IDEAL CANDIDATE

This position is housed in Human Resources and reports to our Talent Acquisition Manager. The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

Collaboration and Teamwork – Our recruitment team works with hiring managers and supervisors to understand position needs and create processes that will bring in the best and most qualified talent. Our team works with candidates, HR team members, union representatives, hiring managers, department directors, executive leadership, raters and panels, subject matter experts, and other individuals to lead selection processes.
Creativity – The variety of positions at our City are many! Each position has individual requirements and needs, and some are more challenging to fill than others. Creativity and viable recommendations are needed from recruiters to venture out and cast a wide net to attract top candidates.
Confidentiality – Candidate information, testing materials, test results are a few examples of the types of information that is kept highly confidential by our recruiters and team. Our recruiters lead this effort and ensure high confidentiality in all phases of our processes.
Communication – Recruiters must maintain timely and proactive communication with candidates, hiring managers, the HR team, and many others. They make recommendations to hiring managers and subject matter experts on recruitment strategies, provide in person training for panels and raters, and occasionally make presentations at events, schools, and to the community. Follow-up and follow-through are key in this role!
Attention to Detail – Our recruiters abide by collective bargaining agreements, civil service rules and ordinances, policies, and state and federal laws and regulations that apply to each recruitment and may vary from position to position. They keep track of recruitment status information and report these to department directors, and they proof read and post documents that are visible City-wide and on our website to thousands of people - so information must be updated and accurate!
Exceptional Organization Skills – Recruiters work in a fast-paced, high volume recruitment environment where exceptional organizational skills are a must!
Flexibility – Prioritizing, re-prioritizing, shifting priorities as necessary, keeping a keen sense of urgency, and a positive attitude propel our recruiters to success.
Exceptional Customer Service – Recruiters serve our candidates, hiring managers, department directors and executive leadership team, and must maintain excellent and timely customer service, follow-up, and follow through.
Diplomacy and Political Savvy – Our recruiters demonstrate understanding of the interrelationships, roles and responsibilities of the departments they serve, and develop and maintain professional relationships with them to understand their business and be effective partners in filling roles, all while perceiving and appropriately responding to organizational and political sensitivities.
Leadership/Supervisor Experience- In this role, you will be supervising an HR Technician someone who will be supporting you in an administrative capacity.  Strong communication is needed for this function of the position.
If these competencies describe you and your working style, and you enjoy working both as an individual contributor and in a collaborative team environment, consider applying for this role!