Talent Acquisition Partner

**Job Description**:
**Talent Acquisition Partner - COVID 19 Support (up to 6 month assignment)**

**Human Resources, Corporate Services**

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop and maintain working relationships with hiring managers to understand current and future recruitment needs, job vacancy specifications, requirements, and to make recommendations on optimum sourcing channels
- Educate, consult and transfer knowledge of staffing processes to hiring managers
- Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias
- Using behavioural interviewing techniques facilitate individual and/or panel interviews; provide support and counsel to hiring managers throughout the interviewing process.
- Manage the job offer process, including reference and criminal checks
- Track and report on critical recruitment data monthly
- Interpret, promote and provide advice on compliance with The Region’s hiring policies, procedures and standards, as well as external regulatory and legislative requirements
- Participate in recruitment initiatives including diversity and inclusion
- Remain current on recruitment practices, sufficient to provide value-added consulting to client on an ongoing basis
- Conduct regular follow-up with managers to determine the effectiveness of recruiting plans and implementation
- Continuously improve recruitment processes to better serve client needs and meet recruitment objectives

**Qualifications**:

- Graduation from a university or college with an emphasis in Human Resources Management. CHRP would be considered an asset
- 2 - 5 years’ experience recruiting - a solid background of behavioural-based interviewing and assessment skills
- ** Experience in recruitment supporting a unionized workforce is required**:

- Developed consulting skills to lead a front-end analysis and guide the recruitment process to closure, including risk management measures such as reference checking
- Experience in developing and implementing recruitment strategies and initiatives
- Understanding of social media (LinkedIn, Twitter) and the ability to use these tools for sourcing methods
- Strong interpersonal, networking, communication (written & oral), customer service, and organizational skills
- Recruitment experience within public sector and unionized environment is required
- A blend of corporate and agency recruitment experience is preferred

**Contract Duration**: up to 6 month assignment

In this role you will have the ability to work remotely and attend on-site when required based on operational requirements at the worksite. The frequency of on-site activities may vary on a weekly basis and based on operational requirements. Your remote work location must be located within the province of Ontario.

**Hours of Work***: 35 hours per week,**
**8:30am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday**

The Region of Peel offers job based flexible hours of work that allows employees to manage personal and professional responsibilities while at the same time ensures business operational needs and customer service expectations are achieved.

**Interview**: Our recruitment process will be completed with video conference technology.

**As part of the Region’s ongoing commitment to health and safety, there are enhanced Covid-19 specific safety protocols and/or personal protective equipment requirements (e.g. masks, eye protection, etc.) in place to help protect health and safety. The additional requirements are determined based on the nature of the work being carried out.**

**New employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Being fully vaccinated is determined as the status of having received the full series of approved vaccines (both doses of a two dose vaccine series, one dose of a single dose vaccine series) and any additional doses required and approved by Health Canada and having satisfied the full post vaccination period required to ensure vaccination efficacy. The Region of Peel reserves the right to request proof of vaccination at any time. Acceptable proof includes an Ontario Ministry of Health COVID-19 vaccine receipt which you can obtain through the Provincial portal**
**, or other government-issued vaccine passport or certification.**

**_Human Rights Code. If you are not fully vaccinated_**
**, a documented medical reason provided by a physician or registered nurse and time period for the medical reason may be accepted.**

About Us:
The Region of Peel serves more than 1.4 million residents and approximately 173,000 businesses in Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga. We deliver a wide range of resident focused services across the Region.

Our 20-year vision for Peel is “Community for Life.” Our goal is to create a place where everyone enjoys a sense of belonging and has access to the services and opportunities needed to thrive in each stage of their lives. Our 2015-2035 Strateg