Working with KinderCare Learning Companies means using your outstanding talents to help set the foundation for lifelong learners, where you can collaborate with colleagues, grow and learn, and positively impact the families we serve.

With over 50 years of experience, 30,000+ employees, and more than 2,000 early learning center programs, we are the most accredited leaders in early childhood education. Together, we create environments where kids grow and thrive. As one of only four companies to receive the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award six times, we’re confident that you can grow and thrive here, too. We can’t wait to meet you.

KinderCare Learning Companies is seeking a passionate Recruiter to join our Talent Acquisition Team. The successful candidate will identify a diverse pool of exceptional candidates for Center Staff roles within the Field organization. The position requires the ability to actively source and develop candidates nationally across a diverse set of roles. The successful candidate will have experience working as a trusted business advisor and consultative recruiting subject matter expert to Center Staff leadership within a multi-unit business. If you thrive on meeting and exceeding goals, have a passion for talent acquisition, and want to grow your career, we’d like to speak to you.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manages the full-cycle recruiting process across multiple functional groups or business units for center staff level and other key openings.
• Consults with hiring managers on recruitment and interview process, current and future talent needs, workforce planning, and the future state of the organization.
• Proactively identifies and implements effective sourcing and recruiting strategies. Continuously builds and sustains a high quality pipeline of candidates for future opportunities.
• Applies an in-depth understanding of the business environment, specific industry strategies, organizational structures and compensation practices in order to construct business cases for proposed solutions.
• Works with recruiting managers, peer recruiters, business unit and department leaders to understand strategic business objectives and organizational design to develop strategies to meet current and future staffing needs.
• Engages in timely and appropriate communications with all candidates, hiring managers, recruiting managers, peer recruiters, vendors and other stakeholders to create a highly positive experience.
• Conducts post interview debrief meetings to select finalists. Makes job offers, negotiates with candidates and closes offers.
• Creates and leads special staffing projects and initiatives that affect a function or the enterprise.

Qualifications:

• Experience in full lifecycle recruiting with experience recruiting non-exempt roles within a corporate environment.
• Early Childhood Education Director experience
• Experience in a high growth, fast-paced environment
• Strong candidate assessment skills with experience conducting interviews
• Ability to generate passive candidates
• Ability to create and implement effective recruiting strategies
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Ability to influence, advise, sell, and negotiate
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Solid understanding of compensation, benefits, and training as they relate to staffing, career, and organizational planning
• Knowledge of applicable departmental or business unit practices and requirements
• Ability to interpret and use financial and quantitative data to support business decisions
• Ability to adapt in a fast-changing environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel, applicable recruitment tools and the Internet as a recruitment resource
• Knowledge of employee relations, employment law, and training and development

Our benefits meet you where you are. We’re here to help our employees navigate the integration of work and life:

• Know your whole family is supported with discounted child care benefits.
• Breathe easy with medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!).
• Feel supported in your mental health and personal growth with employee assistance programs.
• Feel great and thrive with access to health and wellness programs, unlimited paid time off and discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones.
• … and much more.

At KinderCare Learning Companies you'll use your skills and expertise to help craft and contribute to our shared mission of supporting communities and encouraging lifelong learners. From our teachers to our cooks to our financial analysts, we are all passionate about crafting a world of learning, happiness and adventure for more than 150,000 children every day.

As the first national early childcare education provider to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Building Institute, we continue to follow the latest science-backed and evidence-based strategies for maintaining a safe and worry-free workplace.

Our highest priority has always been to keep our employees, children, families, and communities as safe and healthy as possible. KinderCare highly encourages its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves and their communities. We are proud to provide paid time off for employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. We are also subject to state law, local ordinances, and Health Department requirements for employees working in child care, school facilities, and corporate work spaces.

We truly believe that everyone belongs in our circle, and everyone deserves to be celebrated for who they are. By partnering with underrepresented groups and experts in DEI, we are identifying areas to improve and forging a path forward through accountability, compassion, accessibility, and inclusion.

KinderCare Learning Companies is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

Primary Location : Portland, Oregon, United States

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