Regional Talent Manager

About The Commit Partnership

The Commit Partnership is a collective impact organization dedicated to making Texas a place where economic opportunity is shared and not determined by race place or socioeconomic status. We collaborate with education practitioners and community leaders to improve educational outcomes from early childhood through postsecondary education aiming to increase living wage attainment across Dallas County and the state of Texas.

Our True North Goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 2534yearold residents of Dallas County irrespective of race will earn a living wage. The Commit Partnership drives this vision by improving student achievement workforce readiness and postsecondary completion rates ensuring more individuals are prepared for economic mobility and longterm success.

Position Summary

The Regional Talent Manager at the Commit Partnership will drive talent strategy by overseeing talent acquisition onboarding and professional development initiatives. This role is designed to drive the organizations growth by ensuring the attraction retention and development of toptier talent who align with the organizations mission and values. The Regional Talent Manager will be responsible for developing strategic talent initiatives and fostering a culture of continuous professional growth. The Regional Talent Manager will collaborate closely with department heads and senior leadership to ensure talent strategies are aligned with organizational objectives and future needs.

The salary range for this role is $70000 $84000.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition and Recruitment

• Lead the of talent recruitment efforts ensuring a diverse and inclusive hiring process.
• Develop and implement recruitment campaigns that attract highcaliber talent to the organization across all levels.
• Establish relationships with external networks educational institutions and professional organizations to build a strong talent pipeline.

Onboarding and Orientation

• Oversee the onboarding process ensuring that new hires are effectively integrated into the organization with a comprehensive understanding of the Commit Partnerships mission values and culture.
• Design and manage orientation programs that ensure new employees are set up for success from day one.

Training and Development

• Develop and implement organizationwide professional development programs including leadership development initiatives and skills training.
• Partner with department leaders to identify learning and development needs across the organization.
• Manage and refine mentorship programs ensuring continuous learning and career progression for employees.

Talent Pipeline Management

• Lead initiatives aimed at identifying and developing emerging talent within the organization including managing the summer fellowship and internship programs.
• Establish strategic partnerships with universities and organizations to create pathways for future talent to join the Commit Partnership.

Employee Engagement and Retention

• Develop and implement strategies aimed at improving employee engagement and satisfaction reducing turnover and increasing retention.
• Collaborate with the Human Resources department to analyze turnover data and implement initiatives to address retention challenges.
• Measure and report on employee satisfaction and engagement metrics driving continuous improvement.

Talent Strategy Implementation

• Support the MD of Regional Talent by providing analysis and recommendations on talentrelated initiatives
• Monitor industry trends and best practices implementing new strategies that enhance talent management and development.
• Contribute to the overall human capital strategy by ensuring talent initiatives align with longterm organizational goals.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate closely with department heads to understand talent needs and provide tailored talent management solutions.
• Build strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to promote a positive and engaging work environment.

Performance Management

• Develop and implement performance management processes that align with the organizations goals and objectives.
• Work with leadership teams to ensure employees receive regular feedback have clear development paths and are recognized for their contributions.

Qualifications

• A degree in Human Resources Organizational Development Business Administration or a related field.
• Minimum of 35 years of experience in talent acquisition employee development or human resources.

Skills and Competencies

• Proven track record of developing and executing successful talent strategies in a complex missiondriven organization.
• Strong understanding of recruitment onboarding training and professional development best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Passion for advancing diversity equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Excellent communication organizational and leadership skills.
• Selfstarter with a proactive approach able to take initiative anticipate challenges and independently develop solutions in a fastpaced environment.
• Proven facilitation skills adept at leading discussions trainings and collaborative sessions that promote engagement and knowledge retention.

Language Skills

• Ability to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate.
• Ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Ability to describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

• Ability to read and write in Standard English.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
• Ability to interact with persons of various social cultural economic and educational backgrounds.
• Ability to listen perceptively and convey awareness.
• Ability to organize track analyze and articulate data especially to evaluate and showcase programmatic impact.
• Ability to interact diplomatically with the public in a continuous public contact setting.
• Ability to work as part of a team and in a team environment.
• Ability to maintain levelheadedness in the face of resistance and contrary opinions.

Work Environment

Generally works in an office environment but may occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions. This role is hybrid; the successful candidate will be expected to work onsite at The Commit Partnership offices a minimum of 3 days per week.

Physical Activity & Requirements

While performing the responsibilities of the job the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use repetitive motions of the wrists hands and/or fingers. This is a sedentary position; however the employee is occasionally required to stand walk reach with arms and hands grasp climb or balance and to stoop kneel crouch or crawl and lift up to 10 pounds. Hearing talking and vision abilities required by this job include perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction expressing or exchanging ideas be means of the spoken word and close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures transcribing viewing a computer terminal and extensive reading.

This job description is only a summary and is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required by the employee. To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

About The Commit Partnership:

Our Mission

We believe that through our actions Dallas County which educates 10 of Texas and 1 of the nation can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. Thats why our true north goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 2534yearold residents of Dallas County irrespective of race will be provided the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment we must equitably increase educational success aligned with highdemand jobs maximizing the cumulative impact from early education all the way to college career and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared future roadmap analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies practices and funding that grow our communitys capacity to serve every student more effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012 this partnership is the nations largest educational collective impact organization composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared future roadmap analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies practices and funding that grow our communitys capacity to serve every student more effectively.

Together we work to advocate for excellent and equitable public education that ensures all students regardless of race place or socioeconomic status have the power to determine their future and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early Matters Dallas North Texas Tutoring Corps Dallas County Promise Texas College Bridge Dallas Thrives Commits Policy Team the Texas Impact Network and several coalitions.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a missiondriven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding) and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment: You exhibit a relentless students first focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected analyzed visualized and activated (and what steps must be taken in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnerships mission.

Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood youre able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organizations message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems often at scale that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table ensuring that each person at the tables thoughts and perspectives are shared valued by all others at the table and reflected in our work. Youre excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed respected valued and highly supported.

Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work striking a balance between people and process and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity: You admit mistakes openly share learnings widely and elevate bad news quickly also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion all employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion or belief national social or ethnic origin gender age sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status or any other status protected by federal state or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.