Associate, Regional Talent

Job Summary

The Regional Talent Associate at The Commit Partnership will support key talent functions including recruitment onboarding and professional development operations. This entry-level role plays an essential part in helping attract integrate and grow diverse talent aligned with the organizations mission and values. Under the supervision of the Managing Director of Regional Talent and in collaboration with team members the Regional Talent Associate will help ensure a consistent and high-quality employee experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Recruitment & Onboarding

• Coordinate hiring logistics including job postings interview scheduling and candidate communication
• Assist with screening candidates and tracking progress through Commits applicant tracking system
• Support hiring managers in drafting job descriptions interview guides and performance tasks
• Organize and deliver onboarding sessions ensuring new hires are well-prepared and oriented to Commits mission values and systems.

Learning & Development

• Assist in coordinating internal training sessions and professional development opportunities including scheduling communications and materials
• Track participation and gather feedback to support continuous improvement of learning initiatives
• Maintain updated documentation and materials related to professional growth and performance management processes
• Support leadership teams with creating clear development paths for staff

Talent Pipelines

• Support logistics for the summer fellowship and internship programs including onboarding programming support and communications
• Assist with outreach to partner organizations and universities to promote talent opportunities

Employee Experience & Engagement

• Help administer engagement and feedback surveys; organize and summarize data to identify trends and inform strategy
• Contribute to initiatives that promote employee satisfaction recognition and retention
• Collaborate with colleagues across departments to support consistent and inclusive talent practices

Talent Strategy Execution

• Maintain up-to-date documentation for key talent processes and policies
• Create and update slide decks reports and communications to support department initiatives
• Help research best practices and emerging trends in talent development and DEI
• Support the implementation of performance management processes that align with the organizations goals and objectives

Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Skills Required

• Strong organizational skills attention to detail and ability to manage multiple taskssimultaneously
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated interest in talent development organizational culture and/oreducation equity
• Familiarity with tools like SharePoint and virtual meeting platforms (e.g. ZoomTeams)
• Self-starter with a proactive approach able to take initiative anticipate challenges
• and independently develop solutions in a fast-paced environment

Education and/or Experience Required

• A bachelors degree in human resources education communications or a relatedfield

Language Skills

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

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• 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 educationalbackgrounds.
• Ability to listen perceptively and convey awareness
• Ability to interact diplomatically with the public in a continuous public contactsetting
• Ability to work as part of a team and in a team environment
• Ability to maintain level-headedness in the face of resistance and contrary opinions.

Work Environment

The Associate generally works in an office environment but may occasionally be requiredto perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the workenvironment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverseenvironmental conditions.

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.

Job Requirements

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed must be representative of the knowledge skills minimum education training licensure experience and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation 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 25-34-year-old 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 high-demand 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 socio-economic 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 mission-driven 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 execution 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.