Talent Acquisition Specialist

Overview

This role focuses on overseeing human resources management functions, including executing recruitment, personnel actions, and payroll-related tasks according to relevant laws and policies. It may involve specialization in areas like compensation, classification, recruiting, grievance handling, employee benefits, or transactions, depending on the organizational context.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute professional talent acquisition and human resources activities while interpreting policies, procedures, and legal requirements linked to recruitment and employment.
• Manage complete recruitment cycles by drafting and posting job vacancies, sourcing candidates, organizing interviews, and guiding hiring managers through the selection process.
• Formulate and apply innovative recruitment strategies leveraging online job boards, social media, job fairs, community outreach, and campus recruiting to attract qualified applicants.
• Advise candidates, employees, supervisors, and managers on recruitment protocols, employment processes, job listings, and HR policies.
• Maintain applicant tracking systems, recruitment records, and related documentation ensuring adherence to laws, regulations, and agency procedures.
• Support workforce planning by identifying staffing needs, tracking vacancy data, and compiling recruitment analytics and reports.
• Apply and interpret federal and state laws concerning hiring, equal employment opportunity, and fair hiring practices.
• Provide assistance with classification reviews, compensation analysis, employee relations, or other HR duties as assigned.
• Gather and assess data on personnel selection tools using established psychometric principles; produce visual data reports and develop selection tests.
• Process and review employee personnel transactions such as hiring, promotions, transfers, and separations ensuring regulatory compliance.

Knowledge and Skills

• Comprehensive understanding of human resource management policies, Merit Rules for Personnel Administration, Oklahoma Personnel Act, and related legislation.
• Skilled in records management and effective business communication.
• Strong capability to build positive working relations across the organization.
• Ability to independently apply and interpret policies and regulations in diverse situations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with at least two years of human resources management experience, or
• Master’s degree in human resources, industrial/organizational psychology, public administration, sociology, psychology, or a closely related field with one year of HR management experience, or
• An equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience should include duties related to job analysis, classification, wage/salary and benefits administration, civil rights enforcement, recruitment, or payroll administration.
• Experience incidental or unrelated to human resource management will not be considered qualifying.

Additional Information

• Certain roles may require readiness to undertake all typical job-related travel.
• The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer, prohibiting discrimination based on genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.
• Current employees must apply internally through the designated job portal.
• Applicants needing assistance or information about their application can contact the hiring agency directly.