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University of Southern California · 4 days ago

Talent Acquisition Coordinator

The University of Southern California is seeking a Talent Acquisition Coordinator to support the recruiting lifecycle for their recruiting team. The role involves providing administrative support, coordinating interview logistics, and ensuring a positive candidate experience while managing data in Workday.

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Responsibilities

Organizing information to gather key inputs from phone screens, interviews, and other evaluation mechanisms and to measure the status and progress of recruiting activities
Performing Workday transactions for the Talent Acquisition team throughout the recruiting lifecycle including generating pipeline reports, managing applicant and candidate information in Workday, and triggering background checks and onboarding activities for new hires
Demonstrating ability to understand the recruiting lifecycle and triggering key communications and tasks for candidates and hiring managers accordingly
Providing consistent support to the recruiting team by processing Workday transactions in a timely manner and maintaining high data quality
Maintaining a responsive line of communication with recruiters and hiring managers to resolve outstanding questions or issues
Supporting a positive candidate experience by helping to coordinate interviews (virtually and in-person) including key activities such as reserving physical spaces, coordinating calendars/scheduling, arranging parking and helpful candidate instructions, and other ad hoc administrative support activity related to hiring
Soliciting constructive feedback and insights from hiring managers, recruiters and the broader team. Proactively incorporating suggestions for continuous improvement of work. Expanding knowledge of Workday modules and capabilities as well as recruiting leading practices. Proposing solutions for ways to automate manual tasks to increase consistencies and efficiencies
Running reports in Workday to extract important data as requested by talent acquisition and hiring teams. Escalating and routing urgent issues and requests through appropriate channels. Making decisions with integrity
Promoting an environment that fosters inclusive relationships and creates unbiased opportunities for contributions through ideas, words, and actions that uphold principles of the USC Code of Ethics
Supporting recruiting strategy set by broader talent initiatives. Demonstrating, through words, actions, and ideas, alignment to USC’s strategic plan and the HR organization’s strategic plan. Enabling the university to fulfill its academic and people missions through enhanced HR service
Performing other related responsibilities as requested and when necessary. The university reserves the right to add or change duties at any time

Qualification

Talent acquisitionWorkdayMicrosoft OfficeEvent logistics coordinationHR applicationsOrganizational skillsData entryInterpersonal skillsWritten communicationVerbal communicationConfidentiality

Required

Extensive applicable experience in talent acquisition or another related field
Experience coordinating logistics for events
Effective interpersonal skills
Demonstrated written and verbal communications skills
Team-oriented self-starter with the ability to work independently and proactively
Experience working in an office or department support role
Strong organizational skills, especially relating to coordination
Comfort with data entry and reporting
Ability to provide support as needed on projects
Ability to exercise discretion with confidential information
Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)

Preferred

Bachelor's degree in business, psychology, communications, or another related field
Three or more years of experience in talent acquisition
Experience in human resources and/or higher education
Experience working with HR applications (such as Workday HCM and Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS))

Benefits

USC provides benefits-eligible employees with a broad range of benefits and perks to help protect their and their dependents’ health, wealth, and future.

Company

University of Southern California

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University of Southern California is a private research university offering opportunities for interdisciplinary study and collaboration.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$19.64M
Key Investors
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research InstituteCalifornia Institute for Regenerative MedicineCDA Foundation
2025-02-04Grant· $10.8M
2025-01-30Grant· $5.93M
2024-07-30Grant

Leadership Team

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David A Barnhart
Director, USC Space Engineering Research Center
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Hossein Pourmand
Assistant Vice President, Research Initiatives, University Advancement
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