Afia Dawn Opantiri Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Within the UC / UCLA institution.Recruitment & Onboarding: talent acquisition, including job postings, candidate screening, and new hire orientations.Compliance & Policy: Ensure adherence to labor laws and company policies, and update HR policies as needed.HR Administration: Maintain accurate employee records, manage benefits administration, and handle.

Various/Remote

Current Contracts:- Creating custom communication materials for DEI & Recruitment programs (Adaptive Growth Leadership)- HR & Compliance Consultant addressing staffing issues (Assoc. for Size Diversity and Health)Ongoing: Providing one-on-one job application support (resume consultation and development, tailored interview practice and feedback) Previous.

Greater New York City Area

• Guided leaders and employees regarding company policies, values, HR programs (benefits, pay and salary) administration and interpretation to ensure policies and procedures are handled consistently and in a timely manner
• Ensured activities were in compliance with all state and federal employment laws and regulations (e.g., FMLA, ADA, EEO and FLSA)
• Assisted leadership in performance management and developing effective pipeline and succession plans
• Developed and implemented professional development plans for the workforce including mandatory/job specific trainings, organization-wide training, and accountability standards for requisite trainings
• Designed and executed staffing strategies for exempt/non-exempt hiring needs of the organization. Partnered with hiring managers to understand sourcing needs for individual departments
• Managed employee relations through collaboration and coaching with managers and dealing directly with employees and providing advice and counsel

New York, NY

• Supported recruitment push to fill numerous open positions before a grand re-opening of The House.
• Developed templates to standardize the recruitment process
• Sourced, screened and interviewed candidates
• Worked directly with hiring managers, HR department and senior leaders

New York, NY

• (formerly Le Parker Meridien)
• Created and implemented a candidate profile template used with hiring managers to identify key qualities needed from candidates to help ensure an effective outreach strategy
• Managed new hire benefits seminars and enrollment, OSHA accident reports and workers’ compensation
• Developed a template to standardize training plans for each new hire to help benchmark on-boarding
• Conducted 400+ interviews and screenings thousands of resumes for all departments each year
• Coordinated with New York Hotel Trades Council, AFL-CIO (Local 6) to source Union candidates

Greater New York City Area

• Manager of Annual Career Fair: tracking $300k in sales, reaching over 2,000 jobseekers in a new city each year, liaison for 50 exhibitors and corporate sponsors including Chevron, Macy’s, Chrysler, Adecco, developed.
• Outreach coordinator for career events; communicating with affiliate young professional chapters and other professional groups such as NBMBAA, NABA and NSBE chapters
• HRIS administrator for iCims Recruit: supporting recruitment and selection process for annual summer internships; processing over 100 applicants, for 20 internship positions
• Producer for online career events; new initiative developed to grow audience for Career Fairs; resulting in over 5,000 new participants; increased social media followers by 20%
• Created multiple databases to automate department’s financial reporting, effectively track vendor agreements, payments, and project future budgetary needs; annual contracts valued at $500k
• Supported Director of Learning and event planning of annual leadership development conference; working with hotel liaison and balancing $300k expenses

New York, NY

Standardized on-boarding and termination processes while providing human resources and administrative support to the Executive Director, Controller and Program Managers.

Washington, D.C.

• Office of Graduate Programs, School of Business (2nd Year)
• Responsible for planning and logistics for year long Leadership Development Series for MBA students while assisting the Associate Director with major projects.Marketing Department, School of Business (1st Year)
• Provided research assistance to Marketing chairman and professors; information gathering on trends in various industries while providing administrative assistance

Herndon, VA

• Analyzed and critiqued dozens of job objectives for an agency within DOD by providing for a newly implemented pay-for-performance assessment tool
• Conducted research on DC area universities to quantify students studying IT or Public Policy for potential employment with Department of Homeland Security

Los Angeles, CA

Human Resources management: Updated enrollment and termination system to process 30 employees, enrolled in health, vision, & dental benefits, administered worker’s compensation, maintained personnel folders for full and part-time staff, consultants, volunteers

Berkeley, CA

Santa Monica, CA

Burbank, CA

Century City, CA

Ba, American Studies - Media & Minorities

Activities and Societies: Black Recruitment & Retention Center-Officer, 4-D Stars Academic/Sports Academy-Tutor/Mentor, KALX Radio.

Mba, Human Resources

Activities and Societies: Graduate Programs-Graduate Assistant, Graduate Business School Council-Member, Graduate Student.