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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

📣 SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS & RESPONSIBILITIES: 🔹 Advocated for and implemented changes to recruitment processes to encourage outreach, onboarding, and career pathways for teachers of color—delivered 60% increase in diverse leadership. As well as implemented innovative gender inclusion plan across 5 sites.🔹 Developed staffing plan for new site development and achieved all benchmarks and goals. Launched aggressive hiring plan and successfully staffed all sites before deadline.🔹 Piloted a new catastrophic leave policy to provide a structure for co-workers to donate hours to support a peer in the event of medical or personal emergency. 🔹 Facilitated trainings and education leadership team meetings, served as mentor to hiring managers, and reduced education and labor code violations by 50%. Increased compliance and audit performance, delivering a 40% reduction in reporting errors. 🔹 1 of only 3 executive leaders responsible for renegotiating the teachers’ union contract. Consulted with C-suite leadership, researched and presented on key points, edited articles about the collective bargaining agreement, and participated in negotiations.🔹 Introduced new technology and processes, including video interview software to drive efficiency in candidate identification and extend outreach to applicant pool. 🔹 Spearheaded the migration to new FSA, Transit, and COBRA benefits vendor. Managed 2 successful benefits open enrollment periods with 95% staff participation.

Oakland, Ca, Us

I joined KIPP in 2017 and oversaw the recruiting process, personnel operations, and human resources programs for the school system with a dedication to ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion organization-wide. 📣 SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS & RESPONSIBILITIES: 🔹 Managed all aspects of recruiting lifecycle, including conducting needs assessments, promoting opportunities, screening and interviewing candidates, and delivering offers.🔹 Consistently met or exceeded recruitment goals, including growing diversity hiring by 70%.🔹 Redesigned the website career page to improve end-user experience, increase visits, and generate relevant tracking metrics for development of future recruitment strategies. 🔹 Collaborated with the national foundation office to design a national recruitment event strategy. 🔹 Spearheaded the African American Employee Resource Group (KAACP), cultivating high membership metrics. 🔹 Led DEI strategy for the central office as a contributing member of the Equity Council.🔹 Revamped teacher salary scale to remove perceived racial bias, in alignment with DEI goals.

DIRECTOR, TALENT ACQUISITION & COLLEGE PLACEMENTASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, TALENT ACQUISITION & COLLEGE PLACEMENTFOUNDING COLLEGE COUNSELOR & TALENT MANAGERI received successive promotions with increased responsibilities, culminating as a director-level leader for our talent acquisition programs. As the Director I was accountable for developing and executing our strategic plan and implementing various outreach and training programs, including designing hiring and compensation packages, identifying and onboarding quality candidates, and spearheading professional development pathways and support programs. 📣 SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS & RESPONSIBILITIES: 🔹 Improved and streamlined interview process by creating standard question banks and rubrics designed to reduce bias in decision-making. Efforts resulted in a 20% increase in diversity and inclusion performance.🔹 Launched top-tier talent acquisition action plan resulting in a 30% increase in hiring of qualified teachers. 🔹 Partnered with medical benefits provider to secure most cost-effective and employee-focused plan available.