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New York, United States

New York, United States

• Drove end-to-end recruitment & direct sourcing of professionals across the geographic US in luxury spirits market.
• Coached functional business leaders & managers to effectively and autonomously support strategic staffing goals.
• Assessed, tracked, and reported full lifecycle recruiting data components including time to hire, cost to hire, and diversity of hires to identify trends and cost effectiveness.
• Followed and stayed on top of market trends and demands impacting the company's ability to attract competitive candidates; coordinated with managers and compensation team on salary offer considerations and equity.
• Managed newly implemented recruiting strategies and applicant tracking systems (SuccessFactors) and led regional implementations, including all changes, updates and reporting using new ATS.

New York, United States

• Arts & Culture recruiting contractor/consultant. Led and Collaborated with curators of all 17 galleries, 20+ internal departments and hiring teams with timely, informative, strategic, and respectful recruiting process.
• Recruited for President (Daniel Weiss) and Chief of Staff for Executive Level Curators and Administrative Staff.
• Created and implemented the most effective and appropriate recruiting channels and methods with a close focus on identifying inclusive Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) talent.
• For Internal Staff – Identified, encouraged, and navigated potential career growth and promotion, representing relationship between internal talent and hiring managers.

Greater New York City Area

• Working within the hyper-competitive and demanding healthcare-tech-startup space to add 75 hires within 11-month period
• Partnered with hiring managers of 8 departments to create and drive a collaborative, scalable, and repeatable recruiting plan to address immediate and anticipated team-hires
• Directed weekly recruiting meetings with each HM to discuss candidates, provide feedback, discuss concerns, and review recruiting goals/numbers to eliminate bottlenecks, maximize productivity and use of time, and keep.
• Delivered high-quality work in a fast paced, dynamic work environment while regularly updating, managing expectations, and respecting timetables for all members of the recruiting process (candidates, HMs, interview.
• Proactively sourced passive candidates, responsibly reviewed and closed active applicants, and took great care to deliver the best service to all stakeholders

Greater New York City Area

• Working from the New York City national headquarters, partnered with hiring managers from the Marketing/Communications, Health Policy & Advocacy (D.C.), T1D Fund (Boston), Research and Tech/IT departments.

Greater New York City Area

• Reporting to COO, recruited to fill newly created headcount; sourced, recruited, and filled 12 FTE in 4-month period.
• Led all recruiting efforts for high-profile organization during a period of progressive, organic growth.

Greater New York City Area

• Contracting assignment within the Ford Foundation Talent Acquisition Team
• Worked with the Director of Communications to recruit for two niche roles recently vacated
• Built recruiting strategy which in addition to targeting job postings to appeal to active candidates, relied on LinkedIn Recruiter, networking, personal and professional referrals to target and attract passive candidates

Greater New York City Area

• Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) is a 501c3 nonprofit with the mission to provide programs to young people from low-income communities to stay in school, recognize business opportunities & plan for.
• Contracted with the responsibility to direct full-cycle recruiting duties during a time of high turnover due to new executive management
• Worked with 22 different hiring managers – spanning NYC HQ + 8 national program offices
• Filled 36 positions and reduced vacancy by 29% (from 24 openings (34%) to 4 openings (6%) among full staff headcount of 70 FTE); 97.2% retention rate; net new-hire turnover/term rate of only 1 employee through 18 months
• Established relationships with various staffing organizations, negotiated competitive and fair contract terms, and served as direct line of contact for candidates and hiring managers
• Hiring departments & roles / positions: Executive Level – VP, Finance & Administration; Domestic Directors (Chicago, Washington DC / Baltimore, Boston areas); VP, Development Manager; Local Area Program Managers.

Greater New York City Area

• The International Rescue Committee (IRC), founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises by helping war and disaster refugees survive and rebuild their lives
• Hiring departments and roles / positions: IT/Technology (Senior Director, Global Infrastructure; Director, Portfolio Management; Regional IT Coordinators for the US & Europe, and Kenya; Helpdesk Technicians (Levels.
• Work with departmental hiring managers to keep within budget guidelines to creatively source for the most committed candidates
• Negotiate vendor service contracts for significant cost-savings on contracts

Greater New York City Area

• Global leader of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions for product support, customer contact solutions (CCS), and call center operations with 60+ international offices, 32,000+ employees, and over $1.5Bn in.
• Built and developed newly created Executive Recruiting function using limited finances and creative resources
• Recruit, interview, screen, and extend offers to all executive-level hires, globally
• Maintain absolute confidentiality working with three CEO/presidents, two CTOs, CFO, multiple COOs, General Counsel and Legal Compliance, along with their respective departments
• Departments/roles include: BPO Technology (Business Development, Telephony, Wireframing, Programmers, Coders), Procurement (real estate, project management), Legal (Head of Litigation, Head of Compliance, attorneys.
• Counsel and advise hiring managers, including strategies for smooth and effective internal employee transitions and succession planning

M.A., Arts Administration

Activities and Societies: Coursework includes Business Policy and Planning, Law and the Arts, Labor and Managerial Relations, Fundraising.

Bachelors Degree (B.S.), Theater Performance

Activities and Societies: Concert Choir (President); Theatre Department (20 Productions); Highland Summer Theatre.

Education record

Studied under British American Drama Academy, Royal Shakespeare Company Shakespeare Texts; physical performance techniques; intensive.