Wednesday, October 23

Job Posting: Boston Red Sox – Talent Acquisition Specialist, Baseball Ops

Talent Acquisition Specialist, Baseball Ops

Location: Boston, MA
Status: Full-Time

Position Overview:
This Talent Acquisition Specialist might be liable for offering full life cycle recruiting and staffing help for Baseball Operations. They will work carefully and collaboratively with division heads to customise sourcing and recruiting methods to generate a strong and various pipeline of gifted candidates. This position will report dually into People & Culture and Baseball Operations.

They might be anticipated to really combine inside each departments, immersing into the People & Culture crew for useful oversight from a expertise acquisition perspective and baseball ops for delivering worth to the baseball facet of our enterprise.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop a strategic method to figuring out, attracting, partaking, and buying prime expertise for all open and potential positions inside Baseball Operations.
  • Utilize recruiting and sourcing instruments reminiscent of job boards, social media, resume databases, baseball-related web sites, and engines like google to establish native and nationwide candidates.
  • Build shut relationships with traditionally Black schools & universities and different various establishments to assist create an employer model and pipeline of expertise. 
  • Develop an in-depth understanding of the features and targets of each space of Baseball Operations, the tradition of the division, how the teams inside it work collectively, and the roles and contributions of all baseball operations workers.
  • Create networks throughout the baseball business to establish, observe, and supply candidates.  Leverage the networks of others inside Baseball Operations to do the identical and consolidate info in order that it may be used effectively and strategically.
  • Conduct analysis and keep a database of people in varied baseball and softball operations roles all through the business.  This ought to be achieved on the skilled and faculty ranges, in sports media, and within the realm of unbiased consultants/practitioners to assist with proactive sourcing efforts.
  • Research and keep present on staffing and hiring practices of different MLB golf equipment, with an eye fixed towards gaining aggressive benefits for the Red Sox. 
  • Identify key people/potential targets from different golf equipment to fill present and future suits with the Red Sox, whereas adhering to MLB’s anti-tampering insurance policies.
  • Identify inner candidates for alternatives in Baseball Operations (instance – suggesting to the Farm Director that we think about a selected novice scout for an open teaching place in participant growth).
  • Plan and execute the interview course of, together with candidate screening, pre-hire assessments, coordinating/scheduling interviews, and candidate suggestions/evaluations.
  • Ensure a excessive contact candidate expertise by way of thorough communication and well timed suggestions, in addition to interviewer preparedness and efficient interview format.
  • Assist managers in making hiring suggestions and executing the provide & contract course of.
  • In collaboration with different Baseball Ops workers members, lead the recruiting course of for the Baseball Operations Associate program, Summer Internship and David Ortiz Fellowship program.
  • Stay present on federal and state legal guidelines concerning employment and hiring practices.
  • Partner with MLB’s community of People & Culture & DEI&B professionals to share finest practices and develop a community throughout the baseball neighborhood.
  • Attend Winter Meetings and different job gala’s to characterize the Red Sox in figuring out future expertise.
  • Attend spring coaching as wanted annually.  Occasional journey to minor league associates and scouting occasions.
  • Assist with recruiting efforts outdoors of Baseball Operations if want arises and time permits.

Characteristics / Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of confirmed work expertise in full life cycle expertise acquisition OR prior expertise working inside baseball or different sport operations roles with a need to concentrate on expertise acquisition and a ability set that exhibits robust aptitude for recruiting.
  • Bachelor’s diploma.
  • Experience in sourcing and producing various pipelines of expertise is most well-liked.
  • In-depth expertise utilizing applicant monitoring programs most well-liked.  
  • High power persona and powerful relationship constructing expertise for constructing belief and credibility with each candidates and hiring managers.
  • Strong oral and written communication expertise.
  • Effective time administration expertise and element orientation to prepare all elements of recruiting searches. 
  • Track document of enhancing upon present processes, implementing new methods of doing issues, and main a tradition of steady enchancment, particularly because it pertains to sourcing and recruiting expertise.
  • Proficient in MS Office Suite.

Prospective staff will obtain consideration with out discrimination based mostly on race, spiritual creed, shade, intercourse, age, nationwide origin, handicap, incapacity, army/veteran standing, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identification/expression or protected genetic info.

To Apply:
To apply, please observe this hyperlink.

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