Position Title: Director of Talent Acquisition and Onboarding

Organization: Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Department: Human Resources

Position Type: Full-Time (37.5+ hours/week), Exempt

Work Setting: Fully Onsite

Reports To: VP of Human Resources

Pay Range: $100,000- $110,000/year

Total Compensation:

In addition to standard pay, compensation for this position includes:

• Comprehensive, low-cost healthcare coverage for employees
• Generous employer 401(k) contributions
• Employer-covered life insurance

Time Away from Work:

Being able to take time away from work is critical in bringing your best self to work. Time off benefits for this position include:

• Paid vacation time and sick leave
• 15 paid holidays, including Federal and Jewish holidays (as long as the holiday lands on a normal scheduled work day), and floating holidays
• 2 Wellness Days to be taken any time during the year to support employees’ mental wellness

Position Overview:

This role is accountable for shaping and leading full-cycle recruitment, employer branding, and onboarding experience. Will design a recruiting strategy and champion a technology-forward recruiting system. Beyond recruiting, this role supports leaders and employees through the everyday moments that matter solving problems and being innovative with hard-to-fill roles.

Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Oversees full-cycle recruiting operations, including candidate sourcing, screening, selection, and offer negotiation.
• Establishes and analyzes key performance indicators (KPIs) such as time to fill, cost per hire, and turnover rates to make data-driven decisions and process improvements.
• Designs and manages a comprehensive onboarding program that ensures new hires have a consistent, engaging, and supportive experience from offer to acceptance through the first 12 months.
• Builds and maintains a strong employer brand to attract top talent and promote company culture through various channels.
• Identifies, implements, and maintains ATS, HR technology, and onboarding software.
• Ensures adherence to federal, state, and local employment laws and internal hiring policies.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand what their teams need, build sourcing strategies, assess candidates, and keep the process moving.
• Designs and implements company-wide recruitment strategies to meet hiring targets.
• Develops structured interview frameworks and competency models so every hire meets Jewish Family Service’s bar of our values.
• Works closely with the leadership team to define job descriptions and align workforce planning strategy.

Skills/Experience/Abilities That Are a Must-Have:

• 8+ years of hands-on recruiting experience for professional-level roles.
• 3–5 years of strong leadership experience with a recruiting team.
• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Psychology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in structured interviewing.
• Experience building recruiting systems and processes from the ground up.
• Strong operational mindset with experience in optimizing ATS workflows.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to adapt to the needs of the organization and employees.
• Familiarity with a non-profit workforce.
• Experience owning time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, and retention metrics.
• Strong Analytical mindset; comfortable owning recruiting dashboards and workforce forecasting.
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively across teams.
• Comfortable juggling multiple priorities with urgency.

Skills/Abilities We’d Like You to Have:

• HR Certifications in CA and/or talent acquisition/recruitment
• 10+ years of hands-on recruiting experience for professional-level roles

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.

• The employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or free to type, use a mouse, and manipulate small components; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear to communicate in person, over the phone, or with others in a potentially noisy environment. The employee is occasionally required to stand.

Other Duties:

Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Important Notice:

Please submit your resume and cover letter on your application.

Incomplete submissions will not be considered. Please, no phone calls. Please, principals only. Please, local candidates only (relocation is not provided).

About Jewish Family Service of San Diego
Jewish Family Service of San Diego is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, more resilient community. For over 100 years, Jewish Family Service has been a trusted resource for the entire community, offering an array of services that are always life-changing, and often life-saving. At Jewish Family Service, we believe our employees are the backbone of our Agency. We strive to ensure that each employee is treated with dignity and respect. Our goal is your success. Come work at JFS and be our partner in Moving Forward Together. To learn more about JFS, please visit jfssd.org.

*Jewish Family Service is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.