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Founded in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational, historic, and cultural institution that owns and operates one of the largest and best-known museum complexes in the world. Our mission is “that the future may learn from the past” through preserving and restoring 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. We engage, inform, and inspire people to learn about this historic capital, the events that occurred here, and the diverse peoples who helped shape a new nation. Today, Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living history museum in the U.S. The Historic Area is the 301-acre restored colonial capital with 88 original buildings and 525 buildings reconstructed to how they appeared in the 18th century through extensive archaeological, architectural, and documentary research. The Historic Area is staffed by highly trained, historically dressed interpreters and expert tradespeople who bring the 18th century to life. The Foundation also owns and operates two world-class museums, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, and a renowned research library, the John D Rockefeller Jr Library. Additionally, Colonial Williamsburg is home to five world class accommodations at the Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg Lodge Autograph Collection, the Griffin Hotel, the Williamsburg Woodlands Hotels and Suites and the unique Colonial Houses in the Historical Area. Visitors may also indulge in food and drink at our many on site restaurants and taverns that blend a historically inspired dining experience with today’s evolved tastes. Each year over 5 million people visit Williamsburg and another 20 million engage with us digitally.
About the Position
The Hospitality Recruiter is responsible for the full life-cycle recruitment process of the hospitality business to include, but not limited to, strategy development, sourcing, writing and placing ads, working with agencies, screening and interviewing candidates, facilitating salary negotiations and initiating the onboarding process. Will partner with hiring managers to develop a strategic workforce plan to source and hire top, diverse talent aligned with the unit's business strategy and objectives. Additionally, the role supports administrative functions carried out by the Talent Acquisition team.
Essential Functions:
- Provide advisement to senior leaders and hiring managers to help shape the unit's recruiting
- Lead the sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, evaluation, and salary negotiation process for assigned
- Utilize various methods to source for positions including resume searches, passive recruiting, social media strategies, employee referral, internal posting program, networking activities, outreach and partnering with community organizations, college recruitment, job fairs, online and print advertising, and recruitment activities.
- Collaborate with staffing team members to identify and develop key sourcing initiatives to ensure a constant pipeline of talented and diverse applicants.
- Create and implement employment marketing strategies to attract passive job
- Monitor employment laws and policies, hiring processes, and makes recommendations for change as
- Work with the Talent Acquisition team to build process, structure, and metrics to improve service delivery while monitoring key metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of recruitment and retention efforts
- Regular follow up with the respective hiring managers and candidates to ensure timeliness of recruitment
- Performs other related duties as required.
Required and Preferred Education and Experience:
- Ability to perform the duties of the position generally gained through a four-year degree in business or comparable work experience, and a minimum of 5 years' experience in full-cycle recruiting for exempt and non-exempt positions, as well as proficiency with applicant tracking and HRIS systems.
- Demonstrated progressive experience in talent acquisition roles.
- Previous experience with J1 visa programs and hospitality industry is essential.
- Experience with unions, a plus.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience developing and presenting meaningful hiring plans and recruiting metrics to
- Proven experience developing and implementing comprehensive recruitment sourcing strategies.
- Proven experience defining requisite competencies, sourcing and assessing candidates while consistently presenting the employer brand.
- Proven experience sourcing hard-to-fill technical, management-level and director-level Proven ability to convert searches to successful hires.
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Demonstrated commitment to all applicable regulations, compliance, EEO/AA and corporate Ability to travel overnight to recruitment events, colleges and career fairs.
- Basic proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint) and recruitment software required.
