Talent Acquisition Specialist
Resume:
KENDELL BROWN
*********@*****.***
Professional Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Talent Acquisition and HR Professional with 9+ years of full life-cycle corporate and agency recruiting experience utilizing both active and passive sourcing strategies. Adept at coordinating networking events, professional career fairs, and campus recruitment initiatives to attract top-tier talent.
Skilled in leveraging top industry platforms and HR technologies, including LinkedIn Recruiter, Devex, Development Aid, Handshake, Beamery, Workday, iCIMS, Kenexa/BrassRing, PeopleSoft, Tableau, Salesforce and ChatGPT, to streamline recruitment, data analysis, and workflow optimization. Strong knowledge of MS Office Suite, SharePoint, and OneDrive, with a track record of enhancing recruitment processes and employer branding strategies. Well-versed in AA/EEO and OFCCP compliance regulations, ensuring all hiring practices align with legal and organizational standards. A creative and strategic thinker, with experience designing interactive programming for student engagement and executing direct marketing campaigns to drive outreach and talent acquisition success. Passionate about people development, process improvement, and fostering an inclusive and high-performing workplace culture.
Human Resources Transformation Recruitment Tools, Processes & Systems P&L/Budgeting/Cost Control
Diversity Strategy Execution Candidate Assessment Tools Team Building & Leadership A.I Chatbots
Executive Search Strategies Recruiter Training Contingent Workforce Management
Employee Value Proposition Branding/Careers Web Design Vendor Management
Strategic Business Planning Process Re-engineering/Change Management
Metrics Analytics Artificial Intelligence Programmatic Sourcing
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, with a specialization in Marketing
Recipient of the A. M. E. Scholarship from Allen University
Earned the Business Law Award given to only one student who achieves the highest standing in class.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Ecodit, -Talent Acquisition Manager September 23, 2023 - Current
Recruitment Operations:
Manage full lifecycle recruiting processes for all funded, proposal, and STTA positions, ensuring compliance with USAID hiring requirements, including regulatory standards.
Consistently implement disciplined recruitment processes and procedures, ensuring postings receive formal approval and accurate, comprehensive input from hiring managers.
Utilize effective traditional and non-traditional recruitment strategies, including cold calling, social networks (LinkedIn, Devex), and Applicant Management Tools like Success Factors Recruiting Management Module.
Source candidates in alignment with personnel requirements, donor regulations, and project needs.
Prepare and collect documentation for the recruitment process, including formatting CVs for proposals, developing personnel-related proposal sections, and collecting biographical data forms and letters of commitment.
Conduct phone screenings, organize in-person or virtual interviews, and serve as the primary point of contact for candidates throughout the recruitment process.
Perform reference checks, verify biographical data forms, engage in salary negotiations, and collaborate with HR to finalize new hires.
Stakeholder Engagement:
Partner with hiring managers, business unit leaders, and HR to understand recruitment needs and develop tailored recruitment strategies.
Collaborate with technical teams to forecast future recruitment needs, including large-scale initiatives requiring intensive recruitment plans.
Serve as a trusted advisor on talent acquisition matters, providing insights on market trends, competitor analysis, and best practices in international development recruitment.
Leadership & Strategy:
Lead, mentor, and train an HR Coordinator, and Contract Recruiter ensuring alignment with organizational culture, performance expectations, and growth objectives.
Collaborate with executive leadership to forecast hiring demands and refine the talent acquisition strategy to align with business needs.
Develop and oversee innovative sourcing strategies to attract diverse pools of highly qualified candidates.
Metrics & Reporting:
Measure the effectiveness of the talent acquisition strategy using KPi performance metrics and team scorecards.
Provide regular reports to executive leadership on recruitment progress, challenges, and opportunities.
Continuously refine recruitment processes based on data-driven insights.
Employer Branding:
Enhance ECODIT’s brand and mission identity within target candidate markets.
Represent the company at industry events, job fairs, and networking opportunities to attract top talent.
ICF, International – Senior Talent Acquisition Partner September 19, 2022- 2023
Member of the International Recruitment team, supporting strategic hiring needs for countries in Asia, EU, Africa, and North America through partnering with hiring managers and country leadership across the globe. Developed and managed relationships across the organization, to deliver HR service to management and employees that reflects ICF values. Key areas of focus include, talent acquisition, diversity, equity and inclusion, capture/proposal, job profiles and strategic sourcing objectives. Maintain team efficiency by contributing to special projects related to outreach strategy, systems building and streamlining of the onboarding process.
Develop and implement recruiting strategies for Contract and Capture/Proposal consultants to executive level positions.
Responsible for comprehensive full-cycle recruitment of international staff for numerous proposals annually and active projects in Africa, Asia, South, and Central America and Europe for USAID, EU, DOL, and DHS.
Manage full-cycle recruitment and pipeline creation processes for temporary, temporary-to-hire and direct-hire positions.
Source, interview, check references and background checks for about 5-10 candidates per week
Demonstrated knowledge and experience in implementing best practices around diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring and recruitment.
Coached clients on meet their recruiting/staffing goals within budgetary and organizational goals.
Successfully utilize social media recruiting on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to complement traditional sourcing, referrals, networking and college recruiting (Local and top-tiered schools)
Collaborated with hiring managers on current employment trends and recruitment strategies giving data on turnover, hiring practices, local salaries etc.
Negotiate compensation packages and hourly pay with potential hires.
Handle onboarding, orientation, training and employee relations for about 10-25 employees and candidates weekly
Provide expert advice to clients and candidates on employment laws and compliance.
Create employee policies and procedures to capture critical information flow.
Explain and review benefits (401K, vacation, leave, health etc.)
Provide career counseling to 5-15 candidates per week, which entails interview preparation, resume editing, job search and career tips.
Designed and implemented Smartsheet tracking systems to provide management with data-driven insights for informed hiring decisions.
Work in Applicant Tracking System (Workday) to update candidate information.
Tableau for DEI Metrics Tracking – Utilized Tableau to analyze and track diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) metrics, providing data-driven insights to improve workforce representation and hiring strategies.
Conducting research to study the current compensation trends in the market in conjunction with Birches Consulting Group and Talent Neuron
ME&A – International Talent Acquisition Manager October 2016 – Aug. 2022
Manage the full recruiting life cycle to include partnering/consulting with Hiring Mangers, developing fulfillment strategies, sourcing candidates, reviewing resumes, conducting phone interviews, in person interviews, and post interview/offer discussions.
Develop innovative strategies around finding essential internal staff and short-term positions for numerous projects at ME&A. Liaison closely with Senior Management to understand the qualifications of the proposed positions, and source the best candidates in the market.
Take direct ownership or hiring a number of subject matter experts by creating standardized processes to screen and select the best candidates and ensure compliance with all governmental and client employment specifications including daily rates, salary verifications, and education verification.
Developing an effective pipeline of key talent available for immediate hire and future consulting opportunities based on our hiring plans and project planning requirements.
Provide advanced consultation to hiring managers regarding hiring needs and develop recruiting strategies for complex and challenging technical position.
Providing continuous and open communication to hiring team and leadership regarding recruitment efforts, including status of open requirements and pipeline.
Research the latest recruitment trends and provide recommendations to management for optimizing and integrating these trends into daily routines.
Recruit consultants using a range of channels and a variety of conventional and social media strategies.
Suggest ways to improve our recruitment efforts by creating, enhancing, and updating ME&A’s internal recruitment database and recruiting tracker.
Work closely with senior team members to write job descriptions for available positions.
Led college and university recruitment initiatives, cultivating and managing strategic partnerships with career services offices to build diverse talent pipelines and enhance employer brand visibility on campuses. Attend industry conferences and networking events with a plan to develop relationships and a network of referral sources.
Achievements:
oCreated a detailed Recruiting Tracker to manage all the Evaluation Consultants, availability, interviews, 1420, and qualifications.
oSpearheaded the recruitment efforts for 18 Performance Evaluations under the USAID Feed the Future PEEL Task Order.
oFacilitated organization and migration of company data belonging to 400+ consultants to new HR ISolved ATS. Maintained database integrity through remote collaboration and training with D.C. and Bethesda staff.
oCreated a Team Lead Survey form to evaluate the overall post-performance of the consultants.
oLead/won the recruitment for the USAID/Rwanda proposal.
oLead/won the recruitment for the GH(Global Health) EvaLS proposal.
oHired/Managed the Organization’s Early Internship Program- Managed a team of 5 interns
Projects
Feed the Future Global Program Evaluation for Effectiveness and Learning (PEEL)
USAID/EL Salvador Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (ME&L EL Salvador)
USAID/ Tanzania Data for Development
Institutional Support for Development Credit Authority (DCA) Credit Guarantee Programs
USAID/Bangladesh Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (BMEL) proposal
Mid Term Performance Evaluation for the Waste Management in Targeted Regions (WMTR) proposal
USAID Colombia MEL proposal
USAID/Rwanda Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting proposal. USAID/Harvest Activity – Civil Engineer candidates
USAID/ Global Health Evaluation and Learning Support Activity (GH EvaLS)
USAID/Gender LEAD
Mid-Term Program Evaluation of PMI Impact Malaria
Training/Certifications
Workplace Ethics
Foundations of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Inclusive Mindset
Harassment-Sex, Religion and Beyond
UHCG Business Travel
Annual Cyber Security Training
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – Linkedin Learning
Beamery Talent Acquisition for Recruiter Certification – Linkedin Learning
AIRS Training
Linkedin Certified Recruiter
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS and VOLUNTEER SERVICES
Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Devex Annual Career Fair
SID Annual Networking Event
RPCV Career Fair
Greater Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Mclean Bible Career Network Ministry
Dulles Chamber of Commerce
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated
March for Babies
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