Global Talent Acquisition Advisor

**Location**:Any Mercy Corps Location within the Americas Region (Colombia, Guatemala, Haiti, Venezuela, and the United States)

**Position Status**: Full-time, Regular

**_Spanish fluency is required for this role._**

**About Mercy Corps**: Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.

**The Team**
**The People Team ensures that Mercy Corps has the resources, systems, culture and support in place to drive an ambitious global mission while ensuring our individual team members thrive. With the support and contributions of the individual units, including Global Talent Acquisition, Global Human Resources, Systems and Analytics, Total Rewards, People Operations, and Gender, Diversity and Inclusion (GDI), the People Team seeks to foster and achieve fulfilled, equitable, inclusive, diverse, and high performing global teams. We do this through recruiting and retaining the best global talent and shaping this talent into our future leaders through equitable development opportunities, and then by driving strategic partnership at all levels of the organization. We steward the organizational culture through our systems, structure, and processes and align conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion, wellbeing, total rewards, learning and safeguarding priorities; and connect all of this to our core operations and overall mission.**:
**The Position**:
**The Talent Acquisition Advisor is a critical part of the Global Talent team and supports all Mercy Corps’ global recruitment efforts, with specific focus on US/Americas hiring by providing full-cycle talent acquisition and recruitment support. This person should be highly ambitious, an exceptional relationship builder and strategic planner, and someone who employs creative approaches to source talent.**:
**As part of the Global Talent Acquisition team, this individual is responsible for identifying exceptional talent to advance Mercy Corps’ mission. The role has three primary areas of focus; first, work with key stakeholders to anticipate and plan for upcoming people needs; second, oversee and manage full-cycle recruitment, including designing and implementing effective strategies; lastly, build collaborative internal relationships and effective external networks.**:
**The Talent Advisor will increase Mercy Corps’ talent pool to ensure the agency’s global talent is representative of the communities we serve and is able to respond to the changing needs of the organization. This person will implement industry “best practices” to recruit for individuals who are aligned with the organizational culture while building Mercy Corps as an employer of choice.**:
**Essential Responsibilities**: STRATEGY AND PLANNING
- Partner with field leaders and other HQ teams to anticipate future talent needs and proactively take action in advance of talent needs for the Americas region and globally.
- Ensure consistent communication with Regional Director and regional/global leadership to stay mutually informed on talent activities and needs.
- Advance the agency’s aim to have a global team that is representative of the places we work.
- Track and identify innovative trends in international talent acquisition, particularly in the international humanitarian aid sector.
- Identify areas of opportunity to strengthen Talent and broader People functions and proactively offer recommendations.

FULL CYCLE RECRUITMENT
- Take ownership for building and maintaining productive partnerships with field leadership and HQ team particularly at regional level to plan for future talent needs.
- Increase internal and external talent pools within the region.
- Expand the capacity of hiring teams to identify talent via improved interview skills & ability to specify critical needs.
- Manage the Americas and US/HQ recruitment portfolio including full lifecycle talent acquisition activities for roles within the region and globally as needed.
- Pivot focus as needed to support rapid growth or proposal bid recruitment including in-country Short Term Assignment (STA).
- Support recruitment for senior national roles as appropriate through strategy development or actual recruitment.
- Support the development of tools to ensure national recruitment processes are aligned with global Mercy Corps practices and consistent with local labor context.
- Revise position descriptions and advertise positions through JobVite on Mercy Corps’ website and on external portals.
- Support hiring teams in drafting interview guides, scoring rubrics, and other interview materials.
- Follow Mercy Corps established approval process to negotiate offers.
- Utilize applicant tracking system (Jobvite) to manage recruitment from requisition to hire, ensuring compliance with Mer