Recruitment Consultant

Recruitment Consultant

K-State Olathe is seeking a recruitment consultant to lead activities focused on recruitment, classification, and hiring. This position provides expert guidance on position development and recruitment management, recommending and carrying out recruitment strategy for the campus.

The role manages recruitment cycles from position description development and review through offer letters, facilitates hiring committee operations, and ensures compliance with hiring laws and institutional standards. Responsibilities include :

• Manage full-cycle recruitment including PD review, PageUp activities, application screening, interviews, and offer letters.
• Hire and maintain documentation for graduate students and a pool of adjunct professors.
• Participate in panel interviews and facilitate compliance with hiring practices.
• Develop, update and maintain recruitment resources.
• Understand and contribute to the campus' overall workforce plan.
• Work collaboratively with campus leadership to recommend, develop and carry out the recruitment strategy for the campus.
• Represent the unit at recruitment fairs and community hiring events.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to promote job postings across key outlets in the KC area.
• Establish hiring committees, coordinate schedules and activities and facilitate overall search committee processes.
• Collect and review interview questions and schedule prep meetings.
• Ensure interview logistics are managed for both virtual and in-person formats.
• Provide training for new supervisors and hiring committee members on hiring processes and legal compliance.
• Track search committee training.
• Ensure adherence to institutional and legal hiring standards.

Kansas State University's Olathe campus was launched in April 2011 and is the newest campus in the university's system. The campus is located in Johnson County and the Greater Kansas City metro area. The campus is a strategic partner of the Johnson County Education and Research Triangle, which was created in 2008 when residents invested in the county's future by voting for a one-eighth cent sales tax. The proceeds from this tax generate more than $20 million a year to fund higher education through a unique partnership among Johnson County, the University of Kansas, and Kansas State University.

K-State Olathe provides a unique work culture that offers a variety of professional development opportunities and a community building committee to organize campus wide activities that have included social gatherings, service opportunities, and team building workshops. Professional development opportunities on campus and in the community that employees regularly participate in, employee tuition assistance for academic programs, on campus lunch and learns, professional development workshops on campus, Leadership Olathe, various regional Chamber activities.

This position is hybrid eligible; however, we require the first 90 days to be 100% on-site. After that period, hybrid eligibility will be evaluated based on individual performance.

Minimum Qualifications :

Requires a bachelor's degree and one year of relevant experience. This position may use an educational equivalency as determined relevant by a hiring manager.

Preferred Qualifications :

Please submit the following documents to be considered :