Associate Director-Selection & Assessment

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What you'll be doing...

This position leads the center of excellence that is responsible for Verizon's use of assessments and interviews for talent selection, including recruiter, candidate, and hiring team support and ensuring a quality candidate experience.

• Developing and managing programmatic solutions for using assessments for talent selection across the global enterprise and aligned with Verizon's overall talent strategy

• Leading a team of niche professionals with subject matter expertise in psychometric assessment/measurement, enterprise-wide interviewing program and selection tool development, job analysis, competency modeling, and validation practices.

• Partnering with other Talent centers of excellence to design and implement a cohesive integrated talent management strategy

• Identifying opportunities to align selection strategy with business strategy to ensure Verizon recruits and hires the talent needed to achieve critical business objectives.

• Maximizing the business value of assessments.

• Serving as an expert resource for questions regarding employment testing considerations.

• Ensuring assessments are implemented in compliance with all relevant legal, regulatory, audit, and professional requirements (e.g., Uniform Guidelines, OFCCP, SIOP, APA Standards), including technical documentation and analysis.

• Leading and managing assessment and selection vendors.

• Contributing to HR transformation projects, as needed (examples: Talent GPS, Journey Forward).

What we're looking for:

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Experience in selection and assessment, learning and development, or talent management.

• Willingness to travel 25% or less.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Ph.D. or Masters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, Human Resource management or related field.

• Consulting experience in selection and assessment (e.g. corporate HR setting, external consulting firm).

• Experience with validation practices.

• Experience managing and implementing large scale selection-related projects in a corporate environment.

• Experience leading a team and/or coaching/developing employees.

• Experience creating and/or delivering executive presentations on relevant topics.

• Experience with professional standards and practice in employment testing, measurement, and selection (e.g., Uniform Guidelines, OFCCP, SIOP, APA Standards).

• Experience in Excel, SPSS, SAS, or other statistical packages for data / trend analysis.

• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Google Slides, Excel and Google Sheets.

• Strong understanding of employee selection and related processes, tools, techniques, and validation practices.

• Excellent project management skills; ability to manage multiple large-scale projects.

• Excellent critical thinking and decision-making skills when working under pressure.

• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to relate to, communicate with, build alliances with and influence stakeholders and senior executives.

• Ability to communicate data-based information effectively and concisely to corporate stakeholders.

• Persistence in driving ideas and delivering quality solutions and deliverables against tight deadlines.

• Experience interacting with and/or managing vendors.

• Strong verbal and written and presentation skills.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit to you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualifications listed above.

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