Director, Faculty Recruitment and Retention at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee

Job Description:

The Director for Faculty Recruiter and Retention is responsible for providing overall management of the faculty recruitment process for Meharry Medical College Schools, Departments, and Units. This includes recruitment, marketing and outreach, contract, appointment processing and onboarding of new faculty. The incumbent is expected to employ strategies to attract both passive and active job seekers to fill faculty roles and establish a talent pipeline. The incumbent is expected to be resourceful and manage the workload independently, with the support and cooperation of School and Departmental Leadership, Faculty Affairs and Development, and HR staff as needed. The position will report to the VP Human Resources, with a dotted line to the Provost. The Provost will set the faculty position recruitment priorities of the Director in consultation with the Deans.


The successful candidate will be a nimble problem-solver with a continuous improvement mindset in order to manage and improve upon complex administrative processes. Excellent interpersonal, and communications skills (written and verbal) are also required to effectively interact and communicate strategically with professional candidates, physicians, and administrative leadership, and to facilitate negotiations between candidates and physician leadership.



Essential Functions (Duties and Responsibilities)

• Performs full life-cycle recruiting for clinical, basic sciences, and teaching faculty. Develops recruitment plans, sources and recruits, screens and recommends prospective candidates for hire to promote the recruitment of a diverse and inclusive workforce while ensuring compliance with laws and regulations.


• Sources, recruits, interviews, and recommends external and internal candidates for hire.


• Analyzes, compiles, and disseminates recruitment records according to established policies and procedures.


• Serves as a subject matter expert and liaison to management to provide advice on recruitment best practices and disseminate applicable policies and procedures.


• Processes lifecycle recruitment transactions in various mediums to ensure accurate and timely entry of necessary information as required by established rules and regulations.


• Contributes to the development of workforce planning strategies and objectives for a specified work unit.


• Delivers and implements institutional HR priorities to achieve business unit objectives while ensuring a high degree of consistency throughout the institution


• Manage the search committee process for all schools, departments, and units


• Coordinate recruitment events

• Work with HR, Faculty Affairs, Departments and School leadership to craft and implement retention strategies, identifying areas for improvement and plotting out plans to address them.


• Analyze faculty data to spotting patterns and predicting potential risks.


• Listen, empathize, and troubleshoot faculty concerns.


• Other duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of the medical education and clinical practice process as well as residency education, knowledge of appropriate credentials required for licensing and board certification of primary and specialty care physicians


• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (written and verbal) to build and maintain effective relationships with candidates and stakeholders


• Ability to prioritize workload, effectively manage multiple projects and deadlines, and independently follow-through on tasks unsupervised


• Continuous improvement mindset - demonstrated flexibility and adaptability through the integration of learning from previous experience to manage and improve complex administrative processes


• Proficiency in or ability to learn analysis techniques for data-informed decision-making

• Master's degree in Human Resources or related filed required.


• Doctorate degree in Human Resources or related filed preferred.


• Minimum of five years' experience in recruitment, hiring, talent management, or similar activities in higher education and/or academic medicine


• Experience in recruitment in a clinical or other medical setting


• Experience in facilitating recruitment for physicians


• Experience in facilitating recruitment in an academic environment


• Experience in marketing of vacancies and preparation of advertising through the use of recruitment and social media platforms such as Doximity Talent Finder, PracticeMatch, PracticeLink, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, etc.


• Experience supporting search committees

• Usual office environment.


• Manual dexterity

• Visual and auditory acuity

• Able to sit, stand or walk for extended periods of time