What are the responsibilities and job description for the Regional Talent Manager position at The Commit Partnership?
About The Commit Partnership
The Commit Partnership is a collective impact organization dedicated to making Texas a place where economic opportunity is shared and not determined by race, place, or socioeconomic status. We collaborate with education practitioners and community leaders to improve educational outcomes from early childhood through postsecondary education, aiming to increase living wage attainment across Dallas County and the state of Texas.
Our True North Goal is that by 2040, at least half of all 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. The Commit Partnership drives this vision by improving student achievement, workforce readiness, and postsecondary completion rates, ensuring more individuals are prepared for economic mobility and long-term success.
Position Summary
The Regional Talent Manager at the Commit Partnership will drive talent strategy by overseeing talent acquisition, onboarding, and professional development initiatives. This role is designed to drive the organization’s growth by ensuring the attraction, retention, and development of top-tier talent who align with the organization’s mission and values. The Regional Talent Manager will be responsible for developing strategic talent initiatives and fostering a culture of continuous professional growth. The Regional Talent Manager will collaborate closely with department heads and senior leadership to ensure talent strategies are aligned with organizational objectives and future needs.
The salary range for this role is $70,000 - $84,000.
Key Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition and Recruitment
Generally, works in an office environment but may occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions. This role is hybrid; the successful candidate will be expected to work on-site at The Commit Partnership offices a minimum of 3 days per week.
Physical Activity & Requirements
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use repetitive motions of the wrists, hands and/or fingers. This is a sedentary position; however, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, grasp, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and lift up to 10 pounds. Hearing, talking and vision abilities required by this job include perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, expressing or exchanging ideas be means of the spoken word and close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal and extensive reading.
This job description is only a summary and is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by the employee. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
About The Commit Partnership:
Our Mission
We believe that through our actions, Dallas County – which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation– can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. That’s why our true north goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will be provided the opportunity to earn a living wage.
To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand jobs, maximizing the cumulative impact from early education all the way to college, career, and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.
Our Story
Founded in 2012, this partnership is the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.
Together, we work to advocate for excellent and equitable public education that ensures all students – regardless of race, place, or socio-economic status – have the power to determine their future and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early Matters Dallas, North Texas Tutoring Corps, Dallas County Promise, Texas College Bridge, Dallas Thrives, Commit’s Policy Team, the Texas Impact Network, and several coalitions.
True North Traits
Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.
Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.
Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.
Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.
Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.
Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.
Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.
Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.
The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.
The Commit Partnership is a collective impact organization dedicated to making Texas a place where economic opportunity is shared and not determined by race, place, or socioeconomic status. We collaborate with education practitioners and community leaders to improve educational outcomes from early childhood through postsecondary education, aiming to increase living wage attainment across Dallas County and the state of Texas.
Our True North Goal is that by 2040, at least half of all 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. The Commit Partnership drives this vision by improving student achievement, workforce readiness, and postsecondary completion rates, ensuring more individuals are prepared for economic mobility and long-term success.
Position Summary
The Regional Talent Manager at the Commit Partnership will drive talent strategy by overseeing talent acquisition, onboarding, and professional development initiatives. This role is designed to drive the organization’s growth by ensuring the attraction, retention, and development of top-tier talent who align with the organization’s mission and values. The Regional Talent Manager will be responsible for developing strategic talent initiatives and fostering a culture of continuous professional growth. The Regional Talent Manager will collaborate closely with department heads and senior leadership to ensure talent strategies are aligned with organizational objectives and future needs.
The salary range for this role is $70,000 - $84,000.
Key Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition and Recruitment
- Lead the execution of talent recruitment efforts, ensuring a diverse and inclusive hiring process.
- Develop and implement recruitment campaigns that attract high-caliber talent to the organization across all levels.
- Establish relationships with external networks, educational institutions, and professional organizations to build a strong talent pipeline.
- Oversee the onboarding process, ensuring that new hires are effectively integrated into the organization with a comprehensive understanding of the Commit Partnership's mission, values, and culture.
- Design and manage orientation programs that ensure new employees are set up for success from day one.
- Develop and implement organization-wide professional development programs, including leadership development initiatives and skills training.
- Partner with department leaders to identify learning and development needs across the organization.
- Manage and refine mentorship programs, ensuring continuous learning and career progression for employees.
- Lead initiatives aimed at identifying and developing emerging talent within the organization, including managing the summer fellowship and internship programs.
- Establish strategic partnerships with universities and organizations to create pathways for future talent to join the Commit Partnership.
- Develop and implement strategies aimed at improving employee engagement and satisfaction, reducing turnover, and increasing retention.
- Collaborate with the Human Resources department to analyze turnover data and implement initiatives to address retention challenges.
- Measure and report on employee satisfaction and engagement metrics, driving continuous improvement.
- Support the MD of Regional Talent by providing analysis and recommendations on talent-related initiatives
- Monitor industry trends and best practices, implementing new strategies that enhance talent management and development.
- Contribute to the overall human capital strategy by ensuring talent initiatives align with long-term organizational goals.
- Collaborate closely with department heads to understand talent needs and provide tailored talent management solutions.
- Build strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to promote a positive and engaging work environment.
- Develop and implement performance management processes that align with the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Work with leadership teams to ensure employees receive regular feedback, have clear development paths, and are recognized for their contributions.
- A degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in talent acquisition, employee development, or human resources.
- Proven track record of developing and executing successful talent strategies in a complex, mission-driven organization.
- Strong understanding of recruitment, onboarding, training, and professional development best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to build and sustain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Passion for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
- Self-starter with a proactive approach, able to take initiative, anticipate challenges, and independently develop solutions in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven facilitation skills, adept at leading discussions, trainings, and collaborative sessions that promote engagement and knowledge retention.
- Ability to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate.
- Ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
- Ability to describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.
- Ability to read and write in Standard English.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
- Ability to interact with persons of various social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds.
- Ability to listen perceptively and convey awareness.
- Ability to organize, track, analyze and articulate data, especially to evaluate and showcase programmatic impact.
- Ability to interact diplomatically with the public in a continuous public contact setting.
- Ability to work as part of a team and in a team environment.
- Ability to maintain level-headedness in the face of resistance and contrary opinions.
Generally, works in an office environment but may occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions. This role is hybrid; the successful candidate will be expected to work on-site at The Commit Partnership offices a minimum of 3 days per week.
Physical Activity & Requirements
While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use repetitive motions of the wrists, hands and/or fingers. This is a sedentary position; however, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, grasp, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and lift up to 10 pounds. Hearing, talking and vision abilities required by this job include perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, expressing or exchanging ideas be means of the spoken word and close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal and extensive reading.
This job description is only a summary and is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by the employee. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
About The Commit Partnership:
Our Mission
We believe that through our actions, Dallas County – which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation– can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. That’s why our true north goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 25-34-year-old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will be provided the opportunity to earn a living wage.
To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand jobs, maximizing the cumulative impact from early education all the way to college, career, and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.
Our Story
Founded in 2012, this partnership is the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared future roadmap – analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding that grow our community’s capacity to serve every student more effectively.
Together, we work to advocate for excellent and equitable public education that ensures all students – regardless of race, place, or socio-economic status – have the power to determine their future and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early Matters Dallas, North Texas Tutoring Corps, Dallas County Promise, Texas College Bridge, Dallas Thrives, Commit’s Policy Team, the Texas Impact Network, and several coalitions.
True North Traits
Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.
Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.
Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.
Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.
Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.
Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.
Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.
Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.
The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.
Salary : $70,000 - $84,000
