The Center for Family Representation Inc. (CFR) is an award-winning, innovative law and policy organization that serves primarily Black and Brown families and youth in Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island with an interdisciplinary legal defense model that serves more than 2400 clients every year. CFR was originally founded in 2002 to dramatically change the trajectory of indigent parents being prosecuted by the City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS). Our goal is to defend and protect our clients’ rights, reduce the harm of family separation and prevent or minimize the time any child spends in the foster system.

CFR provides interdisciplinary family defense with a model that was unique at our founding and that is now being replicated nationally: we assign every client an attorney and a social work staff member, and teams have the support of parent advocates, who are parents with direct personal experience of having been investigated and prosecuted by ACS. CFR was the first agency in the country to integrate parents with lived experience into legal teams and now has 8 parent advocates working in all four of our family defense locations.  CFR’s Early Defense Practice represents parents during an ACS investigation (to avoid court involvement where possible). Our SCR Practice assists parents in clearing their names from state maltreatment records.

As an agency committed to securing justice for families, we built the Youth Defense practice (YDP) to defend youth at risk of family separation through incarceration. YDP uses the same interdisciplinary model to represent youth being prosecuted in Queens and Manhattan in Supreme Court Youth Parts, during Probation Adjustment and in Delinquency proceedings in Family Court. CFR’s Home for Good program provides legal and social work services to CFR clients in immigration, civil legal services and criminal defense matters, to afford clients an efficient and well-coordinated one-stop solution to a range of issues that threaten family stability. 

Recognized as experts in our fields, we annually train over 500 practitioners in the city, state and around the country on strategies to promote family preservation and interdisciplinary representation, and we provide community based “Know Your Rights” presentations to parents, youth and service providers. We advocate at the city, state and national level for policies that reduce the harm of family separation, and promote parent engagement and justice for youth and families.

CFR has an immediate opening for a Talent Acquisition Manager.

Under the direction of the COO, the Talent Acquisition Manager’s role is to develop and manage the organization’s recruitment strategy with a focus on building talent pipelines, tracking data and metrics, reporting returns on investment, and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Establish and maintain relationships with hiring managers to stay abreast of current and future hiring and organizational needs.
• Assist in writing and posting job descriptions using appropriate terminology.
• Co-facilitate Hiring Committee meetings.
• Manage administrative aspects of recruitment, hiring, and promoting including posting jobs and internships, reviewing applications, scheduling interviews and conducting reference checks.
• Participate in sourcing, screening and interviewing applicants.
• Monitor, evaluate and assess adequacy of the diversity of candidates in the hiring and screening process.
• Coordinate, attend and create job fairs, open houses, and career fairs to increase the diversity of the pool of candidates.
• Support Our Culture of Anti-Racism: Demonstrate an intentional commitment to centering the voices of the oppressed and silenced populations and engaging in work that is focused on empowering and lifting communities targeted by the family policing and other carceral systems.
• Participate in accurate and transparent recording of metrics and data associated with the recruitment function.
• Ensure that Hiring Managers follow legal guidelines when interviewing candidates.
• Maintain relationships with recruiting agencies.
• Lead or assist on other DEIB, Recruitment and Operations projects as assigned.

The Talent Acquisition Manager is expected to keep abreast of new trends and practices related to hiring, DEIB, and retention. This person will work collaboratively with the Recruitment team, HR, IT, operations, and program directors and supervisors. Ideally, this candidate will enjoy the opportunity to wear multiple hats, learn a lot and enjoy working with teams, applicants, and external organizations.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

To perform this job successfully, the person in this position has a high degree of contact with All CFR Staff.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience: Bachelor’s Degree; 3-5 years HR experience preferably working in a recruitment capacity; some work within DEIB is preferred; HR certification preferred; Combination of education and experience may also be considered.

COMPETENCIES:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

Interpersonal Skills: Maintains confidentiality; remains open to others’ ideas; exhibits willingness and flexibility to try new ways of doing things.

Oral Communication: Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; listens and gets clarification.

Written Communication:  Writes clearly and informatively; edits work for spelling and has excellent grammar and proofreading skills; presents numerical data effectively and is able to read and interpret written information.

Planning/organizing: Prioritizes and plans work activities; uses time efficiently and develops realistic action plans; meets deadlines and adheres to specific time lines; tracks multiple processes to meet goals for timeliness.

Quality control: Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and looks for ways to improve and promote quality of own work; promotes and upholds office policies and procedures.

Technology: Is comfortable with learning, adopting, and deploying new technology.

Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment; handles several projects concurrently; is able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.

Problem solving: Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully.

Judgment: Displays willingness to make timely decisions; exhibits high-level, sound and accurate judgment.

Safety and security: Actively promotes and personally observes safety and security procedures; uses equipment and materials properly.

Teamwork:  Contributes to building a positive collaborative team spirit; puts success of team above own interests; supports everyone's efforts to succeed; provides excellent internal and external customer service.

Diversity:  Shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences; promotes a harassment-free environment.

Ethics:  Treats people with respect and dignity; works with integrity and ethically upholds CFR’s mission and values.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment described below is representative of what an employee may encounter while performing the duties of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This is a hybrid role in which most tasks can be carried out remotely but will require some in-person presence for events such as career fairs, organizational training and/or events and in alignment with our telecommuting policy.  

Annualized Salary:  $70,000 - $80,000