Talent Manager

Description

Omni Institute seeks candidates for a Talent Manager opening on our operations team. We strongly encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply for this position.

The Talent Manager, a new role at Omni, will serve as the operational backbone of our talent functions, translating strategic vision into day-to-day systems and processes that support our growing team. Reporting to our Talent Director, this role is ideal for a detail-oriented talent professional who excels at process management and has a passion for social change work with an equity focus. The Talent Manager will collaborate closely with the Talent Director, operations team, senior leaders, and staff to ensure we attract and retain diverse talent in alignment with Omni's mission and values.

Requirements

Key Qualifications

• Passion for social impact and interest in Omni's mission to accelerate positive social change toward a more equitable society
• Demonstrated passion and commitment to building sustained EDI initiatives through diverse team building, equitable policies, and inclusive cultures
• Proven ability to manage full-cycle recruitment operations, including resume screening, interview coordination, and offer facilitation
• Strong project management skills with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through
• Experience developing and refining hiring processes, with an orientation toward continuous improvement
• Demonstrated ability to work within a consulting environment and meet our foundational Core3 requirements:
  • Commitment to timeliness and meeting deadlines
  • Comfort communicating and working within fluid and collaborative project teams
  • Strong sense of personal ownership, self-direction, and accountability
• Alignment with our Core Values:
  • Connection: to hear, understand, and support your colleagues and clients
  • Agility: in how you think about and approach new challenges and novel solutions
  • Inquiry: to look at information from different perspectives and learn from other approaches
  • Accountability: to meet deadlines, receive & give candid feedback, and deliver your best work
• 5+ years of experience in talent-related functions is preferred
• Experience in a consulting, professional services, or similar environment is preferred

What this role will look like

Recruitment Operations

• Manage and execute the full-cycle recruiting process, including posting jobs, sourcing candidates, scheduling interviews, and facilitating offers
• Screen resumes and manage hiring teams through structured interview processes
• Track recruitment metrics and continuously adapt and design processes to meet diversity goals in applicant pools
• Work collaboratively with the Talent Director and senior leaders to continuously refine hiring processes, interview questions, hiring rubrics, and other aspects of the hiring tools and process.

Staffing & Utilization Management

• Facilitate Omni's internal consulting staffing committee by preparing materials, documenting decisions, and coordinating logistics
• Prepare utilization reports for the staffing committee, proactively identifying under/over-utilized staff, and recommending staffing options
• Collaborate with project leaders to balance workloads, address staffing gaps, and maximize organizational capacity

Performance Management

• Coordinate the performance management cycle, including launching reviews, managing documentation, and tracking completion
• Support Talent Director and supervisors through the performance review process with clear timelines, expectations, and guidance
• Collaborate with the Talent Director to refine performance management and feedback processes and tools

Other talent functions

• Manage Omni’s Lattice people management platform
  • Including data entry from our demographic surveys, staff profile information updates, etc
• Collaborate with the Talent Director, Business Operations Director, and Co-CEO on other talent functions, including
  • Designing and issuing of employee engagement surveys
  • Enhancing the employee experience, including EDI programs, employee resource groups, onboarding improvements, and culture-building efforts
  • Managing smooth transitions for staff through all On-boarding and Off-boarding processes
  • Other projects and initiatives as needed

Diversity Statement

We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply, particularly people of color, those who identify as LGBTQ+, first generation immigrants, those who were first in their families to attend college, and people who are from marginalized income backgrounds. https://www.omni.org/edi

As a proud equal opportunity workplace, we believe that a diverse team is fundamental to living our core values. The inclusion of diverse perspectives provides new ways of asking questions (Inquiry), fresh approaches to tackling challenges (Agility), inspiration to produce better work (Accountability), and contribute to a greater shared understanding of our community and sense of connection among our staff and to our clients (Connection).

• Please Note: We do not negotiate salary or benefits. Research indicates that negotiations disproportionately impact applicants identifying as people of color, women, or those with other historically marginalized identities.

Location

This is a remote position anywhere within the continental US states.

Omni Institute’s headquarters are in Denver, CO, where we have an office for staff to work from. Employees who work from home/remotely must have a suitable home office environment. We try to limit work travel, but employees can expect some travel for client meetings, conferences, or company meetings (expected up to 5% of the time).

About OMNI

Omni Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit consultancy that supports nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, government agencies, and social ventures to accelerate positive social change toward a more equitable society. We provide research, evaluation, and capacity building services primarily through a project-based client consulting model with approximately 50 staff located in 17 states, with recently completed projects in over 20 US states. Our primary areas of focus include Community Health, Behavioral Health, Adult & Juvenile Justice, Economic Security, and Children & Families.

Our CiviCO programs focus on leadership development and civic engagement designed to strengthen Colorado communities through initiatives like the Governor's Fellowship, Leadership Accelerator, and Colorado Governor's Citizenship Medals.

Our Center for Social Investment advances the latest approaches to measuring the impact of novel social instruments, including social return on investment, guaranteed income, trust-based philanthropy, and impact investing.

100% employer paid health premiums (employee coverage)

Vision, dental, supplemental insurance

401k with company match and immediate vesting

Flexible working schedules

PTO that begins with 3 weeks of PTO, 11 floating holidays, and an annual office closure from Dec 24-Jan 1 and the first Fridays of April, July, and October.

Headspace EAP for employees and their families

Monthly technology stipend