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About the Role
The Center for Disability Services is seeking an organized, detail-oriented Talent Acquisition Specialist to guide candidates through pre-employment clearances and onboarding. This role serves as the primary contact for new employees, ensuring they complete required steps and are prepared for orientation. Approximately 25% of the role involves recruitment support.
Responsibilities
- Independently manage an assigned caseload of candidates from offer handoff through pre-employment clearance and orientation, providing clear instructions, timely follow-up and assistance with onboarding requirements.
- Initiate and track background checks, fingerprinting, regulatory clearances, exclusion checks and driving record checks as required by the position and program.
- Complete employment and professional references, verify education and credentials, and coordinate outstanding occupational health requirements.
- Review candidate files for completeness and accuracy, determine readiness to start under established requirements, and postpone tentative start dates when necessary.
- Escalate background findings or other concerns requiring HR, Compliance, Legal or leadership review.
- Complete the employer review of Form I-9 documentation and coordinate required new-hire paperwork and Workday onboarding activities.
- Maintain accurate, confidential and audit-ready candidate records, clearance documentation and communications in Workday.
- Support recruiters with application review, candidate phone screens, interview scheduling, hiring events and coverage during absences.
- Collaborate with recruiters, hiring managers and Talent Acquisition leadership to resolve barriers and provide a positive candidate experience.
Requirements
- Associate degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- At least 1–2 years of related experience in Human Resources, onboarding, background screening, Talent Acquisition or a related function, including experience administering employment background checks and/or regulated pre-employment clearance processes.
- Strong organizational, communication, documentation and follow-up skills, with the ability to independently manage multiple candidates and competing deadlines.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, apply established requirements accurately and recognize matters requiring additional review.
Skills
- Workday Recruiting or HCM
- OPWDD, DOH, OCFS, NYSED/DOE and/or New York City clearance requirements
- Healthcare, human services, education, disability services or another highly regulated environment
- Application review
- Phone screening
- Interview scheduling
- Hiring events
Location
- Upstate New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1-2 years
Education Level
- Associate degree
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $26.00 - $31.00
Benefits
- No-cost and low-cost health insurance options
- Tuition reimbursement
- Generous paid time off
- Dental and vision insurance
- Employee referral programs
- Company-paid life insurance and long-term disability
- Eight company-paid holidays
- Retirement matching
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Early Access to Pay with RAIN
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
About the Company
- Where people get better at life!
- Join us in our mission to make a difference and shape a more inclusive future.
- The Center for Disability Services offers hope, innovation and achievement to the people we support.
- For 80 years, we have been one of upstate New York’s largest providers of programs and services for individuals who have disabilities.
- Many of the innovative programs and vital services that we offer are not available elsewhere.
Equal Opportunity
- At The Center for Disability Services, we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, support it and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees and the people we support.
- We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any protected class of job applicant or employee in our employment practices.