Talent Acquisition Specialist

Who We Are and What We Do

Farmer Focus's mission is to promote and protect generational family farms by shifting farm-level decision-making and chicken ownership back to farmers and empowering them to farm the way they know is best. We are committed to consistently producing 100% organic and humanely raised chicken that is better for people, the planet, and animals. Our culture is rooted in servant leadership, and we live by our Farmer Focus CARES values: Community, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, and Stewardship.

How this Role Will Be Impactful

The Talent Acquisition Specialist will provide full life cycle recruitment support for our salaried hiring needs across our Operations/Production and Corporate teams (ranging from a Production Supervisor to a Director of Technology to a Marketing Coordinator). The person in this role will conduct intake meetings with hiring managers, source and screen candidates, coordinate interviews, extend offers, and regularly report on the success of our talent acquisition programs. You will build high-level quality relationships in the community and within our team to promote Farmer Focus as a great place to work, generate referrals, and develop centers of influence. The specialist will utilize best-in-class recruitment tactics, including but not limited to: job boards, social media, local job fairs, automation, AI, etc. to source and attract candidates. You will cultivate relationships and contacts with public organizations, local employment organizations, universities, and technical schools to build a talent pipeline. The talent acquisition specialist will be the primary interface between Farmer Focus and candidates and will effectively communicate our employer value proposition.

What You Bring to the Role

• 5+ years of full life cycle recruiting experience for a wide range of roles

• Demonstrated experience effectively partnering with hiring managers to support current and future hiring needs

• Experience engaging passive candidates to help find the right people for our open positions

• Experience using social media to support recruitment efforts (LinkedIn, Facebook)

• Understanding of applicable federal, state, and local laws to ensure compliance in our hiring activities

• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines

• Experience maintaining a talent pipeline of qualified candidates

• Understanding of how to use Boolean searches to source candidates

• Reliable transportation that allows you to work across our multiple facilities and offices within the City of Harrisonburg, VA.

• Prior experience using an applicant tracking system to track recruiting metrics and identify trends

• Strong multicultural competency and awareness demonstrated by building relationships that cross multiple dimensions of diversity such as race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, and others.

The following help make you an even better potential candidate for the position:

• Experience using Workday

• Experience recruiting for salaried roles in a manufacturing/production environment

Work Requirements and Environment & Reasonable Accommodations Statement

Work conducted primarily in an office environment. This role is in-person, on-site at our Harrisonburg, VA facilities.

On occasion, work may require access to the production environment. Must be able to tolerate the varying heat, wet, and chill of the plant. Hearing and eye-protective equipment required in the production area. Required to wear hair and beard nets in the production area. Must be able to traverse a two-story staircase multiple times per day.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Farmer Focus is committed to the principles of equal employment and to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations. It is our intent to maintain a work environment that is inclusive and equitable, free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation based upon an individual's age, race (including traits historically associated with race, which includes hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation (including transgender status, gender identity, or expression), pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), military status (including status as a uniformed servicemember, a veteran, or dependent of a servicemember), or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. Farmer Focus is dedicated to the fulfillment of this policy regarding all aspects of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, placement, transfer, training, promotion, rates of pay and other compensation, termination, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.