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POSITION DESCRIPTION:
The Chief Talent Officer (CTO) leads our efforts in recruiting, developing, and retaining the extraordinary people we need to make the change we seek in the world. We seek a leader who can successfully build high-performing teams, has a high bar for performance and knows potential when they see it and is an outstanding networker and developer of people.
AGENCY CULTURE:
The business and social environment in which our Agency operates is continuously changing. To thrive, we must incorporate ways of thinking and acting that strengthen who we are and can be. As part of this cultural change process, it is important that all employees of Catholic Charities aspire to the following:
- A commitment to the agency’s mission, vision, and values (“We Do the Right Thing”)
- A commitment to excellence in everything we do (“We Do Things Right”)
- A commitment to achieving desired outcomes and measured results (“Everything Counts”)
- A commitment to innovation and to what is possible (“We value Creativity and Generativity”
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: The CTO will be the strategist in charge of growing and nurturing the supply of our most important resource: our people. Specifically, the CTO’s work will center on:
1. Overarching Talent Strategy & Leadership
- Work with the CEO and senior management team to set a strategic vision and priorities for all talent work, ensuring the organization has an eye on what it will need in the coming 3-5 years, including an explicit equity lens, and what it will take to get there.
- Participate at the executive level in strategic priorities and planning decisions, ensuring fully integrated talent management.
- Ensure that equity and inclusion are woven into all our talent-related activities.
- Develop and support all managers to become high-skilled “talent champions.”
2. Recruitment and Hiring
- Actively promote the organization as a great workplace, building our “employer brand” with potential hires.
- Increase the success rate of new hires AND decrease the time and energy it takes from other team members to find them by:
- Continuously building and managing a diverse pool of outstanding candidates for current and future potential positions;
- Developing systems to more deeply assess likely performance for prospective new hires;
- Ensuring “must-haves” and “nice-to-haves” are spot on and effectively assessed in hiring processes.
3. Talent Development
- Develop orientation and new staff training practices that get every new staff member what they need right out of the gate and increase the likelihood of a good start.
- Ensure annual development plans are in place and implemented for all employees, focused on immediate and longer-term organizational needs (training on technical skills and stretch assignments for growth and assessment).
- Ensure assessment mechanisms are in place to support all employees’ development and identify team members with the greatest future potential.
- Ensure talent development efforts are implemented equitably with no difference across race or other forms of identity.
- Focus engagement and retention efforts on highest-performing, highest-potential team members, including quality of direct supervision, proactive leadership pipeline development at the intersection of career aspirations and potential future role opportunities across the organization, and compensation issues.
4. Oversight of Performance Management Systems
- Own special projects, as needed, to identify and source the right technologies to support our talent initiatives.
- Ensure evaluations are conducted on time, and promotion and compensation decisions are timely and communicated well.
QUALITIES, QUALIFICATIONS, AND EXPERIENCE:
To be successful in this job, the CTO possesses these four qualities:
1. A very high bar and a discerning eye for talent. You have demonstrated the ability to manage, recruit, hire, and develop extraordinary teams. You have strong instincts on who can be successful in the areas we need most and a knack for spotting true talent (people who can actually deliver) within a pool of solid applicants.
2. Deep commitment to racial equity and inclusion. Measuring performance and potential are full of landmines based on implicit bias and existing power dynamics. Building high-quality, diverse pools and teams don’t happen by accident—it takes intention and commitment at every level in the organization, starting with you. You can devise and implement creative, concrete, and pragmatic ways to address or prevent potential equity challenges and mitigate bias in the hiring process.
3. Keep a bird’s eye view of the entire organization, short- and long-term. You are one of the few people who touch every single part of the organization, and it’s your job to ensure talent flourishes, living out its highest purpose wherever it can in the organization, today and tomorrow. You know how to turn your vision into a concrete multi-year action plan, and because you plan ahead, you can move multiple talent-related projects to the finish line.
4. An inclusive and collaborative approach. Your success is highly dependent on other senior leaders and managers—people who don’t report to you. Genuine partnership and the ability to move others without hierarchical power are essential as you partner with managers on staff issues with an eye toward equity and inclusion. You have boundless energy for meeting, recruiting, and engaging with people.
In addition to these core qualities, you are someone who can effectively:
5. Make the Executive Team your key client/partner. Ongoing learning and development of the Executive Team are vital to the organization’s success (even though they can often be overlooked in the daily grind). And as the few people with full organizational scope, the more you share a brain, the more strategic you can be in future-oriented talent development.
6. Proven work experience as a Chief Talent Officer or similar role.
7. Familiarity with performance management software.
8. Experience organizing and delivering training programs.
9. Knowledge of labor legislation and relevant human resources practice and trends.
10. Good understanding of Human Resources tools (e.g., HRIS, Applicant Tracking Systems)
11. Excellent leadership, communication, and networking skills.
12. Team spirit.
13. Ability to coach and manage individuals and teams.
14. Education in Human Resources or relevant field.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
1. Valid California Driver’s License and current automobile insurance in compliance with Agency requirements.
2. Successful pass of a live scan and Federal debarment requirement.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Must be able to work comfortably on a desktop computer. Must be able to travel to various locations as required by the program
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
DISCLAIMER
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego reserves the right to revise any and all job postings and description(s), including this one here, as the need arises. The job posting outlined and detailed above does not represent an all-inclusive list of each and every single skill, ability, talent, or qualification that will be necessary in order to perform this job satisfactorily, nor does it constitute either a written and/or implied contract of employment for any specified duration of time.
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego is a diverse, all-inclusive service organization and employer. We do not discriminate against any candidates based on: race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, gender and/or gender reassignment status, age, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and/or maternity, marriage and/or civil union status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $125,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
COVID-19 considerations:
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego follows CDC and local agencies' COVID protocols and guidelines.
Ability to commute/relocate:
- San Diego, CA 92117: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: One location