Senior Talent Experience Consultant @ UTHealth Houston

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.

Are you a strategic talent advisor who thrives on solving complex hiring challenges and building meaningful partnerships? Join our Talent Experience team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future workforce of one of the nation's leading academic health institutions.

As a Senior Talent Experience Consultant, you'll have the unique opportunity to lead recruiting efforts across a diverse portfolio that includes both professional/classified positions and executive-level leadership searches. This highly visible role offers the chance to influence hiring decisions at every level of the organization, partnering directly with leaders to attract exceptional talent that advances our mission.

In this role, you'll go beyond traditional recruiting. You'll serve as a trusted consultant, leveraging talent market intelligence, workforce analytics, and strategic sourcing expertise to guide hiring strategies, solve complex workforce challenges, and deliver an exceptional candidate experience. From high-volume critical positions to executive leadership appointments, you'll help shape organizational talent strategies while driving equitable and compliant hiring practices.

This is an opportunity for an experienced recruiter who is ready to expand their influence, tackle high-impact searches, and serve as a strategic advisor in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...

• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!

Position Summary

The Senior Talent Experience Consultant serves as a strategic recruiting partner, leading complex and high impact searches while influencing hiring decisions through advanced market insight, workforce data, and consultative expertise. This role independently manages the full recruitment lifecycle, designing sourcing and selection strategies, guiding leaders through sensitive hiring scenarios, and ensuring equitable, compliant outcomes. The Senior Consultant leverages talent analytics and experience insights to identify trends, inform workforce planning discussions, and drive continuous improvement across recruiting practices. In addition, the role provides informal leadership by mentoring peers, sharing expertise, and contributing to team wide capability and consistency.

Position Key Accountabilities

• Leadership Partnership & Talent Consultation: Serves as a trusted consultant to leaders, influencing decision making, shaping hiring strategies, and supporting the adoption of the agreed upon strategies. Conducts regular business reviews with departments, presenting insights, risks, and recommendations ensuring alignment to institutional values, workforce priorities, and long term talent strategy. Consulates hiring teams on advanced hiring practices, equitable interviewing, and candidate evaluation. Independently navigates complex hiring situations including sensitive performance issues, compensation considerations, competitive offer scenarios, and candidate market dynamics.
• Talent Strategy & Planning: Leads talent strategy discussions by leveraging hiring analytics, market insights, and emerging talent trends to proactively influence organizational hiring plans. Applies advanced judgment to guide succession, internal mobility, and long-term workforce planning. Collaborates by partnering with department leaders and cross functional HR teams to identify trends and recommend solutions that analyze root causes of turnover or hiring challenges. Contributes strategic insights during department planning discussions and influences workforce decisions. Builds a robust candidate pipeline by analyzing labor market trends, engaging passive talent, and implementing long term sourcing strategies that support sustained hiring demands.
• Continuous Improvement, Metrics & Team Development: Analyzes broader recruiting trends to identify systemic bottlenecks or improvement opportunities. Drives process improvements by identifying inefficiencies and recommending solutions that improve team effectiveness and the candidate experience. Serves as a mentor and resource to peers, sharing expertise, coaching on complex searches, and contributing to the advancement of team capability and overall functional excellence. Serves as a resource on policy interpretation, applicant assessment, sourcing strategies, and hiring compliance. Participates in cross functional projects that strengthen process integration, elevate service delivery, and enhance the institution's broader talent strategy.
• Full-Cycle Recruiting & Candidate Experience: Manages full cycle recruiting for assigned roles by leveraging a deep understanding of departmental value drivers and operational complexities to build targeted sourcing strategies, shape interview design, and consolidate stakeholder feedback into consistent, evidence based hiring recommendations. Owns offer strategy and manages complex negotiations, guiding leaders through competing candidate scenarios while ensuring alignment with departmental internal equity. Manages and reinforces a high quality candidate experience by setting communication standards, modeling consistent use of institutional brand guidelines, and advising hiring teams throughout the recruitment process. Conducts structured 30/60/90¿day employee experience follow up discussions, identifying patterns and integrating learnings into future hiring strategy and retention planning. Promotes a positive, candidate centered experience by thoughtfully leveraging technology to support clear communication, efficient processes, and consistency throughout the recruitment lifecycle. Ensures compliance and quality assurance across recruitment processes, often acting as an internal resource on policy interpretation and best practice implementation
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills

• None

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent related experience required

Minimum Experience

4 years of high volume recruiting experience, preferably in an agency or corporate environment required

Physical Requirements

Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently and/or a negligible amount constantly to move objects.

Security Sensitive

This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.

Residency Requirement

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.