The Talent team at College Board shapes the workforce that positively impacts millions of students across the world. It's a close knit, dedicated team of ~30 people with a passion for facilitating a stronger experience for our 1,800 employees. We pride ourselves on being end-user focused, using data to solve problems, innovating to find a new way, communicating directly and honestly, and having fun along the way.
About the Opportunity
This role is a key architect of our strategy to build diverse, inclusive, engaged, and high-performing teams. You will design and execute key talent management initiatives including performance management, talent planning, and 360 feedback. You'll ensure our systems, processes, and tools will resonate and appeal to our employees. Ultimately, you'll enhance employee engagement, improve performance, and drive innovation across College Board.
You will report into the Vice President of Talent and work closely with our Talent Enablement team, our Business Partner (BP) team, and the Office of the President. Specifically, you'll drive strategy and projects across the talent lifecycle, including:
Ensuring strong performance (35%)
Partner with leadership to define expectations for employee performance, including outcomes they need to achieve and behaviors they need to exemplify
Evolve our performance management system to celebrate and hold people accountable to the defined expectations
Partner with our compensation team to connect our performance management strategy to our rewards and incentives
Ensure strong integration with Workday and other TE systems and tools
Evolving teams (20%)
Finalize and scale our approach to talent planning and succession planning
Partner with our Talent Acquisition leader to strengthen internal hiring
Partner with our Generalist and BP teams to ensure we transition talent well
Cultivating strong culture (20%)
Build, launch, and reinforce key rituals that reinforce our College Board culture in the day to day
Ensure strong launch, analysis, and action planning against the annual Gallup employee engagement and inclusion survey
Enabling learning and growth (15%)
Partner with others to deepen College Board's learning culture, including normalizing thoughtful professional development focus areas for every employee
Equip employees to give and receive consistent, quality feedback
Partner with others to design and launch targeted learning and development opportunities to deepen proficiency in prioritized skill areas, which an initial focus on strengthening our manager cohort
Partner with others to re-design and re-launch our 360 feedback tool
Partner with others to centralize quality learning tools and resources and ensure they're easily accessible and useful for employee
Designing optimized teams (10%)
Partner with the Office of the President, Finance, and BPs to determine optimal headcount planning and request process
Roll out our new role levels approach, clarifying what we expect at each job level
Consult on our job architecture in Workday, including titling and job documentation
About You
You have:
Self-awareness, humility, and a deep learner orientation
A mission-orientation; you're fired up to support students on their pathway to college and work
A user orientation; you take time to understand user needs and never release something without multiple rounds of user tests and iteration
Exceptional strategic thinking skills; you can operationalize a vision, make tough decisions, and contingency plan
Exceptional critical thinking skills, including the ability to cut through to the heart of an issue and systematically address root causes of a given problem
A proven ability to build trusting, collaborative relationships and influence others to action
Strong organization and prioritization skills and the proven ability to move forward multiple projects in concert, both independently and as a member of the team
At least 10 years of work experience and at least 5 years in strategic talent work (ideally work in performance management, L&D, talent reviews and talent planning, etc)
You are authorized to work in the US
About Our Benefits and Compensation
College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.
The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $100,000 to $175,000. College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.
Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criteria.
Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:
A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more
Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive
You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.
