Job Information

State of Tennessee Job Information

Opening Date/Time

10/13/2026 12:00AM Central Time

Closing Date/Time

10/19/2026 11:59PM Central Time

Salary (Monthly)

$4,098.00 - $5,129.00

Salary (Annually)

$49,176.00 - $61,548.00

Job Type

Full-Time

City, State Location

Nashville, TN

Department

Children's Services

LOCATION OF (1) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES, DAVIDSON COUNTY

This position is designed as Hybrid (In office and Remote)

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you will be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position

Qualifications

Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree.

Substitution of Experience for Education: Qualifying full-time professional or paraprofessional human resources experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis to a maximum of four years.

Overview

The HR Recruitment Specialist supports the organization's hiring efforts by focusing on candidate outreach, recruitment logistics, and supporting statewide hiring activities. This role centers on building positive candidate experiences, strengthening talent pipelines, and ensuring smooth, efficient recruiting processes.

This person will recruit at multiple events across the state, representing the organization and engaging prospective candidates in various settings.

In addition to supporting the hiring process, this role is responsible for tracking and monitoring the post-hire lifecycle of candidates. This includes ensuring new hires successfully progress through onboarding milestones, verifying completion of required trainings and documentation, updating HR systems with accurate status changes, and partnering with HR and program leadership to identify and address delays or gaps. The Specialist helps maintain clean, reliable workforce data and provides updates that support workforce planning and new-hire retention efforts.

This position requires multiple travel days per month, including frequent overnight trips throughout the year, to support statewide recruiting events and outreach efforts.

Responsibilities

Provides interpretation and guidance on a variety of current human resources rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and documents for internal and external business partners to facilitate understanding, enhance communications, and ensure compliance.
Prepares, processes, reviews, audits and corrects and analyzes human resources documents such as employee appointments, promotions, demotions, reclassifications, flex class changes, separations, terminations, transfers, retirement, security access changes, highly confidential transactions, information changes, leave and attendance, overtime reports, pay differentials, longevity, supplemental payroll, unemployment and performance management processing and in addition to other human resources activities.
Enters employee information, including but not limited to schedule information, general and personal information, leave information, worker's compensation, and other human resources related transactions, into appropriate database tracking software specific to the state and agency, electronic and paper tracking logs and spreadsheets, and other forms.
Conducts agency specific and specialized training, orientation/on-boarding, and benefits meetings for agency employees. Explains employee benefits to new employees with questions on topics including but not limited to retirement and insurance policies and procedures, flex benefits, 401k, education reimbursement, sick leave bank, leave accrual, FMLA, workers compensation, military leave, etc.
Assists internal business partners with investigations of employee relations issues, evaluation of qualifications and background checks, development of interview questions, evaluation of employment and retention decisions, and evaluation of time and attendance for workers compensation, FMLA, and other types of extended leave.
Determines employee qualifications for a variety of employment benefits, including but not limited to FMLA, worker's compensation, and qualifying events for insurance to ensure compliance with standards and identify next steps. Resolves benefit, time and attendance, pay, and other issues using departmental, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, processes, and procedures to ensure accurate and timely processing.
Prepares, analyzes, audits and maintains a variety of reports with recommendations for action in areas including but not limited to: attendance, benefits, equal employment opportunity issues; classification and organizational structure; selection and retention; occupational safety and health; employee relations; salary plan reports for submission to Finance and Administration using a variety of information to identify corrections for classification and compensation issues; and other general human resources issues.
Handles employee files and other departmental documentation to facilitate file organization, research, and requests from business partners.

Competencies (KSA's)

Competencies

Customer Focus
Communicates Effectively
Instills Trust
Organizational Savvy
Decision Quality

Knowledge

Personnel and Human Resources
Customer and Personal Service
Law and Government
Administration and Management
Clerical

Skills

Critical Thinking
Active Learning and Listening
Time Management
Service Orientation
Coordination

Abilities

Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Problem Sensitivity
Information Ordering
Oral Comprehension and Expression
Written Comprehension and Expression

Tools & Equipment

Computers
Phones
Copier/Scanner/Printer/Fax Machine
Calculator
Other Office Equipment as Required

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