Company Description

As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning’s family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

Job Description

Purpose of the Position:

The Senior Director, Talent Management, is the enterprise owner of the Company’s talent architecture. This role designs, integrates, and governs the systems that define what capability looks like across the organization and ensures those definitions connect directly to performance, development, and growth. This is a horizontal, enterprise role with authority to set standards, align processes, and partner with senior leaders across campuses and functions. The Director works in close partnership with Capability and Enablement leaders to ensure talent data informs development strategy and investment.

Job responsibilities:

Talent Architecture and Framework Ownership

Own and evolve enterprise competency frameworks for employees, leaders, faculty, and campus presidents
Define and maintain skills, proficiency expectations, and role-level clarity across the organization
Ensure talent frameworks remain practical, behavior-based, and usable by managers

Enterprise Talent Systems and Technology Enablement

Own the design, configuration, and ongoing evolution of enterprise talent management technologies that support performance reviews, goal setting, competency assessments, and development planning.
Translate talent strategy and process requirements into scalable, user-centered system configurations that are easy for employees and leaders to use.
Build, launch, and continuously improve digital workflows that enable quarterly check-ins, annual reviews, and ongoing feedback at scale.
Serve as the primary product owner for talent management platforms, including roadmap planning, release management, testing, and adoption.
Partner with HRIS, IT, and external vendors to implement enhancements, integrations, and data standards that improve usability, reporting, and insight.
Use system data and user feedback to refine processes, reduce friction, and increase adoption and effectiveness over time.
Ensure talent systems are reliable, auditable, and aligned with governance, compliance, and organizational standards.

Performance and Development Integration

Ensure competencies are fully integrated into performance review processes
Translate performance insights into actionable development pathways
Partner with Capability and Enablement teams to align learning investments to documented capability gaps

Career Pathways and Mobility

Design career pathways and progression logic that support internal mobility and retention
Establish consistent role leveling and growth expectations across campuses and functions
Enable managers to have meaningful career and development conversations

Enterprise Governance and Alignment

Serve as the central point of governance for talent systems and standards
Reduce fragmentation and duplication across campuses by establishing clear enterprise practices
Balance enterprise consistency with local campus needs through structured partnership

Strategic Partnership and Influence

Partner with senior leaders to anticipate workforce capability needs
Advise on talent risks, readiness, and development priorities
Use data and frameworks to inform enterprise talent decisions

Qualifications

8 to 10 or more years of experience in talent management, organizational development, or workforce strategy
Proven experience designing and governing enterprise talent systems
Experience in higher education, healthcare, or similarly regulated environments preferred
Strong executive presence and ability to influence without relying on hierarchy alone
Direct involvement in competency-based performance systems, preferred
Partnerships with learning, capability, or enablement teams

Additional Information

We Offer:

Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
2 Weeks’ starting Vacation per year. Increasing based on years of service with company
12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holiday
401K with a Company Match
Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x’s your annual salary
Leadership development and training for career advancement
Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100% depending on program

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