Talent Acquisition Sourcing Strategist

Overview

The Talent Acquisition Sourcing Strategist plays a crucial role in identifying, engaging, and attracting top talent to support organizational hiring needs. This position focuses heavily on proactive sourcing, passive candidate outreach, talent pipeline development, and strategic use of digital platforms and job boards. The Sourcing Strategist partners closely with Talent Acquisition team members and department leaders to understand workforce needs and build targeted sourcing strategies. This role is also responsible for managing job board utilization, coordinating and attending hiring events, and contributing to community outreach efforts that strengthen Mercyhealth’s talent pipeline.

This position can be located at either HR Buliding in Janesville, WI or Rockford, IL

Responsibilities

Strategic Sourcing & Talent Pipeline Development

• Proactively sources passive candidates through direct outreach, networking, resume databases, talent communities, social platforms, and niche recruitment resources.
• Develops and maintains pipelines for high-volume, hard-to-fill, and critical roles across the organization.
• Partners with recruiters to understand role requirements and develop effective sourcing strategies for current and future openings.
• Conducts initial outreach and engagement with potential candidates and routes qualified leads to recruiters.
  
  
  

Hiring Events & Community Engagement

• Creates, coordinates, and participates in hiring events, career fairs, community events, and virtual recruitment sessions to increase candidate flow and build brand presence.
• Works collaboratively with Talent Acquisition team members to manage event logistics, marketing coordination, on-site support, and post-event follow-up.
• Supports community pipeline initiatives, including job shadowing, externships, internships, clinical placements, and youth apprenticeship programs.
  
  
  

Digital Outreach & Job Board Management

• Manages online job boards, job postings, job aggregators, and related vendor relationships to ensure optimal visibility of open positions.
• Ensures job postings are accurate, current, and effectively categorized for maximum reach.
• Utilizes social media—primarily for sourcing and outreach—to locate talent, share priority openings, and engage candidate communities.
• Identifies and evaluates new sourcing tools and platforms to maintain a competitive edge in talent acquisition.
  
  
  

Data, Tracking & Continuous Improvement

• Monitors candidate traffic, job board performance, and sourcing outcomes to recommend improvements and drive results.
• Tracks expenditures related to job boards, sourcing tools, and recruitment advertising.
• Monitors trends in online employer reviews and escalates patterns or concerns to Talent Acquisition Leadership.
• Contributes to special projects that enhance the sourcing function, candidate pipelines, recruitment processes, or community talent initiatives.
  
  
  

Partnership & Collaboration

• Works collaboratively with department leaders to understand workforce patterns, turnover trends, and forecasted hiring needs.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships across the system to ensure alignment between sourcing efforts and departmental staffing requirements.
• Develops and maintains relationships within the local HR/talent acquisition community to strengthen Mercyhealth’s presence and talent pipeline.
• Participates in cross-functional efforts with Talent Acquisition colleagues and various departments when needed.
  
  
  

Other Duties

• Performs other duties and projects assigned, based on organizational needs, skill set, and areas of interest.
  
  
  

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business, Marketing, or related field required.
• Experience in sourcing, recruiting, talent acquisition, or HR coordination required
• Experience in a healthcare, nonprofit, or high-volume recruitment environment preferred
• Familiarity with applicant tracking systems and sourcing tools.
  
  
  

Special Physical Demands

The Special Physical Demands are considered Essential Job Functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodations.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to sit, handle, finger, feel, talk, and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and or move up to 50 pounds and up to 25 pounds frequently. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Benefits

Mercyhealth offers a generous total rewards package to eligible employees including, but not limited to:

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Mercyhealth offers a retirement plan with competitive matching contribution, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance options, life and disability coverage, access to flexible spending plans, and a variety of other discounted voluntary benefit options.
• Competitive Compensation: Mercyhealth offers market competitive rates of pay and participates in various shift differential and special pay incentive programs.
• Paid Time Off: Mercyhealth offers a generous paid time off plan, which increases with milestone anniversaries, to allow employees the opportunity for a great work-life balance.
• Career Advancement: Mercyhealth offers a number of educational assistance programs and career ladders to support employees in their educational journey and advancement within Mercyhealth.
• Employee Wellbeing: Mercyhealth has a focus on wellbeing for employees across the organization and offers a number of tools and resources, such as an employer-sponsored health risk assessment and a Wellbeing mobile application, to assist employees on their wellbeing journey.
• Additional Benefits: Mercyhealth employees have access to our internal and external employee assistance programs, employee-only discount packages, paid parental and caregiver leaves, on-demand pay, special payment programs for patient services, and financial education to help with retirement planning.