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Memphis-Shelby County Schools

Human Resources Staffing Advisor, Instructional

🇺🇸 MEMPHIS, TN 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $64K - $92K 💻 Human Resources 🗓️ July 24th, 2026

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Memphis Shelby County Schools is hiring a Human Resources Staffing Advisor, Instructional. The role involves establishing strong relationships with school principals and district leadership to support recruitment, onboarding, retention, and performance of school-based staff while ensuring compliance with HR policies and driving human capital decisions through data analysis.

Highlights
  • Support sourcing, assignment, induction, and development of candidates for school-based positions.
  • Advise principals on best hiring and retention practices ensuring legal compliance.
  • Serve as liaison between schools and HR departments to resolve issues and provide guidance.
  • Analyze human capital data such as absenteeism and turnover to inform leadership decisions.
  • Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to develop recruitment and selection strategies.
  • Facilitate onboarding processes to prepare new hires effectively.
  • Provide consultation on performance management and employee retention.
  • Monitor application and onboarding timelines, and implement solutions for process bottlenecks.
  • Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's degree and five years of related HR experience; nine years of experience may substitute for the degree.
  • Salary ranges from $63,880.35 to $91,883.04 annually.

Human Resources Staffing Advisor, Instructional Full Description

Purpose and Scope: 
The Human Resources Staffing Advisor (Instructional) establishes and maintains strong, positive working relationships with School Principals and Senior Leadership to support the sourcing, assignment, induction, retention, development and performance of high-quality candidates for all school based positions. Collaborates with principals and other District staff to develop short- and long-range plans for assigned programs or functional area. 

Essential Job Functions: 
This position description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, knowledge or abilities associated with this classification, but is intended to accurately reflect the primary job elements.
  1. Establishes and maintains strong, positive working relationships with school principals and district management to support the sourcing, assignment, induction, retention, development and performance of high quality candidates for all school-based positions.
 
  1. Guides principals and their managers to implement best practices for hiring, managing and retaining staff to ensure district, state and federal compliance; monitor, review and update all HR policies to ensure alignment with current legislation.
 
  1. Acts as the primary liaison between schools and Human Resources departments serving as a one-stop-shop to school leaders to troubleshoot issues, provide guidance and address questions related to common HR issues.
 
  1. Regularly researches and reviews school-level human capital data (e.g., absenteeism, retention, turnover, and performance data) to identify trends and areas of concern, compiling and elevating the data to school leaders and senior leadership to drive human capital decisions.
 
  1. Coordinates with the Talent Acquisition Team to develop recruitment plans and strong selection processes to identify and select the highest-quality candidates for school level positions.
 
  1. Provide and/or promote innovative solutions and strategies that allow principals to efficiently and effectively meet needs identified for departments and roles.
 
  1. Participates in the recruitment and placement of staff through job fairs and other recruitment events and collaborates with the recruitment team to provide feedback on pool quality.
 
  1. Guides new hires through the on-boarding process in an efficient and timely manner, ensuring employees feel prepared to work effectively from day one.
 
  1. Advise principal and other school based leaders throughout performance management processes and collaborates with employee relations and employee performance and support teams to ensure effective retention of high performing employees and improvement or exiting of low performing employees.
 
  1. Monitors all points in the application and on-boarding process to ensure timely turnaround times and work with teams as necessary to deal with pain points, generating solutions to address bottlenecks in the process. 
 
  1. Supports principals and leaders in the planning for and assignment of staff, including identifying projected vacancies, transfer actions, and other HR implications of staffing decision making. Provides advice and plays a major role in work reviews and change processes.
 
  1. Advise/consult/provide support on MSCS Brand initiatives.
 
  1. Performs other related duties as assigned or directed.
 
Minimum Qualifications: 
Bachelor's degree in a related field required. Five (5) years of HR or related work experience required. Nine (9) total years of HR or related work experience may be considered in lieu of degree. PHR or SPHR certification preferred. (PROOF OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND/OR EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED).
 
Degree Equivalency Formula:
Bachelor’s Degree= 4 years plus required years of experience.
Master’s Degree= 2 years plus required years of experience. Where Master’s degrees are required, years for Bachelor’s Degrees must be included.