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SalaryFull time (flexible working options available)
Farringdon, London/Home-based
Closing Date: 24 March 2024
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We're looking for a Resourcing Business Partner to join us at Save the Children UK on a 12-month fixed term (maternity cover) contract.
If you're an experienced recruitment professional looking for a role where you'll have true accountability and opportunity to deliver huge impact, we'd love to hear from you!
About us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About the role
As Resourcing Business Partner, you'll be joining a team of self-managed Resourcing Business Partners who contribute to the development of, and lead the delivery of, Save the Children UK's Resourcing strategy, providing expert guidance in recruitment, selection and assessment.
You'll lead full-cycle recruitment for your internal client groups, ensuring the sourcing and selection of high calibre talent so that our teams can deliver maximum impact for children. Quickly building strong relationships, you'll work closely with leaders at all levels, and will play a key role in developing hiring manager capability through coaching, collaborative working and delivering training in recruitment approaches.
In this role, you will:
• Embed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion throughout the recruitment process, by developing and implementing strategies to increase candidate attraction in underrepresented groups in line with DEI strategy and organisational goals, working in partnership with the DEI team to develop and deliver inclusive recruitment initiatives.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to foster a collaborative approach to talent acquisition, with an adult-to-adult mindset.
• Lead and collaborate on recruitment projects, including the adoption of new technologies, process improvements and new recruitment methodologies.
• Embed new resourcing initiatives across the organisation, through communicating changes effectively and influencing key stakeholders to adopt new ways of working.
• Take a data driven approach to recruitment; developing and tracking key performance indicators, including analysing recruitment metrics to inform talent acquisition strategies and improve recruitment processes.
About you
You'll be an experienced recruiter dedicated to delivering exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience, with proven experience developing new initiatives and process improvements throughout the recruitment process.
Excited by the prospect of joining a self-managing team structure, you'll bring high levels of self-management, accountability, learning agility and flexibility, with excellent self and interpersonal awareness and resilience.
To be successful, you'll demonstrate:
• Significant experience leading high-volume in-house recruitment across a range of functions and levels (experience recruiting for corporate services / technology / finance would be beneficial).
• Excellent communication skills, with proven experience partnering with leaders to effectively match talent to their needs, and a track record of advising and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience of embedding DEI into recruitment initiatives.
• Proven ability in identifying and sourcing top-tier talent using a variety of sourcing approaches and channels, including job boards, social media, professional networking, and direct outreach.
• The ability to analyse and present data related to recruitment metrics, such as time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, and candidate conversion rates to inform recruitment strategy.
• Evidence of thinking holistically about talent processes, ensuring all are aligned and contribute to overall People agenda / DEI strategy / wider organisational goals.
• A track record in simultaneously managing multiple recruitment projects/initiatives alongside your active roles, with an understanding of agile principles.
• Proven experience of, and commitment to, ensuring an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience, with experience delivering improvement initiatives in these areas.
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.
What we offer you:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). The People team currently meet once per month at our office in Farringdon, but this will be agreed with your team.
Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.
Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.
