Senior Talent & Onboarding Executive

The mission for this role:

As our Talent Acquisition and Onboarding Executive, you play a critical role in building the Attest team, identifying, hiring and attracting candidates that align with our company values. You will proactively work to build diverse candidate pipelines, provide an exceptional level of candidate experience end-to-end, and support our hiring managers to make sure we hire fantastic talent who will thrive at Attest. Once an offer has been made, you will support the administration and logistics of the new starter journey, providing an exceptional onboarding experience for candidate and hiring manager alike. 

We are a small but high impact team, where you will have the opportunity to be involved in projects that span the people and talent space, working with the Senior People Executive and Head of People and ultimately improving the ways in which Attest is able to develop and manage its people. 

This would be an ideal role for someone with a talent acquisition background who is looking to broaden their experience within the people function.

Please note that this role is offered on a 12 month FTC with an approximate start date of late August/ early September 

Your focus will be to…

• Coach and support hiring managers through the hiring process, ensuring to highlight, mitigate, and minimise bias before, during and after interviews and across all hiring decisions. 
• Ensure that all roles are added to the ATS quickly and efficiently, helping manage candidates throughout the process and ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout.
• Alongside managing applications, you will also proactively source for hard to fill roles, using platforms like LinkedIn Recruiter and Otta, plus industry specific channels. You will own agency relationships and the talent acquisition budget for roles where we need external support. 
• Create employer brand materials, positioning Attest to potential candidates, this will include creating candidate packs and crafting LinkedIn posts, articles on the Life at Attest blog and working with our partners to create additional content.
• Ensure the data integrity of data in our ATS, Greenhouse, providing reporting and context to leaders across Attest, including the Exec team, providing insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Manage the offer and onboarding journey with candidates and partner with line managers to create an exceptional new starter journey for every hire. This will include sending contracts, managing pre-employment checks and setting new starters up on our HRIS, we currently use BambooHR. 
• Gather and action feedback from candidates and new employees to continuously improve the recruitment and onboarding journey.
• Support on project work that aims to improve both the candidate and employee experience at Attest. 
• Promote and role model the Attest company values by showcasing the culture in interactions with candidates, new starters and external partners. 

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You have previous in-house recruiting experience, working with stakeholders at all levels and hiring for roles across Product, Technology and Commercial departments. 
• You have experience of building relationships with stakeholders at all levels, being able to provide both support and challenge to get to the best outcomes, championing candidate experience and inclusivity. 
• You have sourced for a variety of roles directly using multiple platforms (we currently use LinkedIn Recruiter and Otta).
• You will have experience of owning recruitment agency relationships, agreeing ways of working, negotiating terms and ensuring effective communication to quickly and efficiently hire. 
• You are passionate about having a positive impact through your actions on representation, inclusion and belonging in the context of talent attraction, talent acquisition and onboarding. 
• You have used an ATS previously, ideally Greenhouse, and are able to run reports, maximise automation and coach and support hiring managers to use the tool. 
• You have created employer brand materials previously, collaborating with the marketing team, from LinkedIn posts to longer form content.
• You have experience using Notion and loom or similar platforms, to share playbooks, best practice and provide training.  
• Ideally you will have worked in a startup or scale-up environment and be flexible in your approach to work as you will have the opportunity to be involved in projects that span the people and talent space.

Salary:

The salary range for this role is £45,000 to £55,000 per annum pro rata. Please note that this role is offered an a fixed term contract basis. 

Benefits:

Our benefits programme is designed with a focus on the wellbeing, engagement and growth of our people. 

Please see our list of benefits below:

• Benefits to support your career development and growth, including a career growth and development budget of £20 per month which can be accrued over the year. We’ll even give you £300 to set up your home office.
• 25 days paid holiday per year, increasing to 26 after 3 years service and 27 after 4 years service. This is in addition to local public holidays and an additional average of 2 days off during the festive season. You can also take one month's fully paid sabbatical after 4 years service. 
• We offer benefits that support your physical and mental health. These include enhanced sick pay, a £40 per month wellness allowance to spend on things that matter to your wellbeing which can be spent on a monthly basis or saved up for larger purchases over the year, and access to private and confidential coaching via Sanctus.
• Family-friendly policies from your first day of employment, such as enhanced parental leave with primary careers receiving 18 weeks fully paid leave and secondary careers receiving 4 weeks full pay. We also have a fertility treatment and family support policy which include paid leave for those going through treatment and their partners. Should the worst happen, we have a pregnancy loss policy with paid time off to support you through this time. 
• Spend up to 2 paid days per month – we call it 10% time – giving back to your community or supporting your favourite charity.
• To help you save for your retirement, you’ll be auto-enrolled to our group pension plan through Penfold when you join. You can maximise your pension contribution through the salary sacrifice scheme. 
• Receive support whenever you need it with our Employee Assistance Programme, Care First, available 24/7. 
• Work from anywhere – spend up to 80 days per year working abroad +/-4 hours from London
• An open, inclusive and supportive team where everyone is valued and all ideas and suggestions are welcomed. 
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In-person and remote working balance ...

One of our core values is to Generate Outcomes. This means that we value Outputs>Inputs and believe that people are most productive when they get to choose how, where, and when they work. We also believe that collaboration IRL is important and we encourage Attesters to come into the office at least 1 or 2 days a week.