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SalaryTalent Attraction Partner
Salary: £34,905 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Open Ended (Permanent)
Location: Hybrid Working - Base Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire or Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot.
Closing Date: 01 April 24
Job Overview:
To proactively develop and run recruitment marketing campaigns and Talent Attraction projects that attract diverse future talent to the UKRI Workforce. Working within the UKRI Talent team to champion new ways of working, support implementation and run new and existing tools and processes, ensuring UKRI are best placed to engage and attract the right people at the right time. Offer subject matter expert advice and specialist guidance that meet customer needs and shapes campaigns.
Key Responsibilities:
Talent Attraction
- Develop and run Talent Attraction projects, ensuring communication, engagement and metrics are effective and aligned to best practice.
- Support the Talent Attraction team with the creation and roll out of the UKRI Talent Attraction Framework as well as supporting individual council or skill attraction strategies as required.
- Review and create materials and content to ensure it captures the essence of working at UKRI and is aligned to the Talent Attraction framework messages, segmented to target talent pools.
- Create and manage a schedule of content aligned to the talent strategy. Updating and collaborating with colleagues to update content on multiple platforms as required to keep content relevant, timely and impactful to keep target audience informed and engaged with careers at UKRI.
- Support organisational understanding of social platforms, supporting initiatives to build employee advocacy and tools to aid embedding new ways of working into business as usual.
- Working with colleagues across UKRI to map, audit, and support projects to understand the candidate journey and experience across our careers sites, website pages and microsites. Using analytics to understand and make recommendations for improvements
- Using available data, create metrics to support the Talent Attraction team to measure and report to key stakeholders on the impact of initiatives. Use this reporting to inform future processes, continuous improvement and annual procurement of each product.
- Work closely with UKRI Recruitment delivery team, Communications and ED&I colleagues to ensure that varied attraction methods and activities are activated and aligned.
Project Management
- Manage multiple, ongoing projects at the same time
- Support projects through development and into business as usual
- Take an active role in work review meetings and make informed recommendations on projects
Stakeholder Engagement
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, working collaboratively across HR and UKRI to embed Talent Attraction initiatives and drive continuous improvement.
- Using knowledge of various attraction methods, work collaboratively on complex recruitment campaigns as part of a multifunctional team.
HR Community
- Work together with HR colleagues to ensure that ‘One HR’ culture is role modelled and ensure that HR initiatives and proposed changes are prioritised, appropriate, well planned, and well delivered.
Person Specification:
Essential
- Experience in resourcing, recruitment marketing and/or Talent Attraction, providing inclusive attraction solutions to complex needs.
- Experience of developing recruitment marketing campaigns with a good understanding of the available channels, metrics and strategies that can be deployed to reach the target audience.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the candidate journey, including knowledge of websites, SEO and Google analytics.
- Demonstrate an understanding of an Employer Value Proposition (EVP) and Employer Brand.
- Experience of collaborating with and influencing stakeholders at all levels within a large complex organisation.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written with excellent attention to detail. Highly organised and self-reliant. Comfortable working on multiple projects with the ability to progress projects pragmatically and deliver to deadlines effectively, in a developing landscape.
Hybrid Working
Offered on a hybrid working basis. Your base location will be either Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire or Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire. Anticipated visits to your base location would be 2-4 times per month for collaborative working.
Other information
About UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
UKRI launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
Our organisation brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. Together we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation. More information can be found at www.ukri.org.
Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI.
The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.
How we support EDI in the workforce
At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit ‘How we support EDI in the workforce’.
Disability Confident Employer
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
How to apply
Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application.
UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion – a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.
