Early Careers Talent Acquisition Lead

The salary for this role is £39,610 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working. 

This role can be based at any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire 

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) / be eligible for SC Clearance (must have resided in the UK for the last 5 years) [delete as appropriate], including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data. 

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Early Careers Talent Acquisition Lead, you will play a pivotal role to be responsible for liaising with the Early Careers development team to support early career events to include career fairs and assessment days ensuring a positive experience for candidates as well as an effective recruitment tool for 
the managers. Working with the Talent Resourcing Team this role will see the process through to offer stage - selling the benefits of the organisation and responding to queries. The Early Careers Talent Resourcing Advisor will help facilitate stronger connections and input on strategy with highlighted target universities/schools through coordination with the outreach team and Early Careers team to ensure candidates engage with UKAEA throughout their studies. This role will contribute to the review and development of Early Careers recruitment processes and procedures to ensure efficiency, compliance and fairness is continually improved. In addition, this role will be responsible for seeking continuous feedback from the business with regards to the implementation and suggestions of new Early Careers Resourcing solutions

Additional Responsibilities:

• Support Early Careers with the gathering predicted resourcing needs in line with talent acquisition and workforce planning – initiating the forecast for early talent intake numbers and disciplines.
• As an expert within Smart Recruiters, create adverts relevant to the audience - promoting diversity and eliminating any bias to ensure UKAEA stand out as an employer of choice for early talent.
• As part of the Early Talent team advise on and support hiring managers on a wide variety of aspects within the recruitment cycle from role approval, appropriate attraction and selection strategies, initial pre sift of candidates, shortlisting guidance for interview, assessment/interviewing and offer management always ensuring consistent best practice and compliance. 
• Responsible for training and awareness sessions for all panel members assigned for the upcoming EC recruitment campaign whilst roles are live – outlaying commitments to timescales to ensure the recruitment process is clear as well as their obligations to carry out tasks at certain times.
• Provide training, coaching, guidance and support to hiring managers on Smart Recruiters (applicant tracking system), advising on recruitment best practice. Coach managers in best practice interviewing skills when interviewing with them and through formal training.

Essential Requirements:

• Knowledge of the Early Careers schemes and the UKAEA benefits to new starters
• Certificate in HR Practice/CIPD Foundation award in Resourcing Talent or equivalent.
• Extensive experience of coordinating in-house/agency recruitment campaigns for multiple roles.
• Experience of using social media tools to develop employer brand and candidate sourcing
• Experience of working with/coordinating an Applicant Tracking System
• Knowledge of all recruitment related employment law and best practice 
• Knowledge and experience of assessment tools and methods 
• Track record of making improvements to early careers recruitment practices, gaining buy in for these changes and supporting/coaching managers to follow them
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills

Desirable

• Competent in visa requirements for eligibility to sponsor or recruit to EC schemes

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission.  We are under-represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

UK Atomic Energy Authority is committed to being accessible. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or require help or adjustments to compete on a fair basis, for example, changes to the way we interview or share information.  

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.