Talent Attraction Partner

UK Research and Innovation Salary: £36,650 gross per annum
Hours: Full time or Part time (0.8 FTE)
Contract Type: Open Ended.
Location: Hybrid Working - Base Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire or Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot.

Closing Date: 26th January 2025
Job Overview: We're looking for a creative Talent Attraction Partner to join us to develop and deliver recruitment marketing campaigns, be the voice of our employer brand and support UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to attract diverse talent to its workforce.

You will proactively develop and run recruitment marketing campaigns and talent attraction projects that attract diverse talent to the UKRI Workforce.
Working as part of the UKRI Talent team to champion new ways of working, support project implementation and run established activities, ensuring UKRI are best placed to attract the right people at the right time.
Offer subject matter expert advice and specialist guidance that meets customer needs and shapes campaigns.

Key Responsibilities: Talent Attraction Design and create content which captures the essence of working at UKRI, our employer brand and is consistent, appealing and accessible to target audiences.
Manage a schedule of content aligned to the talent attraction strategy.
Updating and collaborating with colleagues to update content on multiple social platforms keeping content relevant, timely and impactful to engage target audiences.
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 activation of the UKRI Talent Attraction Framework as well as supporting individual council or skill attraction strategies.
Support organisational understanding of social platforms, supporting initiatives to build employee advocacy across the organisation by creating content and delivering training.
Work with colleagues across UKRI to understand and improve the candidate journey and experience across our careers sites, website pages and microsites.
Using analytics to 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.
To keep up to date with job-related developments, proposing ideas to ensure attraction strategies are competitive in the fast-paced external market.
Work closely with UKRI Recruitment delivery team, Communications and ED&I colleagues to ensure that varied attraction methods and activities are aligned.
Project Management Proactively manage multiple, ongoing projects at the same time.
Support projects through development and into business as usual.
Take responsibility for tasks and projects, an active role in team meetings and make informed recommendations on projects.
Stakeholder Engagement Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, working collaboratively across HR and UKRI to build awareness, embed talent attraction initiatives and drive continuous improvement.
Using knowledge of various attraction methods, work collaboratively on complex recruitment campaigns across teams.
HR Community Work with HR colleagues to ensure that the 'One HR' culture is role-modelled and that HR initiatives and proposed changes are prioritised, appropriate, well planned, and well delivered.
Person Specification: Essential Skills/Qualifications/Experience
(S) – Assessed at shortlisting
(I) – Assessed at interview
(S&I) – Assessed at both shortlisting and interview.

Essential Experience in recruitment marketing, employer brand or talent attraction (S & I) An understanding of an Employer Value Proposition (EVP) and Employer Brand and the role it plays in attracting talent.
(S & I) 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 (S & I) Effective communication and evidenced copywriting skills with excellent attention to detail (S & I) Experience creating engaging, authentic, and accessible content with design skills in Canva or similar.
(S &I) Experience collaborating with and influencing stakeholders at all levels within a large complex organisation.
(I) Highly organised and self-reliant.
Comfortable working at pace on multiple projects with the ability to progress projects pragmatically and deliver to deadlines effectively, in an evolving landscape.
(I) Hybrid Working This opportunity is offered on a hybrid working basis.
Your base location can be either Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire or Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire.
Anticipated visits to your base location would be approximately 2 days per month for collaborative working.

About UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) UKRI launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

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 .

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 UK Research and Innovation (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.

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