Talent Acquisition Advisor - #1751551

Package Description

Job Reference: 24318

Band: B

Salary: £24,500 - £32,700 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 1 x Permanent role and 2 x 6 month fixed term contracts (Welsh language is desirable for one of the fixed term contracts)

Location: Flexible – Any BBC UK office base (London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Salford, Glasgow, Belfast) This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Job Introduction

As the BBC moves into its 102nd year of informing, educating and entertaining its audiences, our Talent Acquisition teams continue to play an integral part in helping the business to find the right people for the right jobs, to keep the BBC performing at its best #YourBBC.

If you’re passionate about recruitment with an inclusion and accessibility mindset, then this role is for you!

We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Advisor to join us in recruiting for roles across our various divisions. The successful candidate will thrive off working in a challenging and busy environment, always keeping the candidate and the manager at the central point in all they do to deliver high quality, diverse hires in to the BBC across Public Services.

The Talent Acquisition Advisor will be a trusted partner working in partnership with their hiring managers, providing a high quality, expert consultative service to the business. The Talent Acquisition team has its' challenges, so the individual needs to be able to adapt and be organised amongst the change around them. However, amongst the challenges, you will be entering a supportive and collaborative team, where everyone is heard and supported no matter what.

If this sounds like a role you would be interested in, and want more information, please contact Marie Perrygrove @ [email protected]

Main Responsibilities

The Talent Acquisition Advisor is an integral part of a busy high performing Talent Team, where you will deliver a wide variety of recruitment for band A-D roles. The role will deliver filling a variety of vacancies across the organisation. The successful individual will work independently to deliver circa 20 requisitions at any one time and will also work collaboratively as part of a wider team to manage more complex Talent Acquisition projects, as well as answering policy/process requests where required.

You will report into the Talent Acquisition Team Leads. Where necessary you will also be required to work with Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partners and the wider TA team, from Sourcing to Onboarding to ensure BBC-wide opportunities are realised and value created.

Additionally you will be required to:

• Deliver an exemplary end to end resourcing service for permanent and FTC hiring from role kick-off, screening and scheduling to closing and onboarding candidates. You’ll bring your personality, relationship building and expertise to help evolve how we deliver recruitment for our stakeholders.

• Work proactively with internal stakeholders to ensure a connected approach, balancing the need to improve the employee experience with commercial reality.

• Ensure a great candidate experience.

• Ensure inclusive recruitment processes and practices are followed

• Work closely with Sourcing in an integrated way to drive continuous improvement and process ownership across recruitment and sourcing ensuring a seamless candidate and hiring manager experience.

• Build relationships with and act as the specialist point of contact for recruitment Bands A-D

• Manage any queries from hiring managers or candidates relating to quality of service.

• Provide clear, timely responses.

• Responsible for escalating issues and queries as deemed necessary and in the appropriate manner.

• Ensure delivery against service level agreements and KPIs to enhance the reputation of the BBC Talent Acquisition function through excellent service and professionalism.

• Contribute to a culture of service excellence and role-modelling of BBC Values and

Behaviours by supporting continuous improvement, bringing insights into the organisation to identify opportunities, risks and priorities.

Are you the right candidate?

We value providing a fantastic recruitment experience for our hiring managers and candidates. You will be a strong communicator with excellent inter-personal skills, someone who enjoys meeting and engaging with people at all levels, being confident and diplomatic when needed, and using tact and discretion as appropriate.

We are looking for candidates who;

• Bring a track record of hiring top talent in a high-performing team, managing a high workload, either inhouse or agency (or both).
• Have experience of dealing with stakeholders and have an understanding of recruitment policy and employment law in order to help operate as a trusted partner across the business and be skilled at leveraging relationships to manage challenging conversations with confidence and empathy.
• Have a track record of providing great candidate experience.
• Are confident working autonomously and of managing your own workload through efficient prioritisation .
• Are experienced in volume recruitment and accomplished working at pace, you’ll be skilled at managing a number of campaigns simultaneously, demonstrating a flexible and adaptable approach.
• Have experience of inclusive recruitment process and practice.
• Are a natural collaborator, invested in the sharing of ideas to continually develop the team’s operation.