Talent Acquisition Lead in Abingdon

Overview

As a Talent Acquisition Lead, you\\\’ll play a key role in partnering with stakeholders to create and deliver end-to-end recruitment strategies to meet the current and future talent needs of our Engineering and Scientific functions. You\\\’ll build and develop strong internal relationships while promoting and enhancing our employer brand and providing a positive candidate experience. Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Manager you\\\’ll be working alongside a great team of twelve Talent Acquisition experts who are passionate about supporting the business to deliver our mission, to lead the delivery of sustainable fusion energy.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with our Engineering and Scientific Functions to recruit high-quality candidates using your expertise throughout the recruitment process from talent attraction & engagement, assessment & selection through to offer management.
• Talent mapping, identifying trends and analysing external competition to identify, source and deliver highly skilled talent pipelines and provide competitor and candidate market insights.
• Develop innovative sourcing strategies to identify and attract both passive and active candidates using diverse recruitment channels to support current and future talent requirements.
• Promote the UKAEA brand, values and mission from attraction campaign activity through to assessment and selection and the offer management stage.
• Drive and contribute to change initiatives, continuously assessing and improving the talent acquisition infrastructure and processes to support the business strategy and vision.
• Operationalise the talent acquisition strategy and drive continuous improvement projects and initiatives engaging and collaborating with the HR Business Partners team and key stakeholders.
• Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) as well as implementing best practice and offering advice at every stage of the recruitment process, promoting UKAEA as an inclusive employer.
• Act as a subject matter expert and role model to junior colleagues, sharing best practice and guidance on recruitment process, policy, technology and industry trends.

Requirements

The salary for this role is £39,610 and will be based from our Culham site in Oxfordshire. This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.