Early Careers Talent Acquisition Advisor

Overview of Responsibilities

As an Early Careers Talent Acquisition Advisor, you’ll lead the full-cycle recruitment for our Early Careers programmes including Summer Internships, Apprenticeships, Graduate roles, and One Year in Industry placements. You’ll manage assessment centres across various disciplines, build trusted partnerships with hiring managers and the Early Careers Development Team, champion our employer brand and deliver an exceptional candidate experience. The role is hybrid working with 3 days a week in our Culham, Oxford office

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Advertise Early Careers opportunities across various attraction channels, to engage candidates across a number of disciplines.
• Manage the assessment centre, interviewing, offer and preboarding process ensuring consistent best practice and compliance.
• Provide training, coaching, guidance and support to hiring managers during the hiring process, advising on recruitment best practice.
• Proactively contribute to identifying and reporting on various metrics.
• Advise on processes and requirements for candidates who require visa sponsorship, guiding managers through the process.
• Contribute to the review, development and improvements of recruitment processes and procedures to ensure efficiency, compliance and fairness.

£32,577 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension

• Demonstrable Early Careers or Inhouse recruitment experience.
• In-depth understanding of recruitment best practices and legislation.
• Proven experience of using a variety of attraction channels to attract early careers talent across various disciplines.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and the resilience to drive and manage change to achieve the desired results.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and advise key stakeholders and guide hiring decisions
• Strong organisational and problem-solving capability
• A proactive attitude to personal development, embracing new responsibilities and opportunities

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 talent@ukaea.uk 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.

As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:

• Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
• Corporate bonus scheme up to 7%and a Relocationallowance (if eligible).
• Flexible working optionsincluding family friendly policies.
• Employee Assistance Programmeand trained Mental Health First Aiders,
• Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays
• Wide range of career development opportunities
• A vibrant culturecommitted to equality and being fully inclusive

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What can I expect from the application process at UKAEA?

Once you have submitted a formal application via our website, all CVs will be reviewed shortly after the closing date of the advert.

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