Job description
Support the Talent Acquisition Partner to source the best talent to deliver
our student-focused, professions-facing and society shaping ambitions. The
post holder will assist with and coordinate channels for candidate attraction
and on-boarding, building a strong employer brand, and ensuring an
excellent candidate experience.
Work alongside the Talent Acquisition Partner to contribute to devising
effective, timely and up to date recruitment strategies that meet the needs of
faculties and services, and that are designed to attract the best talent
pipeline possible.
Key
Responsibilities
and
Accountabilities:
- Support and coordinate the attraction, recruitment and selection
process across faculties and services, from job-design and position
advertisement through to offer management and on-boarding.
Ensuring that the process is conducted quickly and professionally
and in accordance with best practice.
- Assist the Talent Acquisition Partner to develop a proactive talent
attraction approach and workforce plan, incorporating current and
future workforce needs, role profiling, salary benchmarking and
grading.
- Support with executing recruitment strategies including internal and
external searches, partnering with hiring managers to guide them
through the hiring journey, and consulting with them to create
accurate, engaging, and inclusive role profiles.
- Connect with candidates across diverse talent pools, ensuring a first-
class candidate experience, working closely with all applicants
throughout the application and interview process, offering timely
outcomes and feedback.
- Build a strong candidate network of diverse talent pools, and utilise a
variety of direct recruitment methods to source candidates (e.g.
Linked in, Job Boards, employee referrals, advertising etc)
- Ensure all processes are documented and are efficient offering a
great candidate and manager experience
- work closely with colleagues across HR to share best practice,
knowledge, and talent pools.
- Support discussions with external specialist agencies; brief, manage
and negotiate fees with third-party suppliers as and when required
- Advise hiring managers on selection techniques including telephone
interviewing, competency-based interviewing, psychometric testing,
assessment centres etc.
- Assist the Talent Acquisition Partner to produce and present reports
and metrics to support continuous improvement; Help to define
reporting requirements for recruitment and build dashboards using
data to drive recruitment decisions.
- Support in the collation of market insight and salary bench-marking
data to ensure we remain competitive as a university.
- Contribute to project work as required in line with Talent Acquisition
goals and objectives.
- Continuously build knowledge of the University of Sunderland and
the Higher Education Sector. Create and enhance the University’s
brand and offering, linking in with our five core values.
- Coordinate and develop Stonefish and it’s processes (ATS),
ensuring optimum functionality. Maintain systems and databases to
ensure accurate tracking and reporting or recruiting life cycle.
- Train, guide and support the HR Admin team with Recruitment
processes, policies and systems.
- Develop and promote the University’s EVP as an effective attraction
tool.
- Build strong and credible relationships with internal stakeholders,
partnering with them to gain knowledge of their hiring needs.
- Work with the Talent Development colleagues to up-skill managers
in assessment and selection.
- Work closely with the Business Partnering team to ensure the
People Plans are clear and in line with the overall objectives of the
service and the University.
- Lead or contribute to HR projects and working groups as
appropriate.
- Act as an ambassador for the University and the HR team and role
model the University values.
- In support of the Talent Acquisition Partner and the EDI Manager,
- ensure that we can attract, recruit, develop and deploy diverse
teams and inclusive leaders, co-creating positive action
interventions where required
- Undertake any other duties commensurate with grade
Special
Circumstances:
University of Sunderland
Role Profile
Part 2
Part 2A: Essential and Desirable Criteria
Essential Essential
Desirable
Qualifications and Professional Memberships:
Educated to degree level or equivalent
Knowledge and Experience:
- Proven recruitment experience, ideally with applicant tracking systems
- Experience of direct sourcing, pipelining (mapping external landscape)
through social media i.e. Linked in/job boards and candidate management
etc.
- Strong communication skills and confident communicating effectively with
all levels of the organization.
- Passion and enthusiasm for attracting best talent
- Confident interpreting data and demonstrable experience of balancing
priorities and workload
- Ability to develop strong business relationships
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A good level of relevant digital and IT skills for the role including
competence in Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel.
Desirable
Qualifications and Professional Memberships:
- Experience of using an HR and payroll software system
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience of working within the Higher Education sector
- Experience of communicating and collaborating remotely using tools such
as Zoom or Microsoft Teams
Part 2B: Key Competencies
Competencies
are assessed at
the
interview/selecti
on testing stage
Generic Competencies:
Corporate Commitment:
- Demonstrates a visible commitment to the University’s vision, values and
People Plan deliverables.
Working Collaboratively:
- Engages constructively with internal and external stakeholders to build and
maintain effective working relationships
- Demonstrates excellent influencing and interpersonal skills with and ability
to engage effectively and positively across a range of stakeholders
- Demonstrates excellent oral and written communication skills
Solution Focused:
- Develops positive, creative, and innovative approaches to challenges and
emerging issues
- Displays a strong commitment to continuous improvement; looks for ways
to continuously improve performance
Accountability and resilience:
- Takes ownership and displays resolve to be accountable for delivering
against objectives
- Ability to undertake multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a professional
manner
- Ability to cope with a high workload, conflicting priorities and competing
deadlines
Personal Integrity:
- Demonstrates honesty, loyalty, and integrity
Confidence:
- Displays self-confidence, demonstrating a ‘can do’ approach
- Inspires confidence in others
Decision Making:
- Ability to analyse and use information to support decision making
- Ability to weigh up pros and cons to various options
Date Completed: November 2022