About the Role:

Are you an experienced Recruiter wanting to join a thriving, strategic Talent Acquisition team? This opportunity is not to be missed…

As Talent Acquisition Partner you’ll be responsible for delivering effective end-to-end recruitment of experienced hires to National Grid ESO (Electricity System Operator), to deliver our current and future people requirements as we lead on a global stage to decarbonise the UK Energy System by 2050, and drive towards achieving a Net Zero future.

You’ll use your excellent stakeholder management skills to partner with the ESO business to source, attract, select and recruit high quality candidates, whilst enhancing our employer brand.

This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

Key Accountabilities:

Utilising your recruitment experience, from agency or in-house TA, you’ll manage applicants through the end-to-end recruitment process to secure a positive candidate experience, ensuring our processes are inclusive and encourage DEI best practise. Managing a multitude of interesting and wide ranging mid-level role briefs, you’ll be responsible for designing hiring campaigns, creating adverts, and using tools such as social media and headhunting to drive direct sourcing. Business partnering key stakeholders across the ESO, you’ll develop talent pipelines for niche/ hard to fill positions, and map external markets, organisations and trends to deliver strong talent pipelines and recruitment insights, whilst driving time to offer and time to hire.

About You:

You have an excellent knowledge of recruitment practices, key areas of HR and law affecting recruitment and selection, gained from a recruitment agency at a senior level or in-house Talent Acquisition background. In person you’re exceptionally organised and a problem-solver, with keen attention to detail, who enjoys managing a high volume of projects whilst maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships utilising your collaborative working style. You have expertise in vendor management, and are adept using social media such as LinkedIn for recruitment and employer branding purposes. Previous experience having used SAP SuccessFactors or other in-house Talent systems and LinkedIn Recruiter would be highly regarded, as would relevant qualifications such as CIPD.

As this is a 12 month FTC and an immediate requirement, if you’re immediately available, working your notice, or on a short notice period, this would also enhance your application.

What we can Offer You:

A competitive salary between £38,000 – £49,000 (dependent on experience)

Plus:

• Annual Bonus & annual salary benchmarking

• Generous contributory pension scheme (for every £1 you put in we put in £2 - we double-match to a max company contribution of up to 12%)

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 statutory days, plus the opportunity to buy 5 more annually)

• Life Insurance: 10 x your basic salary

• Access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car, health and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – so long as it’s relevant to your role.

• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).

• Access to apps that support health, fitness and wellbeing.

• Supportive, friendly team

Further Information:

• Advert Close: Monday 10th April 2023, midnight

• Interviews: w/c 17th or 24th April 2023

• This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract, to start as soon as possible

• If you require further information please reach out to our Recruitment Partner directly: [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/ptempleton/

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of who we are and what we do. Our commitment to these values is unwavering and they are central to our mission. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries and we are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that you require.

We are keen to have great people join our team and will be progressing to interviews quickly for those that meet the requirements of the role. Therefore, we encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

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About Us:

As Great Britain’s electricity system operator (ESO), we sit at the very heart of the electricity system, using our outstanding engineering and commercial expertise to balance electricity supply and demand. Ultimately, we keep the electricity flowing directly to where it’s needed, second by second.

The British Government has set out its ambition to produce net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and the energy industry is responding – together we are building a cleaner, greener Britain. We, as ESO, have an important role on this journey: we are constantly thinking about how to best shape the future of energy, and are working to operate a greener and cleaner electricity system.

Becoming the Future System Operator (FSO):

You may have seen the Government and Ofgem have asked the ESO to take on new roles and responsibilities to help deliver net-zero.

Becoming the Energy Future System Operator (FSO) is a critical step to help deliver a reliable and clean energy transition for all. The ESO, including all of its existing roles, will be at the heart of the new Future System Operator, taking on additional roles with a whole energy system mindset to drive progress towards net zero while maintaining energy security and minimising costs for consumers.

The new organisation will be set up as a public corporation with operational independence from government – bringing parties together to support optimised decision making and action. As now, it will be licenced and regulated by Ofgem but funded by consumers through price control agreements. It is anticipated that the new organisation will be up and running by or in 2024.