Main Purpose of the job: Talent Acquisition Support Officer

• To provide administrative coordination and support to the Council’s resourcing and talent acquisition consultancy service for all aspects of employee resourcing (permanent and agency), covering the end-to-end recruitment life cycle.

• To keep an administrative overview of Resourcing and Talent acquisition processes and systems to ensure clients and members of the team experience a quality, day-to-day service: prompting and reminding both parties about deadlines and requirements to ensure services are delivered to time and quality.

• To gather and collate data used to monitor, drive and improve services to customers.

• To build and maintain effective working relationships with members of the resourcing and talent acquisition team, helping them to ensure high quality delivery to service end-users

Summary of Responsibilities and Personal Duties: Talent Acquisition Support Officer

• To work closely with Resourcing and Talent Acquisition Advisers to understand the needs of their hiring managers and to support their delivery of the agreed most suitable attraction methods. Also, to support their choices of selection methods and support the organisation, ordering and (where necessary) secure storage – digital and/or physical – of those assessments.
• To liaise with advertising partners on the instruction of the Resourcing and Talent Acquisition Advisers, e.g., written amendments to agreed copy. Likewise for social media content, as directed by the Resourcing and Talent Acquisition Advisers and Manager

• To provide administrative support for the life cycle of all recruitment campaigns assigned, to ensure Resourcing and Talent Acquisition Advisers and Manager timetables are tracked and hiring managers and candidates are kept informed of any changes to the timetable as instructed by the assigned Talent Acquisition team lead for that assignment.

• To provide recruitment administration activities that ensure candidates are kept engaged and informed throughout the agreed recruitment and onboarding processes
• To provide administrative support for the organisation and delivery of recruitment training and induction events, engagement activities, job fairs and diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Experience of dealing with all administrative aspects

Experience supporting managers in delivering effective services to customers/end-users.

Experience of administering and monitoring an Applicant Tracking system

Experience of working in an HR department in a customer focused organisation.

Experience in screening and shortlisting candidates