Talent Acquisition Advisor

BBC Group and Public Services; London; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in broadcasting seeks a Talent Acquisition Advisor to drive recruitment across its divisions. This hybrid role requires a passionate professional skilled in stakeholder management and recruitment processes, striving to enhance candidate experiences while meeting diverse hiring needs.

Benefits

Flexible working options

25 days annual leave plus 5 days to buy

Defined pension scheme

Discounted healthcare and gym memberships

Extensive training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in high-volume recruitment either inhouse or agency.
• Ability to manage multiple campaigns simultaneously.
• Experience in inclusive recruitment practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end recruitment service for permanent and FTC roles.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders for a seamless candidate experience.
• Ensure compliance with inclusive recruitment processes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Recruitment policy knowledge

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Job description

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Job Reference: 24318
Band: B
Salary: £24,500 - £32,700 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: 1 x Permanent role and 2 x 6 month fixed term contracts (Welsh language is desirable for one of the fixed term contracts)
Location: Flexible – Any BBC UK office base (London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Salford, Glasgow, Belfast) This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more .

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the [e-mail] For any general queries, please contact: [e-mail].

Job Introduction

As the BBC moves into its 102nd year of informing, educating and entertaining its audiences, our Talent Acquisition teams continue to play an integral part in helping the business to find the right people for the right jobs, to keep the BBC performing at its best #YourBBC.

If you’re passionate about recruitment with an inclusion and accessibility mindset, then this role is for you!

We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Advisor to join us in recruiting for roles across our various divisions. The successful candidate will thrive off working in a challenging and busy environment, always keeping the candidate and the manager at the central point in all they do to deliver high quality, diverse hires in to the BBC across Public Services.

The Talent Acquisition Advisor will be a trusted partner working in partnership with their hiring managers, providing a high quality, expert consultative service to the business. The Talent Acquisition team has its' challenges, so the individual needs to be able to adapt and be organised amongst the change around them. However, amongst the challenges, you will be entering a supportive and collaborative team, where everyone is heard and supported no matter what.

If this sounds like a role you would be interested in, and want more information, please contact Marie Perrygrove @ [e-mail]

Main Responsibilities

The Talent Acquisition Advisor is an integral part of a busy high performing Talent Team, where you will deliver a wide variety of recruitment for band A-D roles. The role will deliver filling a variety of vacancies across the organisation. The successful individual will work independently to deliver circa 20 requisitions at any one time and will also work collaboratively as part of a wider team to manage more complex Talent Acquisition projects, as well as answering policy/process requests where required.

You will report into the Talent Acquisition Team Leads. Where necessary you will also be required to work with Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partners and the wider TA team, from Sourcing to Onboarding to ensure BBC-wide opportunities are realised and value created.

Additionally you will be required to:

• Deliver an exemplary end to end resourcing service for permanent and FTC hiring from role kick-off, screening and scheduling to closing and onboarding candidates. You’ll bring your personality, relationship building and expertise to help evolve how we deliver recruitment for our stakeholders.

• Work proactively with internal stakeholders to ensure a connected approach, balancing the need to improve the employee experience with commercial reality.

• Ensure inclusive recruitment processes and practices are followed

• Work closely with Sourcing in an integrated way to drive continuous improvement and process ownership across recruitment and sourcing ensuring a seamless candidate and hiring manager experience.

• Build relationships with and act as the specialist point of contact for recruitment Bands A-D

• Manage any queries from hiring managers or candidates relating to quality of service.

• Responsible for escalating issues and queries as deemed necessary and in the appropriate manner.

• Ensure delivery against service level agreements and KPIs to enhance the reputation of the BBC Talent Acquisition function through excellent service and professionalism.

• Contribute to a culture of service excellence and role-modelling of BBC Values and
Behaviours by supporting continuous improvement, bringing insights into the organisation to identify opportunities, risks and priorities.

Are you the right candidate?

We value providing a fantastic recruitment experience for our hiring managers and candidates. You will be a strong communicator with excellent inter-personal skills, someone who enjoys meeting and engaging with people at all levels, being confident and diplomatic when needed, and using tact and discretion as appropriate.

We are looking for candidates who;

• Bring a track record of hiring top talent in a high-performing team, managing a high workload, either inhouse or agency (or both).
• Have experience of dealing with stakeholders and have an understanding of recruitment policy and employment law in order to help operate as a trusted partner across the business and be skilled at leveraging relationships to manage challenging conversations with confidence and empathy.
• Have a track record of providing great candidate experience.
• Are confident working autonomously and of managing your own workload through efficient prioritisation .
• Are experienced in volume recruitment and accomplished working at pace, you’ll be skilled at managing a number of campaigns simultaneously, demonstrating a flexible and adaptable approach.
• Have experience of inclusive recruitment process and practice.
• Are a natural collaborator, invested in the sharing of ideas to continually develop the team’s operation.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here .

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.