Job Description

Job Title: Recruitment Partner
Salary: \xc2\xa328,498 gross per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: 1 Year Fixed Term Contract
Location: Swindon with hybrid working options available. This role can also be based at RAL, Oxfordshire or Daresbury, Warrington.

Together, our scientist, technologists, engineers and business support team explore the unknown and turn what they find into work that changes the world around us.

Come and discover how much you can achieve when you\xe2\x80\x99re surrounded by world-leading experts, encouraged to constantly learn and empowered to explore your curiosity.

About the Role:

The role will provide advice and assistance on recruitment solutions to enable our hiring managers to carry out all recruitment activity, while also ensuring a high-quality candidate experience.

Working within the UKRI HR team, the main role of the Recruitment Partner is to provide recruitment advice, completing the transactional elements of the recruitment process and support to Hiring Managers and Senior Recruitment Partners to ultimately ensure UKRI are best placed to attract suitable candidates and ensuring a high-quality candidate experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide advice and guidance on recruitment solutions to hiring managers, including advertising, interviews, all forms of assessment and on-boarding
• Provide support and guidance to enable hiring managers to carry out all recruitment activity. This includes ensuring the necessary approvals are in place, coaching hiring managers to input vacancies correctly onto the relevant system, providing/uploading the relevant paperwork and forms for completion and overseeing progress of recruitment campaigns
• Deliver the full range of activities relating to candidate management, including where appropriate, working with our onboarding service provider, UK SBS, to ensure a seamless, timely and professional experience for candidates
• Provide information and support to candidates from the point of application to on-boarding, acting as an ambassador for UKRI to present a positive and engaging impression
• Arrange interviews
• Oversee the new starter process to ensure successful candidates can take up employment quickly
• Working closely with HR colleagues to ensure they are kept up to date with progress on recruitment activity
• Providing updates on key accountabilities to allow for analysis for continuous improvement
• Adapt to new ways of working identified in overarching resourcing strategy to improve the UKRI offering, working alongside our Talent Team

Contacts and Communication:

• Reporting to the Senior Recruitment Partner
• Work closely with all members of the UKRI HR Team
• Liaise regularly with the UK SBS onboarding colleagues where appropriate
• Provide recruitment advice and support to the hiring community
• Liaise with colleagues in other functional areas on process related matters

Person Specification:

• Experience from within a recruitment environment with knowledge of recruitment best practice
• Experience of providing recruitment support and advice for the full end-to-end recruitment process, reviewing CVs and arranging interviews
• Highly organised with strong administration experience with excellent MS Office Skills
• Able to build relationships with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders
• Ability to demonstrate a continuous improvement approach
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately
• Adaptable to change

Our Benefits:

Our Benefits include a flexible working scheme (subject to business requirements), Defined benefit pension scheme (employer contribution \xe2\x80\x93 currently up to 26%), and 30 days annual leave allowance plus 10.5 bank holiday/privilege days and several other benefits.

As one of Europe\xe2\x80\x99s largest research organisations, this is a place where there\xe2\x80\x99s always something new to learn \xe2\x80\x93about the world around us, about your career, but most of all, about yourself.

Join us and discover what\xe2\x80\x99s possible!

As this job does not fulfil the UK Government minimum criterion for obtaining sponsored migrant worker status we will be unable to apply for sponsorship for anyone not eligible to work in the UK. At interview, all shortlisted candidates are required to bring with them identification documents and original documents that prove they hold or can obtain the right to work in the UK. You can check your eligibility here:

About UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

UKRI launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Our organisation brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK\xe2\x80\x99s innovation agency, Innovate UK. Together we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation. More information can be found at .

Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit .

How we support EDI in the workforce

At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit .

As this job does not fulfil the UK Government minimum salary criterion for obtaining sponsored migrant worker status we will be unable to apply for sponsorship for anyone not eligible to work in the UK. At the interview, all shortlisted candidates are required to bring with them identification documents and original documents that prove they hold or can obtain the right to work in the UK. You can check your eligibility here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y

Disability Confident Employer

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

How to apply

Online applications preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the \xe2\x80\x98experience\xe2\x80\x99 section of the application.

UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion \xe2\x80\x93 a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.

As this job does not fulfil the UK Government minimum salary criterion for obtaining sponsored migrant worker status we will be unable to apply for sponsorship for anyone not eligible to work in the UK. At the interview, all shortlisted candidates are required to bring with them identification documents and original documents that prove they hold or can obtain the right to work in the UK. You can check your eligibility here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y

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