Talent Acquisition Consultant

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Hybrid working (expectation of a minimum 2 days a week office based in Guildford)

Immediate start - 6 month contract

47,426.00 - 54,116.00 - DOE

We're the UK's leading awarding body with ambitions to diversify and extend internationally. We've a new strategy and are facing into the challenges of a highly disrupted industry which is creating increase opportunity for talent across our organisation.

As a result of this exciting change, we're looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our established team of internal recruiters on a 6 month fixed term contract.

We're looking for an experienced recruiter who can hit the ground running with strong recruitment networks, established resourcing tools and a creative and agile approach to sourcing niche and challenging technical roles.

As the Talent Acquisition Consultant, you'll have the opportunity to support the team in building their sourcing strategies to widen our pool of candidates, attracting talent from more diverse networks to support our EDI ambitions. You'll lead and manage end-to-end recruitment campaigns, utilising innovative and traditional marketing channels, evaluating and measuring campaign success.

You'll be joining a welcoming and supportive talent acquisition team, representing a market leading brand.

As a Talent Acquisition Consultant, you'll have:

• Experience in an internal or agency environment as a Recruiter managing your own requisition load end to end (permanent / FTC roles)
• Strong search capabilities, using various platforms and techniques to proactively identify talent in the market
• The ability to quickly learn new business areas, new role profiles, and to connect strategy with transactional activity
• Have the gravitas, credibility and influence to work with senior leaders, with a self-motivated work ethic.
• Confidence and curiosity to open closed doors, to challenge requirements, to approach new ways of working and to actively promote our vacancies to passive candidates
• Great problem-solving skills, that can contribute to our internal recruitment and talent attraction strategies.

What we can offer you:

• A supportive team environment where you will be working alongside others from within recruitment and outside the department to achieve the same goals
• The chance to explore a new industry sector, or a new range of roles to recruit for, in a market-leading organisation with a positive brand reputation
• The opportunity to challenge existing ways of working, to investigate new tools and processes, to be creative and agile in your approach to talent identification and attraction.
• Opportunity to work as a strategic partner with your hiring managers and hr colleagues on senior level and cutting edge technical positions to broaden your experience

Benefits

At AQA we recognise our employees' contribution and in return we are proud to offer an extensive reward and benefit package. This includes:

• 25 days' annual leave rising to 30 days, plus all Bank Holidays and additional Christmas leave
• 35 hour working week
• excellent contributory pension (6% - 11.5% dependent on employee contribution)
• and more???

How to apply

Please upload your CV and covering letter via our AQA job portal.

• Closing date for applications is midnight on Thursday 16 September 2021.

Applications will be reviewed as we receive them and if a suitable candidate is identified, we reserve the right to close our advert sooner.

AQA is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique.

AQA is committed to the safeguarding of children and adults at risk. We're dedicated to reducing the risk of employing or contracting any person intent on abusing their position of trust, along with identifying and responding to any incident of alleged abuse from its employees or associates fairly and swiftly. For more information on safeguarding at AQA please visit the AQA website.

About AQA

AQA are an independent education charity and the largest provider of academic qualifications taught in schools and colleges. With a turnover of over GBP170m, we set and mark papers for around half of all GCSEs and A-levels. In the summer of 2019 we awarded over 3 million qualifications. Born out of five leading universities, we have over a century of qualifications expertise. Today, we employ more than 1000 people across six locations and work with around 27,000 teachers, lecturers, subject experts and academics, who help set and mark our exams.