About the job

Job summary

The Talent Acquisition Officer will report directly to the Senior Talent Acquisition Manager and will support the delivery of end to end recruitment, selection and attraction services to attract highly skilled, efficient and engaged people for all roles across the SFO. 

This role is part of a wider People and Culture team who are responsible for providing a range of front line support services and guidance to the business.

We are looking for someone with a positive outlook, who is motivated to help us deliver high quality recruitment and attraction services and who wants to support our efforts to make continuous improvements to how we work.  You will be one of two Talent Acquisition Officers responsible for delivering a professional resourcing service including recruitment, selection, appointments, onboarding, inductions and any other people related administration and project work.

The successful Talent Acquisition Officer will have experience of undertaking recruitment processes and use of online recruitment tools whilst working as part of a team to deliver an effective support service.

Job description

As a Talent Acquisition Officer you will responsible for: 

• Coordinating and managing internal recruitment campaigns, including advertising vacancies and sorting the logistics around sift, interviews and assessments. Liaising with candidates, panels and agencies to finalise arrangements.
• Communicating professionally with candidates, including the acknowledgement of applications, relaying sift and interview results, inviting candidates to interview and responding to ad hoc queries around eligibility and selection processes.
• Completing pre-employment checks and ensuring security vetting and ID documents are received for all new permanent, fixed term and temporary appointments.
• Ensuring a clear audit trail of all recruitment and appointment documentation is maintained and sharing responsibility for the retention/disposal of data in accordance with policy.
• Drafting and issuing conditional offers and contracts for new appointments, responding to queries about terms and conditions of employment and liaising with hiring managers to agree start dates.
• Coordinating temporary appointments by liaising with managers and agencies, ensuring temporary staff records are accurate and kept up-to-date. 

For more information about the role and for a full list of key responsibilities, please see attached Job Pack.

Person specification

See above and attached Job Pack

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £27,148, Serious Fraud Office contributes £7,329 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Application Stage 

As part of the application process, you will be required to provide:

A personal statement of no more than 500 words attached to your CV that explains how your skills and experience meet each of the essential and desirable experience criteria.

Please note, desirable experience will only be taken into account if there is a large volume of applications and there is a need for further shortlisting for interview.

A supporting CV outlining your job history and qualifications, (including how you meet the essential technical criteria for the role.)

It will not be possible to provide feedback to applicants who are unsuccessful at the application stage.

Interview stage

Behaviours and experience as outlined in the job description will be tested at interview.

Full details of the interview process will be made available to shortlisted candidates in the invite to interview.

• Closing date is 11:55pm on the 4th August 2024
• Sift to take place w/c 12th August 2024
• Interviews are expected to take place w/c 19th August 2024

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.