About the job

Job summary

Salary: £34,905
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Open Ended
Location: Hybrid Working - Base Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire or Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot.

Closing Date: Sunday 4 February 2024

To proactively implement and run initiatives, projects and tools that connect, engage, and attract diverse future talent to the UKRI Workforce. Working within the UKRI Talent team to champion new ways of working, support implementation and run new and existing tools and processes, ensuring UKRI are best placed to engage and attract the right people at the right time. Offer subject matter expert advice and specialist guidance that meet customer needs and shapes campaigns.

Job description

• Develop and manage talent attraction initiatives, ensuring communication, engagement and metrics are undertaken effectively, aligned to best practice
• Support the Talent Attraction team with the creation and roll out of the UKRI Talent Attraction Framework as well as supporting individual council or skill attraction strategies as required
• Reviews and create materials, content and social content to ensure it captures the essence of working at UKRI and is aligned to the talent attraction framework messages, segmented to target talent pools.
• Create and manage a schedule of content aligned to the talent strategy. Updating and collaborating with colleagues to update content on multiple platforms as required to keep content relevant, timely and impactful to keep target audience informed and engaged with careers at UKRI
• Support organisational understanding of social platforms, supporting initiatives to build employee advocacy and tools to aid embedding new ways of working into business as usual

Person specification

Essential

• Experience in resourcing, recruitment marketing and/or talent attraction, providing varied attraction solutions to complex needs.
• Experience of developing talent content and copy, with excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills.
• Experience of developing recruitment marketing campaigns with a good understanding of the available channels, metrics and strategies that can be deployed to reach the target audience.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the candidate journey, including knowledge of websites, SEO and Google analytics.
• Demonstrate an understanding of an Employer Value Proposition (EVP), Employer Brand and varied inclusive talent attraction strategies and how they can be deployed in sectors where skills are scarce.

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Benefits

Alongside your salary of £34,905, UK Research and Innovation contributes £9,424 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

Applicants are required to provide an up-to-date CV and a cover letter outlining their suitability for the role. Further information on how to apply is listed on our careers page. Click on 'Apply at advertiser's site'

Closing Date: Sunday 4 February 2024

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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).

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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

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Working for the Civil Service

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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.