Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Full Time

up to 12 Month FTC/Secondment 

Salary – £34,528 - £43,160 depending on experience

Location – Hanningfield, Chelmsford with some travel across our Suffolk and Durham operating areas

Please note first stage interviews will be via teams on 1 April. If successful to second stage interviews will be held 15  April 

We're open to discussing flexible working 

About the role

We’ve a great opportunity to be part of our Talent Acquisition team as a Talent Acquisition Specialist to support our business to deliver on our business plans for now and the future.  You’ll have a real passion for enabling our hiring managers across the business to discover the right talent to support them with their needs and future strategy, in a regulatory and compliance lead business.

We’re looking for you to become the owner of all recruitment and selection processes within your business areas, reviewing each stage of the recruitment cycle from adverts through to interviewing and offers, to ensure that they are compliant with NWG’s approach. You’ll be responsible for the full 360 recruitment process, this includes preparing offers and contracts.

You’ll be supporting internal stakeholders including Level 2/3 Leaders, Managers and HR Business Partners/Advisors and Specialists, along with working with resourcing suppliers. We’re looking for you to develop and maintain a strong external network to review and research recruitment practices and provide best practice and trend led insight within the people function.

We’re looking for you to become a Talent Acquisition subject matter expert, providing expertise and guidance to provide effective resourcing approaches across the organisation to enable the business to make high standard selection decisions.

You’ll be responsible for building external community networks and partnerships to support our DE&I strategy, to ensure we are providing career opportunities information and support to attract diversity and inclusion into our business.

About you

So, we are looking for you to have a real passion and energy to enable our business to recruit across so many different types of roles and requirements. 

You’ll already be a recruitment expert, this could be inhouse recruitment or with a recruitment agency, so passionate about delivering an amazing customer experience to your candidates and hiring managers.

We’re looking for you to have proven use of LinkedIn Recruiter, to enable you to source talent, hold briefing calls with them and bring to life the role and the opportunity, through to providing feedback at all stages of the recruitment lifecycle.

We’re looking for you to have the ability to build community links, to build our talent pools for the now and in the future and to support us in building on our DE&I commitments to the communities we work within.

We’re looking for you to have a practical and outcome focused mindset, with the proven ability to clearly prioritise activity in a sequential order.  You’ll have proven technology skills to use evolving on-line platforms and channels to deliver outcomes, along with excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to write reports and analyse metrics.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.

Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.

We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. 

Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment

NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.

About us

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply

NWG at a glance:

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.

We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Our benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 26 days plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.