Job Title: Talent Acquisition Specialist
Location: Manchester – Hybrid
Salary: £25,000-£30,000
Job Type: Permanent / Full-time – Working Hours – 4.5 days
Closing Date: 25/07/2023
Tech Returners:
Northcoders Group is on a mission to help businesses close their technology skills gap whilst creating life-changing opportunities for individuals from all walks of life. Through our brands, we can provide businesses with the most diverse and comprehensive pool of technology experts. In short, at Northcoders you will be part of an organisation that changes people’s lives.
We are now hiring for an Talent Acquisition Specialist, you’ll be focused on attracting, assessing and onboarding returning engineers to our core and award-winning programme – Tech Returners.
This role is focused on Tech Returners programmes. Tech Returners is an inclusive, accessible, and positive learning and coaching community empowering careers into and through technology with a range of programmes, resources and development tools. The organisation is committed to removing the barriers returners face after a career break and tackling the skills shortage in technology by empowering people into technology careers and providing continuous support on their journeys through technology and into leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work alongside internal and external key stakeholders to plan our sourcing strategy for the individual programmes
- Assess individual applications in line with the programme requirements
- Host Behavioural Interviews
- Engage with individuals on the benefits of the programmes
- Keep our active pipeline of future applicants engaged
- Work with our Marketing and Talent teams to implement the marketing recruitment campaigns
- Identify the correct platforms to use to attract individuals for each programme and to promote the marketing recruitment campaigns
- Create weekly reports on campaign success
- Attend virtual and in-person events to network with individuals suitable for the programmes
- Support Returners onto our programmes
- Support the Talent team on wider talent acquisition responsibilities
Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
- With 1-3 years of experience in a recruitment/onboarding role, you will have a passion for technology and Diversity & Inclusion. You’ll be experienced at engaging with technology professionals via social media, interviewing individuals and be confident in presenting our programmes to the returners.
- As the Talent Acquisition Specialist, you’ll be tasked with attracting, sourcing, selecting, and supporting the programme participants to join our Tech Returners programme, delivered across the UK.
- Working in a fast-paced environment you’ll need to be driven, a problem solver, focused, conscientious, commercially astute, a great communicator and above all passionate about your work.
- You’ll be working as part of a supportive, remote-based team and you’ll have the flexibility to work around any family or personal commitments.
Benefits:
- Contract: Full time
- Hours: 36 hours over a 4.5 day working week
- Salary: £25k-£30k
- Location: Manchester or Leeds, offering a hybrid and flexible working pattern
- Holiday: 5 weeks of holiday + bank holidays
- Benefits: Employee assistance programme, enhanced family-friendly policies, optional private health insurance and competitive pension
Our Culture:
Northcoders Group is for those who want to work in a fast-paced environment where everyone is focused on the company’s success rather than their own. We’re independent thinkers with big ideas who act boldly, move fast and jump straight in at the deep end but most importantly, we have no blame culture. Instead, we learn, listen, and strive to improve together. We have a unique culture that we are proud of and has served us well since we set off on our mission in Manchester in 2015.
At Northcoders, we accomplish extraordinary things through collaboration and trust. We love a sense of humour, lunches together, team evenings & our company-wide team bonding days, especially in the summer!
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV for this role.
Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Talent Attraction, Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, Talent Management, Talent Selection, Interviewing, Head Hunting, Assessment centres, Behavioural interviews, Technical Interviews, Talent Sourcing, Human Resources will all be considered.
