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Talent Acquisition Lead

4 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 310609**Salary**:

- £42,090 - £48,996- £42,090 - £48,996 per annum (E3 Grade)- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Other- E3 Grade**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- 18 months**Business area**:

- Human Resources**Type of role**:

- Business Management and Improvement
- Human Resources
- Project Delivery
- Strategy
- Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Homeworking**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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- Edinburgh - Hybrid Working AvailableAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Everything we do at the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) aims to create the right environment for colleges and universities to thrive individually and collectively.

The Scottish Funding Council is Scotland’s tertiary education and research authority. Our ambition is to make Scotland an outstanding place to learn, educate, research, and innovate - now and for the future. So, naturally, we have a clear focus on recruiting the best people and developing them throughout their career.

We invest around £2 billion every year, and our funding enables colleges and universities to provide life-changing opportunities for over half a million people.

We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but also people who will connect with our guiding principles which include working in partnership, championing diversity, and supporting sustainability for future generations.

By fostering our guiding principles, we are very proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. We are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds: we want our colleague base to reflect the people and communities that we serve.

**Job description**:
**Job Summary**

Here at SFC we are undertaking an exciting and ambitious programme of organisational transformation spanning culture and values, organisational design, process improvement, digital modernisation and more.

This is a new role within our small HR team to support this transformation programme with a focus on the attraction, recruitment and selection of people resources and the management of organisational change. If you have a passion for talent attraction and you enjoy designing, developing and implementing innovative and effective solutions in partnership with team members and key partners from across the business, we would love to hear from you

**Key Responsibilities**

Lead and coordinate all aspects of attraction, recruitment and selection for SFC, working in close partnership with team members from across HR and other key internal stakeholders. This will include:- Reviewing current recruitment procedures and working practices, including onboarding, to ensure best practice, make recommendations and lead on implementation.
- Embedding a new digital recruitment system, providing effective training and guidance for managers and employees and ensuring procedures and working practices are aligned with the system.
- Providing expert guidance, advice, coaching and training to hiring managers to build recruitment capacity, capability and knowledge, to ensure that role profiles, advertising campaigns, assessment methods, interviews and all aspects of resourcing are relevant, fit for purpose, cost effective, follow best practice and embrace diversity.
- Leading on the effective and timely delivery of the organisation’s recruitment priorities in line with resource decisions made by the Senior Leadership Group.
- Support SFC’s workforce planning. This includes (with HR senior management) working with our finance team to develop and facilitate long-term workforce planning at Senior Leadership Group level, ensuring those plans and aspirations are accurately reflected in regular reporting to Senior Management Team, and work with colleagues in HR and senior management to facilitate change.
- Manage the Governance process for resource decision-making through the Senior Leadership Group, including follow-up action.
- Ensure that Equality, Net Zero, Diversity & Inclusion, including the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, is built in by design to all recruitment processes, policies, tools, and technologies.

**Person specification**:
**It is important through your CV / Cover Letter that you give evidence of proven experience of each of the following essential criteria:
- Extensive experience of leading and coordinating recruitment campaigns and the development of resourcing strategies, ideally in a public sector environment.
- A proven track record in improving recruitment capability within an organisation, including creating or updating people policies, processes and procedures and tools.
- Experience of facilitating effective workforce planning and ideally the implementation of organisational change.
- Highly-developed communication skills including clearly articulating