CSIRO Hiring for Talent Acquisition Specialist – Projects Job at Brisbane Full Time

The Opportunity

• Partner with the business to manage student recruitment campaigns
• Work with a supportive and energetic team of Talent Acquisition specialists
• Truly flexible workplace, mix of home and office!

At CSIRO, we have undergone a transformation of our Talent Acquisition function, moving to a business partnering model with deep specialisation and high touch service. To enact this change, we are growing our team to ensure we are providing a high-level advisory service to our hiring managers, as we work towards delivering a world class talent acquisition service to the organisation.

Due to this growth we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our high-performing, fast paced Projects team. The Projects team manages volume recruitment campaigns throughout the year with specific focus on CERC Postdoctoral Fellows, Summer Vacation students, Postgraduate Scholarships, and Indigenous Programs. The focus for the successful candidate will be the end-to-end recruitment of CSIRO’s Postdoctoral Fellows.

The Projects team works collaboratively across all of CSIRO ensuring hiring needs are met. In this role you will provide consultative and supportive subject matter expert advice to HR and business stakeholders with business and organisational strategy guiding best practice recruitment approach and delivery. In addition, the role will take on a proactive approach in understanding business unit talent opportunities in depth. This will include attending and contributing to regular Business Unit and HR meetings with relevant recruitment metrics and external market data/trends, market trends by discipline and future talent market activity for consideration.

Your duties will include:

• End-to-end recruitment of volume campaigns throughout the year for business units with specific focus on postdoctoral intakes, from sourcing strategy to onboarding activities.
• Delivering progress presentations to business units, recruitment process information sessions to Hiring Managers and regular updates and information to internal stakeholders.
• Partnering with hiring managers to create a recruitment strategy that delivers solutions in line with business and organisational strategy.
• Collaborating with business leaders and HR to understand current and future talent needs, develop sourcing strategies, building a strong pipeline of talent from multiple sources e.g. LinkedIn, talent pools and specialist agencies.
• Partnering with our Research Specialist to deliver effective market mapping to identify top talent within the specific industries/sectors.
• Providing daily operational development to Administration Specialists to build skill capability and industry knowledge, providing suitable information and direction to complete administration support tasks.
• Providing ongoing support to hiring managers in equipping them with skills to apply best practice interview and selection techniques.
• Maintaining Success Factors with real time updates relating to individual candidate profiles, with full compliance to administrative systems, processes and policies, to ensure that all information is accurate, stored correctly and accessible by authorised team members.
• Attending team meetings and extended HR meetings to keep knowledge up to date and to contribute information, knowledge, and ideas for continual process improvement.
• Understanding KPIs and seeking support and information to meet minimum targets.
• Participating in online and in person recruitment forums and events to promote CSIRO employment profile to candidates and the talent acquisition community.

Location: Clayton – Melbourne; Lindfield – Sydney; St Lucia – Brisbane

Salary: AU$85k – AU$96k plus up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: 2 year term

Reference: 77162

To be considered you will need:

• Experience in high volume recruitment in a campus, student, or assessment recruitment environment.
• Experience as a talent acquisition specialist in either in house, within outsourced or agency models.
• Demonstrated skills in a variety of candidate attraction channels with a focus on diversity and niche skill requirements.
• Collaborative approach to talent acquisition with specific focus on stakeholder and candidate management, communication, business requirements and budget constraints.
• High level oral and written communication and consulting skills, specifically in building and maintaining effective, collaborative working relationships across all levels of the organisation and with external stakeholders.
• Highly developed organisational skills, with the ability to manage a diverse range of conflicting priorities and coordinate high volume recruitment activities.
• Tertiary qualifications and/or relevant experience.

For full details about this role please review the Position Description

Eligibility

To be eligible to work in CSIRO you must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or either hold, or be able to obtain, a valid working visa.

The successful applicant will be required to obtain and provide a National Police Check or equivalent. Additional integrity checks may be required for specific roles which require security clearance for working with children, Australian Government cybersecurity requirements or other identified security roles.

Flexible Working Arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish.

About CSIRO

At CSIRO Australia’s national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact.

Join us and start creating tomorrow today!

How to Apply

Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.

Applications Close

12 September 2021, 11:00pm AEST/AEDT