Tech Returners Hiring for Talent Acquisition Specialist Job at Manchester, England Full Time

Description

Talent Acquisition Specialist
Remote with regular travel to Manchester
£25-£35K | Full-time | 37.5 hours per week (flexible)

We are People | We are Opportunity | We are Tech Returners

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.

About the role:
As the Talent Acquisition Specialist, you’ll be focused on attracting, assessing and onboarding returning engineers to our core and award-winning programme – Your Return to Tech.

You’ll engage with our returners, with a focus on creating a supportive and comfortable interview environment that helps people to shine and seeing people’s potential. You will research community events and the returner, software engineer and diverse technology industries and immerse yourself in the UK tech scene as a key part of your role to reach more potential applicants and share our vision
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Key Responsibilities*

Key relationships:
As the Talent Acquisition Specialist you will use your excellent resourcing, assessment and onboarding skills on multiple Your Return to Tech programmes a year, you’ll work alongside Talent, Marketing, Operations and Delivery teams in a Squad format to attract software engineers who are returning to work following a career break. They’ll support you on marketing content, programme scheduling and technical assessments of the returners to make sure were onboarding Software Engineers in line with our Sponsor skills matrix and behaviours.

Main responsibilities:

• Working alongside the key stakeholders to plan our sourcing strategy for the individual programmes
• Assess individual applications in line with the programme requirements
• Host Behavioural Interviews and Assessment Centres
• Engage with individuals on the benefits of the programmes
• Working 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 alongside the Marketing and Operations team
• Attend virtual and in-person events to network with individuals suitable for the programmes
• Support the Talent team on wider talent acquisition responsibilities

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

About you:
With 1-3 years’ experience within a recruitment/resourcing 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 who will join our Your Return to Tech, 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 the work you do.

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. We offer a flexible working policy, with remote-first working, a co-working budget and a requirement that means you will be required to be in Manchester at least twice per month for team meetings.

If successful, you will receive a great onboarding experience with our team, and the relevant initial and ongoing training and support to excel in your role.

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Benefits*

The package:

• Salary: £25k-£35k
• Full-time hours: 37.5 hours per week (flexible)*
• Location: Remote with regular travel to central Manchester
• Holiday: 25 days + Bank Holidays
• Pension
• Annual training budget and a monthly book subscription to develop yourself and your career

About Tech Returners
Who we are – Tech Returners aims to remove the barriers that returners of all ages, genders and life circumstances face after a career break and, as a result, help to tackle the skills shortage in tech.

Why we’re passionate about Returners – Research shows that women who return to work can often be forced to return to lower skilled or lower paid jobs because of a lack of flexibility around family, paying a penalty for having a career break. Tech Returners aims to tackle this important issue for those who wish to have a career and flexibility around their home lives.

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent