Talent Acquisition Advisor - Operations - Unite Students : Job Details

The Role

As a Talent Acquisition Advisor at Unite Students, you will play a vital role in sourcing, attracting, and hiring top talent for our operational teams. You will manage the entire recruitment process, from identifying staffing needs to onboarding new hires, ensuring a seamless and positive experience for candidates and hiring managers alike.

This role offers the opportunity to develop your skills within a dynamic, supportive, and agile environment, contributing to innovative projects and driving sustainable change. If you are passionate about talent acquisition, thrive in a fast-paced setting, and are committed to making a difference in the lives of students, we encourage you to apply.

What You`ll Be Doing

• Talent Sourcing and Attraction
  • Employer Brand Ambassador: Act as a representative of our employer brand, promoting Unite Students as an employer of choice.
  • Recruitment Strategy Development: Partner with hiring managers to understand staffing needs and develop targeted recruitment strategies.
  • Advertising and Talent Pool Engagement: Ensure job adverts are fresh, engaging, and effectively targeted towards our desired talent pools, while contributing to the continuous improvement of our talent attraction strategies.
  • Career Fairs and Events: Participate in career fairs and other events to attract prospective candidates and promote our organisation.
• Recruitment Process Management
  • Candidate Screening: Support hiring managers with sifting and shortlisting for vacancies, ensuring candidates are assessed for quality, technical capability, and alignment with our brand values and behaviours.
  • Assessment and Interviews: Lead the coordination, setup, and facilitation of assessment centres and interviews, delivering a fair and engaging process for all candidates.
  • Interview Training: Act as an exemplar for interview and assessment techniques, providing training and upskilling to hiring managers to ensure informed hiring decisions.
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I)
  • Advocacy for DE&I: Act as an advocate for our DE&I strategy by encouraging hiring managers to challenge biases and ensure diverse shortlisting for every vacancy.
  • Performance Metrics: Support DE&I efforts by achieving and maintaining diversity metrics and performance across operations.
• Candidate Experience
  • Offer and Rejection Coordination: Manage the offer and rejection processes, ensuring a positive experience for all candidates regardless of the outcome
  • Experience Metrics: Monitor and aim to improve candidate and hiring manager experience, using Net Promoter Score (NPS) feedback as a key measure of success.
• Data Management and Reporting
  • Recruitment Data Accuracy: Maintain accurate recruitment data and provide regular reports on key metrics, such as time-to-hire and cost-per-hire.
  • Compliance: Ensure the recruitment process complies with all relevant legislation and adheres to our service level agreements (SLAs).
• Continuous Improvement and Innovation
  • Industry Trends and Best Practices: Stay informed about industry trends and best practices in talent acquisition to continually improve our processes.
  • Project Contribution: Lead and contribute to various project activities within the Talent Acquisition space to support the delivery of our long-term strategy.

What We`re Looking for in You

• Recruitment Experience: Proven experience in delivering a high-volume recruitment process.
• Communication and Relationship Building: Strong communication skills and a demonstrated ability to build professional partnerships and relationships.
• Problem-Solving and Initiative: A proactive, positive approach to challenges with a solution-focused mindset and the ability to act on your initiative.
• Time Management: Confidence in managing your time effectively and prioritising tasks to meet concurrent deadlines.
• Team Collaboration and Independence: Comfortable working in a small team but also capable of making independent decisions that align with business needs.
• Continuous Learning: A desire to learn and grow within a supportive, high-performing environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient with IT/mobile applications, internet searching, and adaptability to bespoke IT systems and tools.

What You`ll Get in Return

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
• 25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
• A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!

About Unite Students

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100 business and the UK`s leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with 74,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.

People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.

Room for Everyone

We`re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we`re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what`s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.

We are US.