About the Job:
The Resourcing Advisor is part of the Regional Resourcing team and reports to the Head of Resourcing, SSA. Through partnering with the business,s/he will gain a strong strategic and operational understanding of the client business area and use this knowledge to advice on recruitment process, sourcing strategy and best practice.
Role purpose:
The post holder will work within the Resourcing Team, the Resourcing Advisor will provide customer focused end to end recruitment advice and support to the Business Units, aligned to specific transformational change programmes, ensuring that the right people are placed into the right posts at the right time.
The Opportunity:
The Resourcing Advisor is expected to make a major contribution to the successful management of the recruitment hub as well as providing vital support to all teams. A deliberate approach in partnering with the strategic business units (SBU) is critical to ensure the resourcing services are delivered to high standards of excellence. In conjunction with the Head of Resourcing, this role is key to ensuring Resourcing services in SSA are consistent with global CoE strategies, guiding principles, policies, procedures, processes and practices, and where necessary, adapting them to reflect local market needs and conditions, e.g. legal, regulatory, social and culture frameworks.
Main Accountabilities:
Resourcing Service delivery; The successful candidate is expected to partner with internal clients to understand specific resourcing requirements which inform approach and recruitment plan. Working within agreed SLAs in line with the Fit-for-Purpose Resourcing solution, relationships within the recruitment cycle are managed to ensure positive experiences and beneficial outcomes for all stakeholders. This will include:
- Advising on the right sourcing approach, including proactive direct sourcing and advertising channels as well as creating consistently good adverts that reflect the content of the role whilst accurately representing the British Council’s employer brand and adhering to the organisation’s Diversity commitments.
- Maintaining current knowledge of internal and external recruitment practices in terms of trends, technological developments, legislative changes, process change in order to contribute to innovations within the team
- Modelling and embedding a culture of service excellence for results which translate into measurable indices for value for money (VFM)
- Contributing to the review and development of recruitment services and standards based on prevailing market conditions and practices.
- Working closely with hiring managers to go through various stages of the process to ensure there’s a shared ownership of the results achieved
- Keeping up to date on new trends in attraction including social media sourcing strategies to proactively build a pool of passive candidates for various business units in line with strategic plans
- Managing candidate feedback internally and externally, deploying suitable candidates to talent pools and maintaining communication through all stages of the recruitment cycle
- Ensuring timely and accurate creation of offer paperwork (including leading on package negotiation) and relevant checks occur (DBS, ID checks, child protection checks, etc.)
- Positioning the resourcing function to effectively engage internal and external pools on opportunities through effective channels of communication.
- Delivering monthly accurate management information on all recruitment campaign activity and monitoring of compliance metrics across all countries in SSA to ensure expected performance targets are met.
- Implement & maintain Pre-appointment Screening processes in line with global policy and local requirements
- Ensure all regional resourcing activities are compliant with BC’s values, policies and risk management frameworks. Integrating EDI policies and principles into all recruitment activities to achieve fair and consistent selection outcomes at all times.
- Support the development of an employee value proposition (EVP) – which is understood by candidates, hiring managers, channels and suppliers
- Brief, train, coach and mentor Cluster HRM’s / hiring managers in current and new resourcing systems, policy, processes and procedures
- Continuously review and improve resourcing strategies options, tools and technology, for candidate sourcing, testing, selection and assessment. Ensure systems in place for effective induction and on-boarding across SSA
- Develop, update and maintain regional recruitment policies, guidance and documentation via intranet and SharePoint and mainstream EDI in recruitment processes, practice and candidate experience
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Further details:
If you are interested in the post and feel that you are suitable for the role, then we would really like to hear from you. Please apply by 09 January 2018 (23:59 UK Time)
Our Equality Commitment:
Valuing diversity is essential to the British Council’s work. We aim to abide by and promote equality legislation by following both the letter and the spirit of it to avoid unjustified discrimination, recognising discrimination as a barrier to equality of opportunity, inclusion and human rights. All staff worldwide are required to ensure their behaviour is consistent with our policies, and human resource as a function is absolutely committed to this.
The British Council is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and is keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within the organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. In line with the British Council’s Child Protection policy, any appointment is contingent on thorough checks. In the UK, and in other countries where appropriate systems exist, these include criminal records checks.