Talent Acquisition Coordinator

Support the Talent Acquisition Partner to source the best talent to deliver

our student-focused, professions-facing and society shaping ambitions. The

post holder will assist with and coordinate channels for candidate attraction

and on-boarding, building a strong employer brand, and ensuring an

excellent candidate experience.

Work alongside the Talent Acquisition Partner to contribute to devising

effective, timely and up to date recruitment strategies that meet the needs of

faculties and services, and that are designed to attract the best talent

pipeline possible.

Key
Responsibilities
and
Accountabilities:

• Support and coordinate the attraction, recruitment and selection

process across faculties and services, from job-design and position

advertisement through to offer management and on-boarding.

Ensuring that the process is conducted quickly and professionally

and in accordance with best practice.

• Assist the Talent Acquisition Partner to develop a proactive talent

attraction approach and workforce plan, incorporating current and

future workforce needs, role profiling, salary benchmarking and

grading.

• Support with executing recruitment strategies including internal and

external searches, partnering with hiring managers to guide them

through the hiring journey, and consulting with them to create

accurate, engaging, and inclusive role profiles.

• Connect with candidates across diverse talent pools, ensuring a first-

class candidate experience, working closely with all applicants

throughout the application and interview process, offering timely

outcomes and feedback.

• Build a strong candidate network of diverse talent pools, and utilise a

variety of direct recruitment methods to source candidates (e.g.

Linked in, Job Boards, employee referrals, advertising etc)

• Ensure all processes are documented and are efficient offering a

great candidate and manager experience

• work closely with colleagues across HR to share best practice,

knowledge, and talent pools.

• Support discussions with external specialist agencies; brief, manage

and negotiate fees with third-party suppliers as and when required

• Advise hiring managers on selection techniques including telephone

interviewing, competency-based interviewing, psychometric testing,

assessment centres etc.

• Assist the Talent Acquisition Partner to produce and present reports

and metrics to support continuous improvement; Help to define

reporting requirements for recruitment and build dashboards using

data to drive recruitment decisions.

• Support in the collation of market insight and salary bench-marking

data to ensure we remain competitive as a university.

• Contribute to project work as required in line with Talent Acquisition

goals and objectives.

• Continuously build knowledge of the University of Sunderland and

the Higher Education Sector. Create and enhance the University’s

brand and offering, linking in with our five core values.

• Coordinate and develop Stonefish and it’s processes (ATS),

ensuring optimum functionality. Maintain systems and databases to

ensure accurate tracking and reporting or recruiting life cycle.

• Train, guide and support the HR Admin team with Recruitment

processes, policies and systems.

• Develop and promote the University’s EVP as an effective attraction

tool.

• Build strong and credible relationships with internal stakeholders,

partnering with them to gain knowledge of their hiring needs.

• Work with the Talent Development colleagues to up-skill managers

in assessment and selection.

• Work closely with the Business Partnering team to ensure the

People Plans are clear and in line with the overall objectives of the

service and the University.

• Lead or contribute to HR projects and working groups as

appropriate.

• Act as an ambassador for the University and the HR team and role

model the University values.

• In support of the Talent Acquisition Partner and the EDI Manager,

• ensure that we can attract, recruit, develop and deploy diverse

teams and inclusive leaders, co-creating positive action

interventions where required

• Undertake any other duties commensurate with grade

Special
Circumstances:

University of Sunderland

Role Profile

Part 2

Part 2A: Essential and Desirable Criteria

Essential Essential

Desirable

Qualifications and Professional Memberships:

Educated to degree level or equivalent

Knowledge and Experience:

• Proven recruitment experience, ideally with applicant tracking systems

• Experience of direct sourcing, pipelining (mapping external landscape)

through social media i.e. Linked in/job boards and candidate management

etc.

• Strong communication skills and confident communicating effectively with

all levels of the organization.

• Passion and enthusiasm for attracting best talent

• Confident interpreting data and demonstrable experience of balancing

priorities and workload

• Ability to develop strong business relationships

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• A good level of relevant digital and IT skills for the role including

competence in Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel.

Desirable

Qualifications and Professional Memberships:

• Experience of using an HR and payroll software system

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience of working within the Higher Education sector

• Experience of communicating and collaborating remotely using tools such

as Zoom or Microsoft Teams

Part 2B: Key Competencies

Competencies
are assessed at
the
interview/selecti
on testing stage

Generic Competencies:

Corporate Commitment:

People Plan deliverables.

Working Collaboratively:

• Engages constructively with internal and external stakeholders to build and

maintain effective working relationships

• Demonstrates excellent influencing and interpersonal skills with and ability

to engage effectively and positively across a range of stakeholders

• Demonstrates excellent oral and written communication skills
  

Solution Focused:

emerging issues

• Displays a strong commitment to continuous improvement; looks for ways

to continuously improve performance

Accountability and resilience:

against objectives

• Ability to undertake multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a professional

manner

• Ability to cope with a high workload, conflicting priorities and competing

deadlines

Personal Integrity:

Confidence:

• Inspires confidence in others
  

Decision Making:

• Ability to weigh up pros and cons to various options

Date Completed: November 2022