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Job Introduction
What you’ll do
As a not-for-profit housing organisation providing more affordable homes for Londoners, we’re on a mission to work better together for our residents and make London home for those who live in our capital, whatever their personal circumstances.
We’re looking now for a Head of Talent Acquisition to lead the design and creation of a brand new recruitment service for our organisation and to build a team to ensure its effective implementation. This is a rare opportunity to develop a new function from scratch, testing innovative solutions and fresh techniques to support us to attract the best talent to deliver the best services to our residents.
If you’re looking for the next step in your career and the chance to make a genuine difference in a senior leadership position, this role could be for you.
The role
You’ll be responsible for delivering the full talent acquisition service through effective team management and well executed projects and hiring strategies, excellent business relationships and efficient processes and budget administration.
You’ll coach, empower and constructively challenge senior colleagues and the wider human resources team to ensure they play an active part in attracting and selecting high performing talent to the organisation. That will include ensuring that equality, diversity and inclusion and employer value proposition are at the core of every recruitment process and that you deliver an exceptional candidate experience.
Data will be key – you’ll need to use it to enhance your team’s impact and deliver recruitment efficiencies and provide clear market data to improve service, decision-making, cost efficiency and time to hire.
The ideal candidate
You’ll have significant experience in talent acquisition and, most recently, in leading a team alongside a track record of aligning talent acquisition and management strategies with an organisation’s overall goals and objectives.
Your understanding of recruitment processes, sourcing strategies and mechanisms will be deep and will include successful assessment approaches, onboarding, candidate experience and employer value proposition.
Demonstratable experience in working with external partners, driving headhunting strategies, market mapping, candidate engagement and long-term nurturing campaigns are additional core requirements as is a proven ability to engage and gain trust as a thought leader with diverse teams and leadership, based on expertise, experience, and a thorough understanding of the talent landscape.
A CIPD or REC qualification is desirable, but not essential.
What’s in it for you?
Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
- Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 1 September 2024.
Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to complete an assessment and attend an interview week commencing 9 September 2024.
This role is currently eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route (SOC Code 1136)
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
