Talent Acquisition Associate

Talent Acquisition Associate

• Employment Type: Full-time, 35 hours per week
• Duration: Continuing
• Remuneration: Broadband 6/7, Level 6 from $100,354, Level 7 from $110,073 plus 17% super
• Working rights: Australian/New Zealand citizen or Australian Permanent Resident
• Location: Kensington, NSW (Hybrid Flexible Working, 2 days on-campus)

Why Your Role Matters

Are you ready to make a difference? Our Talent Acquisition (TA) team is the driving force behind attracting and securing top global talent for UNSW. We provide end-to-end talent acquisition services across all University Faculties and Divisions.

We’re seeking a Talent Acquisition Associate with a passion for finding top talent to join our close-knit, growing, and high-performing TA team. Based within our People and Culture Talent Acquisition Team, this role predominantly supports recruitment for the UNSW Faculty of Medicine & Health, who are not only one of Australia’s leading medical faculties, but one of the top 50 in the world, evidenced in our schools, world-class research centres and institutes, our affiliations with Australia’s most innovative medical research institutes, and our state-of-the-art teaching hospitals and facilities.

As the TA Associate, you will be a proactive team player with recruitment experience and a strong customer focus. You will support hiring managers meet their recruitment requirements by providing a 360-recruitment service, from job brief to onboarding. In this unique and rewarding opportunity you will help candidates secure their dream jobs and equally play a crucial role in shaping our ongoing success as a leading teaching and research university.

Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Consultant for this area, you will be joining an established Talent Acquisition function with a wealth of knowledge to learn from.

Responsibilities

Accountabilities as a Level 6:

• Coordinate and deliver full end-to-end coordination and generalist support across the recruitment life cycle, ensuring a positive and seamless recruitment experience for candidates and hiring managers.
• Assist Talent Acquisition Consultants in working with clients to identify their leadership/professional recruitment needs and develop appropriate recruitment strategies for each assignment.
• Provide recruitment and selection support and advice to clients, stakeholders, and peers, delivering excellent candidate management throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Use a broad range of mediums to engage candidates, including social media, proactive sourcing, database searches, etc., for active and passive candidates.
• Provide resourcing support across the Talent Acquisition team.

Accountabilities as a Level 7 (In addition to the above):

• Provide recruitment and selection advice to clients, stakeholders, and peers regarding attraction and advertising strategies, candidate management, behavioural interviewing, reference checking, and pre-employment checks.
• Lead end-to-end recruitment processes on more complex roles.
• Identify and implement unique recruitment strategies.
• Confidently manage academic recruitment processes.
• Step into a Talent Acquisition Consultant capacity during times of leave or as required.

Who You Are

Skills and experience required as a Level 6:

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent in a relevant discipline, and a minimum of 2 years of experience as a recruitment consultant.
• Demonstrated talent acquisition experience managing end-to-end recruitment lifecycles, ideally within an internal environment.
• Exceptional candidate management and stakeholder engagement capability.
• Previous experience in a recruitment environment (within the Health sector is highly desirable).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Personable approach and proactive attitude, comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.
• Experience with PageUp or recruitment systems beneficial but not essential.
• Customer-focused with demonstrated experience providing high-quality service in a professional environment.

Skills and experience required as a Level 7 (In addition to the above):

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent in a relevant discipline, with significant experience as a recruitment consultant with a mix of agency and in-house exposure.
• Demonstrated success in a Recruitment Consultant role with exposure to recruiting at entry to mid-management level roles with a strong understanding of volume recruitment.
• Experience working in end-to-end recruitment, including onboarding and induction.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the delivery of contemporary recruitment, selection, and talent pool attraction strategies.

Progression Criteria

Advancement to a higher level within a broad-banded position is not automatic and requires the endorsement of your supervisor and approval from Senior Management. The following criteria must be met before progression can be approved:

• You will be expected to have reached the top step of Level 6 prior to progression to Level 7.

• You have been at the top step of Level 6 for 12 months prior to progression to Level 7.
• Criteria for progression to Level 7 will be based on satisfactory performance of all responsibilities and behaviours at Level 6, and a demonstrated capacity and ability to take on the responsibilities and behaviours of the position at Level 7.
• Work at Level 7 is available and required by the work unit on an ongoing basis.

About UNSW

UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organization with a diverse and talented community, but what sets us apart is our thoughtful, practical, and purposeful approach. We’re one of the top 50 universities in the world and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight. Join us in driving excellence in education and research!

Benefits and Culture

People are at the core of everything we do. Our benefits include:

• Flexible Working Options (work from home, flexible hours, etc.)

• Career development opportunities

• 17% Superannuation contributions, additional leave-loading payments, and salary sacrifice

• Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness).

For further details on the benefits, please visit https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/lifestyle-benefits 

How to Apply

Make each day matter with a meaningful career at UNSW. To be considered, upload your CV and and submit your application online.

Advertising closes at 11:30pm Sydney time on Wednesday 8^th January 2025.

Get in Touch

For any queries please contact Merita O’Connell, Talent Acquisition Consultant
E: [email protected].

Please apply through the application portal and not via the contact above.

Due to the university shutdown, there may be a delay in our response to your query. We will get back to you as soon as we return.

UNSW is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability and access to flexible work options for eligible staff. The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.