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The Opportunity

• Interested in managing early career researcher and student recruitment campaigns?
• Work with a supportive and energetic team of Talent Acquisition specialists 
• Truly flexible workplace, mix of home and office! 

At CSIRO, we have undergone a transformation of our Talent Acquisition function, moving to a more defined model with deep specialisation and high touch service. We are providing a high-level advisory service to our hiring managers, working towards delivering a world class talent acquisition service to the organisation.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our high performing, fast paced Projects team. The Projects team manages volume recruitment campaigns throughout the year with a specific focus on CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral and Engineering Fellowships, Undergraduate Vacation Studentships and Postgraduate scholarships. 

The Projects team works collaboratively across all business units ensuring hiring needs are met. In this role you will provide consultative and supportive subject matter expert advice to business stakeholders with business and organisational strategy guiding best practice recruitment approach and delivery. In addition, the role will take on a proactive approach in understanding relevant talent opportunities in depth. This will include attending and contributing to regular meetings with relevant recruitment metrics and external market data/trends, market trends by discipline and future talent market activity for consideration.

Your duties will include:

• End-to-end recruitment of volume campaigns throughout the year with specific focus on postdoctoral fellowships and Undergraduate Vacation Studentship intakes, from sourcing strategy to onboarding activities.
• Delivering progress presentations to business units, recruitment process information sessions to Hiring Managers and regular updates and information to internal stakeholders.
• Partnering with hiring managers to create a recruitment strategy that delivers solutions in line with business and organisational strategy.
• Collaborating with business leaders and campaign coordinators to understand current and future talent needs, develop sourcing strategies, building a strong pipeline of talent from multiple sources e.g. LinkedIn, talent pools and specialist agencies.
• Providing operational assistance to Administration Specialists to build skill capability and industry knowledge, providing suitable information and direction to complete administration support tasks.
• Providing ongoing support to hiring managers in equipping them with skills to apply best practice interview and selection techniques.
• Maintaining Success Factors with real time updates relating to individual candidate profiles, with full compliance to administrative systems, processes and policies, to ensure that all information is accurate, stored correctly and accessible by authorised team members.
• Attending a variety of team meetings to keep knowledge up to date and to contribute information, knowledge, and ideas for continual process improvement.
• Understanding KPIs and seeking support and information to meet minimum targets.
• Participating in online and in person recruitment forums and events to promote CSIRO’s employment profile to candidates and the talent acquisition community.

Location: Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart (open to location)

Salary: AU$89k - AU$101k plus up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: Specified term of 2 years

Reference: 91505

To be considered you will need:

• Experience as a talent acquisition specialist in either in house, within outsourced or agency models. 
• Demonstrated skills in a variety of candidate attraction channels with a focus on diversity and niche skill requirements.
• Collaborative approach to talent acquisition with specific focus on stakeholder and candidate management, communication, business requirements and budget constraints.
• High level oral and written communication and consulting skills, specifically in building and maintaining effective, collaborative working relationships across all levels of the organisation and with external stakeholders.
• Highly developed organisational skills, with the ability to manage a diverse range of conflicting priorities and coordinate high volume recruitment activities.

For full details about this role please review the Position Description

Eligibility

Applications for this position are open to Australian/New Zealand Citizens, Australian Permanent Residents. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Flexible Working Arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. 

Diversity and Inclusion

We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish. 

About CSIRO

At CSIRO Australia's national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact. 

CSIRO is committed to values-based leadership to inspire performance and unlock the potential of our people.

Join us and start creating tomorrow today!

How to Apply

Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.

Applications Close

19 February 2023, 11:00pm AEDT