ShareAction

We are at a pivotal moment: the climate and biodiversity crises are deepening, and inequalities are even more marked in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The global investment system has an oversized impact on many of these global challenges. We want to make sure that impact is positive. At ShareAction we work with investors, policymakers, and individuals to unleash the positive potential of the investment system. We aim to build a world where our financial system serves our planet and its people.

Team

ShareAction’s People Team plays a pivotal role in driving us towards achieving our mission. You’ll be joining a team at the heart of everything we do, supporting the organisation to grow and develop, while harnessing its internal culture, and ensuring we live up to our values. You’ll help recruit new, passionate team members, and assist existing staff, supporting them to develop, and implementing the policies and procedures that determine the way we work.

We are looking for a PT Business Partner (Recruitment), to join our growing People Team and help us meet our ambitious goals. ShareAction is going through a period of significant growth and the PT Business Partner will play a key role by proactively sourcing candidates with a broad range of sometimes niche knowledge and experience in an often highly competitive arena. This is a hands-on role for someone with excellent relationship building and communications skills. You’ll work closely with managers to build capacity, design roles and recruit in ways that secure the talent we need for a growing organisation. The PT Business Partner will also have the opportunity to support in the development of our attraction, onboarding, reward, retention, and engagement initiatives. This role would suit an experienced Recruitment Specialist interested in moving into a more generalist HR role but is open to all who meet the requirements below. Recruitment admin support will be provided by the HR Administrative Officer.

What you’ll do

• Support hiring managers with creating business cases for new roles to be submitted to the HR and Remuneration Committee and the People Team.
• Collaborate with hiring managers in the design of roles, job descriptions and person specifications.
• Proactively source potentially valuable “passive” candidates, promoting ShareAction’s mission and engage their interest in available roles.
• Create and maintain a pool of previous ShareAction employees to identify potential future returners.
• Produce regular reports and extract key data to inform senior management on cost to hire, diversity and inclusion, and other key metrics.
• Manage and report on the recruitment pipeline.
• Network with universities to develop relationships and be the main representative at job fairs to promote ShareAction.
• Collaborate with the Senior HR Officer to develop and deliver the full 360 onboarding process for new starters.
• Provide coaching and training to managers as agreed with the Head of People.
• Ensure that recruitment practices are inclusive, equitable and accessible.
• Continually evaluate and update processes to maximise efficiency and success to deliver an excellent recruitment experience.
• Keep up to date with industry practice, a wide understanding of the job market/hiring landscape and any other changes to the area of work, ensuring ShareAction is compliant with employment law regarding recruitment.
• Providing HR support to the People Team on an ad hoc basis.

What you’ll bring to the team

• During the recruitment process, candidates will be expected to provide evidence of, or demonstrate an aptitude for, the following:
• Experience of working with in-house recruitment
• Success in proactive search and sourcing activity and targeted advertising and promotion, including roles with more niche skills, to at least ‘head of’ level roles.
• Experience of utilising social media and other platforms to optimise recruitment drives.
• Excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills, internally and externally.
• Developing recruitment management information that informs decision making.
• Ability to quickly develop an understanding of an organisation’s business and of the knowledge, skills and experience it will need to develop to deliver.
• A good understanding of ‘employer brand’ and the role in recruitment.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Basic knowledge of data protection regulations / GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

It would also be great – but not essential - if you have:

• Experience of designing creative and innovative recruitment campaigns that are efficiently delivered and give a great candidate experience.
• Developed approaches, systems and tools that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in recruitment and which are reflected in our hiring.
• Experience of successfully delivering senior level recruitment exercises.
• Experience of the ‘In Recruiting’ module of the HR System (Cezanne; training will be provided).
• Experience of working with Microsoft Office 365, particularly SharePoint;
• Experience of working with CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems, ideally Salesforce

What we will do for you

• We will support you in any training you require for our systems, we don’t expect you to have used any of them before. We will also provide you with other development opportunities not relating to our systems or even HR.
• Our work is very varied, and you will have opportunities to have impact on different People Team projects.
• We have regular team meetings where space for ideas is encouraged, and team support provided.

Hours: Full-time, but with some flexibility possible (remote working is available)

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: Up to £44,530 plus 8 per cent pension (non-contributory) and benefits including a healthcare scheme

Closing date: The closing date is Wednesday, 22nd March at 9a.m., however we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Interviews: TBD

Location: Hybrid working; our office is in London E1.

ShareAction values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen) and welcome applications from all backgrounds, communities, and industries. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences, and abilities and so if you are not 100 per cent sure that you meet all the requirements but believe you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and use the application questions to tell us about your experience and what you hope to bring to this role.

We also actively encourage staff to work in ways that best suit their needs and our flexible working policy outlines many of the options available- such as part-time and term-time working, job sharing, home working and working compressed hours. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

ShareAction’s London office is based in Aldgate East. As we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic we will be exploring the best hybrid working culture for the organisation but expect to continue to offer remote working as far as possible, with office space available in London for those who wish to use it.

Please note that to be considered for this post you must be legally eligible to work in the UK. Due to current restrictions we are unable to hire anyone that isn’t already living in the UK. Due to our size we are unable to sponsor visas.