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Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor - Early Careers

Job Requisition ID: 26902
Job Closing Date: 13/08/2025
Job Details
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Talent Acquisition & Inclusion - Early Careers
LOCATION: London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Salford, Cardiff - Hybrid working with an expectation of being able to be based in the office approx. 2 days per week.
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 35,800 - 41,767 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. London weighting of 5,319 if applicable.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The BBC is committed to attracting diverse new talent across the organisation. Through a wide range of apprenticeship schemes - from software engineering and cyber security to journalism and production - we're opening doors for school leavers, graduates, and career changers to build meaningful careers and gain hands-on experience.
We're now looking for a passionate and experienced recruiter to join our Early Careers Talent Acquisition team, focusing on our Editorial apprenticeship schemes in Journalism and Production. We are looking for someone that will thrive off working in a challenging and busy environment with the ability to draw on their experience to hit the ground running. We are always looking to keep the candidate and stakeholder sat the central point in all we do to deliver high quality, diverse apprentice hires into the BBC.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
We are in the top 50 Apprenticeship Employers in the UK and the industry leaders in early careers, hiring more than 250 new apprentices each year. We are committed to skills and talent development both inside and outside the BBC and, as one of the world's most creative and technologically-advanced organisations for the last 100 years, our apprentices at the BBC have the opportunity to learn from some of the most respected and experienced professionals in the business.
Our Early Careers Talent Acquisition team are particularly passionate about this - this work matters to us - and we want it to matter to you, too.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Lead the full recruitment cycle for either the Journalism or Production Apprenticeship schemes, working closely with a Talent Acquisition Consultant to deliver efficient, inclusive, and high-quality hiring outcomes
• Drive candidate experience, consistently meeting key recruitment metrics while ensuring inclusive practices are embedded throughout the process
• Collaborate across teams, partnering with the the BBC Academy and internal stakeholders across all editorial disciplines to ensure a smooth attraction and hiring journey
• Manage candidate progression, including application screening, ATS record-keeping, overseeing assessments, and maintaining clear, timely communication with candidates
• Coordinate and run assessment centres, ensuring candidates, assessors, and scheme leaders are fully supported
• Work both independently and collaboratively, owning end-to-end delivery for assigned schemes while contributing to wider team projects that shape the future of early careers recruitment at the BBC.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• In-house early careers recruitment experience - delivering inclusive, high-impact strategies and large-scale campaigns
• Proven experience delivering complex and large volume recruitment campaigns end to end, including delivering a calendar of assessment activity and overseeing the organisation of assessment centres for large volumes of candidates
• Up-to-date knowledge of best practices, trends and assessment methodologies for recruiting entry-level talent
• A passion for supporting emerging talent, acting as a trusted first point of contact for young people and career changers
• Evidence of embracing and advocating diversity and inclusion in culture and business needs and to be able to build strong, trusted and inclusive relationships across People and HR teams and across the business
• Confident communication with all stakeholders and analytical skills to translate data into actionable insights.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
For any general queries, please contact:
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
Information at a Glance
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:
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