Talent Acquisition Officer

Birketts is a full service UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years we have more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals based in Bristol Cambridge Chelmsford Ipswich London Norwich and Sevenoaks. We advise businesses government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across four principal practice groups: property corporate services litigation and private client advisory.

We are defined by our Next Level Law proposition. We work with our clients as a proactive partner horizon scanning and thinking ahead to the changes challenges or opportunities that they may face.

Next Level Law is also applied to our people. Our collegiate culture means everyone is encouraged to achieve their next level in everything they do. RollOnFriday recently ranked us as the 5th best law firm to work at in 2024.

With our ambition to succeed comes a strong desire to make a positive contribution to the communities we serve and we are committed to delivering the objectives set out in our ESG strategy. Diversity plays an integral part in all that we do with female partners comprising 40 of our partnership.

To work as part of the wider Talent Acquisition and HR team to deliver the firms talent needs focusing predominantly on Business Services and Support roles. This includes developing and implementing effective recruitment strategies managing the recruitment process and ensuring that the firm attracts and hires the best talent available.

Core responsibilities

• To act as a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders and their teams building an indepth understanding of business needs and associated resourcing requirements.
• Manage the end to end hiring process for Business Services and Support roles including briefing with line managers sourcing and screening candidates and arranging interviews to support the successful closing of open positions with high calibre hires.
• Support hiring managers throughout the recruitment process providing timely updates and advising on internal policies and best practice selection techniques.
• Source active and passive candidates through diverse talent pipelines including advertising job boards LinkedIn CV databases recruitment agencies and other resources.
• Promote a compelling EVP through relevant channels that accurately represents our firms culture values and opportunities.
• Maintain and update the recruitment pages of our website ensuring that they accurately reflect current job openings our EVP and our firms culture and values.
• Maintain timely and professional channels of communication with candidates and job applicants ensuring they receive the best possible experience and understand Birketts values and employer value proposition.
• Support the talent acquisition and wider HR team in recruitment initiatives and projects.
• Work internally with other Talent Acquisition / HR team members to share knowledge best practice and suggest initiatives to improve candidate attraction and hiring policies and processes.
• Continually review recruitment processes to ensure maximum efficiency and compliance.
• Deliver recruitment activity reports and KPI data for senior managers and hiring managers.

• A minimum of 2 years experience within a recruitment agency or inhouse (professional services experience is beneficial not essential).
• Proven stakeholder relationship skills.
• Excellent organisational and communication abilities.
• Selfmotivated with multitasking capabilities.
• Familiarity with talent acquisition platforms and HR/recruitment data analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of selection methods.
• Understanding of employment law data protection and recruitment best practices.
• Committed to continuous learning and development.

At Birketts our culture is driven by ambition and a commitment to positively impact all the communities we serve. We are dedicated to the success development and wellbeing of our colleagues helping them achieve their goals and seize the opportunities that come with our growth. Alongside a flexible and inclusive work environment we offer the following core benefits:

• 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays
• Long Service holiday award 1 extra week every 10 years continuous service
• Private Healthcare with BUPA (offered after probation is passed)
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme 5 employer / 5 Employee)
• Staff Profit Share and Individual Performance Bonus Scheme
• Salary sacrifice (Pensions Staff Profit Share)
• Life Assurance 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance
• Paid CSR Day
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Subsidised gym membership
• Electric car scheme
• Agile/Hybrid Working Policy
• Dress for your Day Policy

is a flexible business which has embraced a hybrid working model where our colleagues enjoy a mix of home and office working. We welcome applications from people looking for flexible agile and parttime roles and we are happy to explore your preferred working patterns as part of your application.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

Birketts is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is unequivocal: we do not tolerate discrimination based on age disability sex race religion or belief gender reassignment marriage or civil partnership pregnancy or maternity or sexual orientation.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive organisation that actively promotes equality of opportunity for all valuing the right mix of talent skills and potential. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates and selection for roles is based solely on individual merit.