Talent Acquisition Consultant

Overview:
Working closely with the Melbourne People & Development Manager and Client Solutions team, the Talent Acquisition Consultant will be involved with assisting in the further growth of the Melbourne secondee team.

**Responsibilities**:
**RECRUITMENT & RESOURCING**
- Working closely with the People & Development Manager (Melbourne) to attract and select high performing secondees for the Melbourne business including:

- Screening, shortlisting, assessing and interviewing lawyers/paralegals/consultants, and managing selection and regret processes.
- Posting advertisements in line with corporate advertising guidelines and timely processing of applicant correspondence
- Meeting requirements for prequalified, employed and "benched" lawyers and consultants
- Co-ordinating and preparing recruitment paperwork including pre-engagement paperwork, offer letters, and extension documentation
- Proactively utilising various platforms including job boards, social media, referrals and the internet to source and attract suitable talent for the Melbourne secondee team
- Building and maintaining an effective talent pools of potential lawyers and consultants (including paralegals and compliance professionals) - ie ensuring an appropriate mix of lawyers and consultants to meet business demands with the right skills, seniority, availability and cost.
- Keeping talent pools warm and regularly touching base with current and prospective lawyers and consultants, including when on and off assignment.
- Identifying suitability of Melbourne talent for client assignments in-line with their availability.
- Working with the Head of People & Development and People & Development Manager to develop and implement creative strategies to ensure we are attracting the right secondees.
- Negotiating offer process, including salary negotiation with suitable paralegals, lawyers and/or consultants.
- Preparing and updating Melbourne secondee profile marketing documentation.
- Identifying new and innovative ways to attract new talent in Melbourne.
- Updating resourcing databases/spreadsheets with respect to our Melbourne lawyers and talent pool.
- Ensuring all applicants, relevant HR information and recruitment stages are recorded in the CRM and recruitment and other databases as appropriate in a timely manner.

Working with the People & Development team to develop and implement strategies to ensure we are an employer of choice and our lawyers and consultants are effective "ambassadors" for the company.

**COMPLIANCE**
- Ensuring all lawyers and consultants in the recruitment process and engaged talent have the required pre-employment status, practice certificates and/or necessary immigration status.

**Key Performance Indicators**
- Ensuring the Melbourne office is delivering on its yearly resourcing plans
- Increasing the LOD presence in the Melbourne lawyer, paralegal and compliance market, and/or any other emerging markets
- Increasing the available talent pool for Melbourne lawyers and consultants to ensure assignment utilisation
- Maintaining up to date information in our people systems.
- Building successful and meaningful relationships with management team and talent (internal to LOD and external)

**Key Relationships**
- People & Development Manager (Melbourne)
- Melbourne secondees
- Melbourne Client Solutions team
- Australia People & Development team
- Melbourne HQ and wider global HQ team

Qualifications:

- Tertiary qualifications in human resources, law or business
- At least 2-3 years experience in similar role, ideally in professional services or general/legal recruitment related business
- Self-motivated, positive, organised and detail orientated and able to manage multiple and changing priorities
- Intermediate to advanced computer skills including Word, Excel, MS Outlook and PowerPoint
- Strong communications skills and the ability to get along well with others in a small team