Talent Acquisition Advisor - 6month FTC

We’re making zero carbon happen

We’re OVO Group, a big family of companies united by a single vision: to get to zero carbon, fast. 

We call this Plan Zero – and it shows how we’ll be fighting the climate crisis and transforming the way people use energy over the next decade. To do this, we need the sharpest minds. Are you up for the challenge?

Do great green things with OVO Energy

So much has changed since we launched in 2009.  Our goal remains the same though: make energy cheaper, greener, and simpler. Just as it was on day one.

Everyone belongs at OVO

Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive movement: teams of brilliant people, with unique talents, skills, passions, and experiences. 

We encourage everyone to join us, whatever your gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, life experience, or background. So please come as you are – we can’t wait to meet you.

Where in the world of OVO will I be working?

Where in the world of OVO will I be working?

As part of the OVO People Team, this role sits within Talent Acquisition, the team responsible for discovering talent to power OVO with people who will change the world and help us reach our Plan Zero goals.

Our aim is to become the leading place to work in the UK, so to do this we need to find phenomenal people for the business to help tackle humanity’s greatest challenge.

This role in particular will support recruitment across all of our brands.

What will I be doing?

This role involves screening CVs, interviewing candidates, arranging interviews and supporting the operational side of hiring into all departments. There’s a lot to do in this role and it's a fantastic opportunity for you to develop your recruitment experience and play a central role in our organisation’s future development.

Key responsibilities include:

Own and develop candidate generation and candidate pipelines, ensuring the most appropriate and cost effective recruitment avenues are utilised.

Engaging with hiring managers across the group to ensure that we are consistently recruiting within best practice frameworks across the company.

Advertising roles and coordinating interviews using our online recruitment system, Greenhouse.

Maintain and share subject matter expertise in all areas of recruitment and selection to advise and upskill partners across the business

Drive the internal referral process as a successful pipeline and a brand engagement tool

Maintaining high levels of data integrity in all of our internal systems including our Applicant Tracking System, Greenhouse.

Championing our diversity and inclusion strategy, and building diverse teams

Is this the job for me?

You’ll be speaking to a high volume of candidates for multiple roles and arranging interviews with a variety of teams, so organisation is key! You need to be comfortable picking up the phone and spending a lot of your time speaking to candidates about what it’s like to work at OVO, our Plan Zero goals and assessing their suitability for the role.

Ideally you will have:

Strong personal impact and relationship building skills, with the capability to engage with candidates, managers and external agencies

Successful demonstrable experience of managing and prioritising multiple time sensitive projects effectively

Very strong organisation skills with fantastic attention to detail

The ability to work in a highly changing environment, and able to deal with ambiguity well

Experience with calendar scheduling and spreadsheets would be a plus

Proven verbal and written communication skills

High pace, resilience, gravitas and flexibility

A passion for building OVO’s employer brand

Brilliant benefits for a world-changing team

Our people are at the heart of Plan Zero. That’s why we offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to make you feel at home.

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

Then there’s Flex Pay. It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans 

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!