Talent Projects Lead (Fixed term 18 month post)

Talent Projects Lead - Fixed Term Contract until 30 September 2026

C£60,000 per year

35 hours per week

Location flexible - Home/Hybrid/London

This is an exciting time in our Organisational Development team, as we play our part in RNIB's transformation for the future through our work on talent, performance, capability, learning, organisation design, colleague experience, culture, and engagement.

This role of Talent Projects Lead has been created to help us build and deliver a number of strategic talent projects during 2025 and 2026.

It's a role with broad impact across the whole organisation, shaping RNIB's overall talent approach and ensuring we have the right talent to realise strategy via the scoping, development and implementation of effective models and propositions for talent attraction and talent management.

Alongside other colleagues from the People Directorate, you'll be involved in the design and development of an integrated talent strategy that includes diversity and inclusion, workforce planning, leadership development, employee experience strategy, organisational effectiveness, learning, succession and recruitment.

You'll develop and implement progressive new frameworks and ways of working for talent attraction and talent management. You'll be defining and developing our RNIB employer brand and ensuring we have effective propositions that are attractive to different candidate and colleague personas. You'll also develop talent pipelines and a healthy internal talent market to ensure our supply of high-quality talent is ahead of current and future requirements.

Key responsibilities:

- Based on internal and external insight and leading practice, identify, design and deliver improved resourcing and talent attraction activities and ways of working that are reflective of RNIB strategy and cultural direction.

- Construct a strong, differentiated Employer Value Proposition (EVP) and associated employer brand, considering the talent landscape, required capabilities, RNIB strengths, and opportunities for proposition development.

- Lead the development of a fit-for-purpose resourcing and talent attraction framework for RNIB, working in partnership with key teams to deliver the talent and capabilities needed for business strategy and providing a positive, equitable, accessible and inclusive experience.

- Work in partnership with Organisational Development colleagues to develop a workforce planning approach that sets us up for the future and enables strategic choices.

- Establish and embed an active talent market within RNIB, working in partnership with the HR Business Partnering team and across the People Directorate to ensure effective talent identification, assessment, development and succession planning processes are in place.

- Develop and manage external talent pipelines, identifying and engaging with various talent sources such as schools, universities and resourcing suppliers, to ensure a diverse and highly capable talent pool is available to meet RNIB's current and future needs.

- Enhance RNIB's employer brand and strengthen the EVP by creating, and ensuring sustainability of, networks and partnerships, by participating in external talent events, delivering impactful awareness and attraction campaigns, and identifying and implementing improvements to the candidate and colleague journey.

- Support RNIB's ongoing talent attraction and acquisition practice as required, with a focus on sourcing complex or senior-level positions. Ensure talent attraction and resourcing activities are well governed, cost effective and delivered in line with agreed processes.

About you:

You have worked in a large-scale organisation in an OD or Talent setting, building significant experience in strategic talent attraction and management practices with a strong understanding of how business strategy drives the talent cycle and how HR disciplines connect.

As well as your experience of building and managing employer brands and employer value propositions, you have developed external talent pipelines and have set up or run an internal talent marketplace mapped to people capability requirements and forming part of workforce planning activity.

A highly collaborative person, you are used to operating in partnership with HR Business Partnering, Reward, Learning & Development, Organisational Development and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion colleagues. You have excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills and a strong understanding of these connected HR disciplines.

Your experience is founded on time spent in talent acquisition, both designing ways of working and running activity, including recruiting for senior level/executive roles and for scarce skillsets. You have up-to-date knowledge of employment legislation and best practice in recruitment and employment activity, as well as experience integrating different platforms, channels and tools within talent acquisition practices to streamline the work, optimise sourcing activity and inform selection.

You are proactive, resilient and used to leading complex cross-functional initiatives. You are comfortable working autonomously within a clear scope, as well as valuing strong connections with the work of others. You have a skill in seeing both the big picture and translating that into short-term practical plans and deliverables.

As a person you are highly curious, adaptable, and committed to life-long learning and active CPD to ensure you have the latest credible thinking in your back pocket.

How to Apply:

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All we need is your up-to-date CV and a supporting statement describing how you meet the essential criteria in the attached Person Specification.

Please limit your combined CV and supporting statement to 4 single sides of A4.

Applicants that do not submit a supporting statement, will not be considered.