Talent Acquisition Specialist, APAC About Palladium: Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world.
We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
This Opportunity: An exciting opportunity is now available for an experienced Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our dynamic and supportive team to take ownership for providing talent acquisition services across various functions and branches.
The role partners with hiring managers to understand business and talent needs and works proactively to find talent solutions.
Location: The position is based in Palladium's Brisbane office.
You and Your Career: If you are tech savvy, have exceptional relationship-building skills, and have expertise in talent acquisition, we are interested in hearing from you.
We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities from the start.
We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources, and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!
Reporting Lines: The position reports into the HR Director, APAC.
Primary Roles and Responsibilities: The Talent Acquisition Specialist will be expected to undertake internal and external talent identification and attraction activities, which include:
Stakeholder management and delivery: Commit to the delivery of company and regional objectives (Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)) ensuring that personal KRAs are delivered with excellence and timeliness. Develop and implement innovative sourcing strategies to build a diverse talent pipeline for current and future roles within the APAC region.
Build and maintain long-standing networks and relationships with potential talent within the industry and develop processes for attracting that talent into Palladium as required. Conduct market research and competitor analysis to understand hiring trends, challenges, and leading practices in the APAC region.
Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and developments in talent acquisition (including the use of technology and AI), incorporating new ideas and approaches into the recruitment strategy. Establish strong relationships with hiring managers within APAC Corporate and HR leads across the region to understand their talent needs and provide tailored recruitment solutions. Develop a deep understanding of the specific requirements of each role, including necessary skills, experience, capabilities and cultural fit. Regularly attend and contribute to HR and recruitment meetings, providing updates on talent acquisition efforts and gaining insights into ongoing hiring needs. Manage end-to-end recruitment, from job posting and candidate sourcing to short-listing, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and due diligence checks for all corporate positions located in our Australian and Indonesian offices. Ensure all recruitment activities comply with company policies, employment laws, and ethical standards, maintaining the integrity of the recruitment process. Represent Palladium at job fairs, networking events, and other recruitment-related activities, promoting the company as an employer of choice. Coordinate recruitment activities for APAC's intern program, Early Career Program and Indigenous recruitment and onboarding program. Coordinate the internal resource allocation process for APAC, working closely with the HR Director and regional leadership team to determine current and future workforce needs, considering the region's business development and project pipeline. Provide recruitment advice to APAC's diverse range of project teams to ensure that Palladium's project recruitment processes are leading practice, consistent and aligned with Palladium's global approach. Contribute to and implement Diversity & Inclusion objectives as part of the Global and APAC EDI Strategies. Relationships, Communication & Development: Build strong and trusted stakeholder relationships across the business and maintain professional, respectful and effective relationships with your colleagues. Communicate effectively to provide regular updates to the HR Director and hiring managers, addressing any concerns or issues and ensuring transparency and efficiency in the recruitment process. Train, mentor and coach more junior colleagues, supporting them to work through ambiguity and ensuring messages from leadership are supported and clearly cascaded. Self-evaluate quality of work, thrive on continuous improvement, encourage and value feedback from others and develop skills in providing balanced feedback to others. Encourage a respectful work environment through applying effective conflict resolution techniques and unbiased motivational support in order to settle differences in a positive and constructive manner. Essential Criteria: Tertiary level qualifications in a relevant discipline or equivalent level of experience; Successful track record in a busy recruitment or talent acquisition position either within an agency or internal environment; handling multiple positions (ideally in multiple functional areas) concurrently. Proven ability to manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders concurrently, ensuring commercially astute prioritisation of vacancies and recruitment activities. Strong negotiation, communication and conflict resolution skills, with an ability to influence a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders. Excellent technical skills in Microsoft 365 (in particular Excel and Powerpoint), LinkedIn Recruiter, and an interest in leveraging AI for recruitment processes. Sound commercial acumen, with the ability to link talent attraction and resourcing requirements to business needs. Excellent written communication skills, with the capability to convert complex position descriptions into attractive advertisements. Strong organizational skills, and ability to flexibly and efficiently undertake multiple tasks with various levels of complexity concurrently.
Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, particularly in a multi-cultural environment; Desirable Criteria: Experience within a professional services environment will be highly regarded, as will prior exposure to resource allocation in a project management context.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do.
We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice.
We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics.
These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at ****** and we will be in touch to discuss.
Safeguarding: We define Safeguarding as "the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm".
We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse.
All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.
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