Salary:

39,458.00 - 46,689.00 GBP Annual

Pension:

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%. Please refer to the Civil Service Pensions website for more information.

Type:

Full time

Fixed Term End:

23-10-2026

**Please note: The advert will close at 11:59PM the night before the listed closing date.**

SLC offer a blended working model which will typically be 2 days in the office and 3 days from home.

Is it time you unlocked your potential?

Student Loans Company is a non-profit making Government-owned organisation to provide loans and grants to students in universities and colleges in the UK. Since 1989, we have enabled our customers to invest in their futures by delivering secure, accurate and efficient assessment, payment and repayment services.

Our Values

Culture is at the heart of everything we do at SLC and we are guided by our five values which help make SLC a great place to work:

Honesty: We act with integrity and transparency, sharing information openly and addressing challenges with courage.
Empowerment: We enable people to take initiative, make impactful decisions, and continuously learn and grow.
Accountability: We deliver on commitments, own our successes and mistakes, and strive for quality outcomes.
Respect: We value diverse perspectives, actively listen, and create an inclusive environment where everyone belongs.
Trust: We collaborate across teams, build dependable relationships, and work as one to deliver for our customers.

These values are more than words—they guide our decisions, shape our collaborations, and strengthen our impact on the students we serve.

About the role

Join us at SLC and help shape the future of talent. We’re recruiting two Talent Acquisition Specialists to join our amazing TA Team:

1 x Maternity Cover (14 months)

1 x Secondment Cover (10 months)

If you're driven by purpose and ready to influence how we attract and retain top talent, this is your opportunity to make a difference.

You should bring fresh thinking and the ability to build strong stakeholder partnerships, whilst delivering high impact hiring strategies.

In this role, you’ll be a trusted delivery partner to stakeholders across the business, building strong relationships to understand workforce needs and deliver impactful recruitment solutions. You’ll drive innovative strategies that attract and retain top-tier talent, enhance candidate and hiring manager experience, and contribute directly to delivering on current recruitment priorities and future organisational goals of building a future-ready workforce.

You’ll also play a key role in shaping recruitment best practice, championing diversity and inclusion, and driving continuous improvement across the full recruitment lifecycle. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your expertise will directly influence strategic workforce planning and operational excellence

What you bring

· Advanced stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to influence and challenge senior leaders

· Expertise in sourcing strategies and tools, including LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS (Workday), and recruitment analytics platforms

· Excellent candidate assessment capabilities, including CV and application review, and conducting telephone interviews

· Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining a high-quality experience for candidates and hiring managers

· Skilled in using recruitment data and insights to inform decisions and produce relevant reports

· Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of the organisation

· Significant in-house recruitment experience, managing end-to-end processes for non-volume roles across diverse business areas

· Proven track record in strategic talent acquisition within large or complex organisations, including continuous improvement initiatives and employer brand promotion

· Understanding of organisational development and reward practices, with a commitment to inclusive and positive candidate experiences

You can expect more from a career with SLC. We support colleagues to unlock their potential through our Career Pathways development programme and offer an excellent benefit and rewards package that includes:

28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
Option to buy/sell annual leave
Flexi-time and enhanced flexible working options available
Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme
Life insurance cover for 4 x annual salary
Enhanced company sick pay and family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption
Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, access to the Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club for discounted gym memberships, and an optional dental insurance scheme
To find out what’s it’s like to work at Student Loans Company click here SLC Careers

The Legal Bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some background checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include employment history, criminal record check, credit reference check and fraud check.

SLC are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are inclusive for all candidates and will make reasonable adjustments for those who consider themselves to have a disability or long-term condition in line with the Equality Act 2010. Our application process provides candidates with the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments but if you would like to discuss this in more detail, please email ask_recruitment@slc.co.uk.