• Partner with the TA team to accelerate hiring

  • Work closely with TA Partners to understand upcoming demand, agree sourcing priorities, and handover qualified pipelines ahead of roles going live.
  • Support TA Partners with headhunting and direct outreach on live roles, particularly for niche or senior searches where inbound volume is low.
  • Run initial candidate engagement and screening conversations to assess interest and fit before passing to the relevant TA Partner.
  • Contribute to shortlist quality by ensuring candidates in the pipeline have been meaningfully assessed, not just collected.

• Strengthen Rowden's employer brand in specialist communities

  • Represent Rowden credibly and compellingly in conversations with passive candidates, someone who can articulate what makes Rowden different and why it's worth a conversation.
  • Identify and recommend events, communities, and forums where Rowden should have a presence to build brand awareness in key candidate markets.
  • Feed candidate sentiment and market perception back into the TA team to inform how we position Rowden externally.

Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance. More information about security clearance is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels

Key skills, experience and behaviours

We're less interested in the tools you've used and more interested in your ability to find people others can't.

You'll likely bring:

• Demonstrable experience in proactive sourcing and headhunting, not just reactive CV reviewing. You know how to find passive candidates and, more importantly, how to nurture and bring them into process at the right time.
• Strong Boolean search skills and fluency with LinkedIn Recruiter. Familiarity with additional sourcing platforms (Metaview, Seekout, JuiceBox, Hackajob or similar) is a plus.
• Experience sourcing for technical or specialist roles, e.g., engineering, technology or science disciplines preferred. You don't need to be a subject matter expert, but you need to understand enough to have a credible conversation.
• A genuine curiosity about the people you're looking for: their career paths, motivations, and what it would take to get them interested.
• Strong relationship-building skills. You're comfortable reaching out cold and turning that into a warm conversation.
• A data-driven approach to pipeline management, you track what's working, what isn't, and adjust accordingly.
• The ability to work autonomously in a fast-moving environment and manage multiple sourcing priorities simultaneously.
• Experience within defence, national security, deep tech or highly specialist engineering sectors is a significant advantage, but not a requirement.

What success looks like

• Rowden has warm, qualified pipelines in place for its hardest-to-fill roles before those roles are formally opened.
• Time-to-hire reduces because the TA team isn't starting from scratch every time a vacancy lands.
• Talent mapping outputs are trusted by the business and actively inform hiring decisions and workforce planning.
• Candidate quality improves because sourced candidates are genuinely assessed, not just forwarded.
• Rowden's profile in specialist candidate communities continues to grow, people have heard of us, and they respond when we reach out.
• Rowden is growing fast in markets that are genuinely hard to hire for. That's not a problem, it's what makes this role interesting. You'll have real influence over how we build our teams, access to modern sourcing tooling, and a TA team that values what you bring.

If you're energised by finding the people nobody else can find, and you want to do it somewhere the mission matters, we'd like to hear from you.

Working at Rowden

We are committed to building a flexible, inclusive, and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills, experience, and backgrounds, so please apply and come as you are!

We also recognise the importance of flexible working and support this wherever we can. We typically operate a flexible, hybrid-working model, with an average 3 days in the office each week (dependent on the role). We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility, part-time working requirements and/or workplace adjustments with all our applicants.

Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company, and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.

Finally, if you feel that you don’t meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience, we’d still love to hear from you!