Action for Children Hiring for Recruitment Partner – Homebased Job at United Kingdom Full Time

Salary: circa £29,000 per annum

Perks: Annual leave of 29 days, plus public holidays, flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, 7% employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, check out more on our career’s portal.

Contract/Hours: Permanent – 35 hours per week (open to discussing the possibility of reduced or compressed hours.)

Location: 100% remote, homebased

Closing date: Midnight on Wednesday 16th February 2022.

We’re thrilled that you’re considering a career with Action for Children. Spare us five minutes, and we’ll tell you what you need to know…

What you’ll be doing:

Our Recruitment Team are made up of talented and thoughtful recruitment professionals who are committed to our mission to ensure that children and young people have a safe and happy childhood. As Recruitment Partner you will join us in striving to achieve this through management of recruitment campaigns across the UK and all job families – from Finance, IT, Fundraising, Business Support to Social Care.

You’ll be joining a dedicated bunch who come to work every day ready to tackle tough, but meaningful recruitment campaigns. That said, we don’t take ourselves too seriously, love to collaborate and grow together to develop new skills and ideas. We put teamwork at the centre of everything we do, so if you have a thirst to learn, we will be there with you along the way. This role will inspire you to consider creative ways to engage talent and support hiring managers through providing inclusive attraction campaigns whilst working toward agreed timelines and quality standards

As Recruitment Partner, you’ll demonstrate our values; passionate, ambitious, collaborative, and inclusive whilst delivering a consultative recruitment service to hiring managers with a customer-first mentality so we can deliver a delightful recruitment experience for candidates.

You’ll do this by:

• Managing recruitment campaigns from vacancy briefing through to offer stage, building relationships with managers to empower, influence and support them through the recruitment journey.

• Continually developing an understanding of organisational objectives and business plans, seeking to actively source and enhance business knowledge and relationships leading to effective planning and attraction of diverse talent.

• Proactively work in partnership with hiring managers to gather information to meet staffing needs; fine-tune hiring strategies, acting as an experienced advisor, developing compelling and effective job adverts.

• Follow the recruitment framework through each stage in the funnel, supporting managers to qualify at respective pass/reject checkpoints, applying relevant project management skills.

• Reviewing sourcing campaign data to build insight and expertise in candidate market and have consultative approach to attraction techniques.

• Making real-time updates across systems for accurate record keeping and productivity, utilising the ATS (eArcu) and other agreed systems to track and automate tasks accordingly.

• Working closely with the onboarding team for smooth handover on offered candidates, ensuring that relevant paperwork and system updates are made within agreed timeframes.

What we are looking for:

• Full life-cycle recruitment experience supporting range of vacancy and contract types either from an in-house or agency environment.

• Experienced in educating and influencing hiring manager and candidates, delivering a positive experience throughout recruitment process.

• Experienced in vacancy fulfilment across wide various routes to market that capture diverse talent.

• Experienced in utilising Applicant Tracking System to follow recruitment processes, safer recruitment and GDPR.

• The ability to develop strategic relationships remotely and across multiple locations and to build confidence of knowledge and expertise.

• Skilled in managing multiple campaigns whilst maintaining strong attention to detail and prioritising workload effectively.

It’s an exciting time to join the Recruitment Team at Action for Children, and we are looking for collaborative, energised and forward-thinking individual to join our ambitious team.

Working here is so much more than a job. It’s an investment of time to truly make a difference to the lives of vulnerable children, young people and families across the UK.

We work together to reach our vision of safe and happy childhoods. Given this and our ongoing commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, we encourage applications from everyone. We value and celebrate the diversity of those that work with us and as an inclusive workplace we want all our current and future staff to feel able to be themselves in the workplace.

If you’re interested in finding out more, click apply and visit our careers portal for more information.

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact David Simpson on 01923 361732. We’ll be happy to give you any support you require.

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