Full Time jobs in Alton

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is an operational recruitment role, delivering day-to-day recruitment activity across both Winchester College and The Pilgrims' School. It manages vacancies from advert through to offer. This role will proactively build candidate pipelines and sourcing activity to support high-volume and hard-to-fill recruitment, ensuring safer recruitment and compliance requirements are met for every appointment.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF RECRUITMENT ADVISOR

Key Responsibilities

• Create adverts and candidate packs, liaising with managers and key stakeholders to ensure that all information is relevant and appropriately represents the school and function.
• Work with managers and HRBPs to ensure that all role descriptions are clear, reflect the requirements of the role, and are consistent in format.
• Advertise vacancies on relevant job boards and social media to maximise interest.
• Complete the initial review of applicants and create a long list of candidates for review with the hiring manager.
• Work with the Administrator to ensure the interview process is organised and correctly set up, actively supporting in cases of high volume or recruitment days.
• Create interview packs and ensure hiring managers are fully prepared for the interview process, collating feedback from all parties at the end of each stage to inform decision-making
• Ensure that all pre-employment checks, references and right to work are in place for each candidate and that the SCR is kept accurate
• Ensure that safer recruitment processes are in place throughout, completing relevant safer recruitment interviews.
• Proactively search for and engage passive candidates through direct sourcing and relevant platforms, building a pool of prospects to draw on for current and future vacancies.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for hard-to-fill and regularly recurring vacancies, engaging with potential candidates ahead of when roles become available
• Find staff for short-notice cover, supply, peripatetic and gap-year roles, ensuring the correct vetting status and visas are in place for all staff before they start on site.
• Keep the applicant tracking system and candidate communications up to date, making sure every applicant receives a timely response throughout the process.
• Track and report on key recruitment metrics such as advertising effectiveness, time to hire and application rate for the Head of Recruitment and Development

Reporting Lines

The Recruitment Advisor will report directly into the Head of Recruitment and Development

PERSON SPECIFICATION AND KEY QUALITIES

Professional Experience

• Experience in recruitment, ideally gained in a school setting.
• Experience of using applicant tracking systems.
• Demonstrated experience of proactive recruitment and pipeline creation.
• Experience conducting or supporting safer recruitment interviews, ideally with a recognised safer recruitment/safeguarding interview training completed.
• Experience managing high-volume or fast turnaround recruitment.

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent written and verbal communication, specifically creating narratives to support effective hiring.
• Strong stakeholder management with hiring managers, other managers involved in the process, and candidates.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to manage a busy workload.

Pay: £40,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person