At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic recruitment team, guiding junior staff and managing your own vacancy portfolio.
- Company: Supportive organisation focused on collaboration and development.
- Benefits: 29 days leave, hybrid working, and clear career progression.
- Other info: Potential for a long-term position with excellent growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in recruitment while enjoying variety and autonomy.
- Qualifications: Experience in high-volume recruitment and strong relationship-building skills.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
You'll join a high‑performing recruitment team as a Recruitment Partner, working alongside a busy talent team. This is a role for an experienced recruitment/talent professional, with public sector experience (essential), who thrives in a fast‑paced, operational environment and who can confidently guide junior recruitment staff, depending on the team/organisational needs.
You'll act as a key link between hiring managers and recruitment officers, ensuring smooth process flow, consistent communication and a high‑quality candidate experience. You'll also take ownership of your own vacancy portfolio, providing expert guidance, managing end‑to‑end recruitment activity and supporting onboarding.
Responsibilities:
- Managing vacancy pipelines across the team, ensuring approvals, shortlisting timelines, interview panels and feedback all run efficiently.
- Supporting junior recruitment staff by stepping in to post roles, managing adverts, researching media costs, handling inbox queries and generating conditional offers.
- Acting as the direct contact point for hiring managers within your portfolio, ensuring clarity, consistency and timely updates.
- Co‑managing the recruitment inbox daily, responding to candidate and manager queries with professionalism and pace.
- Ensuring high‑quality candidate communication.
- Working closely with HR Business Partners and the wider HR function to align recruitment activity with organisational needs.
- Supporting continuous improvement across recruitment processes, onboarding experience and candidate engagement.
- Maintaining and updating recruitment guidance, processes and content.
- Producing recruitment activity reports with measurable outcomes.
What You'll Need to Succeed:
- Strong in‑house recruitment experience, ideally as a Recruitment Partner or similar.
- Proven ability to manage high‑volume campaigns and deliver end‑to‑end recruitment.
- Experience developing and implementing recruitment processes and best practice.
- Confident relationship‑building skills with managers and stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong experience utilising ATS systems.
- A commitment to diversity, inclusion and delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
Benefits:
- 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Hybrid & flexible working - two days per week on site.
- Opportunity to work in a supportive, collaborative team with a clear development pathway.
- A role with genuine variety, autonomy and influence across the recruitment life cycle.
- Potential for a longer term position within the organisation.
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
