Recruitment Consultant

Age UK are recruiting for a quality-driven Recruitment Consultant to join their internal recruitment team. This is a 12 month fixed term contract to cover a secondment opportunity.

The successful applicant will be required to provide a professional recruitment service to hiring managers and to ensure that each candidate has the best experience of Age UK.

Sourcing talent directly, using a variety of recruitment tools and talent pooling a pipeline of suitable applicants for hard to fill, reoccurring and specialist roles.

Please see job description for full responsibilities.

This is a hybrid role, a blend of home and office working. The office for this position is located in Ashburton, Devon.

Must haves:

* Must be able to demonstrate experience of working within agency, in-house or managed service recruitment environment at consultant level.
* Able to prioritise and work to strict deadlines
* Have knowledge of a variety of industry sectors and operational roles within a large and complex organisation
* Manage a variety of vacancies and build excellent relationships with hiring managers, to support and understand their requirements, with a hands-on can-do approach.
* Be confident in sharing and influencing hiring managers about recruitment best practice at all stages of the recruitment process
* Have good recruitment account management experience and have the ability to search and select
* Be able to work using your own initiative, alongside working as a team player and coach to new colleagues and line report * (where applicable)
* Ability to manage multiple complex recruitment projects and work in a high-pressure environment.
* Understand how to safeguard the charity by ensuring that processes and procedures are understood and adhered to throughout the recruitment process
* Experience of creating engaging content on social media

Great to haves:
* Experience of leading, influencing and supporting a diverse range of people.
* Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

What we offer in return

• Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme
• Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, health cashback plan and EAP
• Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
• Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
• Blue Light Card Scheme
• You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information

For a full list of benefits please click here https://about-us/jobs/employee-benefits/

All CVs will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role at Age UK. Please note that our system is unable to anonymise cover letters, and we would therefore ask that to support the work we are doing on making our recruitment selection process fairer and more unbiased, that you remove any personal information from your cover letter/supporting statement, including your name before uploading this. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us once you are invited for an interview.

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please note that on occasion, due to high numbers of applications, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.