Forward thinking organisation based in West Kent is looking for an experienced Recruitment Manager to join their HR Team for a 12 month contract. You will be an experienced recruitment professional with significant experience of working in house as a recruiter.

Duties
-Working with the People Director, contribute to the development of a robust and inclusive recruitment and selection strategy that enables the client to attract, engage and onboard high calibre talent, who share our values and are committed to achieving our vision. Lead the recruitment team to deliver this strategy.

-Line manage the Recruiter, providing direction, motivation and development opportunities. Carry out regular supervision and appraisal meetings. Support their wellbeing and career progression.

-Create, lead and manage multiple recruitment campaigns ensuring an excellent candidate experience and high quality service.

-Identify strategies to attract, convert and assess high calibre talent for our roles.

-Develop collaborative working relationships and act as a trusted partner to hiring managers, providing advice, coaching and support. Advise on sourcing strategies and best practice recruitment and selection techniques, including shortlisting, interviews, making an offer, onboarding and pre-employment checks.

-Liaise with hiring managers prior to recruitment to gather details needed for requisitions, job descriptions, adverts, pre-screening, interviews and other selection techniques.

-Draft engaging adverts and advertise roles on external job boards. Build relationships and negotiate with external organisations and agencies to secure the best rates.

-Undertake direct sourcing, e.g. through LinkedIn.

-Promote jobs on social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Create targeted social media campaigns to extend reach and engage passive job seekers.

-Use expert and sector knowledge to address resourcing difficulties and implement innovative solutions.

-Review and update recruitment policies, templates and toolkits to ensure they are up to date, adhere to legislation and are aligned with our employer brand.

-Design and deliver training for hiring managers on the end to end recruitment process. Respond to day to day queries from hiring managers.

-Influence managers to follow a fair, robust and inclusive process to secure the best and diverse talent.

-Continue to build, promote and safeguard our employer brand, ensuring consistent messaging through all our communications in line with our EVP.

-Manage the applicant tracking system so that it delivers a high-quality experience for candidates and hiring managers. Track the progress of recruitment campaigns, proposing / providing interventions as required. Utilise the dashboards and reporting functions, provide training to others.

-Maintain the careers site.

-Keep up-to-date with industry thinking and development on recruitment and selection approaches.

-Provide recommendations on selection techniques, creating templates for hiring managers so they have the tools to source the best candidates.

Salary c £35,000 depending on experience

Unfortunately, due to the high number of applications currently being received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.