Recruitment Officer

Location: Sandwell College, West Bromwich

Working Hours: 37

Salary: Grade E £28,004 to £32,478

Sandwell College is a fantastic and hugely ambitious organisation. We are a large, successful, richly diverse and growing college based on in West Bromwich and Kings Norton serving the Black Country and Birmingham. We have achieved significant success over recent years and we have further, big ambitions.

We offer competitive rewards including:

• Excellent annual leave entitlement
• Competitive pension schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• Discounted gym membership
• Progressive career, personal development and recognition

A rare and exciting opportunity has become available within our HR department for a Recruitment Officer to undertake a 12-month fixed-term contract.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that candidates and managers receive a great recruitment experience. The successful candidate will oversee the attraction and engagement of new staff across our three main campuses: Sandwell College, Central St. Michaels and Cadbury College.

You will play a significant and important role in shaping the candidate journey, networking and resourcing to ensure we attract top talent to ensure we are providing an outstanding student experience. This is a fast-paced environment so it is essential that you are able to manage a competing and changing list of priorities and work on a variety of different projects at any one time.

You will be driven, enthusiastic and have the ability to work at pace. This role will require you to use your own initiative but also be able to work as a wider team.

You will have proven ability to develop successful working relationships and possess excellent communication skills to guide and advise both internal and external stakeholders, including our senior team. You will be able to demonstrate strong commercial skills and an understanding of recruitment targets, budgets and the importance of salary bench marking. You will also ensure recruitment data is recorded accurately to feed into reports for Senior Management Teams to guide strategic decision making.

A proven track record of managing the end to end recruitment process including volume and hard to fill roles within an in-house recruitment role is required and also knowledge of using an ATS system to manage day-to-day recruitment. You will have strong organisation and re-prioritisation skills with the ability to work to deliver results to tight deadlines.

Knowledge of HR related policies and procedures would be beneficial. Experience of working with recruitment compliance, what best practice looks like and excellent attention to detail is essential.

To view the full job description, please click see the attached document or for further information, please contact the HR Department: HR@sandwell.ac.uk

Closing date is 28 May 2021. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised date.

Interviews: First stage interviews will take place in June 2021.

Sandwell College is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects the diverse community we serve and positively encourage applications form all.