Recruitment & Talent Engagement Officer

Join us in recruiting the talented workforce that enables children and young people to thrive.

The Children and Young People department is seeking a customer-focused and proactive Recruitment & Talent Engagement Officer to join our team. Based within the wider Council Workforce and Learning Team function this is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future workforce of Children and Young People by delivering an outstanding recruitment experience and promoting our organisation as an employer of choice.

Working closely with recruiting managers, HR colleagues and external partners, you will coordinate recruitment activity, support innovative attraction campaigns and help ensure we recruit and retain the talented professionals who support children, young people and families across our services. This role acts as a first point of contact for prospective employees, delivering a professional and responsive recruitment service whilst enhancing our employer brand and reputation.

As Recruitment & Talent Engagement Officer, you will:

• Coordinate recruitment campaigns across a wide range of Children and Young People roles.
• Manage vacancy advertisements across multiple recruitment platforms and social media channels.
• Provide a professional and responsive service to applicants, managers and stakeholders.
• Support hiring managers to attract the best candidates into critical and hard-to-fill roles.
• Organise interviews, assessment centres and recruitment events.
• Produce recruitment correspondence and maintain accurate recruitment records.
• Support the development of employer branding, attraction campaigns and recruitment marketing initiatives.
• Analyse recruitment performance data and contribute to workforce planning activity.
• Provide day-to-day supervision and support to Recruitment Officers where required.

We are looking for a motivated individual who can build strong relationships and provide exceptional customer service.

You will ideally have:

• Experience of coordinating recruitment, resourcing or HR processes.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of working with recruitment systems and Microsoft Office applications.
• A passion for candidate attraction, recruitment marketing and employer branding.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• The ability to work collaboratively with managers, colleagues and external partners.
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and a passion for public service.

Workplace Attendance:
Working in the office 3+ days a week (pro-rata)
or Onsite full time

So that we can demonstrate Dudley’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and to improve bias in the recruitment process that could create barriers for candidates. Your personal data will be anonymised when you apply, to ensure that you comply with our anonymisation process, please ensure you have removed your name and date of birth from any attachments prior to uploading them to your application.

All applicants must be able to provide documentation to prove their right to work in the UK.

Please note:

Dudley MBC does not currently offer sponsorship for candidates without the Right to Work in the UK.

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N.B. We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised date should we receive a large number of applications

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