TA Officer

Ready to take the next step in your talent acquisition career and make a real impact on skills development and economic growth across Northern Ireland? This opportunity offers the chance to lead innovative recruitment initiatives within a specialist education environment, helping to attract industry professionals into hard-to-fill teaching and training roles. MCS Group are proud to be partnering with a leading Further and Higher Education provider in their search for a Talent Acquisition Specialist.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced in-house recruiter to develop creative attraction strategies and deliver end-to-end recruitment.

The Role:

Lead end-to-end recruitment campaigns for specialist vacancies.
* Develop and review job descriptions, person specifications, and candidate assessment methods.
* Design and implement innovative attraction strategies to engage hard-to-reach and passive candidates.
* Support recruitment activities that contribute to the continued growth of apprenticeship programmes and vocational training initiatives.
* Coordinate candidate onboarding processes to ensure a positive recruitment experience.
* Organise and deliver recruitment and engagement events to raise awareness of career opportunities within Further Education.
* Build effective relationships with hiring managers and provide evidence-based recruitment recommendations.
* Analyse recruitment challenges and identify solutions to improve candidate attraction, engagement, and conversion rates.

The Person The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:
Essential:
* Experience in the full recruitment lifecycle.
* Demonstrable experience developing innovative recruitment solutions.
* Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build positive partnerships and influence decision-making.
* Strong communication, organisational, and problem-solving abilities. What's in it for you? Salary: £.
* 38 days annual leave.
* Free onsite parking.
* Exposure to strategic recruitment projects focused on attracting specialist industry talent into education.
* Based within a supportive HR team environment

This role offers the opportunity to shape recruitment strategies for specialist positions, helping to strengthen vocational education provision, support apprenticeship growth, and contribute to the wider economic development of Northern Ireland. To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up to date CV via the link provided or contact Meghan Hamilton, Senior Recruitment Consultant on or on email at m.hami.

MCS Group is committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for all, being the first recruitment agency in NI to achieve Bronze Diversity Mark accreditation, if you have a disability which means you require a reasonable adjustment to be considered at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us and we will endeavour to facilitate the request. Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are.

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Skills:

internal recruiter TA Talent acquisition Recruiter Public Sector Benefits:
Work From Home hybrid working annual leave