Recruitment Manager

If you're looking for a dynamic role where you can grow and apply your leadership and organisational skills in a team that works hard for something we care about - this is the role for you!

We're looking for a Recruitment Manager to take responsibility for the day to day management of seasonal recruitment activity, ensuring we meet annual targets for 500+ seasonal positions working with children and young people.

Duties and responsibilities

The Recruitment Manager will lead on our campaigns and processes to attract a high volume of seasonal staff to work with children and bring our programmes to life. You'll generate and apply attraction strategies, line manage a team of recruiters, lead candidate interviews, implement and measure recruitment targets and activity and recommend improvements to the Head of Department and Senior Leadership Team.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and safer recruitment is central to the way we work, so you'll be expected to share our commitment to safeguarding, and will be responsible for ensuring safer recruitment processes are followed, implementing working practices that ensure safety, suitability and quality expectations are met, even for late hires.

Key Responsibilities

1. Recruitment Activity

• Set staffing targets and volume expectations

• Build professional networks to attract potential candidates

• Identify marketing opportunities

• Manage partnerships with clients and job boards

• Be the first point of escalation for candidate decisions, interview volume and second stage interviews

• Identify and escalate challenges with volume or quality of applications

• Provide safer recruitment support to Recruitment team

2. Safer Recruitment

• Work with the Head of Recruitment and Compliance to shape and maintain recruitment policies and procedures

• Ensure seasonal recruitment targets are met in good time for candidate onboarding and training

• Ensure safeguarding requirements and standards are met throughout the recruitment process

• Ensure staffing policies are met including staff ratios, qualifications and experience requirements plus venue or site-specific requirements

3. Leadership

• Line Manage a team of Recruiters

• Provide whole department leadership in the absence of the Head of Recruitment

• Audit check quality of interviews and candidate recruitment experience

• Manage and monitor weekly performance outputs and feed back to Head of Recruitment

• Budget Management

Experience and qualifications

• At least 2 years' team management or leadership experience
• At least 1 year of experience in the Recruitment sector, ideally at management level
• Mentoring or coaching experience
• Ability to problem-solve
• Willingness to take decisions
• High level of written and verbal communication
• Working knowledge of safeguarding
• Experience of working with budgets
• Fully supportive of our mission and values
• You must be eligible to work in the UK

Benefits

If the above isn’t enough to tempt you to join us, here’s a few more things you may want to know:

• Where: Kings Active Foundation HQ (hybrid working with a mixture of office, home and UK travel)
• Office hours: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday between 8am-6pm
• Salary £30,000+ per annum, DOE
• Auto-enrolment company pension and employer contributions
• Holiday: 28 days plus statutory holidays, increasing with length of service
• Report directly to a member of the Senior Leadership Team
• Staff recognition and awards scheme
• 1:1 development meetings
• Annual performance review
• Training & development opportunities
• Range of discounts and rewards

Company culture

We've collaborated with some big organisations like Delivering Happiness to shape our culture and how we work. At Kings, people genuinely want to come to work because they feel like they can make a difference, and are supported in doing so.

We are a small team doing big things. We have a passion for our work and a desire to get more children active and improving their physical and mental wellbeing. For someone to be successful with us, they need the ‘Kings Factor’ – energy, a passion for child development, inspiration and fun and be motivated by, and supportive of, the mission and values of the Kings Active Foundation.

Established in 1991, Kings Active Foundation is a UK registered charity with a vision of a world where children love being active, and a mission to get children active, having fun and learning together. We’re experts in using active games, sport and fun to connect with children via our activity programmes and we equip, enable and inspire others to deliver activity programmes.