Lead Recruiter

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You will take responsibility for supervising a high performing, multi-disciplinary team and also delivering attraction and recruiting activities in a defined area. You will provide exceptional customer focus and a positive attitude to professionally overcoming challenges. In addition to requiring a high standard of verbal and written communication skills the role involves motivating team members whose performance is measured against a number of targets.

What you’ll be doing:

• Interviewing candidates and working consultatively to support them throughout their bespoke recruitment journey, providing an exceptional candidate experience
• Attending and leading attraction events to raise candidate awareness of Army careers
• Leading a successful recruitment team within a targeted environment
• Assessing, interpreting and reporting data
• Managing relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Using the latest social media tools to attract and engage with candidates and having an awareness of current market trends

What we’re looking for:

• Must have proven leadership experience
• Strong organisational skills
• Target focussed and process driven
• Strong stakeholder management
• Must have a full drivers licence due to travel required to events
• Good time management

About Recruiting Partnering Project:

At Capita Recruiting Partnering Project (RPP), we’re transforming the British Army’s recruitment service. Our team are constantly improving the entire recruitment and selection process for both the Regular Army and the Reserves. Our mission is to make joining the Army a less daunting and more transparent experience. Join us and discover better ways to inspire people to become part of the Army.

What’s in it for you?

• Offering a salary of £30,000, plus bonus
• Bonus/commission offered with the role, achieved through targets met
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks...and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• Office has onsite parking available, town centre location so easily accessible via public transport
• Joining an existing team environment

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ’Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

To view our Covid-19 and process adjustments information, please visit the Capita Careers site.

Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.