Education Recruitment Consultant

Tradewind; Gold Coast City; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Tradewind Australia’s Education division is seeking a Recruitment Consultant to lead end-to-end permanent recruitment for schools and educational organisations on a full-time basis. You’ll own the desk, manage vacancies, and build trusted partnerships with clients and candidates to deliver high-quality talent solutions.

With a focus on growth, you’ll develop your desk, drive business development, and nurture long-term relationships while thriving in a fast-paced, outcome-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment, sales, account management or business development.
• Strong relationship-building with schools, clients and candidates.
• Ability to manage multiple vacancies in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and organisational skills.
• Resilience under pressure with a proactive growth mindset.
• Agency recruitment experience preferred; open to high-performing professionals from related fields.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end permanent recruitment processes across active vacancies.
• Qualification of vacancies and briefs with schools and education providers.
• Build trusted client relationships and understand ongoing hiring needs.
• Deliver candidate shortlists and recruitment outcomes within service levels.
• Source, headhunt, interview and manage education professionals.
• Develop candidate pipelines and support offers and negotiations.
• Identify and win new client opportunities across the education sector.
• Attend client meetings and grow accounts.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Sales / business development

Client relationship management

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Tools

CRM software

Job description

Recruitment Consultant | Full-Time | Salary Range - $70,000 - $85,000

Join a growth desk within education managing a 360 permanent recruitment desk, combining business development, client management, candidate engagement and relationship-led recruitment across the education sector.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy building trusted partnerships with schools and educators, and are motivated by results and growth, this role offers the opportunity to develop your desk and build a long-term recruitment career.

About the Role

As a Recruitment Consultant within our Education division, you'll manage end-to-end permanent recruitment processes, partnering with schools and educational organisations to deliver high-quality talent solutions while building long-term client and candidate relationships.

You'll take ownership of your recruitment desk, identifying new business opportunities, managing active vacancies and connecting talented educators with the right career opportunities.

What Sets This Role Apart

• Opportunity to develop and grow your own permanent recruitment desk
• High-autonomy role with ownership of client and candidate relationships
• Owning the business development, account management and end-to-end recruitment
• Opportunity to build long-term partnerships across the education sector
• Collaborative, high-performing team with a strong focus on results and career development

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone commercially driven, relationship-focused and motivated by outcomes, bringing:

• Experience in recruitment, sales, account management or business development
• Confidence building relationships with schools, clients and candidates
• Ability to manage multiple vacancies and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication, negotiation and organisational skills
• Resilience and confidence handling pressure, challenges and rejection
• A proactive mindset with accountability for results and a desire to grow

Agency recruitment experience is highly regarded, but we're also open to high-performing professionals from sales or relationship-driven industries looking to transition into recruitment.

What You'll Be Doing

Client Management & Recruitment

• Manage end-to-end permanent recruitment processes across active vacancies
• Conduct vacancy qualification and manage recruitment briefs with schools and education providers
• Build trusted relationships with clients and understand their ongoing hiring needs
• Deliver candidate shortlists and recruitment outcomes within agreed service levels

Candidate Management

• Source, headhunt, interview and manage high-quality education professionals
• Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines through proactive sourcing and networking
• Support candidates through interviews, offers, negotiations and placement
• Deliver consistent communication and feedback throughout the recruitment process

Business Development

• Identify and win new client opportunities across the education sector
• Conduct outbound business development, prospecting and relationship-building activities
• Attend client meetings and develop long-term recruitment partnerships
• Re-engage inactive clients, prepare proposals and negotiate terms of business
• Grow existing accounts and increase market share

The Environment

This is a high-performance, fast-moving recruitment environment where initiative, resilience, commercial drive and relationship management are highly valued.

You'll have the opportunity to take ownership of your desk, build meaningful partnerships and contribute to the continued growth of Tradewind's Education division.

Why Tradewind

Tradewind Australia is a leading recruitment agency specialising in education, social services and healthcare.

We are known for our strong market reputation, collaborative and values-driven culture, and commitment to building successful careers for our consultants.